SVMF 2026 Speakers
Gary Agnew
CEO & Co-Founder
Ideon Technologies
Mike Biddle
Managing Director
Evok Innovations
Ramón Barúa Costa
CEO & Director
Aclara Resources
Andres Blanco
CEO
Xcalibur Smart Mapping
Alan Carroll
Deputy Director of Government Affairs
KoBold Metals
Tony Carroll
Nonresidential Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Advisory Board, Mining Indaba
Steve de Jong
Co-Founder and CEO
VRIFY
George Gilchrist
Vice President of Geoscience
KoBold Metals
Josh Goldman
Co-Founder & President
KoBold Metals
Teo Hage
VP of Operations
Xcalibur Smart Mapping
Mar Hershenson
Founding Managing Partner
Pear VC
Doris Hiam-Galvez
Author of "Designing Sustainable Prosperity"
Michael Hocking
Vice President of Exploration
Ero
Jason Holt
Managing Partner
Orion Industrial Ventures
Kurt House
Co-Founder & CEO
KoBold Metals
Aubrey Hruby
Senior Fellow, Africa Center
Atlantic Council
Tom Hunt
CTO
KoBold Metals
Chibamba Kanyama
Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the United States
Mykel Kochenderfer
Professor & Director
Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory (SISL)
Sam Lee
President & CEO
Northisle Copper and Gold
Ted Lieu
United States Representative
Arun Majumdar
Dean, Doerr School of Sustainability
Stanford University
John Mern
Co-Founder and CEO
Terra AI
James Nelson
Chief Councillor
Quatsino Nation
Dale Nesbitt
CEO
Arrowhead Economics
Gerrit Oliver
Chief Scientific Officer
Fleet Space Technologies
Robert Quartermain
Co-Chairman, Director, President & CEO
Dakota Gold
Doug Schouten
CTO & Co-Founder
Ideon Technologies
David Snydacker
President and CTO
Lilac Solutions
David Strang
Executive Chairman
Ero Copper
Flavia Tata Nardini
CEO & Co-Founder
Fleet Space Technologies
Sandrine Tshiamala
Founder & CEO
Kolesha Mining
Zainab Usman
Senior Research Scholar
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Jonathan Weigel
Professor of Business and Public Policy
UC Berkeley
Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes
Nonresident Fellow
Rice University
Jef Caers
Director, Mineral-X
Professor, Stanford University
David Zhen Yin
Program Director, Mineral-X
Stanford University
Mahdi Al-Husseini
PhD Candidate, Mineral-X
Stanford University
Greg Forbes
PhD Candidate, Mineral-X
Stanford University
Sofia Mantilla Salas
PhD Candidate, Mineral-X
Stanford University