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In advance of the Government Roundtable each attendee will be allocated a Roundtable to sit at. Each Roundtable will be moderated by a Rapporteur who will report and present recommendations to the whole audience at the end.

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National and Provincial Governments who are attending this year as of 1 July:

Algeria, Armenia, Canada, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Iraq, Manitoba, Nevada, Nigeria, Ontario, Panama, Philippines, Quebec, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia

Mining Companies who are attending this year as of 1 July

Canadian Energy Metals, Eldorado Gold, Energy Fuels, Traxys, Wetstone Holdings

Industry Experts who are attending this year as of 1 July

Appian Capital, Cobalt Institute, Critical Minerals Association UK, International Council on Mining and Metals, London Metal Exchange, Minerals Council of Australia, Mining Association of Canada, OECD, Refute, Stratum International

For more information, please contact Andrew Thake [email protected]

Rohitesh “Ro” Dhawan is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a role he has held since 2021. He leads the Council of 24 CEOs of the world’s largest mining & metals companies in voluntary leadership actions that raise the standards of responsible mining.  In this opening address Ro will set the scene for the conference’s three days, and how the industry can move from talk into action.

Explore how government funding and cross-border partnerships can unlock investment, accelerate project delivery and strengthen mineral supply across the mining value chain.

Discussion Points:

• Understand which government funding mechanisms can reduce project risk and make mining and processing investments more attractive to private capital.
• Gain insight into how public-private partnerships, permitting reform and cross-border financing can support faster, more coordinated mine-to-market development.
• Identify practical approaches for using government support to unlock capital, strengthen strategic partnerships and accelerate investment across mining and mineral processing.

Explore how mining leaders can evolve their skills, strategies and organisations to balance competing demands, build resilience and lead effectively through rapid change.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the leadership capabilities needed to navigate technological change, geopolitical complexity and evolving stakeholder expectations whilst maintaining strong operational and commercial performance.
• Gain insight into how organisational culture and structures can become more agile, innovative and responsive to market volatility, policy shifts and long-term priorities.
• Identify practical approaches to attracting talent, balancing stakeholder demands and building leadership strategies that strengthen resilience, adaptability and long-term competitiveness.

Drawing on decades of fund management and discovery financing, Willem will share his personal playbook, arming attendees with the sharp, essential questions needed to stress-test mining assets, management teams, and project economics before allocating capital.

Explore how investors, policymakers and industry stakeholders can identify opportunities, de-risk investment and position Ukraine's mining sector for resilient, long-term recovery.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the investment frameworks and risk mitigation approaches that can support capital deployment into Ukraine's mining sector and future reconstruction priorities.
• Gain insight into opportunities to integrate Ukrainian mineral supply into European and transatlantic value chains supporting defence, energy and advanced manufacturing.
• Identify practical approaches to prioritising infrastructure, processing and technology investment that can strengthen Ukraine's mining sector and support sustainable economic recovery.

Explore how mining, government and investment leaders can develop secure, specialised infrastructure to strengthen critical mineral supply chains supporting defence sector requirements.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how specialised processing, refining and transport infrastructure can strengthen supply security for critical minerals and advanced materials required by defence industries.
• Gain insight into funding mechanisms, strategic partnerships and long-term agreements that can de-risk investment in dedicated infrastructure and accelerate project development.
• Identify practical strategies for building more secure, resilient supply chains that protect critical infrastructure, support investment decisions and reduce exposure to geopolitical disruption.

Explore whether government-backed stockpiling and direct capital deployment can reduce mineral volatility, strengthen project bankability and reshape investment across critical mineral supply chains.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how government-backed purchasing, stockpiling and direct financing can influence mineral price stability and reduce investment risk across mining and processing projects.
• Gain insight into how demand signals, loans and strategic capital can improve project bankability whilst reshaping sourcing decisions and international supply relationships.
• Assess how state intervention could affect market competition, capital allocation and supply security, enabling more informed investment and strategic planning decisions.

