Giga Africa 2026

Andrew Miller

CEO

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Caspar Rawles

Chief Operating Officer

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Adam Panayi

Chief Research Officer

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Peter Yang

CEO

BTR Morocco

Leon Godza

Chief Director

Ministry of Mines of Zimbabwe

Zagouri Sanaâ

Brand Director

DENZA Maroc

Anne Birkner

Head of Business Development African Markets

Volkswagen Group Africa

Henry Van

Head of Industrial Metal Analysis

Trafigura

Daniel Li

Director of Public Relations

Tinci

Eddy Kioni

CEO

Buenassa

Franklin Edochie

Deputy Director & Head, Metals & Mining

Africa Finance Corporation

Alawi Swabury

CEO

Africa Battery Initiative (ABI)

Widad Whitman

Head of Supply Chain Security for the Office of Critical Minerals, Materials, and Manufacturing

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Ciani Smith

Director - Structured and Project Finance

U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Hannah Williams

Director of Trade and Investment - Africa

UK Department for Business and Trade

Kossi Toulassi

Head of Industrialization Trade, Markets and Economic Analysis

African Union Development Agency-NEPAD

Christophe Yvetot

Representative to the European Union, the European Investment Bank, OACPS, Belgium and Luxembourg

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Jean-Marie Kanda

Member of the Board of Congolese National Battery Council and Presidential Advisor

Paul-Henri Presset

Head of Trade and Economy Section

Delegation of the European Union to Morocco

Museta Daka Mbulwe

Acting Senior Energy Officer

Department of Energy, Ministry of Energy Zambia

Anass Joundy

Associate Director

EBRD

Khalid Hammouch

SVP Business Development

Managem

Bill Williams

Global Director of Business Development

BAC

David Dickson

CEO

Lake Resources

Matthieu Bos

President & CEO

Falcon Energy Materials

Inga Petersen

Executive Director

Global Battery Alliance

Maxime Francois

Regional General Manager - Africa & Middle East Company

Alfred H Knight

Intissar Benzakour

Scientific Director

Managem

Mervyn Stevens

Vice President - Battery Mineral & Materials

Worley

Adam Webb

Head of Battery Raw Materials

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Shruti Kashyap

Head of Consulting

Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Harshit Poddar

Head of Sales and Marketing

Total Graphite

Tanyaradzwa Godza

Co-Founder & CEO

KG Energy Infrastructure

Omar El Amiri

Department of Energy Transition

Government of Morocco