2026 Agenda
Further details to come
09:0009:00
Keynote address
Global & national market forces driving change - the outlook for metals and critical minerals
Critical Metals for Critical Minerals Cooperative Research Centre
Refreshments break & Networking
10:4510:45
Session 1: Scaling Solutions: From Technology to Deployment
Title sponsor presentation
Ecobatt
Panel: Grid-scale solar & battery projects: Where circular economy meets renewable infrastructure buildout Hamilton Locke
Panel: Used lead acid batteries (ULAB) and the impacts of lithium on the collection network
Keeping lithium out of ULAB collection chains but what are the opportunities for safely expanding the collection network
Recycling zinc, lead and critical minerals: Feedstock diversification
Nyrstar
Lunch and networking
13:30
Session 2: Regulation, Policy & Market Signals
Regulatory Direction: Policy priorities in Victoria and South Australia
Panel: Corporate leadership in producer & retail circularity
Industry Technology Showcase: Practical solutions to current challenges (Fast-Paced Innovation Block)
Oscorp Energy - AI lithium battery sorting systems
Refreshments break & networking
15:30
Session 3: Best Practice & Future Systems
Panel: Standards development: safely and sustainably growing Australia’s battery value chain
Powering Australia
1700
Networking drinks
Agenda subject to change