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High-level strategic roundtable
High Level Round Table — AMEISS Mauritania – Canary Islands · Second stage
Welcome
In October 2025, the first edition of AMEISS brought together institutions and companies from Mauritania and the Canary Islands in Nouakchott around a single conviction: without electricity there is no possible industrialisation. The meeting exceeded expectations and opened the door to a second stage.
That second stage took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 23 July 2026. It was not a repeat of the first meeting but its continuation: a strategic follow-up in petit comité, designed to turn the opportunities already identified into concrete projects.
It brought together around forty high-level decision-makers from the energy, electricity, industry, logistics, ports, infrastructure and investment sectors, in a closed working format in which every participant took the floor.
Highlights from the roundtable
After the event
Photos from the roundtable — Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 23 July 2026.
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From AMEISS to Las Palmas
AMEISS Nouakchott 2025 built trust, identified shared priorities and connected the actors of both shores. Las Palmas was the next stage: the move from diagnosis to execution.
Throughout the day, participants worked on real cases: concrete needs set out by Mauritanian organisations, technical, industrial and financial answers brought by the Canary Islands ecosystem, and bilateral meetings arranged in advance.
The success of this meeting was not measured by the number of attendees, but by the projects that began to take shape after it.
Why this meeting?
Mauritania holds exceptional energy resources, an unprecedented project pipeline and a clear political will to industrialise its economy. What is missing is not potential: it is the partnerships, the technologies and the financing that turn that potential into installed capacity, industry and jobs.
This meeting exists to close that gap, by putting those who hold the projects and those who hold the solutions in the same room.
Why now?
The investment decisions taken over the next twenty-four months will shape the country's energy and industrial model for decades.
Why the Canary Islands?
The Canary Islands are the closest European gateway to Mauritania: a proven industrial, port and energy ecosystem, three flight hours from Nouakchott.
Strategic objectives
Bring together, in petit comité, those with real decision-making power on both shores.
Put real projects on the table, with a defined scope, timeline and needs.
Turn available energy into industrial capacity, added value and local jobs.
Bring projects closer to banks, investors and financing instruments.
Consolidate the archipelago as a technical, logistics and industrial platform towards Mauritania.
Lay the foundations of stable partnerships between companies and institutions.
Method and principles
The meeting was run as a roundtable led by two moderators. Every participant had speaking time, contributions were grounded in experience, and the whole conversation was directed at an outcome: a project, a partnership or a next step.
Event pages
The synthesis of the day, its 30 organisations and the opportunities identified.
Read the reportThe day in pictures, from the working sessions to the bilateral meetings.
View the galleryB2B briefing document
Event-ready energy opportunity guide for B2B delegates — projects, counterpart mapping and next steps.
Round table · 23 July 2026
Seven presentations and the organiser's corporate catalogue, each as a full page with the original document to download.
Attijariwafa bankAttijariwafa bank Corporate & Investment Banking
Attijari Bank MauritaniaAttijari Bank Mauritania
SOMELEC · Ministry of Energy and PetroleumMauritania’s electricity project portfolio
Gobierno de CanariasEnergy in the Canary Islands
Ministry of Energy and PetroleumProject DREAM 1
Ministry of Energy and PetroleumMauritania: energy, industrialisation and investment
Proexca · Gobierno de CanariasCanary Islands–Africa Strategy: Action Plan 2026/27
Oneport CanariasOneport CanariasThe bilateral meetings held that afternoon were arranged through the B2B platform, which still lists the companies and institutions from Mauritania and the Canary Islands that took part.