After introducing people to what Birmingham Energy Society is all about, we then set our focus on beginning to attract a more diverse range of students to the Society. Already attracting a large amount of STEM students, ranging from chemical engineers to physicists, we wanted to entice more students from subjects such as economics, geography and politics. After all, the energy crisis at hand will require all sorts of professions to solve! To do this we were proud to announce a talk from John Hamilton, Managing Director of Cross-border Information, regarding the energy investment landscape within the high potential continent of Africa. Showcasing his firm’s impressive new innovative and interactive data platform called ‘African Energy Live Data’, John helped the once again sell-out audience understand how the way in which investment into energy is changing at the moment.