Sponsors and partners
Lead Sponsor
Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our products to our customers – safely and sustainably.
Lead Sponsor
BHP is a world-leading resources company. With more than 90,000 employees and contractors, we work in more than 90 locations worldwide and our products are sold globally. We're focused on the resources the world needs to grow and decarbonise. Population growth, urbanisation and improving living standards are global trends that underpin strong demand for the commodities we produce. Demand for essential commodities is expected to increase as the world seeks to decarbonise. Our project pipeline and focus on continuous improvement in existing operations leave us well poised for growth across our four commodity pillars of copper, potash, iron ore and steelmaking coal in the decades ahead.
Lead Sponsor
Our materials are essential for the low-carbon transition. Aluminium for lightweight cars. Copper to help things work more efficiently – from renewables to the power in your home. Iron ore for the steel in our electricity infrastructure. Lithium for electric vehicles and battery storage. And many of the materials we produce are essential for the things in everyday life too: Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint – and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life.
We work in 35 countries – in mines, smelters and refineries, as well as in sales offices, data centres, research and development labs and with artificial intelligence. We aim to deliver superior returns to our shareholders throughout the cycle by meeting our stakeholders’ needs, allocating capital with discipline, and investing in high-quality projects and in industries with solid, long-term fundamentals.
Lead Sponsor
Teck is a leading Canadian resource company focused on responsibly providing metals essential to economic development and the energy transition. Teck has a portfolio of world-class copper and zinc operations across North and South America and an industry-leading copper growth pipeline. Teck is focused on creating value by advancing responsible growth and ensuring resilience built on a foundation of stakeholder trust. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Teck’s shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols TECK.A and TECK.B and the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TECK.
Lead Sponsor
Vale is a global mining company whose mission is to transform natural resources into prosperity and sustainable development. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and operating on five continents, Vale is one of the world’s top producers of iron ore and nickel. The Company’s integrated logistics network includes approximately two thousand kilometers of railways, multiple sea terminals and ten ports in Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia and Oman.
With a firm commitment to the highest standards of governance, Vale is constantly striving to be recognized as one of the world’s safest mining companies, to amplify the environmental engagement of our shareholders and stakeholders alike and to invest in mitigating mining-related impacts. Our goal is to promote transparency in management while actively advancing environmental awareness, biodiversity protection and sustainable development.
Vale has announced an investment between $4 bi and $6 billion to reduce absolute emissions direct and indirect by 33% by 2030, based on the terms established by the Paris Agreement. In addition, the Company has announced its intention to go net-zero emissions by 2050. Vale protects one million hectares of native flora and fauna located in the vicinity of its operations worldwide, and currently plans to restore and protect an additional 500 thousand hectares of land by the end of this decade.
Founding Banking Partner
Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group, with a presence in 54 of the world’s most dynamic markets. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, here for good.
Standard Chartered PLC is listed on the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
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Premium Sponsor
Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.
Premium Sponsor
Fleet Space, led by Co-Founder & CEO Flavia Tata Nardini, is revolutionizing data-driven mineral discovery, development, and management with its vertically integrated exploration platform, ExoSphere. Unifying frontier technologies - proprietary satellites, rapid 3D multiphysics surveys, compute, and AI - into a single workflow for the world's largest miners, ExoSphere's agile geoscience solutions and AI-enabled drill targeting enhances ESG outcomes, maximises resource potential, and reduces costs at Earth's most remote and complex priority projects. For its breakthroughs, ExoSphere was Innovation of the Year at the Mining Technology Excellence Awards 2025 and received the Banksia Sustainability Council's Climate Impact Technology Award - fueling an oversubscribed $100M Series D in 2024.
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Premium Sponsor
Established in 2004, Mercuria is one of the world’s largest independent energy and commodity groups, bringing efficiency to the commodity value chain with technology, expertise, and low-carbon solutions. The Company established itself as a leader in the energy transition by pledging more than 50 percent of new investments toward renewables and transitional energy. The Group has made significant investments in projects such as renewable power, energy storage, grid optimization or critical transition minerals recycling, and environmental products such as carbon certificates.
Mercuria’s business includes trading flows, strategic assets, and structuring activities that generate more than $120 billion in turnover. The Company has built upon a series of strategic acquisitions, including the physical commodities trading unit of JPMorgan Chase & Company, Noble Group’s U.S. gas and power business, and the Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, reorganized as Minerva Bunkering. Mercuria plays its part in the global energy transition, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change and helping the world achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Premium Sponsor
Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors. By offering a truly interconnected view of the entire supply chain, we enable decision-makers to allocate capital with incredible accuracy. Wood Mackenzie had been a trusted partner for over 50 years, with a team of 2,300+ experts globally.
