This is a pivotal moment for Western Australia to leverage the critical minerals and rare earths opportunity, and position the state as a global leader in clean energy and advanced manufacturing supply chains. Strategic international partnerships are positioning the state to take advantage of long-term trade opportunities, and extend the value chain by scaling up domestic reserves, refining capacity and increasing exploration.

Join CEDA's WA Critical Minerals & Rare Earths event in Perth on 28 May, where we’ll discuss how Western Australia can capture this value, and open pathways to play a central role in the global energy transition for a lower carbon future.

Keynote: The Hon David Michael MLA, WA Minister for Mines and Petroleum; Finance; Electoral Affairs; Goldfields-Esperance
Followed by Q&A with Prof Gordon Flake, Chief Executive Officer, Perth USAsia Centre, The University of Western Australia

Panel discussion:

• Seizing the global trade opportunity for WA. Ensuring policy settings are right, maximising the role of government to help grow the sector, create jobs, and significantly contribute to Western Australia's GDP

• Meeting the shifting market dynamics, future trends of trade, and developing new markets

• The state of trade alliances and geopolitics: the US-Australia framework; EU deal, collaborations with India, Canada, and Australia’s next critical minerals partners; opportunities in Asia for offtake agreements 

• How miners can increase funding and incentives from here and abroad

• Developing critical reserves and supporting more exploration activities   

• Accelerating domestic refining and processing capability, and attracting more investment into infrastructure

• The role of battery minerals and rare earths as the backbone of the energy transition and a lower carbon future
   

Panel members:
Ryan Hair, Chief Operating Officer, Liontown
Joshua Thurlow, Chief Executive Lithium, Mineral Resources 
Marie Bourgoin, Chief Operating Officer, IGO Limited
Alex Logan, General Manager Market Development, Lynas Rare Earths
Rebecca Brown, Director General, WA Department of Energy and Economic Diversification

Lucy Shea, Partner, Clayton Utz with Closing comments