Challenge assumptions around supply chain independence and explore how mining and manufacturing leaders can build resilient, commercially viable strategies in an interconnected global market.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the practical limits of supply chain independence and how strategic resilience and diversification may offer more achievable routes to long-term security.
• Gain insight into the commercial trade-offs between friend-shoring, established processing capacity and alternative sourcing strategies across critical mineral supply chains.
• Identify practical approaches to building risk-mitigated supply portfolios that strengthen security, manage geopolitical exposure and support commercially sustainable procurement decisions.

Three mining projects. Five natural resources investors. One winner. The Gold and precious metals Mining Pitch Battle will have three mining companies pitch for just three minutes, followed by an in-depth seven-minute Q&A session from the investor panel as the miners battle it out to become the winner.

Explore how governments and industry can balance competing mineral demands, national defence priorities and climate commitments whilst maintaining secure and resilient supply chains.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how competing defence and clean energy demands could shape mineral allocation, procurement priorities and supply security during periods of heightened disruption.
• Gain insight into the strategic trade-offs between accelerating domestic mining and refining capacity whilst meeting climate, emissions and responsible sourcing commitments.
• Identify practical approaches to balancing national security, decarbonisation and commercial demand when developing resilient mineral sourcing and allocation strategies.

Explore how mining companies and governments can collaborate to finance, develop and scale commercially viable processing capacity closer to mineral extraction.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how public and private capital can be combined to reduce investment barriers and accelerate development of commercially viable refining and processing infrastructure.
• Gain insight into the regulatory and commercial frameworks that can support faster permitting, stronger partnerships and scalable regional processing capacity.
• Identify practical approaches to aligning government incentives with industry expertise to capture greater value, strengthen supply chains and support long-term investment.

Explore how mining and supply chain leaders can anticipate geopolitical disruption, overcome physical infrastructure constraints and build more resilient mineral transport networks.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how physical bottlenecks and geopolitical pressure points can disrupt mineral transport, enabling more informed supply chain and infrastructure planning.
• Gain insight into practical, data-driven strategies for designing multi-modal transport networks that can withstand regional disruption and shifting political conditions.
• Identify approaches to managing infrastructure risk and geopolitical sensitivities whilst strengthening supply chain resilience without undermining relationships with key governments and partners.

Challenge conventional thinking on local value creation and explore how governments and mining companies can align responsibilities, investment and commercial incentives.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where value addition and beneficiation models have delivered tangible results, and what distinguishes successful programmes from those that fail.
• Gain insight into how governments, operators and partners can negotiate responsibilities, investment commitments and commercially viable approaches to local processing.
• Identify practical models for assessing whether beneficiation initiatives are achievable for different operators, jurisdictions and project scales, enabling more realistic partnership and investment decisions.

The agenda is under development but topics in line for discussion include exploring how capital, industrial capability and allied partnerships can be better aligned to accelerate strategically important mineral supply chains

Discussion Points:

• Identify where investment, infrastructure and policy coordination can deliver the greatest strategic value across mining, processing and manufacturing value chains.
• Gain access to perspectives on financing, de-risking and scaling priority projects through public and private capital, partnerships and market mechanisms.
• Leave better equipped to assess where your organisation can strengthen allied supply chains and accelerate critical mineral capability.

Explore how industry, governments and capital providers can strengthen rare earth processing and magnet supply chains to support long-term strategic capability.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where the most significant gaps remain across rare earth separation, metallisation, magnet manufacturing and the wider downstream supply chain.
• Gain insight into the investment, technology and regulatory changes required to accelerate commercially viable processing and manufacturing capacity outside concentrated supply networks.
• Identify practical approaches to aligning government support, industry investment and regulatory reform to build more resilient rare earth supply chains for strategic applications.

Four mining projects. Five natural resources investors. One winner. The Critical Metals Mining Pitch Battle will have three mining companies pitch for just three minutes, followed by an in-depth seven-minute Q&A session from the investor panel as the miners battle it out to become the winner.

Round off the day with the Delegate Networking Reception, a relaxed opportunity to meet fellow attendees, continue conversations from the conference, and build valuable relationships over drinks in an informal setting.

