Developing synergies to drive digital innovation in the energy sector
The Digital Energy Bootcamp 2025 took place in Dakar, Senegal, on November 26–27, 2025, following the Digital Energy Challenge Award Ceremony.
This annual event brings together Challenge award winners, public energy stakeholders, start-ups, sector experts, financial institutions, and technical partners around a shared objective: to foster dialogue, share experiences, and build concrete collaborations in order to accelerate the digital transformation of energy systems in Africa.
Designed as a space for collaboration and dialogue, the Bootcamp combines:
- collaborative sessions,
- high-level roundtables and panel discussions,
- networking opportunities and targeted meetings,
- and dedicated moments to showcase and promote the award-winning projects.
The discussions focused on key challenges facing the sector, including artificial intelligence, data valorization, network planning and security, energy storage, and the financing of new mobility solutions.
Bootcamp highlights – Discussion summaries
To extend the insights from the Bootcamp and make them accessible to a wider audience, we are providing structured summaries of the main sessions.
These documents make it possible to grasp the key messages, areas of consensus, and perspectives discussed, by offering a concise and directly actionable overview of the exchanges.
Collaborative session: Unlocking the collective potential of AI in the energy sector – customer management, efficiency, and forecasting
This collaborative session explored practical use cases of artificial intelligence in the energy sector, particularly to enhance customer engagement, optimize operational efficiency, and strengthen forecasting capabilities.
Roundtable: How digitalization, data valorization, and new tools improve network planning, modeling, and security
The discussions highlighted the central role of data and digital tools in the modernization of power grids, from planning to security and infrastructure resilience.
Panel: Digitalization and stationary storage: towards smart and decarbonized mini-grids in sub-Saharan Africa
This panel addressed the technical, economic and operational challenges related to stationary storage, and its key role in the development of smart, more flexible and low-carbon mini-grids.
Panel: Financing E-Mobility – Opportunities & Constraints
The speakers shared their analyses of e-mobility financing models, identifying both development opportunities and the current barriers within African contexts.
