Dr Cameron Perks, Principal Consultant (Lithium); Evan Hartley, Research Manager; Fred Keeling, Senior Sales Executive - Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

Benchmark’s Cameron Perks, PhD and Evan Hartley will be dissecting each stage of the Asia Pacific battery supply chain and exploring the region’s strategic role in developing a secure and sustainable lithium ion economy. Coverage will include: Lithium market dynamics with a focus on current downstream inventories and their industry implications; Asia’s role in building ex-China supply hubs to boost competitiveness and the potential impacts on regional industries such as in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and Korea; Asia’s opportunities in collaborating with Australia for lithium refining and downstream partnerships; Regional pricing trends in precursor cathode active material (pCAM), cathode active material (CAM) and battery cell markets.