Exploring innovative models, enabling risk-informed decision-making and fostering new collaboration to de-risk and redesign responsible mineral value chains
Risk in the eye of the beholder
As a variety of actors and stakeholders focus on risk in mineral value chains, from geostrategic positions to operational interdependencies and (mis?)alignment of interests, this conference will focus on threats and opportunities for the extraction, production and consumption of raw materials. We will discuss what is evolving and what remains unchallenged, misunderstood or under-explored in this landscape.
Innovating for new resilience
Following previous editions on Responsibility, the ESG Toolbox, the Just Transition and the Criticality of Trust, this fifth Responsible Raw Materials online conference will spotlight forward-looking redesign ideas for the businesses, linkages and operations that make up mineral value chains, We discuss how these new models can mitigate threats, realise opportunities and connect with one another to create new systems for resilience, sustainability and shared benefits.
Mon 29 April- Fri 3 May 2024
- 8 sessions, morning and afternoon UK time to cater for all time zones
- Convening innovators, advocates and professionals of all disciplines to explore ideas, debate and learn
- 20 minute slot per speaker including presentation and/or discussion
- All talks recorded and online
- For the conference guidelines see the Code Of Conduct
To contact us, please email hello@responsiblerawmaterials.com
Monday PM
Tuesday AM
Tuesday PM
Wednesday AM
Wednesday PM
Thursday AM
Thursday PM
Friday AM
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Dr Sarah Gordon - Responsible Raw Materials - Setting the Scene | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Ludivine Wouters - From Signalling to Governance | Learn More |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Stephen D'Esposito - Regeneration Enterprises - Regeneration, Innovation at Legacy Sites | Learn More |
| 16:10 - 16.30 | Dr Doris Hiam-Galvez - Hatch - Designing Sustainable Prosperity | Learn More |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Terry Garde - Global Community Miners Forum - Resilience, Responsibility and Risk in Artisanal Gold Mining | Learn More |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Jodi-Ann Wang - Just Transition Finance - Financing a Just Transition in the Extractives Sector | Learn More |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Andy Reynolds - Inspire Resources - How Models Rationalize Resistance | Learn More |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Panel | |
| 17:50 - 18:00 | Wrap up |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 08:00 - 08:10 | Welcome | |
| 08:10 - 08:30 | Anita Parbhakar-Fox- Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland - Liability to resource? The pursuit for critical metals in Australia's mine waste | Learn More |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Guillaume de Brier - International Peace Information Service (IPIS) - Securing EU cobalt supply chain AND having a positive impact on mining-affected communities? Considering the potential of artisanal mining. | Learn More |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | Geoff Deans - Modifying Factors - Modifying factors and risk orientations | Learn More |
| 09:10 - 09.30 | Mark Burnett - AMC Consultants (UK) Limited - Geological Risk to Mining Projects | Learn More |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Vitor Correia - CIRAN - International Raw Materials Observatory (INTRAW) - Rethinking Mining: Embracing Technology and Social Responsibility | Learn More |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Louis Marechal - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Responsible is reliable: investing in governance to secure the supply of CRM | Learn More |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Mark Camilleri - Canada EU Trade and Investment Association (CEUTIA) - The Canada-EU Strategic Partnership on Raw Materials: a model for future EU partnerships? | Learn More |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Geertje Schuitema - University College Dublin - Mining, Ethics and Trust | Learn More |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Wrap up |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Diego Marin - European Environmental Bureau (EEB) - Tackling the problem at the source: Towards an EU Sustainable Resource Management Law | Learn More |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Kate Moore - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter - The known risks of small-scale mining: overcoming impediments to technology and business-model adoption | Learn More |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Kaisi Kabenga + Rodgers Mbaga - Phimona Ltd - Innovators in Ethical Mineral Trade Solutions - Streamlining Battery Mineral Trade Through Digital Channels: The Temsite Approach | Learn More |
| 16:10 - 16.30 | Richard Herrington - Natural History Museum - Exploration for mine closure: mitigating the risks of long-term liability | Learn More |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Elly Shaw - ERM - The Mine We All Want to See | Learn More |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Mark Robinson - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) - Tackling Governance and Corruption Risks in Critical Mineral Supply Chains | Learn More |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Pavel Verkhniatsky - COSA - Transparency of Supply Chains | Learn More |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Panel | Watch |
| 17:50 - 18:00 | Wrap up |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 08:00 - 08:10 | Welcome | |
| 08:10 - 08:30 | Caroline Tiddy - MinEx CRC, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia - Development of New Drilling Technologies | Learn More |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Owen Missen - UTAS - Could harnessing natural processes to be a potentially viable method to extract critical elements from mine wastes? | Learn More |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | Kate Taylor Smith - Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter - Mining, monsters and mineral exploration: assessing social impacts through the lens of public risk perception | Learn More |