Explore how geopolitical and monetary shifts could reshape gold demand, capital flows and investment decisions, with implications for financing, valuations and long-term sector strategy.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how central bank gold accumulation, geopolitical fragmentation and changing reserve strategies could influence future gold demand and global capital allocation.
• Gain insight into how evolving monetary systems, currency diversification and alternative assets could affect gold financing, asset valuations and investment strategies.
• Identify practical approaches to assessing macroeconomic change and its implications for capital deployment, project financing and long-term opportunities across the gold sector.

Explore the findings from Capital Matters and discover how rigorous project controls can strengthen capital confidence, improve delivery predictability and unlock future funding.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the root causes of project overruns and how stronger early-stage planning, project controls and execution models can improve capital predictability.
• Gain insight into the findings from Capital Matters Series 1 and the approaches being explored to restore confidence among institutional and government funders.
• Identify practical ways to apply data, collaborative contracting and disciplined delivery frameworks to reduce overruns and strengthen project investment readiness.

Explore how governments and industry can redesign permitting frameworks to accelerate project development whilst maintaining environmental standards, stakeholder trust and regulatory certainty.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how fast-tracking frameworks can reduce duplication, coordinate approvals and create more predictable pathways from project development to production.
• Gain insight into the practical lessons from federal, state, provincial and regional permitting reforms designed to accelerate mining and processing approvals.
• Identify approaches to balancing speed, environmental standards and meaningful Indigenous engagement to reduce legal risk and prevent delays later in the project lifecycle.

Explore how technology, regulation and investment can align to establish practical pathways for responsible deep-sea mineral development and supply.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the operational, environmental and regulatory criteria required to build a credible and responsible deep-sea mineral value chain.
• Gain insight into emerging technologies, traceability systems and ESG frameworks that can support lower-impact extraction and strengthen market confidence.
• Identify practical approaches to aligning environmental safeguards, regulatory milestones and investment requirements to support responsible project development and financing.

Examine how uranium supply, strategic stockpiling and investment decisions can shape secure nuclear fuel supply chains and unlock capital for future development.

Discussion Points:

• Identify the investment, supply and geopolitical factors shaping uranium markets and influencing the development of secure, long-term fuel supply strategies.
• Gain access to perspectives on strategic stockpiling, fuel processing and capital deployment as governments and utilities seek greater supply security.
• Leave better equipped to assess uranium investment opportunities and position your organisation to respond to changing supply chain and energy security priorities.

Oman is rapidly positioning itself as one of the Middle East’s most progressive, geologically rich frontiers for mining and mineral processing. Driven by Oman Vision 2040 and the structured oversight of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals alongside Minerals Development Oman (MDO), the Sultanate is opening up major concessions spanning high-grade copper, gold, chromite, industrial minerals, and critical elements like nickel and antimony.

Unlike traditional resource jurisdictions, Oman offers low-cost energy solutions, world-class deep-water port infrastructure (such as Sohar and Duqm), and a strategic geographic bridge connecting East and West. This 90-minute roundtable cuts through the noise to examine how international capital, advanced technologies, and foreign joint-venture partners can actively participate in Oman’s downstream processing and resource development ecosystem.

Discover how subsurface intelligence and deep-tech innovation can help increase copper output from existing operations whilst reducing geological uncertainty and development risk.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how advanced subsurface intelligence can improve ore body visibility, resource-to-reserve conversion and recovery from existing copper operations.
• Gain insight into how cosmic-ray tomography and AI-driven data can support more precise extraction decisions and optimise high-recovery mining methods.
• Identify how emerging technologies can unlock additional copper supply from existing assets, reducing reliance on new mine development and lengthy permitting processes.

Explore how the mining sector can respond to accelerating copper demand, increase available supply and demonstrate the responsible production standards increasingly required by buyers.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how demand from digital infrastructure, data centres and grid expansion could reshape near-term copper requirements and supply priorities.
• Gain insight into practical approaches for increasing supply through existing operations, recycling and secondary sourcing whilst maintaining credible sustainability standards.
• Identify how robust assurance frameworks can strengthen market access, support buyer confidence and position copper supply for emerging demand opportunities.

