A program tailored to the industry.

Day 2 Schedule

1. 08:30 – 09:30

   Day 2 Kickoff Coffee: First Morning Meet-up

   Welcome coffee and first meetings before the second day begins

   The second day opens with a space for participants to arrive, pick up conversations from the previous day, and arrange meetings among companies, suppliers, institutions and delegations before the program begins.

2. 09:00 – 10:15

   Demand & Contracting Outlook

   Purchasing, services and capabilities required for the next stage of Argentine lithium

   The operations and expansions planned for the coming years are shaping new demand for goods, services and capabilities across the industry. In this session, mining companies will present their current and future contracting needs, the areas with the highest demand, their supplier onboarding and qualification processes, and the technical, commercial and compliance standards required to participate. The goal is to offer concrete information on where the opportunities will be and what suppliers will need to solve to join and grow within the chain.

   Participants: Lithium producing and developing companies · Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations and Supplier Development profiles

   Moderator

   MG Mariano Gambetta Barrick

   Speakers TBC
3. 10:15 – 11:15

   The market, through four lenses

   Where the leading readings on lithium toward 2027 agree, and where they diverge

   After several years of sharp adjustments, the market is once again debating how quickly supply and demand can converge. Leading specialized firms will compare their readings on prices, new productive capacity, inventories, China, stationary storage, battery demand, futures and price-formation mechanisms. The goal isn’t to stack four forecasts on top of each other, but to identify the points of consensus, the methodological differences, and the signals producers, buyers and investors should watch heading into the next cycle.

   Fernando Sulca Senior Analyst – Battery Raw Materials Assets, CRU

   Federico Gay Principal Analyst, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

   Argus Media

   Leticia Simionato Senior Price Reporter, Fastmarkets

   Moderator

   DG David Guerrero Independent Lithium Consultant
4. 11:15 – 11:45

   Coffee Break & Networking

5. 11:45 – 12:45

   What comes after the salar

   Processes, technology and new challenges for lithium production

   As the industry ramps up production, new challenges emerge that require closer coordination among those who operate projects, develop processes and study the resource. Recovery, selectivity, water use, brine characterization, processing, use of secondary streams and new materials are all part of an agenda being defined as much in laboratories as on plant floors and operations.

   The panel will bring together figures from lithium mine operations, technology development and academia to discuss what problems they’re working to solve today, which advances can actually make it to operations, and how to better connect technical knowledge with production needs. The conversation will also address where it makes sense to move up the value chain and what capabilities Argentina can build from an industry that is already in production.

   Carlos Galli Vice President of Global Lithium and Innovation, Lithium Argentina

   IN InnovaT CONICET

   ÁF Ángela Fasnatch Princeton Critical Minerals

   Moderator

   Ricardo Piethe Chief Technology Officer, Eramine Sudamérica S.A.

   * More speakers TBC
6. 12:45 – 14:30

   Business Brunch

   Food, networking and connecting with the mining and lithium sector

   The day’s central break, and a space for meetings among participants before the final block organized with Fundar begins.

7. Closing Cycle · 14:30 – 18:00 · Organized with Fundar

   Lithium, a strategic input for the energy transition and productive transformation

   Critical minerals, productive policy and local capabilities amid a global economy in transformation

   The energy transition is raising the strategic value of critical minerals and reshaping the industrial, trade and economic security policies of the world’s major powers. For producing countries, the discussion is no longer just about how much mineral they can extract, but about what economic capabilities they can build around those resources. The closing cycle brings that discussion to South America: governance, the room for maneuver producing countries have, coordination between the federal government and the provinces, financing and supplier development as the conditions for turning a mining advantage into a broader development platform.

   Organized by: Panorama Minero + Fundar
8. 14:30 – 14:50

   Critical for whom?

   Power, economic security and new rules around strategic minerals

   The category of “critical mineral” is not neutral: it depends on which economy needs to secure a resource, what vulnerability it’s trying to reduce, and what industrial capabilities it seeks to protect. The presentation will examine how the United States, Europe, China and other economies are reorganizing trade, financing, investment and production policies around strategic minerals, and what implications that process has for Latin American countries that hold the resources but occupy different positions within global chains.

   CF Carlos Freytes Principal Researcher, Natural Resources and Development, Fundar
9. 14:50 – 15:50

   From critical mineral to mining policy

   How producing countries translate a global agenda increasingly defined by security, industry and geopolitics

   International competition for critical minerals is generating new tools for industrial policy, public financing, strategic agreements and supply security mechanisms. But these trends reach producing countries with very different institutions, capabilities and priorities. The panel will compare how these pressures translate across South America, how much room governments retain to define their own strategies, and how national decisions connect with the provinces and territories where mining activity actually takes place.

   CH Chile TBC · CEPAL / CESCO

   BR Brasil TBC · BNDES

   FÁ Fernanda Ávila Executive Secretary, Lithium Roundtable

   OI Organismo internacional TBC

   Moderator

   MR Marina Ruete IGF
10. 15:50 – 16:30

    Coffee Break & Networking

    A coffee interval and a continuation of the conversations
11. 16:30 – 17:45

    What can be built around a mine

    Suppliers, productive capabilities and scale to build a deeper mining chain

    Supplier development is one of the main mechanisms for turning mining investment into productive capabilities that outlast any single project. But doing so requires moving past a discussion focused solely on local-purchase percentages. The panel will address which goods, services and technologies can be developed competitively in Argentina, how to solve problems of scale and regional fragmentation, what role financing, technology policy and large industrial companies can play, and how to connect operations’ real demands with suppliers capable of competing under global standards.

    Moderator

    Víctor Delbuono Fundar

    Details TBC
12. 18:00

    Beer & Networking — Closing Event

    Lithium in South America, no tie required. The 2026 edition will wrap up with one last space for participants to connect, this time in a more relaxed, informal format. A chance for final conversations, wrapping up pending business, and closing out two days of work in Jujuy, accompanied by craft beer, a food offering and the province’s landscape as the backdrop.