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In-Person Conference

ICA Day at Asia Copper Week: Copper, Innovating for the Future

Date & Time

24 November 2025 @ 9:00 am - 1:30 pm

Shanghai Tower SS

Event Details

      

By Invitation Only

8:30am  Registration

9:00am  Opening Speech, ICA Vice President Francisco de la Cerda 

9:05am  Keynote Speech: Institutional Innovation Empowers the Transformation of Shanghai’s Commodity Trade, Official from Shanghai State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission 

9:20am  Keynote Speech, ICA President and CEO Juan Ignacio Díaz

Session One: Future Technology for the Modern Operation 

9:35am

  • Panel Discussion
  • Presentation: New Developments of Smart Mining Trucks, A leading Chinese machinery company
  • Presentation: New Applications for Robots in Mining, Zhongkehuiling, China’s leading robotics company 

10:45am  Networking Coffee Break

Session Two: Data Centers, AI & Copper—The Chinese Story 

11:15am

  • Presentation: AI Data Center, Reshaping the Market
    Ms. Wang Yue, Director of Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT, the think-tank for MIIT)
  • Presentation: High-Density Computing Era: Dynamics from Emerging Technologies
    Mr. Zhong Jinhua, Director of China Data Center Committee (CDCC), Drafting Committee Expert for data center national standards, Specialty Expert of the State Council
  • Panel Discussion: Deep Dive of China’s Data Centers and Implications for Copper Applications
  • Presentation: Data Centers and the impact on copper 

12:35pm Lunch and networking

 

Location:
Kaifeng Room (River Wing, 3F)
Pudong Shangri-La
33 Fu Cheng Lu, Pudong, Shanghai

 

Questions? Please contact:
Benjamin Liu
Director– Science & Regulatory Affairs and Strategic Communication in Asia
Ben.liu@internationalcopper.org
+86 – 136 0977 0893

 

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