Explore where AI can deliver measurable value across mining operations and discover practical pathways for scaling proven applications throughout the mining lifecycle.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where AI can deliver tangible operational improvements across exploration, extraction, processing, maintenance, logistics and site closure over the next three to five years.
• Gain insight into the highest-impact applications, data requirements and deployment models that can turn AI investment into measurable operational and commercial value.
• Identify practical approaches to overcoming data, infrastructure and workforce barriers, enabling more effective scaling of AI from individual applications to enterprise-wide deployment.

Explore how stronger structural understanding can reduce uncertainty, improve decision-making and create a faster, more capital-efficient pathway from discovery to bankable development.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where structural data gaps create friction across exploration, resource conversion, investment decisions and project development, slowing progress and increasing capital requirements.
• Gain insight into how high-resolution structural confidence can strengthen subsurface models, improve stakeholder alignment and reduce reliance on repetitive infill drilling.
• Identify practical approaches to building structural understanding earlier, enabling faster resource conversion, stronger investment cases and more efficient progression towards production.

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Four mining projects. Five natural resources investors. One winner. The Copper and Base Metals Mining Pitch Battle will have three mining companies pitch for just three minutes, followed by an in-depth seven-minute Q&A session from the investor panel as the miners battle it out to become the winner.

Explore what comes next for mining sustainability and how companies can build trust, demonstrate measurable value and strengthen their role in resource resilience.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how mining companies can move beyond compliance-led approaches towards measurable outcomes that strengthen trust, transparency and long-term stakeholder confidence.
• Gain insight into how resource resilience, real-time data and verifiable local economic benefits can reshape the industry's sustainability and social value proposition.
• Identify practical approaches to embedding transparency, supply security and measurable regional impact into strategies that demonstrate mining's contribution to long-term economic development.

Explore how mining companies can turn waste, secondary materials and circular resource streams into commercially viable businesses and new sources of value.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how recycling, remining and waste-to-value models can create new revenue opportunities by recovering valuable materials from existing waste and secondary sources.
• Gain insight into the technologies, partnerships and business models that can integrate circular material recovery into core mining operations and long-term growth strategies.
• Identify practical approaches to reducing capital requirements, environmental impacts and resource constraints whilst developing profitable circular revenue streams beyond primary extraction.

Explore how partnerships across mining, manufacturing, technology and government can unlock capital, strengthen supply security and create more resilient value chains.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how cross-industry alliances can align investment, offtake and project development to strengthen supply security across complex mineral value chains.
• Gain insight into the partnership structures, financing models and data-sharing approaches that can connect miners, processors, end-users and government partners.
• Identify practical approaches to building alliances that improve traceability, manage risk and create more resilient, commercially sustainable supply networks.

Explore how regenerative mining can turn measurable ecosystem restoration and biodiversity gains into stronger environmental outcomes and a more compelling case for project development.

Discussion Points

• Understand how regenerative approaches can move beyond harm reduction towards measurable ecosystem restoration and biodiversity outcomes throughout the mining lifecycle.
• Gain insight into practical ecological strategies and credible measurement frameworks that can demonstrate environmental progress and strengthen stakeholder confidence.
• Identify approaches to integrating nature-positive outcomes into project planning, permitting and post-mining strategies to create lasting environmental and community value.

Mine planning and design decisions made in the earliest stages of a project lock in cost, safety and productivity outcomes for decades to come — long before a single piece of equipment reaches site.  
 
This Roundtable is built for the people who own technical direction inside a mining company: Chief Operating Officers, Technical Directors, Heads of Mine Planning, Study Managers, General Managers of Operations, and VPs of Engineering. It also draws engineering and technical services firms delivering feasibility studies, mine design work and project execution — principals, technical directors and study leads from those consultancies. Beyond individual companies, it's relevant to equipment and automation providers whose technology is embedded in planning decisions, and to investors and financiers who need to assess whether a project's technical plan is genuinely bankable. In short: anyone with real influence over how a mine gets designed, not just how it gets financed. 
 
