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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 Ann Evans, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation), ANU
8:50 am
Introduction
Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU
9:10 am
Talks
Presented by Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU

Talks by:

10:00 am
Morning tea break
10:30 am
Panel: Mines to metals
Moderated by Kingsley Jones, Founder, Jevons Global Pty Ltd

Contributors:

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
2:45 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
  • Roderick G. Eggert, Research Professor and Deputy Director of Critical Materials Innovation Hub, Colorado School of Mines
  • Septian Hario Seto, Member of National Economic Council, the Republic of Indonesia
  • Dr Vlado Vivoda, Honorary Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ
  • Dr Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, UTS:ACRI
4:00 pm
Panel: Australia's place in the international supply chain
Moderated by Dr Ross Chandler, Postdoctoral Researcher, ANU Research School of Earth Sciences

Contributors:

5:00 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
JOGMEC's activities in critical minerals
Grant Wilson (Chair) invites Shinkawa Tetsuya, General Manager JOGMEC
9:35 am
Keynote: Progress of climate action by sector and technology
Baethan Mullen (Chair), CEO The Superpower Institute, invites Professor Frank Jotzo, ANU
10:05 am
Keynote: Battery minerals value chain deep dive
Baethan Mullen (Chair), CEO The Superpower Institute, invites Dr Cameron Perks, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
10:30 am
Remarks and Q&A
Baethan Mullen, CEO The Superpower Institute
10:40 am
Morning tea break
10:55 am
Remarks on Geoeconomics, trade and rivalry
Hayley Channer, Director of the Economic Security Program with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
11:00 am
Keynote: Perspectives on rivalry, geoeconomics and critical minerals
Hayley Channer invites Dr Darren Lim, ANU
11:30 am
Keynote: Fact and fiction in critical minerals debates
Hayley Channer invites Professor Christopher Findlay, ANU
11:50 am
Remarks and Q&A
Hayley Channer, Director of the Economic Security Program with the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney
12:15 pm
Lunch break
1:00 pm
Panel: Investment, finance, and price mechanisms
Presented by Dr Huw Mckay, ANU

Contributors:

2:10 pm
Remarks and Q&A
Dr Huw Mckay, ANU
2:10 pm
Afternoon tea break
2:45 pm
Panel: What's next?
Presented by Professor John Mavrogenes, ANU

Contributors:

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