# Battery Recycling and Manufacturing Summit 2026

- Dates: 17 September 2026
- Location: RACV City Club, Melbourne, Australia
- Organiser: Australian Battery Recycling Initiative
- Industry: Manufacturing

## Official links

- [Official website](https://www.australianbatterysummit.com.au/)
- [Registration](https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-australian-battery-recycling-manufacturing-summit-tickets-1968348871461?aff=oddtdtcreator)
- [Agenda](https://www.australianbatterysummit.com.au/agenda-2026)

## Topics

- Manufacturing
- IT
- Recycling
- Battery

## Speakers

- Neville Plint, CEO
- Shannon O'Rourke, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Powering Australia
- Emma Sutcliffe, Chief Executive Officer, EV Firesafe
- Shawn O'Sullivan, Executive Director, TAFE Centre of Excellence Clean Energy Batteries, TAFE Queensland
- Rix Smith, Business Development Manager, Renewable Metals
- Ani Goswami, Founder, Oscorp Energy
- Milla Mihailova, Environment Protection Authority Victoria
- Josh Wheeler, Chief Executive Green Industries SA
- Doug Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, Ecocycle
- Barbara Kerlen, Regulatory Product Compliance and Policy Specialist
- Matt Genever, Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability Victoria
- Megan McDonald, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria)
- Bart Moonen, Executive General Manager, Infinitev
- Libby Chaplin, Chief Executive Officer, Battery Stewardship Council
- Scott Brownlaw, Energy Consultant, Standards Australia
- James Oakley, Principal Metallurgist, Nyrstar
- Matt Baumgurtel, Partner, Hamilton Locke
- Mark Jackson, Director
- Jay Norman, Century Yuasa Batteries
- Katharine Hole, Chief Executive Officer, Association for the Battery Recycling Industry

## Sponsors and partners

- Ecobatt
- B-cycle
- Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries
- Green Review
- TAFE Centre of Excellence
- ABRI

## Where to stay

- **Causeway Inn on the Mall**: 80 m from the venue
  - [Hotel website](https://www.causeway.com.au/)
- **BreakFree Heritage on Little Bourke**: 120 m from the venue, 318 Little Bourke Street, 3000
  - [Hotel website](https://www.breakfree.com.au/heritage-on-little-bourke/)
- **Holiday Inn Bourke Street Mall**: 130 m from the venue, 296 Little Collins Street
- **Hotel Indigo**: 150 m from the venue
- **YTI Garden Hotel**: 180 m from the venue, 372-378 Little Bourke Street
  - [Hotel website](https://www.ytigarden.com/)
  - Phone: +61 3 9600 4000
- **Pullman Melbourne City Centre**: 180 m from the venue, 195 Swanston Street, 3000
- **Mercure Welcome**: 180 m from the venue, 265-281 Little Bourke Street
  - [Hotel website](https://www.mercurewelcome.com.au/)
- **Causeway 353 Hotel**: 200 m from the venue, 353 Little Collins Street, 3000
  - [Hotel website](https://www.causeway.com.au/)

## What people are saying

- [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxxNuI7pmCQ)

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