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Summit Speakers

Our curated sessions feature discussions with industry leaders and experts. Click any profile to see when and where they're speaking and check back as we confirm more.

2026 Speakers

Our curated speaker sessions bring together a spectrum of voices — from senior policymakers and seasoned industry leaders to investors, researchers and early-career talent — to tackle the defining challenges in raw materials: from defence readiness and CRM financing, to circularity as strategic depth, global supply chain action, and disruptive innovation across the value chain.

Bernd Schäfer

CEO, Managing Director, EIT RawMaterials

Ekaterina Zaharieva

European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation

Richard Holtum

Chief Executive Officer, Trafigura

Koen Doens

Director General, DG INTPA, European Commission

Myriam Ferran

Deputy Director General, DG INTPA, European Commission

Valère Moutarlier

Deputy Director General, DG Grow, European Commission

Paulina Dejmek Hack

Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience And A Competitive Circular Economy

Isabelle Magne

Deputy Head of Unit, DG INTPA, European Commission

Carsten Schierenbeck

Head of Unit, Industrial Transformation, European Commission

Steven Engels

Head of Unit - Professional qualifications and skills for Competitiveness, European Commission

Francesca Porcelli

Policy Officer for Social and Economic Development, EU Delegation to Albania

Maria Cristina Russo

Directorate-General Research and Innovation, European Commission

Ian Morissette

Deputy minister, Mines, Gouvernement du Québec

Alberto Castronovo

Head - Internationalisation Unit, Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy

Alcide Ponga

President of the Government of New Caledonia

Alessandra Zampieri

Director of Sustainable Resources, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Alex Eastwood

VP Business Development, PMET Resources

Alison Atkinson

Chief Projects & Development Officer, Anglo American

Amir Abidov

Deputy Chairman of the Board for Innovation and Technological Development

Andrea Paolo Lai

President Global Operations, Oerlikon

Andreas Knobloch

Managing Director / Geologist (Beak Consultants GmbH)

Andrés Blanco

CEO, Xcalibur Smart Mapping

Angus Campbell

Ambassador of Australia to the European Union, NATO, Belgium and Luxembourg

Anne Lauenroth

Senior Expert Raw Materials, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI)

Armand Mackenzie

President, First Phosphate

Arnaud Bondoux

CEO, Nickel Mining Company (SMT)

Bo Møller Stensgaard

President Greenland Mines

Carsten Gerhardt

Chairman, Circular Valley Foundation

Chris Biley

VP Technology Development, Anglo American

Christer Mhingo

Director and co-founder of Azurite Management and Consultancy Limited

Daniel Oliveira

LNEG; Head of Unit - Mineral Resources and Geophysics Research Unit / Deputy Chair Mineral Resources Expert Group (EuroGeoSurveys)

Dean Hanisch

CEO, Focus Graphite

Dirk Vangeneugden

Valorisation Director Materials & Chemistry, VITO

Donatella Ceccarelli

Supervisory Board Member, AMG Critical Materials

Duygu Yilmaz

Group Leader and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE)

Eduardo Santos

3drivers - Quadrante, Client Manager

Eleftheria Tetoula

Data Scientist / AI/ML Engineer & Researcher

Elisabeth Clausen

Professor and Director Institute for Advanced Mining Technologies (AMT), RWTH Aachen University

Emese Karacsonyi

La Palma Research Centre; Innovation Manager

Erick Petit

President, MagREEsource

Fatima Lachaize

Secretary General, Prony Resources New Caledonia

Feven Desta

Assistant Professor; Geo-Resource Informatics, Section of Resource Engineering | Department of Geoscience & Engineering; TU Delft

Filipe Neves

Principal Researcher / START Coordinator, LNEG

Frank Jackel

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Metalshub

Frédéric Carencotte

President, Carester

Gabriel Rațiu

Officer, Supply Chain Policy, NATO

Gianclaudio Torlizzi

Advisor, Italian Ministry of Defence

Hao Yin

TEGnology, CEO