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Fastmarkets Global Lithium,
Battery & Critical Materials

June 21-24, 2027 | Las Vegas, USA

The industry’s flagship gathering of senior leaders securing supply, unlocking investment test
and accelerating deal making across EV and energy storage markets.

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About the Event

The market is broader. So is the room.

1,000+
Senior Leaders
550+
Companies
50+
Countries
200+
Speakers

In 2026, the Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery and Critical Materials event builds on its core lithium and battery materials focus while expanding to reflect how the market is evolving. Alongside lithium, critical minerals, energy storage and defense-linked supply chains now form part of the same week in Las Vegas.

More than 1,000 senior leaders from over 50 countries attend, spanning miners, refiners, recyclers, OEMs, cell manufacturers, traders, governments and investors. For established lithium participants, the core audience remains firmly in place — with the added benefit of energy storage and infrastructure buyers now in the room, widening the opportunity to meet counterparties and progress commercial discussions.

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2026 Programme

New keynotes announced

The full week in Las Vegas

Three events. One supply chain. One week.

Battery & Energy Storage 2026 runs co-located June 23 to 25 and is included in your main event ticket. Defense & Aerospace Strategic Materials runs June 23 alongside the main program. All events share the same venue, exhibition floor and evening receptions.

 
Flagship event
Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery & Critical Materials
June 22 to 25, 2026
Four days covering the full battery raw materials and critical minerals supply chain. Lithium market outlook, DLE commercialization, graphite and anode policy, rare earths, project finance, and the growing role of energy storage as a demand driver. All in one room.
✓  Includes Battery & Energy Storage 2026
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Co-located
Battery & Energy Storage 2026
June 23 to 25, 2026
A dedicated program for grid-scale energy storage buyers, developers and financiers. Sessions cover project bankability, grid integration, AI and data center power demand, chemistry selection, and US policy, with the upstream supply chain exhibiting on the same floor all week.
✓  Included in main ticket
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One-day stream
Defense & Aerospace Strategic Materials
June 23, 2026
A focused one-day program on the critical and strategic materials underpinning defense and aerospace supply chains. Rare earths, supply chain security, mineral sovereignty and the materials driving next-generation defense programs.
➝  Standalone or add-on
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Who Attends

Whoever you are in this supply chain — this is your room.

The breadth of the audience is the event's defining commercial proposition. Producers, financiers, buyers, OEMs and governments — five days, one venue, every deal-making conversation you need for the year ahead.

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Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery and Critical Materials event audience
 
Las Vegas · June 22–25, 2026
1,000+ senior leaders from over 50 countries in one room for five days
Miners & Developers
You're building or financing a project
The offtake buyers, project financiers and technical partners you need to move forward are in this room. Fastmarkets price assessments that underpin your contracts are produced by the team presenting on stage.
Offtake discussions DLE pathways Investor access
Finance & Investment
You're deploying or raising capital
Investment banks, royalty companies, sovereign wealth funds and private equity firms use this event to assess project pipelines and meet management teams across a concentrated five days. The density of deal flow here is unmatched anywhere else in this sector.
Project pipeline Royalty structures Critical minerals funds
OEMs & Cell Manufacturers
You're securing battery material supply
FEOC compliance, IRA domestic content rules and shifting trade flows are forcing procurement decisions this year. The upstream producers and midstream processors you need to qualify are all here — alongside Fastmarkets price intelligence on where markets are heading.
FEOC compliance Supply qualification CAM sourcing
Energy & Storage
You're deploying grid-scale or behind-the-meter storage
The Battery and Energy Storage 2026 summit runs June 24–25 with a dedicated programme exclusive to summit delegates. You also get full access to the main event floor, where the lithium and battery materials producers setting your input costs are exhibiting all week.
Storage finance LFP vs NMC Raw material costs
Traders & Merchants
You're trading lithium and critical materials
The Fastmarkets price assessments that set your reference prices are produced by the team presenting here. Price methodology sessions, forward outlook and direct access to the producers and buyers whose activity determines market direction — concentrated into one week.
Price methodology Forward outlook Counterparty access
Critical Minerals ★ New for 2026
You're in cobalt, graphite, rare earths or defense supply chains
The 2026 rebrand opens dedicated programming for cobalt, graphite, manganese, rare earths and defense-linked materials — alongside the lithium and battery community that sources from you. New audience, same commercial infrastructure.
Cobalt & graphite Rare earths Defense supply chains
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2026 Programme

The topics shaping the market this year

Five days across the main plenary, pre-day briefings and the Battery and Energy Storage 2026 summit — all in one venue, one week. Every session is led by a practitioner.

⛏️ Lithium & Critical Minerals
  • From Promise to Production: The Commercialization Challenge for DLE
  • Unlocking the Smackover: The U.S. Lithium Growth Engine and the Path to Commercial, Scalable DLE
  • From Energy Transition to National Security: Batteries as the New Defense Frontier
  • Trade, Tariffs and Transformation: How Policy Is Rewriting the Graphite and Anode Market New
  • Rare Earth Elements: Establishing a Sustainable Ex-China Supply Chain New
  • Africa's Growing Influence on Global Lithium Supply, Demand and Pricing New
  • Battery Recycling in North America: Feedstock, Financing, and the Race to Scale
  • Next Generation Battery Technologies: Solid-State, Sodium-Ion and High-Manganese Chemistries
  • Inside Nevada's Lithium Loop: Project Updates and the Race to Deliver U.S. Lithium Supply
  • National Lithium Strategies in Focus: Chile and Bolivia After Political Transition
🏦 Policy, Finance & Markets
  • Lithium Market Outlook 2026 to 2030: Navigating Shifting Supply and Demand Dynamics
  • Funding Lithium Projects in Volatile Markets: Capital, Costs and Location Decisions
  • Navigating Volatility: Hedging Battery Raw Materials with Futures and Derivatives
  • Debate: Energy Storage vs EVs — Is ESS Set to Become the Primary Driver of Lithium Demand?
  • Resource Resilience: What Will It Take to Establish a Competitive EV and ESS Supply Chain?
  • The Next Chapter in the China Playbook: Innovation, Integration, and Global Impact
  • Building Billion-Dollar Lithium Projects: From Capital Raise to Commissioning
  • The Missing Link: Accelerating North America's Midstream
  • U.S. Midterms and Market Risk: What's at Stake for Lithium and Critical Minerals?
  • BRM Shark Tank: CEO Pitches to a Live Investor Panel
Battery & Energy Storage 2026
  • Grid-scale BESS procurement: utilities, IPPs and structured RFP cycles New
  • BESS project finance and bankability: warranties, degradation and augmentation New
  • LFP dominance and chemistry selection: what grid-scale buyers are actually procuring New
  • IRA standalone storage ITC: project economics and what it means for procurement decisions
  • Duration optimization, dispatch modelling and revenue stacking across capacity and ancillary markets
  • AI, data centers and the race for power: ESS as grid infrastructure
  • Long-duration energy storage: technology readiness, commercial models and financing pathways
  • Capital formation for ESS: infrastructure funds, private equity and sovereign wealth deployment
  • Raw material costs and supply security: what storage buyers need from upstream lithium markets
  • ESS Fundamentals Workshop: pre-day programme for new entrants and fundamentals learners

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