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29-30 September 2025, Kampi Ya Boma, Kolwezi, DRC Empowering the DRC’s Battery Metals Value Chain: From Upstream to Downstream

The only platform dedicated to supporting the country’s strategic ambition to industrialise its battery metals sector — unlocking value across both upstream and downstream activities.

Why Sponsor?

  • Align your brand with the industrialisation of Africa's Criticals Minerals Sector
  • Showcase your solutions for beneficiation, processing ad manufacturing
  • Demonstrate your leadership across both upstream and downstream markets
  • Engage directly with government stakeholders driving localisation policy
  • Support the growth of local market economies and development

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2024 SPEAKERSThank you to our incredible speakers

Our industry speakers aim to share knowledge, experience, learning and support to bring awareness, ideas and solutions to the African battery manufacturing sector.

Event FeaturesAccelerating Industrialisation and Manufacturing in the DRC

Be part of the DRC’s battery metals revolution, drive industrialisation, localisation and beneficiation, unlock new markets, and secure your position across the value chain from mine to market.

Become a Sponsor

Position Your Brand at the Heart of Africa’s Battery Metals Revolution Drive industrialisation, localisation and beneficiation in one of the world’s most exciting battery metals markets and grow your business across the full value chain.

Choose from a variety of sponsorship options that align with your marketing goals

  • Venue/Executive Lounge
  • Forum Session/ Opening Session
  • Cocktail Function
  • Delegates Lunch/ Bags/ Refreshments
  • Badges/Lanyards/Registration Desk

Become a Delegate

Join the Leaders Driving Africa’s Battery Metals Industrialisation” Gain insights, build connections, and unlock opportunities across the full battery metals value chain from mine to market.



  • Gain insights from leaders driving industrialisation and localisation
  • Unlock opportunities across the battery metals value chain
  • Connect with mining operators, OEMs, investors, and policymakers
  • Stay ahead of market trends and policy developments
  • Be part of Africa’s battery metals transformation

From Minerals to Manufacturing in DRC's Battery Future

Our dedicated content and engagement platform will unpack how the DRC is localising its battery value chain, from mineral extraction to refined battery components. Delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers will gain insights into value addition, manufacturing opportunities, and industrial partnerships driving DRC's green energy future.

  • Understand how the DRC is shifting from extraction to battery manufacturing
  • Explore downstream investment opportunities in precursor production and localisation
  • Available to all delegates, sponsors, exhibitors and speakers
  • Discover how local content, skills development and infrastructure are enabling industrial growth

Inclusive Conference Sessions

Join us for focused sessions on shaping Africa’s battery metals value chains. Gain invaluable insights into industrialisation, beneficiation, and localisation, and explore opportunities driving the future of Africa’s battery metals economy.

  • Explore essential topics and emerging opportunities across the full battery metals value chain from mining and processing to manufacturing and market development.
  • Hear from government leaders, industry experts, and innovators sharing knowledge and strategies to advance Africa’s position in the global battery metals market.
  • Engage in interactive discussions and networking sessions, build new partnerships, and contribute to the future growth of Africa’s battery metals ecosystem.

About DRC-Africa Battery Metals ForumShaping the Future of African Battery Metals

The DRC–Africa Battery Metals Forum supports the DRC's vision to become a battery precursor manufacturing hub. By driving localisation, beneficiation, and industrialisation, the Forum connects stakeholders to unlock investment, advance local processing, and accelerate the DRC’s transition from mineral exporter to value-added leader in the global battery supply chain.



Held in Kolwezi, the centre of the DRC’s battery metals ecosystem, the Forum is a strategic platform dedicated to the country’s industrial advancement. It brings together key government decision-makers, mining and processing companies, financial institutions, and industrial developers to collaborate on actionable pathways that support domestic transformation and economic sovereignty.



As the world’s leading producer of cobalt and a significant source of copper, lithium, and other critical minerals, the DRC is uniquely positioned to anchor a sustainable battery metals value chain. The Forum shines a spotlight on how local content development, infrastructure expansion, and policy alignment can fast-track the DRC’s ambitions to move from extraction to transformation.

  • Comprehensive Platform: Uniting stakeholders from across the battery metals industry to foster partnerships and dialogue
  • Strategic Focus: Establishing the DRC as Africa's key hub for battery metals production and innovation
  • Inclusive and Sustainable Growth: Promoting a battery metals industry that supports local beneficiation, sustainable development, and socio-economic progress in the DRC and Africa.

Our Partners

Our Partners

DRC Ministry of Industry Supports DRC-Africa Battery Metals Forum

The Ministry of Industry and the Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of the DRC has previously supported the DRC–Africa Battery Metals Forum, and we look forward to continued collaboration for the 2025 edition.



As the DRC pursues its vision of becoming a hub for battery precursor manufacturing, the Forum remains a vital platform for fostering an open, transparent, and investment-ready environment.



It supports national efforts to build a sustainable battery manufacturing industry in response to the global surge in demand for electric vehicles and energy storage technologies.
Securing ongoing institutional support is a key milestone as we work together to drive value addition, local processing, and industrial growth within the DRC’s battery metals sector.

Our Brands

Our Brands

This is my second DRC Battery Metals Forum, I participated in the first edition and this one as well provides a very good platform for all the stakeholders to get together and discuss the challenges and opportunities for Battery Metals in the DRC, so thank you to the presenters and organizers, I think that to many the questions raised this year really need a follow up and to have further discussion about the business climate in the DRC and how to encourage investment in the country.

H.E. Lucy Tamlyn

US Ambassador, DRC

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WHO ATTENDS DRC- AFRICA BATTERY METALS FORUM?POSITION YOURSELF AND IDENTIFY WHO TO INFLUENCE

Battery Metals connects people and organisations to information and each other with an objective to create opportunity. Whether you are an investor looking for potential partners, interested in new trends or ready to source new projects, a government representative looking for policy recommendations and best practice or a project owner chasing funding, Battery Metals ecosystem of like-minded professionals will ignite the spark of change.

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FREE Download: DRC-Africa Battery Metals Post-Event Report

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2024 SPONSORS AND EXHIBITORS

Cobalt Plus
COMINIERE
TFM / KFM
Cobalt
ARSP
Lithium
PROVINCE DU TANGANYIKA
Nickel
ELEPHANT TRADE
Copper
Axis House Group (Pty) Ltd
River City
USAID- AFRICA TRADE & INVESTMENT (ATI) / USG
Bronze Sponsors
DEV SOLAIRE
GLORHIS MULTI SERVICES
Goodness Multi Services Sarl
THE HYDRAULICS CENTRE (THC) MEYI & MEYED
Transport Partner
TRANSCO
Partners
ORBIT ENTERPRISES SARL
TEMPERATURE
Premier Media Partners
Mining & Business Magazine
Mining Review Africa
Media Partners
AFRICAN MINING MARKET
Aigle Communication
CONGO PROFOND
Copperbelt Katanga Mining
Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly
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Emerging Brand Africa
Entrepreneur Magazine
ESI AFRICA
FIRST AFRICA GUIDE
First Mining DRC-Zambia
Kin24TV
Le Potentiel
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OPT1MUM
SA Mining
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Shanghai Metals Market
Trust Eye Vision
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Africa4Her HUB
Copper Development Association Africa
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