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