Attendees leave with more than networking — they get a working view of how peers are actually solving the planning trade-offs everyone faces: sequencing, automation adoption, safety-by-design, and the gap between feasibility-study assumptions and what happens once a mine is operating. The closed-door, roundtable format means franker discussion than a normal conference panel, with real project examples rather than marketing pitches. For technical leaders, it's a chance to benchmark their own approach against the industry's best thinking; for consultancies and vendors, it's direct access to the people making design decisions; for investors, it's a fast way to understand what separates a resilient mine plan from a fragile one.  

Explore how coordinated infrastructure, investment and policy can connect African mineral resources with processing capacity, regional markets and new opportunities for value creation.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how multi-modal infrastructure corridors can connect mining regions, processing hubs and ports to strengthen intra-African mineral value chains.
• Gain insight into the policy alignment, public-private partnerships and financing models required to de-risk cross-border infrastructure and industrial development.
• Identify practical approaches to linking resource development, transport and processing investment to retain greater mineral value within African economies.

Unwind after day two with drinks and networking among industry peers, hosted by Women in Mining UK.

Explore how strategic mineral classifications shape investment, policy and supply chain priorities, and discover what changing definitions could mean for future mining opportunities.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how governments and institutions define strategic minerals, and how these classifications can influence policy, funding, permitting and investment decisions.
• Gain insight into how changing strategic priorities could reshape opportunities for commodities beyond traditional critical minerals, including iron ore and gold.
• Identify practical approaches to positioning projects for evolving policy priorities, capital opportunities and cross-border supply chain strategies.

Explore how exploration and project development can move faster, using technology, parallel processes and new approaches to turn discoveries into investable projects.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how parallel permitting, feasibility and stakeholder engagement can shorten development timelines and reduce delays through the most challenging stages of project advancement.
• Gain insight into emerging exploration technologies that can improve targeting, accelerate resource definition and reduce the time and cost of traditional drilling campaigns.
• Identify practical approaches to combining technology, faster drilling and integrated project development to navigate the valley of death and accelerate project progression.

Explore how mining and government leaders can align policy, capital and technology to accelerate mineral supply whilst strengthening environmental performance and resilience.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how regulatory reform, technology adoption and operational innovation can work together to accelerate mineral production without compromising environmental performance or stakeholder confidence.
• Gain insight into how public-private investment, price support and strategic partnerships can reduce risk and unlock faster development of critical mineral capacity.
• Identify practical approaches to building cleaner, more resilient mining and processing systems that can increase supply and withstand geopolitical and market disruption.

Explore how governments, industry, buyers and investors can turn shared mineral ambitions into investable projects, stronger markets and more resilient supply chains.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where transatlantic priorities are converging and how deeper public-private collaboration can translate policy alignment into commercially viable mineral projects.
• Gain insight into the policy, financing and demand signals that can strengthen project investment, improve value chain integration and support long-term market development.
• Identify practical approaches to building partnerships, improving market transparency and creating more competitive, resilient critical mineral markets across jurisdictions.

Explore the forces reshaping precious metals markets, and assess how gold, silver and mining equities could influence investment strategies in a changing global economy.

Discussion Points:

• Identify the macroeconomic and monetary shifts influencing precious metals demand, and understand how these forces could reshape institutional investment strategies.
• Gain access to perspectives on gold remonetisation, central bank demand, silver and the valuation potential of mining equities and hard assets.
• Leave better equipped to assess precious metals opportunities and position investment strategies for changing currency, inflation and market conditions.

Three mining projects. Five natural resources investors. One winner. The Mining Pitch Battle will have three mining companies pitch for just three minutes, followed by an in-depth seven-minute Q&A session from the investor panel as the miners battle it out to become the winner.

Explore how governments, industry, investors and downstream partners can align responsible sourcing with supply chain resilience and develop strategies that deliver both.

Discussion Points:

• Understand where responsible sourcing and supply chain resilience reinforce each other, and where potential trade-offs require clearer alignment and decision-making.
• Gain insight into how governments, mining companies, downstream businesses and investors can establish shared expectations across responsible and resilient supply chains.
• Identify practical approaches to balancing security, sustainability and commercial priorities when developing more responsible and resilient mineral supply chains.

