In its efforts to build on the success recorded at the recently-concluded Sustainable Energy Finance Workshop (SEFi 2018), First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has announced that it will hold a ‘Blockchain networking event’ aiming to improving participants’ knowledge of blockchain technology as a useful tool for Renewable Energy Solutions.
The networking event tagged:<em><strong> ‘Blockchain Technology in Energy Access Finance for Africa</strong></em>’, will hold on Wednesday, 5th September, 2018, at the First City Monument Bank (FCMB), 38 Adeola Hopewell St, Victoria Island, Lagos, by 9.30 am.
Expected speakers at the event include: the Executive Director, Business Development, FCMB, Mrs Bukola Smith; Chief Executive Officer, All On, Wiebe Boer; the Director of Climate Finance Advisor, Dr Jubril Adeojo; President of the African Mini-Grid Developers Association (AMDA), Mr Alexander Obiechina; Private Enterprise Officer, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Jodi-Kaye and the Vice President, One Watt Solar (OWS), Victor Alagbe.
Some of the topics that will be explored by discussants at the sessions include:<em> Could BlockChain become the new big deal for Energy Pipeline Deal in Nigeria?</em>; <em>Understanding crypto currency; The role of local finance in bridging Nigeria’s energy gap; Innovative finance to crystallize growth in the clean energy industry in Nigeria; Understand the mechanics behind blockchain technology; How local currency fund can be designed for local developers; Crowd Funding; Its merits and demerits with FX risk; Green Bond, Pension Funds, Intervention Funds and Other Patient Capitals and How to take advantage of the Blockchain/cryptocurrency evolution among others. </em>Sessions will be moderated by Según Adaju of Consistent Energy.
Official partners of the event are: AMDA Nigeria, OneWattSolar Foundation, Climate Finance Advisors; USAID, Climate Bond Initiative, One Watt Solar and the Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria (REAN).
