• Shifting thinking from GWh to TWh for true Net Zero by 2050
• Developing Speciality Commodities: What does this mean for the critical minerals of lithium, graphite, cobalt, nickel, manganese, and silicon
• How will recycling and new elements interplay with today’s battery chemistry pathway

• Rise of the Gigafactories: a deep dive on how to translate capacity, production and pipeline
• Benchmark’s Tiers of Battery Quality and how it’s evolving 
• Raw material impact: how battery capacity must develop in line with mines 

• Challenges and opportunities of building battery hubs to serve Europe’s automotive industry and consumer base
• Innovation and R&D to create the quality and sustainable batteries that Europe needs
• Developing the necessary skills in the local labour force - drawing on and enhancing existing workforcesExploring lithium ion battery penetration across passenger, commercial and alternative mobility markets, as well as other energy storage systems applications
• What is the pipeline of gigafactory development and what factors

• Designing efficient gigafactory supply chains from mine to EV 
• From start up to scale up: Consolidation of the industry and knowing your strengths
• Working with China, not against it: how does this look?

• Understanding the global repercussions of the US Inflation Reduction Act and how leading jurisdictions are designing policy and incentive structures to mobilise finance and investment at pace and scale?
• Demand focused policy for Europe: Assessing mandates, subsidies and investment in green power and charging infrastructure to encourage battery value chain development

• Battery Passports and other initiatives in development for policy makers, OEMs and other stakeholders to improve traceability and circularity
• Developing a collection ecosystem to achieve Europe’s recovery targets and avoid leakage: What is the true potential supply and when will it be available?
• Exploring the issues of defining, harmonizing, and regulating global black mass supplies

• From mobility to grid storage – how the lithium ion battery will be the platform technology for Europe’s net zero carbon economy
• Understanding the characteristics and potential of the ESS market
• Exploring Europe’s storage and charging network infrastructure plans

• How will Europe’s growing energy storage market impact battery cell and supply chain build out?
• Policy leads, understanding the characteristics and potential of the ESS market
• Lithium, sodium, vanadium? how competing battery technologies are set to take market share
• From cell to system, exploring Europe’s developing ESS supply chain

• The outlook for global anode and cathode production and need for European investment
• Chemistry & production developments in the lithium ion battery industry
• Silicon anodes, solid state and alternative battery chemistries that will shape future markets

From Billions to Trillions: How much money will the lithium ion battery supply chain need for net zero?

Attracting capital to European projects in an environment of higher inflation and interest rates

• Review of battery grade lithium supply expansions from brine to spodumene; carbonate to hydroxide
• Is oversupply likely? Latest analysis on structural deficit through an overview of global extraction & conversion capacity landscape and forecast
• Beyond extraction – breaking into the black box of refining capacity

• Examining the availability and sustainability of a key cathode components: What is the capacity for additional supply? 
• Understanding market volatility and the pricing pressures
• How might next generation cathode chemistries impact demand?

• Understanding the current landscape of graphite production and forecasted challenges and opportunities
• Natural graphite: Where is ex-China flake graphite in development? How are the spherical processing ambitions changing?