Join Project Blue and the MMTA at the Critical Materials Forum: London 2026 during LME Week for an afternoon of market insight, discussion and networking focused on the key dynamics shaping critical material supply chains.

Highlights from our agenda include:

The Shifting Critical Material World Order: How geopolitics, AI, defence, energy security and industrial policy are reshaping global commodity markets

• Introduction – Jack Bedder, Project Blue

• How geopolitics is reshaping critical material supply chains – Jan Giese, Tradium

• Can Europe build a competitive battery materials midstream – Thomas Wolf, BASF

• New drivers of commodity markets: AI, Defence and Semiconductors – Jessica Roberts, Project Blue

• The copper market in an age of energy security policy – Nick Pickens, Project Blue

Panel Discussion: What does the Shifting Critical Material World Order mean for markets?

• Dr Iris Speelmanns, Anglo American

• Scott Yarham, Project Blue

• Additional speakers to be announced

Our Forum is free to attend, but space is limited. Invite your colleagues and join the industry for an afternoon of high-value networking in London.

Project Blue welcomes you to join us at our Critical Materials Conference: EV & Battery 2027 on February 23-24 in Munich, Germany.

Project Blue is pleased to announce the return of its Critical Materials Conference: Aerospace & Defence 2027, taking place in Washington DC from 17–18 May following the success of its inaugural event.