• Understanding the current challenges & opportunities for European carmakers as they progress towards EV transition targets​

• Strengthening Europe's automotive industry in the global EV marketplace

• What does Trump 2.0 and the influence of Elon Musk mean for America's lithium ion battery ecosystem? ​

• How will China look to control these markets and build upon their supply chain dominance?​

• What steps must Europe take to ensure its decarbonization goals are not derailed by outside geopolitical forces?

• What is the outlook for prices of the key battery raw materials and what does this mean for the economics of EV and battery manufacturing?​
• What is the potential for onshoring Europe's critical mineral mining and processing?​
• What is the role of Europe's mining and energy industry leaders in the lithium ion battery economy?

• What are the key factors impacting EV adoption?​

• Scaling up EV charging networks & assessing tax relief and incentive schemes

Fireside chat with a leading financial markets expert​

• The evolving global dynamics of battery demand, active materials and gigafactory manufacturing processes​
• What does Northvolt’s bankruptcy mean for European battery production?​
• Opportunities to establish European leadership in next generation batteries
   

• Policy: What can EC and national gov in Europe do? ​
• Importance: why is it vital to build a circular battery economy & what are the challenges?​
• Technology: What are the available solutions?​
• Defining, harmonizing and regulating global black mass trade flows
   

• How can we ensure a sustainable and ethical supply chain of raw materials? ​
• Environmental and legislative concerns to setting up mines in Europe
   

Investor Dialogue: Role of public finance ​
Fireside chat with a leading financial markets expert

• How does the CRMA address supply diversification? What is the state of play of the EU Strategic Projects?​

• How does the CRM compare to other supply diversification policies

Hear from innovators and mining project developers for updates on the technologies and new supply sources that may disrupt the markets.
 

• Outlook for the market based on new supplies from brine to spodumene; carbonate to hydroxide ​

• What is the current economics of European lithium refining?

• Building a green energy hub ​

• Reaching scale in the face of increased competition for investment, talent, and resources

• Need for balancing competition and cooperation in building a global lithium ion economy​

• Benefits of building alliances in critical minerals and battery production

• Improving and facilitating access to funding for battery & raw materials projects​

• Variables impacting critical minerals investment in Europe​

• The importance of market building mechanisms in access to capital and reduction of volatility

• Updates on battery innovation trends and the impact on critical mineral demand​

• Utilizing next-generation tools to meet EU battery standards​

• Enhanced Battery Technology (EBT)

• Cathode materials trends and their impact on supply chains​

• Can nickel and cobalt markets recover from supply surges​

• New projects that could create sustainable, localised supply for Europe's battery industry

• What do emerging geopolitics mean for Europe's security concerns and their need for an independent and robust supply chain of critical minerals

Investor Dialogue: The role of Europe's private banks​

• Natural graphite: Where is ex-China flake graphite in development? How are the spherical processing ambitions changing?​

• Synthetic graphite: How is the ex-China synthetic graphite and needle coke supply chain developing?​

• New projects that could create sustainable, localised supply for Europe's battery industry

Hear from innovators and mining project developers for updates on the on technologies and new supply sources that may disrupt the markets.

• Confronting the challenge of securing sustainable supply chains for rare earth magnets

Spotlight: Copper

• Copper sits at the core of the energy transition and is critical to the lithium ion battery. Here we explore copper price drivers and outlook.

Mines of Tomorrow

• Hear from innovators and mining project developers for updates on the on technologies and new supply sources that may disrupt the markets.
   

​

• The three priorities for ESS batteries: cost, durability, and storage duration​

• Repurposing old EV batteries in alternative energy storage applications fast-charging stations and microgrid storage systems​

• What technological solutions can address the global demand for energy storage?​

​

• Understanding battery emissions in light of the EU Batteries Regulations​

• What the EU’s new corporate sustainability directive means for the battery supply chain​

• The importance of securing an entire battery supply chain through diversity, resilience, and sustainability​

• Understanding where structural deficits and surpluses exist in critical material supply chains

​

​