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2026 Programme

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Four days of sessions across lithium, critical minerals, energy storage and defense materials.
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200+ speakers from across the battery raw materials and critical minerals supply chain.
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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 2026 runs June 23 alongside the main programme. 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 commercialisation, 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 programme 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 2026
June 23, 2026
A focused one-day programme 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.
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Selected Sessions

What's on the programme

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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