Explore how alternative financing models can diversify project funding, reduce reliance on equity and unlock new routes to capital for mining development.

Discussion Points:

• Understand how streaming, royalty and blended finance structures can provide alternative sources of capital and reshape funding strategies for mining projects.
• Gain insight into how government, export credit and strategic capital can de-risk projects and attract additional commercial and institutional investment.
• Identify practical approaches to building a diversified financing mix that aligns alternative capital sources with project requirements, development stages and long-term strategic objectives.

Explore the lessons shaping mining's latest deal cycle and discover where the next wave of consolidation, competition and strategic investment could emerge.

Discussion Points:

• Understand the strategic, financial and policy drivers behind recent mining transactions, and the lessons they offer for future acquisition and consolidation strategies.
• Gain insight into the themes that could shape mining M&A in 2027, including asset competition, joint ventures, cross-border transactions and strategic ownership.
• Identify practical approaches to assessing deal opportunities, navigating policy constraints and positioning organisations for the next phase of mining sector consolidation.

A senior level workshop to consider fresh, radical and daring approaches to addressing mining's reputational challenge and opportunity. 
 
Premise: 
 
Perceptions about mining and metals in many parts of the world are 20 years behind the reality, bringing low trust, public suspicion and policy-maker reluctance to act. This affects companies' ability to plan and deliver the vital materials required by society for the future, threatening the energy transition as well as nations' commercial, economic, security and social ambitions. Our efforts to change this have only been partially successful - and there's been a lot of talk about the problem but not many new innovations. It's time for new approaches. What should those be? 
 
The event: 
 
30-40 participants with a mix of industry and non-industry leaders who are each encouraged to submit their one radical idea for changing industry perceptions ahead of the event. What has worked in other industries or sectors? What have we been too conservative to try in the past? What opportunities does technology give us today that didn't exist yesterday? 
 
Those ideas will be collated, and participants will discuss, workshop and then vote on them, choosing a small to be carried forward band brought to life. 
 
Expect a no holds barred, anything goes, approach from some of the industry's most important friends and family, freed to be daring and take risks. 
 
 
We will aim for a mix of industry and non-industry voices - including from mining companies, investors, governments, associations, civil society groups, academics - and at least 15% of the audience needs to be below the age of 25 to ensure that we get a perspective from those who are the industry's future talent and leaders. 

Explore how transparency, traceability and supply chain strategies can strengthen battery supply resilience while helping organisations respond to regulatory and geopolitical disruption.

• Identify practical approaches for improving supply chain visibility, strengthening compliance and reducing exposure to disruption across complex battery material networks.
• Gain access to cross-sector perspectives on using traceability and data sharing to verify suppliers, manage risk and support resilient operations.
• Leave better equipped to balance transparency, operational security and flexibility when responding to supply disruptions and changing regulatory requirements.

Explore where technology investment can deliver the greatest operational gains and discover how mining can overcome barriers that prevent promising innovations from scaling.

Discussion Points

• Understand where the greatest technology opportunities lie across mining operations, and whether current investment priorities are addressing the industry's most significant challenges.
• Gain insight into why promising hard-tech innovations can stall between pilot and deployment, and what is required to accelerate site-wide adoption.
• Identify practical approaches to prioritising technologies that reduce waste, improve operational performance and strengthen the environmental case for future project development.

Three tech start-ups. Five tech investors/mining companies. One winner. The Technology Pitch Battle will have three tech start-ups pitch for just three minutes, followed by an in-depth seven-minute Q&A session from the investor panel as the start-ups battle it out to become the winner. At the end of the session each judge will give their reasons for which is the most exciting tech start-up and why.

Over the last 3 days, 16 mining projects will have been whittled down to 4 – who will be the winner?

Finalists:

• Winner Pitch Battle Heat 1
• Winner Pitch Battle Heat 2
• Winner Pitch Battle Heat 3
• Winner Pitch Battle Heat 4