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The Colorado School of Mines is hosting a virtual symposium on America’s supply chains for minerals, metals, and advanced manufacturing products on July 7, 2022.  This program will engage industry, universities and government agencies to facilitate an urgent discussion on building resilient supply chains to protect the U.S. from possible shortages of critical products that are building blocks for many modern technologies and are essential to our national security and economic prosperity. 

As the world transitions to a clean energy economy, global demand for key building blocks of society from concrete, steel, and copper, to inputs into technologies like lithium, nickel, and Rare Earths are set to skyrocket. Even today, we are witnessing very high commodity prices on many of these minerals and metals. The U.S. is increasingly dependent on foreign sources for many of them, and we need a plan that expands our domestic mining, processing and recycling to help support reliable and sustainable supply chains.

Register now to join us July 7th in this very important conversation in building robust, cost-effective, and resilient supply chains.

HOSTS:

• Walter Copan, Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer, Colorado School of Mines

• Morgan D. Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute for Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines

FEATURING:

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Javier Blas, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, and Jack Farchy, Senior Reporter at Bloomberg News, presenting a virtual book launch for the newly published The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT).

The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell the earth’s resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets, enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries – no matter how corrupt or war-torn – with the world’s financial centers. The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy, as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really works.

Please join Nomadic Venture Partners and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Morgan D. Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute, presenting a keynote address at the Industrial Climate Tech Summit on Wednesday, June 1, 2022 from 10:45am – 11:15am (MT).

Industrial sectors are responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and that is projected to grow. Achieving net zero across these hard-to-abate sectors will require much collaboration among business leaders, innovators, policymakers, and others in the ecosystem. At this event, you will have an opportunity to connect with and hear from investors, policymakers, corporations, incubators, and entrepreneurs who are developing innovative solutions for the mining, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.