Battery Metals Prifosym 2025

A full day of actionable insight and networking opportunities.

Battery Metals Prifosym will bring together panels of experts from all the leading price forecasters and analysts to exchange views and test their price scenarios in lively debate.

A must-attend for battery metals professionals who are sensitive to future pricing trends, be they producers, materials buyers or traders.

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8am to 9am -- Welcome Breakfast and Coffee

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9am to 9.50am -- Buy the dip? Future price of lithium as EV adoption and utility-scale battery storage grows

Confirmed panellists:

Andy Leyland, Managing Director, SC Insights

Martin Jackson, Head of Battery Raw Materials, CRU

Moderator:

George Heppel, Vice-President, Commodity Research, BMO

9.50am to 10.40am -- Price impact of technological advances: Improvements in processing; increases in battery energy density; solid-state batteries

Confirmed panellists:

Sam Adham, Head of Battery Value Chain, CRU

Rob Burrell, Research Manager, Project Blue 

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10.40am to 11.10am -- Coffee break

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11.10am to12.00 pm -- Black Swans: What are the political and regulatory risks that could upend the global battery materials markets?

Confirmed panellists:

Tom Kavanagh, Editor, Argus Battery Materials, Argus Media

Rob Elliott, Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham

12.00pm to 12.50pm -- Graphite supply and demand fundamentals and the future of the anode    

Confirmed panellist:

James Willoughby, Senior Analyst, Wood Mackenzie

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12.50pm to 2pm -- Lunch

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2pm to 2.50pm -- Batteries vs alloys vs stainless steel: Tension in the nickel market

Confirmed panellists:

James Jeary, Senior Analyst, Techmet

Dan Croft, Commodity Analyst, SFA (Oxford)

Moderator: Matt Burford, Global Market Analyst - Battery Metals Management, BASF

2.50pm to 3.40pm -- Batteries vs chemicals vs superalloys vs magnets: Tension in the cobalt market

Confirmed panellists: 

 RJ Coetzee, Senior Analyst, SFA (Oxford)

Tom Matthews, Battery Materials Analyst, CRU

Dylan Khoo, Battery Materials Analyst, Argus Media 

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3.40pm to 4.10pm -- Coffee break

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4.10pm to 5pm -- Changing battery chemistries: How LFP and silicon could reshape the battery metals pricing landscape

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5pm to 6.30pm -- Networking drinks reception

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