Meet SVMF 2025 Speakers
Keynote Speakers
H.E Moses Engadu
Secretary-General
Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG)
Kurt House
Co-Founder & CEO
KoBold Metals
Oleksandr Kubrakov
Chairman of We Build Ukraine Think Tank
Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine (2022-2024)
Daniel Runde
Senior Vice President
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Gary Agnew
CEO & Co-Founder
Ideon Technologies
Lauren Anderson
Senior Data Scientist
KoBold Metals
Stephanie Ashton
VP of Business Development
IG Global Group
Gracelin Baskaran
Director
Critical Minerals Security Program, CSIS
Andres Blanco
CEO
Xcalibur Smart Mapping
Tony Carroll
Nonresidential Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Advisory Board, Mining Indaba
William Chueh
Director, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy
Professor, Stanford University
Co-Founder, Mitra Chem
Mark Cutifani
Chairman, Vale Base Metals
Former CEO, Anglo American
Mehdi El Khatib
Head of Reputation and Public Affairs
OCP
Abdellatif Elghali
Professor
University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P)
Jennifer Fendrick
Director of Public Policy
KoBold Metals
Mark Frayman
Managing Partner
Orion Industrial Ventures
Josh Goldman
Co-Founder & President
KoBold Metals
Doris Hiam-Galvez
Author of "Designing Sustainable Prosperity"
Andrew Hunter
Founder & CEO
Hunter&Co
Keenan Jennings
Expert-in-Residence, Fleet Space Technologies
Former VP of Metal Exploration, BHP
Jason Jessup
CEO & Director
Magna Mining Inc.
Benjamin Katabuka
Director-General, DRC
KoBold Metals
Mahnaz Khan
Vice President of Policy, Critical Supply Chains
Silverado Policy Accelerator
Deirdré Lingenfelder
CEO
Oyu Tolgoi (OT)
Jack Masangu
Deputy CEO
Gecamines
Ed Macha
President & CEO
Reliable Controls Corporation
Dinah McLeod
Director General
Cobalt Institute
Trent Mell
Founder & CEO
Electra Battery Materials
Rahul Meka
Senior Associate
Playground VC
Jack Muir
Head of Machine Learning
Fleet Space Technologies
Dale Nesbitt
CEO, ArrowHead Economics
Lecturer, Stanford University
Charles Park
CFO
KoBold Metals
Robert Quartermain
Co-Chairman, Director, President & CEO
Dakota Gold
Beth Reid
Staff Data Scientist
KoBold Metals
Doug Schouten
CTO & Co-Founder
Ideon Technologies
Nodir Ruzmatov
Founder
One Nexus Group/UC Berkeley
Kunal Sinha
SVP Marketing & Global Head of Recycling
Glencore
David Strang
Executive Chairman
Ero Copper
Rajesh Swaminathan
Partner
Khosla Ventures
Flavia Tata Nardini
CEO & Co-Founder
Fleet Space Technologies
Yuna Tae
Minerals Lead
Google
Shane Tragethon
VP of International Strategy
ReElement Technologies
Flavia Tshibangu
Senior Strategic Advisor
Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Scott Woodard
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Competitiveness and Supply Chains
Department of State
Tshene Wedi
Regional Communication Manager
Glencore Copper Africa
Jef Caers
Director, Mineral-X
Professor, Stanford University
David Zhen Yin
Program Director, Mineral-X
Stanford University
Sofia Mantilla Salas
Earth and Planetary Sciences PhD Student
Stanford University