| Wednesday 2 September 2026 | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Registration & Welcome Lunch |
| 13:30-14:00 | Opening + The twelve principles of circular hydrometallurgy – Koen Binnemans (KU Leuven, Belgium) |
| Session I | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Solvent extraction and ion exchange as enabling technologies in circular hydrometallurgy flowsheets – Kathryn Sole (University of Pretoria, South Africa) |
| 14:40-15:20 | Electronic structure vs Passivation: What’s the Story with the Dissolution of Chalcopyrite? – Frank Crundwell (CM Solutions Metlab, South Africa) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee |
| 15:50-16:30 | The in-house development of Aurubis’ new precious metals refining process – Christoph Ziegler (Aurubis, Germany) |
| 16:30-17:10 | Circular chemistry, with hydrometallurgy in the center – Oluf Bøckman (Glencore Nikkelverk, Norway) |
| 17:10-19:10 | Walking dinner & Poster session |
| Thursday 3 September 2026 | |
Session II | |
| 09:00-09:40 | Advanced hydrometallurgical processes for sustainable Li-ion battery material synthesis and recycling – George Demopoulos (McGill University, Canada) |
| 09:40-10:20 | Toward Zero-waste pCAM: Circular Hydrometallurgy in Action – Mårten Eriksson (Umicore, Finland) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee |
| 10:50-11:30 | The battery fluorine problem – Jacqueline Edge (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) |
| 11:30-12:10 | The salty elephant and the sodium sulphate problem – Karel Vratny (Veolia Water Tech, Czechia) |
| 12:10-14:00 | Poster session & Lunch |
Session III | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Circular hydrometallurgy of antimony – Corby Anderson (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA) |
| 14:40-15:20 | On-site electrochemical production of key chemicals for hydrochemical processing of EoW Li-ion batteries – Peik Ekman (Fortum, Finland) |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee |
| 15:50-16:30 | The Rare Earths separation – Is there an industrial alternative to Solvent Extraction? – Alain Rollat (CARESTER, France) |
| 16:30-17:10 | From Mine Residues to CRMs through Circular Hydrometallurgy – LKAB’s REEMAP Story – Anders Sand (LKAB, Sweden) |
| 17:10-19:10 | Dinner for Speakers |
| Friday 4 September 2024 | |
Session IV | |
| 09:00-09:40 | Why do we pilot hydrometallurgical processes? Industry track record in ramping-up critical minerals projects. Perspective of a hydrometallurgist – Niels Verbaan (Verbaan Consulting Inc., Canada) |
| 09:40-10:20 | Circularity at Umicore Precious Metals Refining: challenges and opportunities – Jan Luyten (Umicore R&D, Belgium) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee |
| 10:50-11:30 | Mitigation of environmental impacts of Rare Earths Elements extraction from Ion Adsorption Clay deposits by controlled In-Situ Leaching followed by Solvent Extraction – David Bengio (CARESTER, France) |
| 11:30-12:10 | Reagent independence by circular hydrometallurgy – Prof. Koen Binnemans (KU Leuven, Belgium) |
| 12:10-13:10 | Closing lunch |