2 Day Conference > October 28-29 2026
Critical Minerals Track
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
Many critical materials—unlike widely recycled metals such as aluminum—do not yet have fully established closed‑loop solutions. This discussion will explore what it takes to move a critical materials recovery concept from research to real-world commercial deployment — and why success depends on ecos … Read MoreSpeakers -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
This presentation will examine why critical minerals matter to the U.S. economy and national security, how global supply chains are shifting, and the risks created by import reliance, concentrated production, and geopolitical disruptions. This presentation will highlight how USGS evaluates mineral c … Read More -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
This session will examine the key supply, demand and pricing trends shaping the North American and global rare earths markets. Drawing on Fastmarkets’ market intelligence and pricing data, she will present the Fastmarkets’ Analytics division’s outlook for the rare earths sector and explore the devel … Read More -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
The presentation will focus on Ghana’s emerging mineral opportunities and areas for partnership with North American processors, refiners, manufacturers, technology providers and investors, including opportunities around value addition and more diversified and resilient supply chains. -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
Recovering critical materials is not just a technology challenge; it’s also a market-formation challenge. Industrial magnets, battery materials, e-waste, and other secondary critical materials are scattered, inconsistently characterized, hard to aggregate, and often traded through slow, unclear bila … Read MoreSpeakers -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
China did not accidentally secure roughly 90% of the global critical minerals supply chain—it was the result of decades of strategic investment, resource acquisition, processing capacity, financing, industrial policy and coordinated execution. This session examines how China achieved this position a … Read More -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
Despite growing demand for secure supplies of critical minerals, many North American development companies continue to trade at valuations disconnected from their strategic importance. This presentation examines the factors driving that disconnect, why tungsten is becoming increasingly significant t … Read MoreSpeakers -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
This panel is taking place just 12 days before the first of two major November deadlines involving China’s critical minerals export controls. On November 10, China’s suspension of its broader controls covering additional rare earth materials, processing equipment, technology and other strategically … Read MoreSpeakers -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
Speakers -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
AI is moving rapidly beyond chatbots and productivity tools toward systems that can analyze information, identify opportunities, support decisions and execute workflows. For critical-minerals companies operating in an increasingly complex environment of capital constraints, supply-chain risks, polic … Read More -
Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
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Located in Main Expo Hall A
- Critical Minerals Conference
High-purity silica quartz is arguably one of the most overlooked critical materials in the modern economy. It sits at the foundation of semiconductors, computer chips, solar panels, advanced electronics and national-defense technologies, yet receives a fraction of the attention given to lithium, rar … Read MoreSpeakers
Battery Recycling Track

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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
In a panel discussion, experts will explore the real-world dynamics of battery supply chains as they operate today and recent policy proposals that will impact the circular economy of battery materials in the future. Topics will include private sector strategies for recycling various materials, publ … Read MoreSpeakers -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
This session from S&P global will give brief outlook of growing Battery Demand (EVs, ESS) while providing details of current battery refining projects in the US (Lithium carbonate, MHP, Graphite). It will also address recycling’s role in building out domestic supply chains and the impacts of the bla … Read More -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
As lithium-ion batteries reach end-of-life in growing volumes, advancing safe and scalable pathways for reuse, repurposing, and recycling is becoming increasingly important. This presentation will explore key challenges and opportunities across the battery circularity ecosystem, including fire safet … Read More -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
This session will cover EPA's role in regulating end-of-life batteries as universal waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the importance and challenges of battery and e-waste collection, and EPA's policies related to critical minerals. -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
This presentation explores the rapid expansion of the new energy battery market and the increasing regulatory drive toward circular, low-carbon economies. It highlights the critical role of advanced recycling not only in ensuring material security but, more importantly, as a decisive strategy for ac … Read More -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
Problem Statement: Sustainable gigafactory design is often cost-prohibitive or an afterthought. Solution: New approach to factory designs that optimizes water and energy while hitting budgets and deadlines Approach: Modern take on traditional industrial processes. Value Offered: Capital cost an … Read MoreSpeakers -
Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
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Wednesday, 28th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- Battery Recycling Conference
As the demand for battery recycling accelerates alongside the global shift toward electrification, the need for efficient, safe, and scalable solid-/liquid separation technologies has become increasingly critical in black mass recovery. In particular, the drying process has a significant effect on s … Read More
E-Waste Recycling Track

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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
Electronics recycling isn’t just waste management anymore. Industry prospects for growth and profitability depend on an evolving value proposition which has changed radically since pre-Y2K—one which must be reinvented in an age of supply chain constraints and disruptions. Bob Houghton will draw on … Read More -
Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
BAN’s Jim Puckett, author of a recent groundbreaking White Paper Series on the coming AI Waste e-waste Tidal Wave from the Data Center build-out and its ancillary effects, will discuss how much waste we are talking about, whether it will be reusable, how toxic it is going to be, and what we can do a … Read More -
Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
iUMiX recovers traceable critical and precious metals from electronic, industrial, and urban waste — through processes chosen for their environmental performance, deployed close to the source, and coordinated within an ecosystem that redistributes value across the chain. • Urban mining has no … Read More -
Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
Drawing on real operating data and two case studies from Italy — one of the world's most mature solar panel recycling markets — this talk shows US recyclers a practical, already-proven path into the sector: starting with certain, low-risk income from aluminium recovery, and scaling toward full mater … Read More -
Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
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Thursday, 29th OctoberLocated in Main Expo Hall A
- E-Waste Recycling Conference
There was a time when e-waste management to prevent pollution was the focus, and we designed policies and strategies to meet that goal. But over time, the topic has matured beyond e-waste management and has evolved to circularity for a sustainable future without waste. And yet, in many cases we ar … Read MoreSpeakers