Combining AI and human intelligence, we help you see the deep relationships between assets, technologies and industries, and the interplay between supply chains, government policies and global economies. Enabling you to understand connections between commodities and see your world with absolute clarity. Enhanced by technology, enriched by human intelligence.
Knowledge Partner
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm, deeply commited to helping institutions in the private, and social sectors achieve lasting success. For over eight decades, our primary objective has been to serve as our client’s most trusted external advisor. With consultants in more than 100 offices in 60 countries, we bring unparalleled expertise to clients across all industries and functions, anywhere in the world. We work closely with teams at all levels of an organization to shape winning strategies, mobilize for change, build capabilities, and drive successful execution.
Associate Sponsor
ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation. We see our purpose as being to enable a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. By connecting our engineering and digitalization expertise, we help industries run at high performance, while becoming more efficient, productive and sustainable so they outperform. We call this: ‘Engineered to Outrun.’ We have around 110,000 employees worldwide and a history that stretches back more than 140 years.
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Associate Sponsor
AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.
Associate Sponsor
Associate Sponsor
FLS is a leading, full flowsheet minerals processing supplier to the global mining industry. We deliver proven technologies and services across the lifecycle of operations, and have set targets of providing solutions for zero-emissions mining by 2030 with our MissionZero programme.
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Associate Sponsor
Gunvor Group is one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover, creating logistics solutions that safely and efficiently move physical energy, metals and bulk materials from where they are sourced and stored to where they are demanded most. With strategic investments in infrastructure—refineries, storage, terminals, mining and upstream—Gunvor further generates sustainable value across the global supply chain for its customers.
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Associate Sponsor
Integra Capital is a private investment firm based in Latin America, with a strong focus on the natural resources, energy, and infrastructure sectors. With over three decades of experience, Integra partners with companies and institutions to drive long-term, sustainable value through strategic investments and active management. The firm has played a key role in the development of major mining and energy projects across the region, supporting innovation, environmental stewardship, and local development. Integra is committed to responsible growth, working closely with stakeholders to align economic performance with social and environmental impact.
Associate Sponsor
We provide intelligence, evidence and analysis to guide legal and commercial decision-making. For more than 25 years we have helped our clients to identify and mitigate risk, capitalise on new opportunities, and resolve contentious matters. We work with the world’s leading corporations, financial institutions, law firms, and investors across a wide range of scenarios. We combine rigorous research and creative investigative strategies with the language capabilities, country-specific knowledge and established networks of our regionally-focused teams. Our experienced and multidisciplinary team of investigators and regional specialists includes former lawyers, journalists, academics, and government officials, as well as those with commercial and sector backgrounds.
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Associate Sponsor
Trafigura is a leading commodities group, owned by its employees and founded over 30 years ago. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects vital resources to power and build the world. We deploy infrastructure, market expertise and our worldwide logistics network to move oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, gas and power from where they are produced to where they are needed, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable. We invest in renewable energy projects and technologies to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy, including through MorGen Energy and joint venture Nala Renewables. The Trafigura Group also comprises industrial assets and operating businesses including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy, the Impala Terminals joint venture and Greenergy, supplier and distributor of transportation fuels and biofuels. The Group employs over 13,000 people, of which over 1,400 are shareholders and is active in over 150 countries.
Associate Sponsor
Volcán Compañía Minera, part of Integra Capital’s portfolio, is one of Latin America’s leading metal producers, with a diversified portfolio including zinc, silver and lead. With over 80 years of experience, Volcán combines technological innovation with sustainable practices to enhance operational efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. The company is committed to responsible growth, investing in clean energy, workplace safety, and local community development. Volcán continues to position itself as a global benchmark for responsible mining, driving economic growth while upholding the highest ESG and corporate governance standards, and reinforcing its long-term vision of sustainable value creation.
Associate Sponsor
Weir is a global leader in mining technology. We recognise that our planet’s future depends on the transition to renewable energy, and that transition can only happen with the metals and minerals our mining customers deliver.
We combine our deep customer insights, world class engineering, materials science expertise and intelligent automation to deliver innovative mining technology solutions that help our customers move less rock, use less energy, use water wisely and create less waste — accelerating the path to smart, efficient and sustainable mining.
Associate Sponsor
We’re the global experts on gold. Leveraging our broad knowledge and experience, we work to improve understanding of the gold market and underscore gold’s value to individuals, investors, and the world at large. Collaboration is the cornerstone of our approach. We’re an association whose members are the world’s most forward-thinking gold mining companies. Combining the insights of our members and other industry partners, we seek to unlock gold’s evolving role as a catalyst for advancements that meet societal needs. We develop standards, expand access to gold, and tackle barriers to adoption to stimulate demand and support a vibrant and sustainable future for the gold market. From our offices in Beijing, Dubai, London, Mumbai, New York, Shanghai, and Singapore, we deliver positive impact worldwide.
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