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Program

We’re currently finalising the program for REECON+ and OZRE '26.

Please check back regularly for updates on speakers, timings, and session details.

For information about the OZRE '26 sessions, visit the OZRE '26 program page.

19 February

8:00 am
Registrations open
Tea and coffee served in the foyer
8:30 am
Opening of formal proceedings
Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU
Acknowledgement of Country
Paul Girrawah House, ANU
8:45 am
Opening Remarks
Professor Rebekah Brown, Interim Vice-Chancellor, ANU
8:50 am
Introduction
Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU
9:10 am
Talks
Presented by Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU

Talks by:

  • Amanda Lacaze, CEO, Lynas Rare Earths
  • Neville Power, Non-Executive Deputy Chair, Strike Energy
  • Clint Cox, President, The Anchor House, Inc.
  • Grant Wilson, Executive Charmian, Tivan
10:00 am
Morning tea break
10:30 am
Panel: Mines to metals
Moderated by by Kingsley Jones, Founder, Jevons Global Pty Ltd

Contributors:

  • Amanda Lacaze, CEO, Lynas Rare Earths
  • Neville Power, Non-Executive Deputy Chair, Strike Energy
  • Clint Cox, President, The Anchor House, Inc.
  • Grant Wilson, Executive Charmian, Tivan
12:05 pm
Lunch break
12:55 pm
Reordering supply chains - new policy frontiers
Presentations and Q&A
  • Roderick G. Eggert – Research Professor and Deputy Director of Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Colorado School of Mines
  • Dr Vlado Vivoda – Honorary Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ
2:15 pm
Afternoon tea break
3:35 pm
Panel: Maximising value chains in mineral-rich countries
This panel examines the economic and political challenges of on-shoring and friend-shoring mineral processing, comparing Australia’s efforts and ambitions with those of other countries around the world.

Moderated by Dr Eve Warburton, ANU

Contributors:

  • Dr Alvin Camba, Lead Scientist & Director at Lyvi AI, and Non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council – Indo-Pacific Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
  • Dr Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, UTS:ACRI
  • Septian Hario Seto, Member of National Economic Council, the Republic of Indonesia
  • Dr Vlado Vivoda, Honorary Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ
  • Roderick G. Eggert, Research Professor and Deputy Director of Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Colorado School of Mines
4:45 pm
Panel: Australia's place in the international supply chain
Moderated by Dr Ross Chandler, Postdoctoral Researcher, ANU Research School of Earth Sciences, AMEC Prospector of the Year 2023

Contributors:

  • The Hon Julie Bishop, Chancellor, ANU
  • Mrs Jennifer Louise Cole, UK Minister-Counsellor
  • Her Excellency Ms Beatriz De La Fuentes, Ambassador of Chile
  • His Excellency Dr Siswo Pramono, Ambassador of Indonesia
5:15 pm
Drinks and networking

20 February

8:10 am
Registrations open
Tea and coffee served in the foyer
8:30 am
Opening of formal proceedings
8:45 am
Keynote: Critical minerals within the quadrilemma
Dr Huw Mckay, ANU
9:15 am
Remarks on Energy Transition
Professor Llewellyn Hughes, ANU
9:20 am
Keynote: Progress of climate action by sector and technology
Professor Frank Jotzo, ANU
9:50 am
Keynote: Battery minerals value chain deep dive
Dr Cameron Perks, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
10:20 am
Remarks and Q&A
Professor Llewellyn Hughes, ANU
10:40 am
Morning tea break
11:00 am
Remarks on Geoeconomics, trade and rivalry
Dr Eve Warburton, ANU
11:05 am
Keynote: Perspectives on rivalry, geoeconomics and critical minerals
Dr Darren Lim, ANU
11:20 am
Keynote: Fact and fiction in critical minerals debates
Professor Christopher Findlay, ANU
11:45 am
Remarks and Q&A
Dr Eve Warburton, ANU
12:30 pm
Lunch break
1:15 pm
Panel: Investment, finance, and price mechanisms
Presented by Dr Huw Mckay, ANU

Contributors:

  • Innovative private sector financing & exchange based trading, by Andreas Furche, Program Director, Mineral Markets, Digital Finance CRC
  • Price mechanisms in opaque minerals markets by Cameron Perks, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
  • Sovereign stockpiling and financial markets by Alex Turnbull, Russell Smyth and Adam Triggs
2:10 pm
Remarks and Q&A
Dr Huw Mckay, ANU
3:00 pm
Panel: What's next?
Presented by Namali Mckay, Founder & Managing Director, CMA

Contributors:

4:15 pm
Closing Remarks
Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU
4:30 pm
Drinks and networking