Emerging Growth Conference 81

April 16 & 17, 2025

Agenda Wednesday April 16, 2025

Empire Energy (ASX: EEG) is a Sydney based Australian oil and gas company holding 100%-owned and operated assets with unconventional targets in the Northern Territory Beetaloo Sub-basin and central trough of the McArthur Basin.

Keynote speaker: Alex Underwood, CEO & Managing Director

PSQ Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PSQH) operates under three segments: Financial Technology, Marketplace and Brands, is a commerce and payments ecosystem, valuing life, family, and liberty.

Keynote speaker: Michael Seifert, Founder, President / CEO

Ur-Energy (NYSE American: URG) (TSX: URE) is a uranium mining company operating the Lost Creek in-situ recovery uranium facility in south-central Wyoming which has produced and shipped approximately 2.8 million pounds U3O8 from Lost Creek since the commencement of operations.

Keynote speaker: John W. Cash, CEO

Interstellar Communication Holdings provides an affordable personal satellite service named icMercury for stargazers, utilizing Pocketqube technology and a customized user platform. With this service, users can access their personal satellite and unlock the potential of the universe.

Keynote speakers: Seda Hewitt, Space Ambassador of IcMercury Harri Laitinen, Lifeguard  of IcMercury, and Lijie Zhu, Captain of icMercury

U.S. Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: USEG) is a growth company focused on consolidating high-quality producing assets in the United States with the potential to optimize production and generate free cash flow through low-risk development while maintaining an attractive shareholder returns program. 

Keynote speaker: Ryan Smith, President, CEO & Director

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX) is an ocean explorer committed to sustainable and responsible discovery, validation, and advancement of seafloor critical mineral projects, including polymetallic nodules for battery metals and subsea phosphate deposits for fertilizers. 

Keynote speaker: Mark D. Gordon, Chairman & CEO

Nova Minerals Limited (NASDAQ: NVA) (ASX: NVA) is a gold and critical minerals exploration and development company focused on advancing the Estelle Gold Project, comprised of 513 km2 of State of Alaska mining claims, which contains multiple mining complexes across a 35 km long mineralized corridor of over 20 identified gold prospects, including two already defined multi-million ounce resources across four deposits.

Keynote speaker: Christopher Gerteisen – CEO & Executive Director

C3 Metals Inc. (TSXV: CCCM) (OTCQB: CUAUF) is a mineral exploration company focused on creating substantive value for its shareholders through the discovery and development of large copper and gold deposits. 

Keynote speaker: Daniel A. Symons, President, CEO & Director

Ucore Rare Metals, Inc. (OTCQX: UURAF) (TSXV: UCU) is focused on rare- and critical-metal resources, extraction, benefaction, and separation technologies with the potential for production, growth, and scalability. 

Keynote speakers: Pat Ryan, CEO

Eloro Resources, Ltd. (OTCQX: ELRRF) (TSX: ELO) is an exploration and mine development company with a portfolio of gold and base-metal properties in Bolivia, Peru and Quebec.

Keynote speakers: Chris Holden, VP Corporate Development

Opawica Explorations Inc. (OTCQB: OPWEF) (TSXV: OPW) is a junior Canadian exploration company with a strong portfolio of precious and base metal properties within the Rouyn-Noranda region of the Abitibi Gold Belt in Qubec. 

Keynote speaker: Blake Morgan, President / CEO

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. (OTCQB: HGRAF) (CSE: HG) is a leading producer of pristine graphene using an “explosion synthesis” process, which allows for exceptional purity, low energy use and identical batches.

Keynote speaker: Kjirstin Breure, President and CEO

GeoVax Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOVX) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel vaccines for many of the world’s most threatening infectious diseases and therapies for solid tumor cancers.

Keynote speakers: David Dodd, Chairman, President / CEO

Agenda Thursday April 17, 2025

SBC Medical Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBC) headquartered in Irvine, California and Tokyo, Japan, owns and provides management services and products to cosmetic treatment centers. 

Keynote speaker: Yuya Yoshida, Executive Vice President & CFO

Evofem Biosciences, Inc. (OTCQB: EVFM) is commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women’s sexual and reproductive health. 

Keynote speaker: Amy Raskopf, Chief Business Development Officer

Bioxytran, Inc. (OTCQB: BIXT) is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing novel therapies targeting the treatment of significant unmet medical needs in virology, degenerative disease, and hypoxia. 

Keynote speakers: Dr. David Platt, CEO & Mike Sheikh, Executive Vice President Business Development

Clene Inc., (NASDAQ: CLNN) is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving mitochondrial health and protecting neuronal function to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. 

Keynote speakers: Rob Etherington, President / CEO

Aspire Biopharma Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASBP) has developed a disruptive technology through a Novel Soluble Formulation which addresses emergencies, drug efficacy, dosage management, and response time. 

Keynote speakers: Kraig Higginson – CEO

Regen BioPharma Inc. (OTC Pink: RGBP) is a biotechnology company focused on developing innovative treatments using autologous cell therapies, RNA and DNA-based immunotherapy and small molecules in the immune-oncology and autoimmune disease space.

Keynote speakers: David Koos, President / CEO, & Harry M. Lander, Ph.D. Senior Scientific Consultant

Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNZI) is a marketing technology company that provides AI-enabled marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Keynote speaker: Joseph Davy, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO

Citizens, Inc. (NYSE: CIA) is a diversified financial services company providing life, living benefits and final expense insurance and other financial products to individuals and small businesses in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia.

Keynote speakers: Jon Stenberg, President / CEO, and Jeff Conklin, CFO

Sono Group N.V. (OTCQB: SEVCF) and its wholly owned subsidiary Sono Motors GmbH are on a pioneering mission to accelerate the revolution of mobility by making every commercial vehicle solar. 

Keynote speaker: George O’Leary, Managing Director, CEO and CFO

Cyios Corp. (OTC Pink: CYIO) is a publicly traded holding company focused on innovative tech, blockchain, Web3/NFT and carbon offsets and owns numerous subsidiary businesses including CarbonCred, Helio Lending, Randombly, and Immortals Group.

Keynote speaker: John O’Shea, Chairman

Beneficient (NASDAQ: BENF) is on a mission to democratize the global alternative asset investment market by providing traditionally underserved investors and General Partners seeking exit options, anchor commitments and valued-added services for their funds with solutions that could help them unlock the value in their alternative assets.

Keynote speaker: Brad K. Heppner, CEO

The Emerging Growth Conference focus and coverage includes a wide range of growth sectors and timely market themes, including, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, scientific, medical instruments and therapeutics, biotechnologies, cannabis, food & beverage, energy and more.

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