Critical Minerals Expo | North America 2026

Date

October 28

Format

In-Person

Location

Atlanta, GA

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Trade show and conference focused on securing and strengthening North American critical-minerals supply chains across processors, manufacturers, engineers, and industry leaders. Topics include supply-chain vulnerability and import dependence; China’s dominance and geostrategic risk; permitting and regulatory bottlenecks; domestic refining and manufacturing capacity; diversified sourcing and international partnerships; responsible and ethical mining; and circular-economy strategies. Critical Minerals track sessions include “Creating a Closed Loop Solution for Critical Materials: From Concept to Operation”; “Critical Minerals and Why They Matter: Supply Chain Shifts, Risks, and USGS Research”; “Expert overview of North America’s critical minerals supply chain – where are we going?”; “Rare earths market outlook 2026/27”; “Ghana and North America: Building a Critical Minerals Supply Chain Partnership”; “Spotlight on Base Metals: Planning ahead for future supply chains”; “Building Digital Marketplaces for Critical Materials”; “Beyond Dollars: What America Must Do to Prevail Over China in the Global Critical Minerals Fight”; “Focus on Tungsten Markets”; “America’s Race for Rare Earths and China’s November Reckoning (Panel)”; “Securing critical material supply chains for the aerospace industry: UAVs, military and commercial trends”; “How policy, government, and industry can work together to level up domestic critical minerals supply chains”; “The Intelligence Advantage: How AI Can Transform Critical Minerals Strategy and Capital”; “Need to know updates to NFPA 660 – The safety standard for combustible dusts and particulate solids”; and “The Important Role of High Purity Silica Quartz in the North American Supply Chain”. The show is co-located with Battery Recycling Expo and E-Waste World Expo.

Speakers(34)

Bill Vasquez

Chief Operating Officer, Paladin Envirotech

Jack Jia

Principal Sourcing Engineer, Microsoft

Rhownica Birch

Partner, Western Digital Global Operations Product Sustainability & Circularity, Western Digital

Luke Wray

SVP of Critical Materials & Defense, Paladin Envirotech

Munir Humayun

Professor, Florida State University

Daniel Bina

President/CEO, Critical Materials Recycling

Robert Goodin

Mineral Commodity Specialist, U.S. Geological Survey

Tracy Hughes

Executive Director, Critical Minerals Institute

Constantine Karayannopoulos

President, Kloni Inc.

Melissa Sanderson

Co-Chair, Critical Minerals Institute

Rachel McGuire

Price Reporter, Critical Minerals, Fastmarkets

Dustin Olsen

Co-founder, Rare Earths Exchanges

Maxwell Yao Akpene Klu

Deputy CEO, Minerals Commission Ghana

Kamila Slupek

Secretary General, International Copper Study Group

Lauri Pesonen

Head of Sales - Smelting, Metso

Josef Daniel-Ivad

Head of Zinc Battery Initiative, International Zinc Association

Dr. Parvin Adeli

Manager, Batteries Program, Nickel Institute

KaLeigh Long

Founder and CEO, Westwin Elements

Peter Evans

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, All Things Circular

Dr. Marco Ceccagnoli

Brady Family Professor and Area Chair for Strategy & Innovation, Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business

Hernan Rizo

Chief Financial Officer, Titan International Inc.

Lewis Black

Chairman, President & CEO, Almonty Industries Inc

Ali Haji

CEO, American Tungsten

Mark Wall

CEO, American Rare Earths

Noah Lehrman

Chair (North America), Minor Metals Trade Association

Dr Nils Backeberg

Founder and Director, Project Blue

Sarah Venuto

Executive Director, American Critical Minerals Association

David Schultheis

President & Managing Director, Aurubis Richmond

Kevin P. Moore

Chairman and CFO, 3 Proton Lithium Inc.

Zubeyde (Zoe) Oysul

Critical Minerals Policy Manager, SAFE

Ekin Ober

Board Member, Upcell Alliance

Jordan Newton

Owner and President, SonicAire

Feisal Somji

CEO, Sio Silica

Topics

Geopolitics
Policy
Technology

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