| 09:10 - 09.30 | Dave Lawie + James Cleverley - IMDEX - A Schrodinger’s World of Resources – What We Want and Need Can’t All Happen at the Same Time | Learn More |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Kirsty Benham - Critical Minerals Association (CMA) UK - UK Regulation/ Policy & De-Risking a Circular Economy of Critical Minerals | Learn More |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Bursting the Bubble Panel | Learn More |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Bursting the Bubble Panel | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Panel | Watch |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Wrap up |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Sarah Binger - Resonance - Powering a Just Energy Transition Green Minerals Challenge | Learn More |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Rodrigo Navas - IDB Invest | Learn More |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Susannah Fitzgerald - Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) - Deals without details? State-state mining partnerships and their implications | Learn More |
| 16:10 - 16.30 | Murray Hitzman - SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) - Critical Choices: Research and Future Workforce | Learn More |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Carolina Sanchez - IDeMiS. Institute for the development of sustainable mining. Catholic University of Salta (UCASAL) - Opportunities for countries with critical minerals: perspective view from Argentina | Learn More |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Jeff Townsend - Critical Minerals Association (CMA) - Building Strategic Value | Learn More |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Kyle Pearce - Inspire Resources - Critical Choices and the Power to Transform Relationships | Learn More |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Jeff Geipel - Engineers Without Boarders Canada - Creating backward linkages through local procurement - still the mining sector's most developmental contribution during the green transition | Learn More |
| 17:50 - 18:00 | Wrap up | Watch |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 08:00 - 08:10 | Welcome | |
| 08:10 - 08:30 | Olivier Dubourdieu - Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) - Responsible sourcing from ASM: how the Responsible Mica Initiative contributes | Learn More |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Thabisile Phumo - Sibanye-Stillwater - Fostering sustainable development through social cohesion | Learn More |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | Soad Chambazi - BenchMark Mineral Intelligence - Towards a sustainable critical minerals supply chain | Learn More |
| 09:10 - 09.30 | Marge Ryan - Johnson Matthey - Increasing Critical Metals Resilience Through Complementary Technologies | Learn More |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Jamie Strauss - Digbee - Fostering sustainable development through transparency and accountability | Learn More |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Martina Matarazzo + Sara Nicoletti - Resource Matters - Increasing accountability in the extraction of raw materials: mapping the cobalt supply chain | Learn More |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Grace Humphries - Department for Business and Trade, UK Government - Delivering on the UK’s Critical Minerals Strategy | Learn More |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Joss Colchester - Systems Innovation Network - Systems innovation for transformative change | Learn More |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Wrap up | Watch |
| UK Time | Speakers | View Recording |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Welcome | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Carolyn Burns + Steven Sonnoh - Resolve - Artisanal and Small-Scale Diamond Responsible Sourcing Context in Sierra Leone – Opportunities and Threats. | Learn More |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Julie-Ann Adams - European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA) / European Battery Recycling Association (EBRA) – Technical and economic possibilities in the e-waste and waste battery sector | Learn More |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Miran Norderland PhD - Talisman International - Winner of the USAID JET Green Minerals Challenge - When Open-meets-Digital: Navigating Corruption Risk along the Critical Minerals Value Chain | Learn More |
| 16:10 - 16.30 | Jocelyn Fraser - Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining, University of British Columbia- The need for systemic change: moving from risk mitigation to business models for sustainability | Learn More |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Emily Iona Stewart - Global Witness - How the EU will need to offer true value addition to partners to meet aims on diversifying mineral streams. | Learn More |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Glenn Sigurdson - GEMM - Pivotal Choices: Risks & Rewards; Reciprocity & Relationships | Learn More |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Anne Thompson - PetraScience Consultants - The Unrecognized Risk of Parachute (Geo)Science | Learn More |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | Nicolas Maennling - Regional Cooperation for the Sustainable Management of Mineral Resources in the Andean Region (MinSus) - Making certification schemes relevant for local stakeholders | Learn More |
| 17:50 - 18:00 | Wrap up | Watch |
| UK Time | Speaker | View Recording |
| 08:00 - 08:10 | Welcome | |
| 08:10 - 08:30 | Libby Sharman - BHP - Xplor - The Next Dimension of Minerals Exploration: Delivering Different & Dynamic Discoveries | Learn More |
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Vanessa Richards - Empowering your people to make critical choices | Learn More |
| 08:50 - 09:10 | Matt Grimshaw - Satarla - Choice is yours: Red pill or blue in mineral exploration | Learn More |
| 09:10 - 09.30 | Mark Campanale - Carbon Tracker - Unburnable Carbon: Reckoning with global stock markets and climate targets | Learn More |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Kartik Akileswaran - Growth Teams - Learning to Harness Resource Wealth for Real Value Addition | Learn More |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Darryn Quayle - Worley - Mining needs to be done differently | Learn More |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Panel - with Grace Yungwirth- WSP | Learn More |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Panel | |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | Wrap up |
Thank you to Critical Productions for the editing of the videos