

Phoebe O’Hara
Battery Raw Materials Analyst
Fastmarkets
- Which European projects can benefit from the regulation?
- How does the legislation compare with the US Inflation Reduction Act and the UK Critical Minerals Strategy?
- How viable are the acts going to be in terms of building a local autonomous supply chain?
- What do the regulations mean to non-European suppliers?
- How will it support Europe to compete with the US and China for overseas raw material supply?
- What will be a healthy and realistic balance between domestic and extra EU sourcing?
- Criteria for who we should partner with and how to avoid costly and long-term mistakes
- Cutting through the noise: Finding common ground and mutual understanding between OEMs and mining companies
- Identifying potential future supply chain risks – From Brexit, Covid-19, and the Suez Canal blockage to the Russia-Ukraine war, what can we learn from the past years and how to better prepare for the future?





Yann Teste
Vice President Purchasing New Technologies and Global Categories
VOLVO AB Group, Volvo Construction Equipment

Eric Norris
President of Energy Storage
Albemarle Corporation

Matti Hietanen
CEO
Finnish Minerals Group

Francis Wedin
Managing Director
Vulcan Energy Resources


Will Adams
Head of Commodity Markets Research - Base Metals and Battery Raw Material
Fastmarkets
- Where will battery raw materials to Europe come from?
- What lies ahead for prices? Long and short-term forecasts for lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and manganese
- The Impact of high price environment and EV battery costs risks on EV uptake in Europe
- With China’s top lithium producers agreeing to set a floor price – how will that impact the market internationally? Will China continue to set the trend for the rest of the world?


Will Adams
Head of Commodity Markets Research - Base Metals and Battery Raw Material
Fastmarkets



Andrea Hotter
Special Correspondent
Fastmarkets

Eric Norris
President of Energy Storage
Albemarle Corporation
- How big could the stationary storage industry become globally and regionally? What will that mean for lithium?
- Will there be enough battery raw materials for ESS? Or will there be a tipping point when other technologies take over?
- A roadmap to a robust price risk management strategy in the battery supply chain and how to implement one
- How will risk management tools continue to develop in the battery raw materials markets?


Yann Teste
Vice President Purchasing New Technologies and Global Categories
VOLVO AB Group, Volvo Construction Equipment
- How much battery demand can come from recycled materials in the long term and why?
- How much material supply can be sourced from recycling? Predicted scrap versus manufactured volumes
- Key ESG and supply chain qualification criteria


George Heppel
Head of Commercial and Market Analysis, CCA | Battery Metals
BASF
- Advanced Battery recycling technology versus second-life business model
- Which parameters determine whether a certain used battery is suitable for second life or recycling?
- Risks and opportunities in second-life applications for EV batteries




Eden Yates
Head of Marketing
Cling Systems

Dr. Yu-Tack Kim
CEO
TDL

Elewout Depicker
Vice President Commercial & Corporate Development
Li-Cycle
- From exploration, development, execution, construction to production: what risks to consider and avoid at each of the steps, how secure to secure funding, equipment, supply chains to then execute and start building



Matt Fernley
Head of Research
Volta Fund; MD of Battery Materials Review

Francis Wedin
Managing Director
Vulcan Energy Resources
- Advanced Battery recycling technology versus second-life business model
- Which parameters determine whether a certain used battery is suitable for second life or recycling?
- Risks and opportunities in second-life applications for EV batteries
- How to “strike a balance” between protecting nature and mineral extraction?
- Building social licence – what’s the best practice for community engagement and getting consent from community members?


Rajat Kohli
Director & Co-Founder
Oval Advisory
- How will changing chemistry trends affect Li carbonate and Li hydroxide demand?
- What do high-performance, solid-state batteries mean for battery material suppliers?




Nicolo Campagnol
Solution manager of Battery Insights
McKinsey & Company

Francisco Carranza
CEO
Basquevolt

Lisset Urrutia
Director R&D and Cell Engineering
SVOLT


Callum Perry
Nickel Price Reporter
Fastmarkets


Nicolo Campagnol
Solution manager of Battery Insights
McKinsey & Company


Dr. Yu-Tack Kim
CEO
TDL
Luis Fernando Arenas
Humboldt Research Fellow
Clausthal University of Technology


Amy Bennett
Principal Consultant
Fastmarkets
- Analysis of the jurisdictions in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia and their future potential and challenges in producing lithium
- M&A transactions in the lithium space in South America and a perspective on Chinese/European investments
- The European Critical Materials Act and the Inflation Reduction Act and their implication on the global cobalt market – Can ESG requirements help achieve decarbonisation?
- How will Indonesia’s HPAL plants affect the global cobalt supply?
- New-generation battery technologies – will they curb demand for cobalt?


Tom Fairlie
Senior Sustainability Manager
The Cobalt Institute
- Criteria and requirements
- Application procedures
- How quickly do you get approved
- Funding Strategies
- How to approach sustainability reporting?
- Building Social Licence: A roadmap to getting consent from community members
- Reducing CO2 emissions best practice
- Developing closed-loop EV battery recycling