| 07:30 |
Registration & Breakfast
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Session One: Keynotes
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| 08:45 |
State of the industry
– Simon Moores, Managing Director, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
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| 09:00 |
Welcome address –
Micheal Austin, VP, BYD North America
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| 09:30 |
Developing cathode capacity outside of Asia – Robert Privette, Business Development Manager – North America, Umicore
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| 10:00 |
Cathodes and the 21st century lithium ion battery industry – Sam Jaffe, Managing Director, Cairn ERA
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| 10:30 |
Coffee and Networking |
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Session Two: Raw material supply
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| 11:00 |
Lithium supply bottlenecks: from mine to market
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Eric Norris, President, Lithium, Albemarle
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| 11:40 |
Sustainable battery-grade cobalt production – Michael Insulan, Senior Market Analyst, Eurasian Resources Group
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| 12:10 |
Supplying increasingly nickel intensive cathode chemistries
– Anton Berlin, Marketing Director, Norilsk Nickel (Russia)
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| 12:40 |
Financial derivatives for EV battery metals
– Alberto Xodo, Business Development, LME
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| 13:00 |
Lunch is served
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Session Three: 13:30 Lunch workshops
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Lithium
- Chair: Andrew Miller, Senior Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
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Mike Tamlin, COO, Neometals Ltd
- Jerko Zuvela, MD, Argosy Minerals Ltd
- Joe Lowry, President, Global Lithium LLC
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Cobalt & Nickel
- Chair: Caspar Rawles, Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Ian Pringle, Technical Director, Battery Mineral Resources
- Dan Carroll, New Product Development, Freeport Cobalt
- Todd Coy, VP, Kinsbursky Brothers Inc
- Jim Lennon, MD, Red Door Research
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| 15:00 |
Coffee & Dessert
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Session Four: New supply pipeline
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| 15:30 |
Keynote: The strategic importance of Western Australian lithium
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Ken Brinsden, Managing Director & CEO, Pilbara Minerals
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| 15:50 |
Michael Callahan, President & CEO, eCobalt Solutions Inc
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| 16:05 |
Stephen Biggins, MD, Core Exploration Ltd
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| 16:20 |
Bruce Richardson, Managing Director, Anson Resources Ltd
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| 16:35 |
Steve Promnitz, MD, Lake Resources N.L. (Australia)
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| 16:50 |
Trent Mell, President & CEO, First Cobalt
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| 17:05 |
Keynote: Battery raw material forecasting
– Andy Leyland, Head of Forecasting, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (UK)
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| 17:30 |
Networking drinks reception in exhibition area
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