DRC Mining WeekConference Agenda

• Navigating persistent market challenges: Low cobalt price and Inflationary pressure.
• Tackling financial challenges in public markets: Are mining companies or banking supply more constrained?
• The case world’s largest producer of copper, wealthy soil, but no stock exchange!
• The world’s largest producer of copper, rich mineral resources, but no stock exchange!
• What steps can be taken to facilitate partnerships between local and international banks, enhancing the financial infrastructure and expanding derivative services for clients?

Participants:

• Olajide M. Ayeronwi, Director General, FirstBank, DRC
• Solomane Koné, Country Director, African Development Bank, DRC
• Yannick Mbiya, Deputy Managing Director, TMB, DRC
• Lucine Le Moal, Managing Director, USAID Investment Facilitation Platform
• Celestin Mukeba, Director General, EquityBCDC, DRC
• Mustafa Rawji, Director General, Rawbank, DRC

• What the mining priorities are the DRC government and the private sector setting to grow the country?
• Identifying the geopolitical trends that could shape the mining sector in the DRC in years to come.
• How can the DRC leverage and learn from global trends?
• Creating a balance between economic development, environmental protection, and social responsibility.

Participants:

• John Dunlop, USAID Mission Director, US Government (USG)
• Popol Mabolia Yenga, Director General, Mining Cadastre, DRC
• Bertrand Montembault, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills, France
• Serge Mumbu, General Manager, Target SARL, DRC
• Louis Watum, Chairman of Board of Directors, Kipushi Corporation SA/ President, Chamber of Mines, DRC

Panel discussion 

• What policies should be put in place to manage market volatility, the impact of inflation, rising interest rates and geopolitical uncertainty, while ensuring prudent risk management? 
• How can mining companies, in collaboration with insurers, develop resilient financial and operational strategies? 
• Can we aspire to believe in the use of artificial intelligence as one of the solutions for anticipating environmental risks and transforming the mining insurance landscape in the DRC? 
• Challenges and opportunities: How can mining-related risks be transformed into business opportunities? 

Participants: 

• Alain Kaninda Ngalula, Director General, Insurance Regulation and Control Authority (ARCA), DRC
• Tarik Lefriyekh, Director General, Rawsur, DRC
• Patrick Muland Kabey, Director General, MULYKAP/ President of FEC, DRC
• Hughes Toto, Director General, Rawsur Life SA

• Louis Watum, Chairman of Board of Directors, Kipushi Corporation SA/ President, Chamber of Mines, DRC

• Christiane Tafou, Deputy CEO, PAYNETWORK, DRC

• Stefan Crets, executive Director, CSR Europe/ Drive Sustainability, Belgium
• Elize Kazadi, Vice-President, Chamber of Mines/ MMR SPRL, DRC 

• Colin McGibbon, Chief Operating Officer, ERG Africa

The case of sequential chalcocite flotation at Kamoa Copper SA’s Greater Katanga deposit.

• Dodo Mbay, Concentrator Executive Manager, Kamoa Copper SA, DRC

• Miguel Kashal, Director General, Regulatory authority of the Subcontracting law, DRC

• How can the government regularise the relationship between the industrial-scale mining, and local communities to restore peace?
• Advancing and protecting the rights of indigenous people impacted by mining activities- what does the law say?
• Mines ownership: where to draw the line between the artisanal small-scale miners who are stepping on the industrial mining sites and big miners wanting to turn ASMS into cooperatives?
• Disruptive signal: government suspends mining licences of 29 mining companies in DRC. What is the next step?
• Business climate: how to create a balance between the government’s economic interests, the environmental and social standards, as well as attracted investors.
• Tax policy: mining companies to pay their taxes in local currency (CDF) as a strategy to control the country’s mining revenue. Good or bad news for miners?

Participants:

• Trésor-Gauthier Mitongo Kalonji, Senior Taxes and Compliances Advisor, DaldeWolf, DRC
• Freddy Muamba Kanyinku, Director General, CEEC, DRC
• Kevin Ngunga, Deputy General Manager, Fonarev, DRC
• Jean Pierre Okenda, Country Director of Resources Matters (Representative of civil society), DRC.
• Hugo Sinza, Deputy Managing Director, Tenke Fungurume Mining, DRC

• Sharing practical and innovative technology solutions that are efficient, with the aim to boost the mining sector in the DRC.
• To what extend can mining companies collaborate with young experts in new technologies to enhance their operations?
• Enhancing mining operations through emerging technology: What can DRC learn from South Africa?
• How can mining entrepreneurs attract youth and start-ups for waste management and recycling in the DRC?
• DRC in the digital age: How is DRC tracking with challenges and opportunities?
• Mobile phone revolution: Can the DRC turn its rich mineral resources into a leading role in building and developing regional mobile phone technology value chains?

Participants:

• Simon Kwete, Managing Director, Paramount Equipment, DRC
• Charles Tshibanda Kasolwa, Managing Director, Clean Congo SAS, DRC
• Luc Serviant, Group Entreprise Director, Airtel Africa, Dubai

• How to capitalise on the opportunity to consolidate efforts and funds for higher social and economic impact in the DRC?
• What plans have the government, mining companies and non-profit organisations collectively devised to  ensure the responsible mining of minerals?
• What is the DRC’s vision for mining: Will it remain a dream or turn into reality?
• Are there milestones to track that deliverables on sustainable plans are achieved by all parties?
• Is DRC doing enough to protect it mining sector?
• If mining causes conflicts and constant disruptions and damages environmental health and safety, is it a threat or an opportunity for local communities?
• How do DRC companies effectively manage their relationships with local communities while maintaining their CSR initiatives?

Participants:

• E. Alyson King, OBE/ British Ambassador to the DRC
• Jean Jacques Kayembe, National Coordinator, EITI, DRC
• Popol Mabolia Yenga, Director General, Mining Cadastre, DRC
• Placide Nkala, Managing Director, Gécamines, DRC
• Barr. Odia Kayembe Nicole, Lawyer, Representative of the NGO (AHRAI) Action for Human Rights Against Impunity in Kinshasa, Civil Society, DRC

•  Boosting local production: How can the DRC encourage its own citizens to buy more domestically made products using its own minerals, instead of importing finished goods?
• How to reduce the distance between the industry’s raw materials (mainly the final product of mining: copper, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, coltan, diamond, etc.) and the industry’s final product (cables, batteries, smartphones, jewellery, etc.)?

Participants:

• Patricia Bingoto, Senior Expert – Global Materials Practice, McKinsey & Company, Switzerland
• Denis Lecouturier, General Manager, Congolese Battery Counsil, DRC
• Cyrille Mutombo, Country Director, Kibali Barrick, DRC
• H.E. Godard Motemona, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Mines, DRC