Arrive With the Right Meetings Already in Place
A fully managed, concierge meeting program: your CREF schedule built before you land.
The CREF Dealmaker Program is a premium, fully managed business development service for companies that want to make their time at CREF count.
We work as an extension of your team: identifying the right counterparties across the CREF network, making the introductions, and building your meeting schedule before you land in Panama City.
Dealmaker at a glance
- Strategy tailored to your commercial objectives
- 8–10 priority counterparties identified
- Personalized outreach managed for you
- Up to seven pre-scheduled meetings
- Your final meeting schedule before you land
- Only three company places available
This Is Not a Networking Tool. It's a Team Working for You.
CREF brings together the governments, utilities, regulators, developers, investors, financiers, and solution providers shaping the Caribbean energy market. The Dealmaker Program helps you navigate that network with purpose.
We begin by understanding what your company wants to achieve, whether that means advancing a project, identifying investment opportunities, meeting potential clients, finding delivery partners, entering new markets, or building strategic relationships.
From there, we identify the strongest counterparties, approach them individually, explain why the connection matters, manage the responses, and build your schedule.
This isn’t a self-service meeting request platform. We do the work, you take the meetings.
How It Works
- Tell Us What Matters
We begin with one focused strategy conversation about your objectives, priorities, target markets, active opportunities, and the counterparties you most want to reach.
- We Build Your Shortlist
Drawing on the CREF participant, speaker, sponsor, and wider New Energy Events network, we identify approximately 8–10 organizations or decision-makers with the strongest potential commercial and strategic fit.
- We Make the Approach
We reach out individually, make the case for why the meeting is worth their time too, and manage the back-and-forth on your behalf.
- You Arrive With a Schedule, Not a To-Do List
Before CREF, you receive your confirmed company meeting schedule – who, when, and where – and review it directly with the New Energy Events team. Onsite, we coordinate meeting locations and support delays, substitutions, cancellations, and last-minute changes.
Who It's For
Developers and project owners
Line up technology partners, delivery contractors, and government relationships, not just capital.
Investors, lenders, and DFIs
Build deal flow across the full CREF network, not one curated cohort.
Utilities
Meet the technology providers, contractors, and financiers moving your capital projects forward.
Governments and Regulators
Connect directly with the private-sector partners and technical experts shaping your strategy.
Technology, Engineering, and Professional-Service Firms
Get in front of the specific counterparties tied to your Caribbean objective.
Senior Executives
Make every meeting count when your time on the ground is limited.
Reserve Your Place
- $7,000 per company. Only three places available for CREF 2026.
- Each place covers one company meeting schedule and one primary contact. Colleagues can join relevant meetings, but the Program doesn’t run multiple or simultaneous schedules per company.
- Places are reserved first-come, first-served, upon receipt of the full fee.
- CREF 2026 conference registration is required separately and isn’t included in the $7,000 fee.
Already registered for CREF? Become a Dealmaker by modifying your existing registration.
Want to talk through fit before you register? Contact Francisca Salas, Dealmaker Program Director, at fsalas@newenergyevents.com.