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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

Leopoldo Rubinacci

Deputy Director General, DG Trade, European Commission

Valère Moutarlier

Deputy Director General, DG Grow, European Commission

Andreas Schwarz

Head of Cabinet, Startups, Research and Innovation, 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

Benjamin Hartmann

Cabinet Expert, DG DEFIS, European Commission

Francesca Porcelli

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

Alberto Castronovo

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

Alessandra Zampieri

Director of Sustainable Resources, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Alison Atkinson

Chief Projects & Development Officer, Anglo American

Amir Abidov

Deputy Chairman of the Board for Innovation and Technological Development

Angus Campbell

Australian Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, and the European Union

Anne Lauenroth

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

Carsten Gerhard

Chairman, Circular Valley Foundation

David Merchin

Head of Business Intelligence, EIT RawMaterials

Dirk Vangeneugden

Valorisation Director Materials & Chemistry, VITO

Donatella Ceccarelli

Supervisory Board Member, AMG Critical Materials

Elisabeth Clausen

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

Erick Petit

President, MagREEsource

Frank Jackel

Co-Founder and Managing Director, Metalshub

Frédéric Carencotte

President, Carester

Gabriel Rațiu

Supply Chain Policy Office, NATO

Gianclaudio Torlizzi

Advisor, Italian Ministry of Defence

Heikki Keränen

Head of Trade and Customer Finance, Metso

Inge Hofkens

COO Multimetal Recycling, Aurubis

Irina Oswald

Environmental Program Manager, Apple

Jan Moström

Senior Advisor, LKAB

Jorgina Akushika

Mining Sensor Project Manager , Spectral Industries

Kari Korhonen

Senior Advisor, Finnvera plc

Karin Tynelius

VP Stakeholder Relations, Sustainability and Communication, Sibanye Stillwater

Katarina Öquist

Strategic Innovation Alliance Lead, Epiroc

Katrin Süring

PhD Candidate Technical Biocatalysis, Institute of Technical Biocatalysis - TUHH

Kelly Papadopoulou

COO, Pi-Tech | Girls Go STEM Alumna

Kimmo Tiilikainen

Director General, Geological Survey of Finland, GTK

Linn Andersson

EVP Strategy and CTO, Boliden

Macarena Gutiérrez

CEO, Atlantic Copper

Maximilian Fries

COO & Co-founder, Magnotherm

Micah Melnyk

Representative of Natural Resources Canada to the European Union; Counsellor for Energy and Natural Resources, Mission of Canada to the EU

Michael Süss

Executive Chairman, OC Oerlikon Management AG

Nele Van Roey

CEO, Molymet Belgium

Niclas-Alexander Mauß

Co-Founder, CIRCULAR REPUBLIC / UnternehmerTUM GmbH