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IEEE Smart Village provides competitive scholarships to support aspiring Energy Entrepreneurs’ virtual attendance to the conference. Learn more.
“Meet the Entrepreneurs” video competition – Multiple $500 awards available for videos introducing your off-grid community-transforming project or proposal. Open to and judged by IEEE Smart Village registered delegates to the PowerAfrica conference. Learn more
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What is PowerAfrica Conference?
Join IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), Industrial Applications Society (IAS) and IEEE Kenya Section for the 7th Annual Power Africa Conference on “Sustainable and Smart Energy Revolutions for Powering Africa” to be held virtually. Read More About It
2020 POWERAFRICA CONFERENCE VENUE CHANGE DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS
After studying and evaluating the announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant governmental and health authorities, we are pivoting from an in-person event and adopting a fully virtual format. The dates and schedule for the meeting are unchanged, namely 25-28 August 2020, but all activities will take place on-line.
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Important Dates
| Virtual Conference Date | August 25-28, 2020 | |
| Notification of Acceptance (only for papers submitted after April 17) | July 18, 2020 | |
| Camera-Ready Paper (only for papers submitted after April 17) | July 30, 2020 | |
| Author Registration Deadline | August 7, 2020 |
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IEEE Smart Village
The global community of Smart Village developers will gather virtually to share lessons learned, discover new technologies, solve challenges, and network with their like-minded “Energy Entrepreneurs.” Learn more about IEEE Smart Village at PowerAfrica 2020.
IEEE Smart Village supports talented individuals and organizations in alignment with the program’s three-pillars of off-grid community electrification, education and enterprise development. A limited number of scholarships are available to assist virtual attendance to the PowerAfrica 2020 conference. Learn more about how you can earn a support award.
NEW “Meet the Entrepreneurs” video competition – US$500 Award in multiple categories. Whether you are an “Old Friend” with a history of support from Smart Village, or what we call a “New Talents” knocking on our door for the first time aspiring for our support, we encourage you to participate in this video competition. Share with us your current project, or a proposed deployment. Award details and how to submit.
Our Past Conferences
PAC 2018 – Cape Town, South Africa