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Experience firsthand the insights and discoveries from the Fastmarkets' 16th Lithium Supply and Battery Raw Materials Conference 2024 with Stephen Rentschler, CEO of Nevada Lithium. Stephen discusses the pivotal moments and important conversations that shaped the conference. Learn about the emerging trends and innovations driving the lithium industry forward from Stephen, a seasoned industry leader.
CEO & Director at Nevada Lithium
Steve has over 25 years of institutional investing & shareholder communications experience. He was formerly the senior investment analyst and a founding member of the Chilton Global Natural Resources Fund in New York City, with peak assets of over US$4 billion.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Nevada Lithium live event hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce our speaker for today, Stephen Ranchler, the CEO. He'll be answering some questions and providing insights about the FastMarkets Las Vegas Lithium Conference that he attended, and after that we'll be accepting questions. As a reminder, you can submit your questions in the chat at any point during the presentation. As always, this event is being recorded and will be available to watch shortly afterwards. So without further ado, let's get right into the questions. So Steve, just to kind of kick things off here and start us off, can you tell us what this conference is? Sure. This is the lithium conference that's hosted annually by FastMarkets, 1 of the pricing analytical firms that works in a lot of different areas, but is well-known for their work in lithium. And it's a different type of conference. I think a lot of our investors are familiar with PDAC, or if you're out in Vancouver with VRIC, that kind of thing. This is much more of a conference that has investors, I think, of larger assets under management. All the end users are there, the service providers are there. It's a much more encompassing industry type of a conference that you can get significant exposure to by basically being present and working your way through the crowds, et cetera. Unlike PDAC, where you have, of course, the massive halls in Toronto and thousands of booths, etc. I would say people think about, oh, maybe 100 or so booths, 8 by 8 foot, so whatever, 3 meters by 3 meters type of a thing, with companies doing everything from water filtration systems to, you know, people who have projects in Nevada or DLE projects. However, I think that we were 1 of the smallest publicly traded companies out the...