Agenda
2026 Agenda
Day 1
Tuesday 13th October 2026
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:40am
Shared risk, shared resilience: What are the characteristics of genuinely successful and business-benefitting partnerships?
Outokumpu | Skanska | IXM
Plenary
9:40am - 10:20am
Security of supply and operational reality: How to manage geopolitics and concentration risk
UK Department for Business & Trade | Anglo American | Verkor | Critical Minerals Association
Plenary
10:20am - 10:50am
10:50am - 11:40am
Visibility has a limit: An honest reckoning with what traceability can and cannot deliver
Cisco | HSBC | Fairphone | Airbus | International Tin Association
Plenary
11:40am - 12:30pm
Making projects bankable: How to plug funding gaps to ensure (sustainable) supply keeps up with demand
Barclays Investment Bank | Redwheel | BMO | Societe Generale
Plenary
12:30pm - 1:30pm
1:30pm - 2:15pm
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Artisanal mining: Why responsible engagement so often falls short - and what it takes to make it stick
Entreprise Générale du Cobalt (EGC) | Cobalt Institute | The Centre for Child Rights and Business
Breakout
1:30pm - 2:15pm
We need to talk about China: How do you do due diligence in a jurisdiction that penalises it?
Evermore
The other room
1:30pm - 2:15pm
This house believes: The circular economy for critical minerals is built on a recycling myth
Innovation Forum
This house believes
2:15pm - 3:00pm
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Beyond tier one: What visibility do companies really have past smelters and refiners and where can they drive change?
ABB | Cisco | SLR Consulting | Responsible Minerals Initiative
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
The other room
2:15pm - 3:00pm
This house believes
3:00pm - 3:30pm
3:30pm - 4:15pm
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Mining standards: How to implement for real impact, not just compliance
The Copper Mark | BHP | Alianza Minera de América Latina (ALMA) | Evermore
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Is your board ready? A working session on legal exposure in critical minerals supply chains
Independent
Mini Hackathon
4:15pm - 5:00pm
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Too little, too late: How to make community engagement meaningful from the start
Volvo Construction Equipment | Initiative for Responsible Mining (IRMA) | Business and Human Rights Centre
Breakout
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Continued: Is your board ready? A working session on legal exposure in critical minerals supply chains
Independent
Mini Hackathon
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Day 2
Wednesday 14th October 2026
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:50am
From commitment to action: Partnerships and business models closing the circular economy gap
Vale Base Metals | AT&S | Volvo Construction Equipment | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Global Electronics Association
Plenary
9:50am - 10:10am
Lightning talk
10:10am - 10:40am
10:40am - 11:25am
Procurement under pressure: Can buyers balance CSDDD, price volatility and security of supply?
Aurubis | Umicore | BASF
Plenary
11:25am - 12:15pm
Nature’s social license: Is the human impact of biodiversity loss the business case for action?
Rio Tinto | Hitachi Energy | Kenmare Resources | Schneider Electric | Shift
Plenary
12:15pm - 1:15pm
1:15pm - 2:45pm
1:15pm - 2:45pm
Roundtable
1:15pm - 2:45pm
ASM at scale: Can innovative financing models make responsible sourcing commercially viable?
De Beers Group
Roundtable
1:15pm - 2:45pm
Roundtable
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Roundtable key takeaways and closing remarks
Independent | Innovation Forum
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