--- title: "2026 Agenda — Day 2 | Lithium in South America" description: "2026 Agenda - Day 2. Discover the key topics that will be addressed in this edition of Argentina Lithium in South America 2026." canonical: "https://www.litioensudamerica.com.ar/en/2026/schedule/day-two" --- # 2026 Agenda — Day 2 | Lithium in South America - [Home](https://www.litioensudamerica.com.ar/en) - 2026 Agenda ## A program **tailored** to the industry. Conferences, matchmaking sessions and networking spaces distributed throughout the day, designed so every moment of the event has a purpose. ### Wednesday, October 7 Opening day - 08:30 Registration & Welcome - 08:30 09:45 Networking Coffee - 09:30 13:00 Matchmaking Sessions Sponsors Only - 10:00 13:00 Opening Session Block I - 13:00 14:30 Brunch — Culinary & Business Break - 14:30 18:00 Matchmaking Sessions Sponsors Only - 15:00 18:45 Conferences and Keynote Sessions Block II - 19:00 19:30 “Lithium Confidential” Book Signing By Joe Lowry - From 19:30 Jujuy Welcome Cocktail Exclusive Sponsors and guests - TBC Confirmed soon Lithium Roundtable Activity TBC ### Thursday, October 8 Closing day - 09:30 13:00 Day 2 Conferences Block III - 11:00 13:30 Matchmaking Sessions II Sponsors Only - 13:00 14:30 Brunch — Culinary & Business Break - 14:30 18:30 Closing Cycle with Fundar - From 18:30 Beer & Networking — Closing Event - TBC Confirmed soon Lithium Roundtable Activity TBC ### Session by session, the program of **Lithium in South America**. Officials and authorities, governors, ambassadors, leaders from major companies, international experts, and the players setting the pace of the sector. A conference program equal to this moment for lithium. - Skip to main content - [DAY 1](https://www.litioensudamerica.com.ar/en/2026/schedule/day-one#agenda-programa) - [DAY 2](https://www.litioensudamerica.com.ar/en/2026/schedule/day-two#agenda-programa) ### October 8, 2026 - [Venue Map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/czECns8FuFkmjtCj6) ### Day 2 Schedule - 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. - 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 Mariano Gambetta Barrick Speakers TBC - 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 David Guerrero Independent Lithium Consultant - 11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break & Networking - 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 InnovaT CONICET Ángela Fasnatch Princeton Critical Minerals Moderator Ricardo Piethe Chief Technology Officer, Eramine Sudamérica S.A. * More speakers TBC - 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. - 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 - 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. Carlos Freytes Principal Researcher, Natural Resources and Development, Fundar - 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. Chile TBC · CEPAL / CESCO Brasil TBC · BNDES Fernanda Ávila Executive Secretary, Lithium Roundtable Organismo internacional TBC Moderator Marina Ruete IGF - 15:50 – 16:30 Coffee Break & Networking A coffee interval and a continuation of the conversations - 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 - 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. - [View sponsors catalog](https://www.panorama-minero.com/event/lithium/2026/sponsorships)