Agenda:

9:00 AM: Welcome - Aaron Starks, Chief Executive Officer, 47G: Utah Aerospace & Defense

​- Welcome Remarks - President Taylor R. Randall, University of Utah

- Video Welcome, Utah Senator Mike Lee

9:25 AM: Progress at the Critical Minerals Innovation Hub - Dr. Tom Lograsso - Director, Critical Materials Institute (CMI)

9:50 AM: Critical Materials in Intermountain Critical Materials - A National Resource - Dr. Travis Mcling - Directorate Fellow and research principal investigator for Geoenergy research at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES)

10:15 AM: ​Utah's Leading the Nation in Mining - Brian Somers - Executive Director - Utah Mining Association

10:40 AM: Break

11:00 AM:  How Private Capital Engages with the DoD - Chris Lehman, Principle, Metis Endeavor

11:25 AM: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability - Dr. Brian Steed - Executive Director at the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Air, and Water at Utah State University

​11:50 AM: Technology Developments at the University of Utah - Dr. Michael Free, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah

12:45 PM: ​The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance - Adan Olivares Castro, Regional Lead, Americas and the Caribbean, Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)

Track 1: LITHIUM
1:20 PM: The Lithium Economy - Eric Lyon, CEO and Owner of GW Strategies

2:10 PM: ​​Lilac Solutions - Steve Morrey, Project Director of Lilac Solutions

​1:20 PM: ​Leveraging Coal for CM Development - Dr. Lauren Birgenheier, University of Utah

1:45 PM:- ​RE Metals and Magnet Developments at the CMI - Dr. Ikenna Nlebedim, Deputy Director of the Division of Critical Materials at Ames National Laboratory, Deputy Lead of the Developing Substitutes focus area in the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Iowa State University

2:10 PM: RE Metal Processing at Energy Fuels - Debra Bennethum, Director of Critical Minerals & Strategic Supply Chain at Energy Fuels Resources

​2:35 PM: Break

​Track A: LITHIUM

2:50 PM: NexGen DLE Technology - Dr. Bobby Mohanty

3:15 PM: DLE Developments at INL- Aaron Wilson

Track B: RE METALS & Magnet Supply Chain

2:50 PM: RE Processing Developments - Dr. Tomas Villalon, CTO & Cofounder, Phoenix Tailings

​3:15 PM: Strategic Developments at the Principle Mineral Company - Adam Johnson, CEO of Principal Mineral and Managing Partner at Metis Endeavor

3:40 PM: Vulnerabilities in the Magnet Supply Chain- Dr. Sameer Kulkarni, Recent graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University