Critical Minerals and the Future of Secure Supply Chains
As demand for critical minerals rises—alongside regulatory, ethical, and geopolitical pressures—companies are facing a dramatically shifting landscape.
Join Anthesis Group, Pyxera Global, and the Circular Supply Chain Coalition for a candid conversation with representatives from corporates, sustainability advisors, and multistakeholder partnership coalitions about the challenges of operating in today’s risk environment, their perspectives on the intensifying pressures across value chains, and the practical actions actors across industries can take to strengthen resilience, visibility, and compliance, including ways to build circular, domestic supply chains that strengthen both economies and communities.
Attendees will:
Hear from corporate, sustainability, and policy leaders how they are navigating critical minerals due diligence and supply chain resilience.
Hear how leaders are advancing circular approaches that balance economic growth, environmental stewardship, and national competitiveness.
Panelists
Rob Lawson-Shanks, CEO, Molg
Austin Pierce, Counsel, Sidley Austin
James Gyenes, Director of Americas Public Policy, Responsible Business Alliance
Jason Gooden, Executive Director, Anthesis Group
Claire Bosch Zuazo, Director, Anthesis Group (moderator)
Fireside Chat
Deirdre White, CEO, Pyxera Global
Anita Schwartz, Co-Founder, Circular Supply Chain Coalition (moderator)
The panel and fireside chat will take place from 3:30-5 pm and will be followed by a networking happy hour from 5-6 pm.
About
Anthesis Group is a global sustainability consultancy and certified B Corp that helps organizations accelerate decarbonization and sustainable performance. With 1,500+ experts across 40+ countries, Anthesis combines science‑based advisory and digital tools to deliver end‑to‑end ESG, net‑zero, and circularity solutions.
Pyxera Global is a nonprofit social enterprise advancing equitable, community‑led solutions in over 100 countries. For 35+ years, it has partnered across sectors to design programs in skills‑based volunteering, circular economy, regeneration, and inclusive development, helping communities drive lasting impact.
The Circular Supply Chain Coalition’s (CSCC) critical material hub and spoke accelerator platform, currently under development in North America (US, Mexico & Canada), the European Union, India and South East Asia offers a new model for recovering and reusing materials from existing products, thereby reducing waste, creating jobs, and increasing supply chain resilience.
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Please note there is seating for 80 people, the rest is standing room.
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