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Behind the AI Boom: How Data Centre Demand is Reshaping BESS, Lithium, LFP and Copper Markets
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Benchmark Week 2025
Benchmark Week 2025
Time and Location
Lead Sponsors
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Tuesday 18th November, 2025
Registration Opens
Lunch & Learn: Lithium Valley – Building a Vertically Integrated Ecosystem
Networking Lunch
Welcome to Benchmark Week 2025
Video Opening Address
Panel Discussion: Inside the Battery Supply Chain: How OEMs Are Redefining Sourcing Strategy
Fireside Chat: The Economics of Building Gigafactories
- Outlining the real costs of building and scaling gigafactories, from raw material sourcing to workforce development.
- Understanding how tax credits, subsidies, and state-level support are shaping investment decisions for battery manufacturing.
- Balancing up-front investment with long-term demand growth from EVs, storage, and AI-powered energy systems.
Fireside Chat: Charting the Next Phase of Global Lithium Growth
Keynote Presentation: A New Era of Electricity Demand and the Role of Battery Storage
Panel Discussion: Energy Storage Demand for Critical Minerals
- Outlining current demand for energy storage and what is driving this
- Optimizing grid infrastructure through ESS technologies
- Understanding raw material needs for storage: how do they differ from EVs, and what does that mean for supply?
Networking Break
Panel Discussion: The Importance of International Partnerships for Critical Mineral Supply Security
- Understanding how geopolitics and tariffs are reshaping global trade flows
- Building strategic alliances for supply chain security
Panel Discussion: Understanding Global Lithium Supply Chains
Panel Discussion: Evolving Raw Material Supply Chains
- Identifying the next evolution in raw material sourcing
- Understanding how global producers and OEMs are building resilient supply chains
Panel Discussion: Investment Leader's Panel: Closing the Capital Gap
- What projects are investors gravitating to in the current economic climate?
- What are the key pillars to become a bankable project? How are financiers looking at risk within the sector now?
- Addressing public/private relationships, co-investing strategies and bridging funding gaps
Networking Reception
Wednesday 19th November, 2025
Networking Breakfast
Opening Remarks
ICE Battery Materials Futures
Benchmark's Lifetime Achievement Award
Fireside chat: Battery Innovation at Scale
California's Role in the Global Battery Race
- Outlining the Lithium Valley Opportunity
- Unlocking domestic supply to compete on a global scale
- The role of California’s policy and infrastructure in shaping the US battery supply chain
Keynote Presentation: Building Battery Supply Chains in America from Materials to Manufacturing
- Localizing battery manufacturing in the US: what are the opportunities?
- Outlining the significance of domestic cathode, anode, and electrolyte production on global supply chains
- Understanding the importance of creating a circular battery economy for national security
Fireside Chat: Accelerating the Energy Transition: Industry Perspectives from LG Vertech
Keynote Presentation: EVs in a New Era
- Life after 30D and 45X: what’s next for automakers?
- Outlining sourcing strategies under evolving tax credit requirements
Panel Discussion: Securing the Anode Supply Chain
- Natural vs. Synthetic graphite
- Localizing anode production
- Exploring next-gen materials and solutions
Networking Break
Interactive Breakout Sessions
Join us for a series of in-depth discussions on the most pressing topics for the industry today.
Critical Mineral Symposium: Scaling Direct Lithium Extraction
- Hosted by Daniel Fletcher-Manuel, Director - Indexing & Derivatives, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Chris Reed, Managing Director & CEO, Neometals
- Andrew Walker, CCO, Evove
- Grant Thornley, VP Engineering Solution Sales, Forward Water Solutions
Admiralty: Copper’s Breaking Point: How Policy and Supply Are Stress-Testing the Market
- Hosted by Mike Finch, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence & Adam Webb, Head of Battery Raw Materials, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Chris Robb, Commodities Consultant, Robb Commodities Consulting
Pavilion: LFP vs NCM: Mapping the Next Decade of Cathode Innovation
- Hosted by Adam Panayi, Chief Research Officer, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence & Caspar Rawles, Chief Operating Officer, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Interactive Breakout Sessions
Critical Mineral Symposium: Unlocking Future Supply: Deep Sea Mining
- Hosted by Adam Webb, Head of Battery Raw Materials, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Megan Carr, Associate Director for Strategic Resources, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Craig Shesky, CFO, The Metals Company
- Michael Lodge, Barrister, former Secretary-General, International Seabed Authority
Admiralty: Evolving ESS Demand: Powering the AI Revolution Through Datacenters
- Hosted by Iola Hughes, Head of Research, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence & Adam Panayi, Chief Research Officer, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Pavilion: Rare Earths Rewired: Industry, Defense, and the New ex-China Strategy - By invitation only, a Chatham House Rules session
- Hosted by Daniel Fletcher-Manuel, Director - Indexing & Derivatives, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence & Michael Finch, Head of Strategic Initiatives, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Networking Lunch
Full Flowsheet DLE Solutions that Drive Project FID & Fortify US Supply Chains
Panel Discussion: Enabling the Next Generation of Mining & Refining
- Highlighting innovation and new technology; what is the role of AI, DLE and more?
- Outlining what it takes to scale new technologies
- Understanding where investment is going, and where innovation is still needed
Benchmark Keynote Presentation: Rare Earths
Fireside Chat: Securing the U.S. Rare Earth Future
- Addressing the significance of domestic rare earth production for energy security
- Innovating processing and refining to localize magnet supply
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