Watch the strategic briefing
Africa's EV Moment From Policy to Bankable Scale
Watch the focused conversations that set the stage for the Nordic-Africa EV Summit 2026 in Addis Ababa.
Webinar sessions
Watch the conversations
Four focused conversations trace Africa's electric-mobility transition—from public leadership and market development to scaling operating systems and financing bankable projects.
Africa's EV Moment
Ethiopia's transport leadership frames the urgency, opportunity and public-sector ambition behind the continent's shift to electric mobility.
- H.E. Bareo Hassen State Minister, Ministry of Transport and Logistics, Ethiopia
The Market Is Being Built Now
Where the market is moving fastest and which decisions are already shaping Africa's electric-mobility landscape.
- Ellen Hiep · Moderator Nordic-Africa EV Summit
- Iman Abdulwassi Abubaker World Resources Institute (WRI)
- Daniel Bongardt GIZ
- Petter Haugneland Norwegian EV Association
- Hiten Parmar the electric MISSION
From Pilots to Systems
The operational bottlenecks that become impossible to ignore when promising pilots begin to scale.
- Edna Mercy Manyasa · Moderator Nordic-Africa EV Summit
- Prof. Dr. Ing. Christoph Wolff Smart Freight Centre
- Glenn Cezanne CharIN e.V.
- Nicholas Hu Kabisa Electric
- Francis Romano Drive Electric Solutions · Knights Energy
Making EV Investment Bankable
A practical discussion on what investors need to see, how risk can be structured and what turns promising electric-mobility projects into financeable opportunities.
- Stuart Minnaar · Moderator MobilityX Africa
- Helena Teppana Finnfund
- Toukam Ngoufanke Persistent
- Candice Lanoix IFC
From webinar to working summit
The webinar opens the questions. Addis Ababa is where the work continues.
The physical Summit moves from discussion to working sessions, bilateral meetings and partnerships focused on implementation.