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Four days of sessions across lithium, critical minerals, energy storage and defense materials.

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Five days of practitioner-led sessions across lithium, critical minerals, energy storage and defense materials.

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Fastmarkets Global Lithium, Battery & Critical Materials Jun 22 to 25

Keynote

Securing America's Battery Future: U.S. Strategy for Lithium & Critical Materials

Keynote

From Energy Transition to National Security: Batteries as the New Defense Frontier

Keynote

Lithium Market Outlook 2026 to 2030: Navigating Shifting Supply and Demand Dynamics

Panel

Unlocking the Smackover: The U.S. Lithium Growth Engine and the Path to Commercial, Scalable DLE

Panel

Trade, Tariffs and Transformation: How Policy is Rewriting the Graphite and Anode Market

Fireside Chat

China Uncovered: Myths, Realities, and Market Truths

Panel

Building Billion-Dollar Lithium Projects: From Capital Raise to Commissioning

Debate

Energy Storage vs EVs: Is ESS Set to Become the Primary Driver of Lithium Demand?

Battery & Energy Storage 2026 Jun 23 to 25 · Included

Roundtable

Overcoming ESS Deployment Constraints: How Developers, ISOs & Utilities Can Work Together

Roundtable

Developers, Offtakers & Capital: What Each Side Needs to Drive Project Financing and Bankability

Fireside Chat

Defining the ESS Market Structure and Its Future

Panel

ESS as Grid Infrastructure: Utilities Modelling and IRP Valuation

Panel

Data Centers and AI: Meeting the Demand

Panel

Alternative Chemistries vs Lithium in ESS Batteries

Debate

Is Current US Policy Actually Supporting ESS Deployment and Scale?

Keynote

What Will the ESS Industry Look Like in 2030?

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