Benchmark Week 2024

Benchmark Week will open with a series of field trips on the morning of Tuesday 12^th November as way to add value to your trip and kick start your event networking.

Connect, network, and do business with fellow industry executives at the Meeting Hub. You can schedule 1-1 meetings via the Networking App.

Welcome to Benchmark Week 2024

Join us in this session to hear about the Importance of building a Secure Critical Mineral Supply Chain for National Security 

In partnership with Rho Motion Live, in this session we explore the rapid rise of gigafactories in the USA, discussing their impact on manufacturing, innovation, and the energy transition.

Hear from energy transition innovators on new projects and technologies to build a strong battery supply chain

Presentations include:

• How ultraselective membranes are adding value in DLE
• Accelerating lithium and critical minerals production 

In partnership with Rho Motion Live, in this session hear from leaders across the downstream on current market trends, progress, and future expectations for EV demand 

• The Challenge and Drivers of: Battery Circularity in Consumer Electronics
• Google’s current work in Battery Sustainability
• Future Challenges of Battery Sustainability in Consumer Electronics
   

Join us in this session to hear about the path forward for the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Energy Transition.

In partnership with Rho Motion Live, in this session major recycling players will address issues around leveraging policy to meet circularity goals, and outline technological innovation to help create a circular battery economy 

Hear from energy transition innovators on new projects and technologies to build a strong battery supply chain

Presentations include: 

• Bonnie Claire: A World Class Lithium Deposit
• ReCRFT: A highly impurity tolerant lithium carbonate recrystallization technology

In partnership with Rho Motion Live, in this session we outline the importance of ESS as a battery demand centre and a key enabler of renewable energy grid networks. 

Join us for the conference's highlight: our famous poolside reception to kickstart your networking with cocktails, canapés, and stunning views of the Marina del Rey sunset.

Understanding the Direction of Travel: From inception to the rise of the gigafactory to now policy and politics, the forces shaping the battery supply chain are many. Here, we breakdown what the medium term future looks like for the battery supply chain. 

What explains the current lithium price environment and what might move the market?

• Utilizing existing technologies to secure a sustainable future lithium supply
• Outlining the importance of government and industry support in achieving a zero-carbon value chain
• Identifying funding opportunities and navigating investor relations
• Positioning Brazil as a leader in the global lithium supply chain 
   

Hear from energy transition innovators on new projects and technologies to build a strong battery supply chain

Presentations include:

• Intricacies of Domestic Manufacturing of Battery-Grade Graphite in the United States
• Falcon Energy Materials: Morocco Anode Plant

In this session, industry experts will highlight case studies to outline the current global battery material landscape; including the importance of building strategic partnerships in order to secure domestic supply and how to incentivize growth and production domestically 

Hear insights into the current challenges in building the global anode supply chain, including scaling natural and synthetic graphite, and the role of future anode technologies

Further speakers to be announced.

Hear from energy transition innovators on new projects to strengthen the lithium supply chain.

Presentations include: 

• Closing the Lithium Conversion Gap
• Unlocking Northern Lithium: Yellowknife Lithium Project's Initial Mineral Resource Estimate - Canadia's newest source of supply chain of lithium
• Rapid Lithium, Focus upon the Historic Spodumene Districts of South Dakota

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.

Continue the day's networking over lunch in at the marina promenade or in the poolside rose garden.

In this session, we discuss the advantages and challenges of creating localized supply chains for cathode manufacturing.

Join this session for a discussion on growing diversity in the critical minerals workforce, which will be informed by a fireside chat with Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes about her career growth from engineer to CEO to Deputy Director at DOE.

In this session, we look at innovations in Direct Lithium Extraction

Hear from energy transition innovators on new projects and technologies to build a strong battery supply chain

Presentations include: 

• Solving the heavy rare earth challenge
• Cathode Materials Low-Carbon Mines of the Future
• Advanced solutions for efficient, scalable, homogenous slurry mixing of lithium-ion batteries 

A panel to discuss the recently announced MESC grants and their potential impact in supporting the scaling of a US domestic battery supply chain through strategic funding.

This presentation will explore the consolidation trends within the critical minerals sector, with a focus on M&A activity across key battery raw materials such as lithium, graphite, and cobalt

A discussion on anode innovation and how these new technologies can impact the market.

An opportunity to unwind after day two with informal networking over drinks and canapés along the marina promenade.

Connect, network, and do business with fellow industry executives at the Meeting Hub. You can schedule 1-1 meetings via the Networking App.

Initiatives, incentives, and policies designed to boost domestic production, secure resources, and strengthen the EV ecosystem to accelerate the clean energy transition.

Evolving financial strategies and introducing new capital streams to strengthen battery supply chains and scale battery manufacturing.

Hear about the successes and challenges of scaling new battery technologies like sodium ion, solid state and lithium metal

• Scaling critical mineral production sustainably
• Understanding the role of due diligence in critical mineral supply chains
• Highlighting tools to effectively meet decarbonization goals
• Achieving a just transition and a social license to operate