Program · June 17–19, 2027
Two days.
One Declaration.
Plenaries, ministerial roundtables, and curated working sessions across six sectors — culminating in the signing of the CEIS '27 Declaration on Day 2.
Day 1 · June 17, 2027
The Energy Reality — Oil, Renewables, and the Sovereignty Question
- 08:30Convening
Host Nation Welcome
Chair · Government of Trinidad & Tobago
- 09:00Keynote
From Petrodollars to Renewable Sovereignty
Chair · Opening plenary · CEIS '27 Convening Council
Oil revenue IS transition capital. Guyana's NRF as seed funding for regional renewable infrastructure. The explicit thesis that bridges the oil-states / SIDS fault line.
- 10:00Plenary
Track 1 — Offshore Oil & Gas: Guyana's Profit-Oil Inflection
Stabroek's 1.7M bpd pathway, Suriname Block 52, and the NRF governance question framed at executive level.
- 11:30Plenary
Track 3 — Solar at $0.09/kWh: Closing the 12% / 47% Gap
Jamaica SunTerra, DR's 742 MW base, T&T's solar pivot. The case for a regional PPA standard.
- 12:30Reception
Heads of Delegation Lunch
Chair · By invitation
- 14:00Breakouts
Concurrent — T&T LNG · Wind · Geothermal · Storage & Grid
Four parallel breakouts with rapporteurs feeding directly into the Declaration.
- 15:30Plenary
Track 5 — Geothermal: The OECS Revolution
Dominica's financial close, SKN drilling, Grenada at 40% of national grid. The capital matches the projects.
- 16:30Roundtable
Ministerial Side-Rooms with DFI Counterparts
Chair · By invitation — IDB, CDB, GCF, IRENA, World Bank
- 19:00Awards
CEIS '27 Energy Leadership Awards · Dinner
Eight categories across the full energy spectrum, from offshore governance to ocean energy breakthrough.
Limited delegate allocations