Event Details

2025 REIA AGM and Annual Conference

DATE : June 17 - 19, 2025

LOCATION : Delta Hotels by Marriott Montreal, Canada

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 REIA Annual Conference, taking place on 17-19 June 2025 at the Delta Hotels by Marriott in Montreal. This event is a cornerstone in our efforts to promote and enhance the rare-earth-industry supply chain. 

The event will kick off with a cocktail reception on the evening of June 17th, where you can mingle with fellow attendees and speakers in a relaxed atmosphere.

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Programme agenda

Subject to change

17 June 2025
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Registration Opens
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Cocktail Reception

18 June 2025
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Women in Rare Earths (WiRE) Inauguration Breakfast

Speakers:

Donna Vareha-Walsh, Head of Physicals Trading at Valent Asset Management

Amanda Lacaze, CEO & Managing Director at Lynas Rare Earths

An Nuyttens, President, Solvay Silica & Special Chem at Solvay

Rowena Smith, CEO & Managing Director at Australian Strategic Materials
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Registration and Morning Coffee
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks, Gareth Hatch Interim CEO at Rare Earth Industry Association (REIA) and Badrinath Veluri, President of REIA
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

The Future of Resource Security and the Role of Rare Earths

David Abraham, Affiliate Professor at Boise State University
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

Rare Earth Supply Chains in Flux: Neo's Experience

Rahim Suleman, President & CEO at Neo Performance Materials
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

NIO Electric-Drive System (EDS) Roadmap and Future Technology Overview

Richy Bi, Assistant Vice-President, EDS & HV R&D at NIO
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM

Bridging the Gaps: Strengthening North America’s Rare Earth Supply Chain

Debra Bennethum, VP of Critical Minerals & Strategic Supply Chain at Energy Fuels
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

From Waste to Resource: Unlocking the Untapped Above-Ground Mine for a Resilient Supply Chain

Ahmad Ghahreman, CEO, President & Co-Founder at Cyclic Materials
12:20 PM - 12:40 PM

50 years of Precious Metal Recycling: What the REE Supply Chain Can Learn

Michael Farrell, Director of Corporate Strategy at BASF ECMS
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM

Networking Lunch
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM

Industry Track Record in Ramping Up Critical Mineral Projects

Niels Verbaan, Director, Technical Services (Hydrometallurgy) at SGS
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Unlocking Canada's Rare Earth Potential: Navigating Mid-Stream Processing Challenges and Opportunities

Muhammad Imran, Vice-President, Rare Earth Elements Division at Saskatchewan Research Council
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

Advancing Sustainable Rare Earth Element Solutions at CanmetMATERIALS

Babak Shalchi, Research Scientist at CanmetMATERIALS
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Achieving Efficient and Sustainable Metal Production via Chloride MSE for Rare Earths

Michael Janes, Head of Operations at Galvanix
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM

How to Combine a Service Providing Company and an Ambitious Industrial Project

Frédéric Carencotte, Founder at Carester
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM

Networking Break
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM

Fireside Chat with Torngat Metals

Speakers: 

Christine Burow, Chief Marketing Officer at Torngat Metals

Tom Gilman, Chairman at Torngat Metals

Yves Leduc, CEO at Torngat Metals
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

Rewiring Magnet Supply Chains: Scalable High-Purity Iron for a Resilient Future

Laureen Meroueh, Founder and CEO at Hertha Metals
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM

Rare-Earth Financing and M&A Opportunities

Joe Garofoli, Founder & CEO at Roc Global
5:00 PM - 5:50 PM

Panel Discussion: Finance & Investment in the REE Supply Chain

Speakers:

Luisa Moreno, Managing Director at Tahuti Global

Constantine Karayannopoulos, President at Kloni Inc.

Tushar Handiekar, VP, Structured and Project Finance at at Export Development Canada

Adam Johnson, CEO at Principal Mineral
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

REIA2025 Conference Dinner

19 June 2025
8:00 AM - 8:05 AM

Day 2 Welcome

Gareth Hatch, Interim CEO at Rare Earth Industry Association
8:05 AM - 8:15 AM

Introducing the Women in Rare Earths (WiRE) Group

Donna Vareha-Walsh, Head of Physicals Trading at at Valent Asset Management
8:15 AM - 8:35 AM

Building a Sustainable European Value Chain for Rare Earths

An Nuyttens, President, Solvay Silica & Special Chem at Solvay
8:35 AM - 8:55 AM

Serra Verde – A Strategic Rare Earth Producer

David Ovejero, Head of Corporate Development at Serra Verde Group
8:55 AM - 9:15 AM

Supply Potential for the Rare-Earth Industry and Impacts to the Cost Curve Landscape

David Merriman, Research Director at Project Blue
9:15 AM - 9:50 AM

Fireside Chat: Pol Le Roux, COO at Lynas Rare Earths, with Andrea Cornwell, Director, Asia Pacific at Rare Earth Industry Association
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM

Networking Break
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM

Metals Circularity – Rare Earths and Other Metals from Industrial Waste and End-of-Life

Kiril Mugerman, President & CEO at Geomega Resources
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Rare Earths in Defence: Strategic Importance of Policy Support

Neha Mukherjee, Senior Analyst, Rare Earths at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

The Future Supply of Rare Earths Outside China and the Impact of Geopolitics on Future Pricing

Mark Seddon, Principal (Analytics and Consulting, Metals) at Argus Media
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM

Canada’s Materials Moment: Leadership, Leverage—and Challenges

Ian London, Executive Director at C2M2A
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

Panel Discussion: Policy and the Geopolitics of the REE Supply Chain

Speakers: 

Vasileios Tsianos, Vice-President, Corporate Development at Neo Performance Materials

Guy de Selliers, Executive Chairman at Defense Metals Corp.

