Event

Cobalt Congress 2024 – 30th anniversary

13/05/2024

- 14/05/2024

SOFITEL MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, USA

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Agenda

09.00 – 09.10	Opening remarks Dinah McLeod, Director General, Cobalt Institute
09.10 – 09.30	Welcome Address Jose Fernandez, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, US Department of State
09.30 – 10.10	Keynote speech Septian Seto, Deputy Coordinating Minister for Investment and Mining, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Republic of Indonesia Guy Robert Lukama Nkunzi, Chairman of the Board, Gécamines
10.10 – 10.40	Launch of Cobalt Market Report 2023 Harry Fisher, Senior Consultant, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence
10.40 – 12.00	Session 1: State of the cobalt market Harry Fisher, Senior Consultant, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence Gregor Spilker, Director, Metals/Energy Research & Product Development, CME Group Professor Xu Aidong, Chief Expert, Beijing Antaike Information Co., Ltd; Advisor, Cobalt Branch, China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Grace Asenov, Base & Energy Metals editor, Fastmarkets Moderated by Kwasi Ampofo, Head of Metals and Mining, Bloomberg NEF
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch
13.00 – 14.15	Session 2. Cobalt in the US: achieving US critical minerals security of supply Duncan Wood, Vice President for Strategy & New Initiatives; Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute, Wilson Center Duncan T. Blount, Chairman and CEO, Chilean Cobalt Corp Abby Wulf, Head, American Battery Materials Initiative, US Department of Energy Heather Smiles, Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Development, Electra Helaina Matza, Acting Special Coordinator for the Partnership on Global Infrastructure Investment (PGI), US Department of State (Concluding Remarks) Moderated by Dinah McLeod, Director General, Cobalt Institute
14.15 – 14.45	Fireside chat Marie-Chantal Kaninda, President Glencore DRC, Chairwoman of Kamoto Copper Company (KCC)
14.45 – 16.00	Session 3. DRC: stocktaking collaborative efforts on ASM Cobalt IN PREPARATION FOR 2024 OECD FORUM ON RESPONSIBLE MINERAL SUPPLY CHAINS KaLeigh Long, Founder and CEO, Westwin Elements Assheton Stewart Carter, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Fair Cobalt Alliance Richard Robinson, Ed. D., Senior Minerals Advisor, USAID DRC Raphael Matamba, Coordonnateur de la CTCPM, Ministère des Mines Eric Kalala, Directeur Général, Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC) Louis Maréchal, Senior Advisor – Minerals and Extractives, OECD (Closing Remarks) Moderated by Susannah McLaren, Head of Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability, Cobalt Institute
16.00 – 16.30	Fireside chat Ernest Scheyder, Journalist, and author of “The War Below” followed by book signing session
18.30 – 21.30	Gala Dinner Dress code: cocktail / business formal 620 Loft & Garden, 620 5th Ave, New York

09.00 – 09.20	Expert presentation: Focus on China Dr Yanchen Wang, Director, Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) UK
09.20 – 10.30	Session 4. Cobalt value chain in North America: can supply meet demand? Michael Hollomon, Commercial Director/Board Member, US Strategic Metals Matthew Zolnowski, President, Greyfriars Navaid Alan, President and CEO, EVelution Energy Jen Fendrick, Director of Public Policy, KoBold Metals Moderated by Marina Demidova, Head of Communications, Cobalt Institute
10.30 – 10.50	Expert presentation: The Impact Of Chemicals Management Policies On The US Supply Chain: Using US EPA IRIS As A Case Study Dr Vanessa Viegas, Head of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs and Principal Toxicologist (Human Health)
10.30 – 11.45	Session 5. Unlocking the value of secondary cobalt Joe Kaderavek, CEO, Cobalt Blue Harry Kumar, Director of Government Relations, Li-Cycle, Li-Cycle Bill Fisher, CEO, Exsolve Lynn Lupori, Head of Consulting – Americas, CRU Moderated by Tom Fairlie, Senior Sustainability Manager, Cobalt Institute
11.45 – 12.00	Closing remarks Dinah McLeod, Director General, Cobalt Institute
12.00 – 13.00	Lunch

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