It gives us great pleasure to announce that the AHS Secretariat, Kafue Gorge Regional Training Centre (KGRTC), will be hosting the in-person 35th African Hydro Symposium from 17 to 19 November 2025, at Avani Victoria Falls Resort, in Livingstone, Zambia, under the theme: Powering Africa’s Transition: Hydro Solutions for a Changing Climate.

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Register for the "35th African Hydro Symposium" (AHS2025), Livingstone, Zambia, 17 - 19 November 2025 "Powering Africa’s Transition: Hydro Solutions for a Changing Climate"                       Note: Due to venue availability the AHS2025 has been moved forward from original dates of 20-22 October 2025, to 17-19 November 2025.

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History of AHS, Themes, and Registration Link

Since 1989, the AHS has always been an in-person annual conference but it went virtual in 2020 due to COVID-19. After conducting five online editions, we are very pleased to inform you that the Symposium is now getting back to face-to-face conference this year, 2025, at the 35th edition.

 
Registration and attendance for the AHS is free. However, delegates have to arrange their travel/flights, hotel costs and dinners from home country through their utilities and organizations. Lunch and sessions tea breaks will be provided by the AHS. A list of AHS partner hotels and rates will be shared through the event update bulletins to be subsequently shared. 

The AHS2025 aims to bring together key stakeholders from across the African continent and beyond to discuss, collaborate, and advance hydropower sustainable development and innovation. The three-day event will host approximately 150 delegates, including hydropower experts, policymakers, public and private power utilities, financial institutions, sustainability and climate experts, to share knowledge and explore opportunities for sustainable hydroelectric power development.

The AHS2025 program will consist of 2 days of exciting paper presentations and interactive sessions,  and 1 day reserved for a technical tour of the 1936 constructed Victoria Falls Hydro Power Station, as well as a tourism tour to the "Smoke that thunders" - the Mosi-oa-Tunya otherwise called "Victoria Falls".

This invitation is hereby extended to you, members of your organization and others to participate at the AHS2025 event and those that will make paper presentation(s) under the prescribed topical themes of the Symposium.  Paper presentation topics/themes are required to align to any of the following 5 thematic categories or their 13 sub-theme categories:

Theme A: Operations, Maintenance & Performance
1.    Hydropower Plant Operations: Best Practices
2.    Maintenance, Refurbishment and Upgrades of Hydropower Plants
3.    Monitoring and Evaluation of Hydropower Plant Performance
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Theme B: Capacity and Knowledge Development
4.    Capacity Building and Technology Transfer for Sustainable Hydropower
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Theme C: Sustainability, Environment & Climate Resilience
5.    Hydropower and Climate Change Adaptation
6.    Environmental and Social Impact Management
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Theme D: Project Development & Financing
7.    Financing of Hydropower Projects
8.    Feasibility Studies for New Hydropower Plants
9.    Erection and Commissioning of New Hydropower Units
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Theme E: Innovation & Future-Oriented Solutions
10.    Pumped Storage and Hydropower Hybridization
11.    Innovations in Hydropower Plant Design and Engineering
12.    Advances in Turbine and Generator Technologies
13.    Digitalization, Artificial Intelligence and Smart Control Systems in Hydropower
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We cordially invite both delegates and paper presenters to this years exciting AHS2025. Those who will be making paper presentations, we request you to register and submit a title together with a short synopsis of not more than 250 words, by Sunday 19 October 2025.  Both those presenting papers and participating delegates of the AHS are required to register online through this form or its link by Friday 31 October 2025. Register online now as a presenter and delegate, or delegate only via the following link https://forms.gle/4tuUczyRq7NuptoUA.