Giga Europe 2025

The learnings from creating Toyota’s first Circular economy and energy business strategies.

• Understanding the current challenges & opportunities for European carmakers as they progress towards EV transition targets​

• Strengthening Europe's automotive industry in the global EV marketplace

• What does Trump 2.0 and the influence of Elon Musk mean for America's lithium ion battery ecosystem? ​

• How will China look to control these markets and build upon their supply chain dominance?​

• What steps must Europe take to ensure its decarbonization goals are not derailed by outside geopolitical forces?

• What is the outlook for prices of the key battery raw materials and what does this mean for the economics of EV and battery manufacturing?​
• What is the potential for onshoring Europe's critical mineral mining and processing?​
• What is the role of Europe's mining and energy industry leaders in the lithium ion battery economy?

• The evolving global dynamics of battery demand, active materials and gigafactory manufacturing processes​
• What does Northvolt’s restructuring mean for European battery production?​
• Opportunities to establish European leadership in next generation batteries
   

• Policy: What can EC and national gov in Europe do? ​
• Importance: why is it vital to build a circular battery economy & what are the challenges?​
• Technology: What are the available solutions?​
• Defining, harmonizing and regulating global black mass trade flows
   

• How does the CRMA address supply diversification? What is the state of play of the EU Strategic Projects?​

• How does the CRM compare to other supply diversification policies

• Outlook for the market based on new supplies from brine to spodumene; carbonate to hydroxide ​

• What is the current economics of European lithium refining?

• The potential for a fully domestic supply chain in Europe, i.e., the outlook for an entirely domestic brine-to-battery supply chain across the region.

• What role do integrated projects play in reducing OPEX and enhancing competitiveness within the cost curve? How can integration be leveraged as a key competitive advantage?

• Building a green energy hub ​

• Reaching scale in the face of increased competition for investment, talent, and resources

• Copper powers the energy transition, from electrification to lithium-ion batteries. But with demand soaring, how will supply keep up?
  Join us to explore the copper value chain and the critical rise of recycling and sustainability.

• How can Belgium support the European green transition?
• More specifically, what role can Belgium play in supporting Europe's electric vehicle transition, considering the whole EV supply chain, from mine to electric vehicle?
• How can Belgium and, to a larger extent, Europe increase their green industrial competitiveness vis-à-vis other geopolitical actors like China and US? What are the challenges? What are the opportunities?

• Improving and facilitating access to funding for battery & raw materials projects​

• Variables impacting critical minerals investment in Europe​

• The importance of market building mechanisms in access to capital and reduction of volatility

• Need for balancing competition and cooperation in building a global lithium ion economy​

• Benefits of building alliances in critical minerals and battery production

• What do emerging geopolitics mean for Europe's security concerns and their need for an independent and robust supply chain of critical minerals

• Cathode materials trends and their impact on supply chains​

• Can nickel and cobalt markets recover from supply surges​

• New projects that could create sustainable, localised supply for Europe's battery industry

• What is required to build a sustainable supply chain between Raw Material Suppliers and OEMS?

• What are the challenges, chances and risks of OEMS around direct partnerships with Raw Material Suppliers?

• Natural graphite: Where is ex-China flake graphite in development? How are the spherical processing ambitions changing?​

• Synthetic graphite: How is the ex-China synthetic graphite and needle coke supply chain developing?​

• New projects that could create sustainable, localised supply for Europe's battery industry

• The three priorities for ESS batteries: cost, durability, and storage duration​

• Repurposing old EV batteries in alternative energy storage applications fast-charging stations and microgrid storage systems​

• What technological solutions can address the global demand for energy storage?​

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• Understanding battery emissions in light of the EU Batteries Regulations​

• What the EU’s new corporate sustainability directive means for the battery supply chain​

• The importance of securing an entire battery supply chain through diversity, resilience, and sustainability​

• Understanding where structural deficits and surpluses exist in critical material supply chains

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Hear from innovators and mining project developers for updates on the on technologies and new supply sources that may disrupt the markets.​

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