SPONSORS
Thought Leader
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is a global energy technology leader, driving efficiency and sustainability by electrifying, automating, and digitalizing industries, businesses, and homes. Its technologies enable buildings, data centers, factories, infrastructure, and grids to operate as open, interconnected ecosystems, enhancing performance, resilience, and sustainability. The portfolio includes intelligent devices, software-defined architectures, AI- powered systems, digital services, and expert advisory.
With 160,000 employees and one million partners in over 100 countries, Schneider Electric is consistently ranked among the world’s most sustainable companies. www.se.com/ca/en/
SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS
Supporting Organisation
SUSSEX
Established in 1998, Sussex Strategy Group is Canada’s leading government relations, strategic communications, digital advocacy and business advisory agency. With proprietary offices in Toronto and Ottawa, and a network of expert affiliates in major centres across the country, Sussex excels at helping our clients manage their issues at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels of government, as well as in the media and within communities.
Canadian-owned and operated, Sussex offers a variety of public affairs services, including government relations, corporate and crisis communications, issues management, management consulting, auditing and performance measurement, legislative and media monitoring, policy analysis and development, procurement facilitation, research and grassroots mobilization, digital advocacy and social media strategy.
We believe that working with government and the media requires specialized tools and a unique skill-set that can only be developed with front-line experience. Our consultants have decades of direct working experience with and within government and the media. Sussex clients include corporations, associations and non-profit organizations. Our dynamic and growing team thrives on the challenges presented by clients’ issues.
The Sussex philosophy is best articulated in the firm’s mission statement: To be the most respected public affairs consulting firm in Canada by offering superior value to our clients, our team, and our stakeholders while conducting our business with integrity and a dedication to excellence.
Supporting Organisation
CIM MAGAZINE
CIM Magazine provides critical information on the extractive industry’s issues, trends, technology and best practices. The publication has a diverse audience of mining professionals located around the world, ranging from executives to equipment operators.
Supporting Organisation
CEMI
The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization focused on accelerating the adoption of innovative technologies and practices that improve safety, productivity and environmental performance in the mining industry. Founded in 2007, CEMI was established to help bridge the gap between innovation and commercialization, ensuring that promising ideas move beyond pilot stages into real-world mining operations.
CEMI works across the full mining value chain, supporting innovation in exploration, underground and surface mining, and operational performance. Its approach emphasizes practical, commercially viable solutions that deliver measurable improvements at mine sites. By facilitating technology validation, demonstration and deployment, CEMI helps reduce risk for mining companies while accelerating industry uptake.
Through strong collaboration with mining companies, technology developers, academia and government, CEMI plays a central role in advancing Canada’s mining innovation ecosystem and supporting a more competitive, sustainable and modern mining sector.
Supporting Organisation
VOSAVIS
Canada’s first Defence Industrial Strategy is a defining moment for how we build, sustain, and secure the military capabilities our future demands. It reshapes procurement, reframes industrial priorities, and signals a new era of partnership between government and industry.
At VOSAVIS, we break down what this strategy really means—where it creates opportunity, where it raises risk, and how it will shape Canada’s defence and innovation landscape for years to come.
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
The Ontario Critical Minerals Forum offers unparalleled and unique access and to those making decisions and building project partnerships across the critical minerals ecosystem in Ontario and beyond.
If you see your service or solution assisting or advancing critical minerals projects let’s connect to discuss opportunities for you at this event.
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