DRC-Africa Battery Metals Forum 2025 Conference Agenda

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Event FeaturesAccelerating industrial value chains in the DRC

Driving beneficiation, localisation and downstream manufacturing by connecting industry, investment and government around the DRC’s critical minerals opportunity.

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Be visible where industrial value chains are built

Position your organisation across the DRC’s critical minerals value chains, enabling beneficiation, localisation and industrial growth.

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Explore essential topics and emerging opportunities across the full critical minerals value chain from mining and processing to market development.
Hear from government leaders, industry experts, and innovators sharing knowledge and strategies to advance DRC's role in the global critical minerals market.
Engage in interactive discussions and networking sessions, build new partnerships, and contribute to the future growth of DRC's critical minerals ecosystem.

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Become a Delegate

Join the Leaders Shaping DRC's Critical Minerals Industrialisation

Gain insights, forge connections, and unlock opportunities across the full critical minerals value chain, from mine to market.

Gain insights from leaders advancing industrialisation and localisation
Unlock opportunities across the critical minerals value chain
Connect with mining operators, manufacturers, investors, and policymakers
Stay ahead of market trends and policy developments
Be part of DRC's critical minerals transformation
Provide visibility on policy, regulatory and investment frameworks supporting project development

Building integrated industrial value chains

The DRC Critical Minerals & Industrialisation Forum is designed to move the conversation beyond extraction, focusing on how the DRC can deliver processing, manufacturing and industrial-scale development linked to its critical minerals endowment.

Translating critical minerals potential into processing and manufacturing capacity
Aligning industry, investment and policy around industrial execution
Identifying infrastructure and energy requirements that enable industrial growth
Advancing beneficiation, localisation and long-term value creation in the DRC

Project investment & showcases

A focused platform highlighting priority critical minerals, processing, infrastructure and industrial projects, connecting project owners with investors, financiers and delivery partners.

Showcase bankable mining, processing and industrial projects
Connect project developers with investors, EPCs and financiers
Highlight infrastructure, energy and logistics projects enabling industrial scale
Support partnership formation and project progression
Offer insight into policy and regulatory frameworks shaping investment readiness and delivery