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DAY ONE: WEDNESDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2018

07:30	Registration & Breakfast
Session One: Keynotes
08:45	State of the industry – Simon Moores, Managing Director, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
09:00	Welcome address – Micheal Austin, VP, BYD North America
09:30	Developing cathode capacity outside of Asia – Robert Privette, Business Development Manager – North America, Umicore
10:00	Cathodes and the 21st century lithium ion battery industry – Sam Jaffe, Managing Director, Cairn ERA
10:30	Coffee and Networking
Session Two: Raw material supply
11:00	Lithium supply bottlenecks: from mine to market  – Eric Norris, President, Lithium, Albemarle
11:40	Sustainable battery-grade cobalt production – Michael Insulan, Senior Market Analyst, Eurasian Resources Group
12:10	Supplying increasingly nickel intensive cathode chemistries – Anton Berlin, Marketing Director, Norilsk Nickel (Russia)
12:40	Financial derivatives for EV battery metals – Alberto Xodo, Business Development, LME
13:00	Lunch is served
Session Three: 13:30 Lunch workshops
LITHIUM Chair: Andrew Miller, Senior Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Mike Tamlin, COO, Neometals Ltd Jerko Zuvela, MD, Argosy Minerals Ltd Joe Lowry, President, Global Lithium LLC
COBALT & NICKEL Chair: Caspar Rawles, Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Ian Pringle, Technical Director, Battery Mineral Resources Dan Carroll, New Product Development, Freeport Cobalt Todd Coy, VP, Kinsbursky Brothers Inc Jim Lennon, MD, Red Door Research
15:00	Coffee & Dessert
Session Four: New supply pipeline
15:30	Keynote: The strategic importance of Western Australian lithium  – Ken Brinsden, Managing Director & CEO, Pilbara Minerals
15:50	Michael Callahan, President & CEO, eCobalt Solutions Inc
16:05	Stephen Biggins, MD, Core Exploration Ltd
16:20	Bruce Richardson, Managing Director, Anson Resources Ltd
16:35	Steve Promnitz, MD, Lake Resources N.L. (Australia)
16:50	Trent Mell, President & CEO, First Cobalt
17:05	Keynote: Battery raw material forecasting – Andy Leyland, Head of Forecasting, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (UK)
17:30	Networking drinks reception in exhibition area

DAY TWO: THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2018