Nicole deSibour Rodgers, President & Executive Director at Alliance for Mineral Security

Mark Seddon, Principal (Analytics and Consulting, Metals) at Argus Media
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Networking Lunch
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Critical and Strategic Minerals: When Policy Equals Actions

Jocelyn Douhéret, Director of Mining Policies at Québec Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM

Canada’s Auto Industry: Where are we? Where are we going?

David Adams, President & CEO at Global Automakers of Canada
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Fireside Chat: Jack Lifton, Principal at Jack Lifton, LLC with Gareth Hatch, Interim CEO at Rare Earth Industry Association
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Magnet Making, Patent Breaking, and AI Shaking Things Up

David Sojer, Co-founder & Owner at MagPat Consulting
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Networking Break
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM

Vacuum Sintering and Heat Treatment: Enabling High-Performance Sintered Hard Magnets for Green Technologies

Giorgio Valsecchi, R&D Manager at TAV Vacuum Furnaces
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

Advanced Fine Grinding: Reducing Critical Material Dependence in NdFeB Production

Yener Bicakci, Sales Manager, BU Powder at Hosokawa Alpine
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

Hot-Deformed NdFeB and Isotropic Bonded SmFeN Magnets

Michide Nakamura, Senior Engineer at Daido Steel
4:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Applications for Rare Earth Magnets

Nathaniel Sattler, Division President – Dexter / MCE at Dexter Magnetic Technologies
4:50 PM - 5:00 PM

REIA2025 Closing Remarks

Participant Organisations 2025

  • Alliance for Mineral Security
  • American Rare Earths
  • APL Engineered Materials
  • Appia Rare Earths & Uranium
  • Applied Materials
  • Argus Media
  • Arnold Magnetic Technologies
  • Australian Strategic Materials
  • Australian Trade & Investment Commission
  • B&C Speakers
  • Bain Capital
  • BASF ECMS
  • BEC
  • Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
  • Bloomberg
  • Blue Line Corporation
  • Boise State University
  • Bomatec
  • Brazilian Critical Minerals
  • Brazilian Rare Earths
  • C2M2A
  • Canadian Global Affairs Institute
  • CanmetMATERIALS
  • CanmetMINING
  • Carester
  • Commerce Resources
  • CoTec Holdings
  • Critical Materials Recycling
  • Current Chemicals
  • CWIEME
  • Cyclic Materials
  • Daido Kogyo
  • Daido Steel
  • Defense Metals
  • Dexter Magnetic Technologies
  • Energy Fuels
  • Entellus Industries
  • Export Development Canada
  • Fastmarkets
  • Finnish Minerals Group
  • Fluorionics
  • Frontier Rare Earths
  • Fujian Golden Dragon Rare-Earth
  • Galaxy Magnets
  • Galvanix
  • G&W Advisory
  • GE Chaplin
  • Geomega Resources
  • Global Automakers of Canada
  • Grundfos
  • Hartree Partners
  • Hatch
  • Hertha Metals
  • Hosokawa Alpine
  • Hosokawa Micron Group
  • Inner Mongolia Rare Earth Industry Association
  • InnovAsian Tech
  • Iwatani Corporation
  • Jack Lifton, LLC
  • JL MAG
  • JOGMEC
  • Kloni
  • Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC
  • Kyocera AVX Components
  • L3 Process Development
  • Leading Edge Materials
  • Less Common Metals
  • Lindian Resources
  • Lynas Rare Earths
  • Maaden
  • Magnetic Holdings
  • MagPat Consulting
  • Maiven
  • Mkango
  • Mongolian National Rare Earth Corp.
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Namibia Critical Metals
  • Neo Magnequench
  • Neo Performance Materials
  • NeoCtech
  • NIO
  • Polytechnique Montréal
  • POSCO International America
  • Principal Mineral
  • Proactive Investors
  • Project Blue
  • Proterial America
  • Quadrant International
  • Québec Ministry of Natural Resources & Forests
  • Queen's University
  • Rainbow Rare Earths
  • Rare Earth Technologies
  • Rare Earths Norway
  • Recutex
  • REEgen
  • REEtec
  • Resouro Strategic Metals
  • Rivalia Chemical
  • Roc Global
  • RZ Resources
  • Samsung Electro-Mechanics
  • Saskatchewan Research Council
  • Serra Verde Group
  • Siemens Energy
  • Siemens Gamesa
  • SGS
  • Shin-Etsu Magnetics
  • Sojitz
  • Solcoa Industries
  • Solvay
  • St George Mining
  • Star Group Industry
  • Tahuti Global
  • TAM International
  • TAV Vacuum Furnaces
  • The Anchor House
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Tianhe Magnetics Technology
  • Torngat Metals
  • Toyota Tsusho America
  • Toyota Tsusho Corporation
  • TRADIUM
  • Traxys
  • Tronox
  • Tusaar
  • Ucore Rare Metals
  • USA Rare Earth
  • Uzbekistan Technological Metals Combine JSC
  • Valent Asset Management
  • WMC Energy

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