Mining & Metals Conferences & Events in the US — 2027

Highlighted events

• JAN

  18

  MON

  –

  JAN

  20

  WED

  Honolulu Defense Forum 2027

  Notable

  Pacific Forum — Honolulu Defense Forum · Honolulu, HI

  Aerospace & Defense · Heavy Machinery & Equipment · Mining & Metals

  Hosted by Pacific Forum International, the annual forum focuses on operationalizing solutions to prevail in the Indo-Pacific. It emphasizes practical implementation rather than policy discussion, bringing together operational leaders, policymakers, industry innovators, and investors to field capabilities, integrate partners, strengthen economic resilience, and build the operational networks needed to sustain deterrence and security. Themes include: - Delivering Combat Power Forward: Speed, Scale, and Sustainment, including distributed logistics, forward maintenance, space-enabled sensing, missile defense integration, and authorities and funding mechanisms that affect execution. - Coalition as a Capability: Executing Networked Deterrence, including information-sharing, standard setting, legal authorities, interoperability, Pacific Island participation, and translating exercises into operational change. - Industrial Power as Deterrence: Mobilizing Capacity, including production and repair acceleration, commercial integration into operational planning, acquisition and contracting, allied industrial capacity, and private capital for defense production. - Decision Advantage: AI, Data, and the Information Domain, including AI, data integration, decision-support tools, information operations, cognitive warfare, and integration of classified, commercial, and allied data. - Economic Resilience in Action: Securing Supply Chains and Strategic Resources, including supply chain resilience, access to critical resources, public-private partnerships, manufacturing and energy investment, and economic resilience in deterrence and defense planning. The forum will convene government, industry, allies, and venture capital; identify policy, legal, financial, and operational barriers; connect investors with government challenges; and produce actionable recommendations and a final report for policymakers, planners, and industry.

• FEB

  3

  WED

  –

  FEB

  5

  FRI

  2027 NAPE Summit

  Top

  NAPE (North American Prospect Expo) · Houston, TX

  Mining & Metals · Oil & Gas · Power & Utilities

  A marketplace for buying, selling, and trading prospects and producing properties, with programming spanning oil and gas, critical minerals, data centers, geothermal, minerals and non-operated assets, bitcoin mining, renewable energy, and offshore opportunities. The Energy Business Conference includes “US/World Energy Outlook 2027,” covering commodity pricing, production outlooks, geopolitical volatility, regulatory developments, LNG growth, capital discipline, energy security, and demand from AI infrastructure and industrial expansion. “Power Grid, Data Centers & AI Infrastructure” examines grid capacity, data-center siting, water and electricity costs, and AI-driven power demand. “AI & Technology in Energy” addresses scaling AI, governance, and innovation. “Energy During Wartime/Government View of Wartime Energy” covers energy security, critical-infrastructure resilience, global LNG, strategic minerals, military demand, cyber threats, and supply-chain disruption. “CEO Fireside Chat: Leading Energy Forward” focuses on AI adoption, workforce strategy, commodity markets, and geopolitical developments. The Technical Track features “AI for Subsurface Energy,” including generative AI for geospatial maps, OSDU and harmonized datasets, seismic interpretation, and data workflows. “New Opportunities in Traditional Legacy Oil and Gas Basins” covers direct lithium extraction from Arkansas’s Smackover Formation, geothermal co-production in the Bakken, helium and hydrogen resources, stacked-pay development, and San Andres horizontal drilling. The Capital Track addresses capital allocation, consolidation, public and private financing, infrastructure investment, underwriting energy types, and expected returns. Additional programming includes a Government Affairs Session on regulatory changes, advocacy, and policy trends, plus expo hubs focused on prospects, critical minerals, renewable energy, offshore activity, minerals and non-operated assets, data centers, and bitcoin mining.

  Kim Padeletti

  Michael O'Connell

  Steve Tedesco

  Allison Kennedy Thurmond

  Keith Behrens

• FEB

  28

  SUN

  –

  MAR

  3

  WED

  Western Mining Summit

  Top

  Colorado Mining Association (CMA) · Denver, CO

  Mining & Metals

  Hosted by the Colorado Mining Association in collaboration with SME, the summit brings together mining professionals, attorneys, policymakers, investors, operations managers, industry leaders, operators, service providers, and decision-makers. The Learn Track covers mining law, permitting, regulatory developments, litigation trends, critical mineral exploration and development, strategy, risk management, innovation, workforce development, geopolitical pressures, legislation, energy security, permitting reform, and the role of mining in national and global priorities. It includes the seminar “Seminar on the Law and Policy of Critical Minerals,” eligible for approximately four CLE credits and presented in partnership with the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law. The Connect Track includes an Exhibit Hall & Industry Showcase with engineering and consulting firms, legal and financial services, ESG and environmental advisors, technology and software providers, equipment manufacturers, and exploration and development companies. A Business Development Forum provides one-on-one meetings with mining companies to discuss opportunities and potential partnerships. Speaker Spotlight: John Hickenlooper, Senator, State of Colorado; Bert Odinet, SVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Freeport-McMoRan; and Red Conger, Director, Newmont Board of Directors, Newmont.

  Bert Odinet

  Red Conger

  John Hickenlooper