Where does a conventional engineering career fit in a cleaner energy future?
Most conversations young Nigerians have about energy fall into two camps: nostalgia for the oil and gas industry that built so many careers, or abstract talk about renewables with little connection to how people actually build a working life in the field. Hydrogen Horizons was built to sit between those two conversations.
The meetup ran in person at Elomaz Hotels in Lekki in the afternoon, then continued online in the evening for a wider audience, pairing a Nigerian oil and gas executive's hard earned lessons with international researchers working directly on hydrogen and clean energy systems. Students and early career engineers heard directly from people who'd built careers on both sides of the transition, then worked through a documentary screening and open discussion on hydrogen's realistic place in Nigeria's energy future.
The session closed with participants making personal pledges: pursuing renewable energy research, applying to postgraduate programmes in the field, or simply carrying sustainability into whatever engineering path they choose next.
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Who joined the conversation
