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Please find the fancy version of the agenda here: Mineral-X_Symposium_Agenda_2024.pdf

 

7:30 amRegistration & Breakfast
 Session 1
8:30 amOne Year of Mineral-X: Jef Caers, Founder, Mineral-X
8:45 am

A New Era for the Copperbelt: Building the Lobito Corridor

  • Peter Handley, former European Commission Deputy to the Director, Head of Unit, DG GROW
  • Helaina R. Matza, Acting Special Coordinator for the Partnership of Global Infrastructure Investment, U.S. Department of State

Moderator: Kurt House, CEO, KoBold Metals

9:25 am

Characterizing Mingomba, Zambia: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence

  • Damian Burch, Director of Data Science, KoBold Metals
  • Fanuel K Banda, Chief Mining Engineer, Kobold Zambia
10:00 amBreak
 Session 2
10:15 am  

Spurring Investments in the Critical Mineral Supply Chain

  • Connie Chan, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
  • Ryosuke Sasaki, Project Lead, Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
  • Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner, Khosla Ventures
  • Francis MacDonald, CEO Li-FT

Moderator: Shievani Upadhyay, Stanford Graduate School of Business

11:15 am

Shaping the Future of Mining

  • Jack Masangu, Deputy CEO, Gecamines
  • Jocelyn Kelly, Director of Gender Rights & Resilience, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
  • Nina Astillero, ESG Director, Ioneer, Women in Mining representative

Moderator: David Yin, Managing Director, Mineral-X

12:00 pmLunch
12:30 pm     

Lunch Talk: The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Science

Michael Strevens, Professor of Philosophy, New York University

 Session 3
1:00 pm  

Community Engagement in Mineral Exploration

  • Laura Blanco, ESG Director, Xcalibur Smart Mapping
  • Thais Laguardia, Director of ESG & Safety, Ero Brasil
  • Chad Yeftich, VP Corporate Development & External Affairs, Ioneer

Moderator: Doris Hiam-Galvez, Senior Advisor @ Hatch | Board Director

1:45 pm

Country-Scale Natural Resources Mapping

  • Sarah Ryker, USGS Associate Director for Energy & Mineral Resources
  • Inacio Melo, President, Geological Survey of Brazil
  • Dr. Nguyen Van Nguyen, Deputy Director General, GDGMV, Vietnam GS
  • Grace Okpala, Director, National Geosciences Information Centre, Nigeria

Moderator: Andres Blanco, CEO, Xcalibur Smart Mapping

2:45 pmBreak
 Session 4
3:00 pm

Nickel and Lithium Ore Systems: Supply and Demand 

  • David Strang, CEO, Ero Copper
  • Simon Jowitt, Professor of Economic Geology, University of Nevada Reno
  • Peter Lightfoot, Chief Geologist, Nickel, KoBold Metals
  • Francis MacDonald, CEO Li-FT

Moderator: John Thompson, PetraScience, Kobold Metals

4:00 pm

Innovations in Geophysical Solutions

  • Teo Hage, Australia & Asia Managing Director, Xcalibur Smart Mapping
  • Jack Muir, Head of Machine Learning, Fleet Space Technologies
  • Doug Schouten, CTO & Co-Founder, Ideon Technologies

Moderator: Tom Hunt, VP of Technology, Kobold Metals

4:45 pm

Innovations in Mining and Processing Technology

  • KaLeigh Long, CEO, Westwin Elements
  • Philip Lypaczewski, CTO, LithologIQ
5:15 pmNetworking Reception