[
  {
    "id": "summit-missing-midstream-recording",
    "title": "Global Lithium Podcast episode 225: The Missing Midstream",
    "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/episode-225-the-missing-midstream/id1483677267?i=1000739990216",
    "published_date": "2025-12-06",
    "evidence": "Producer describes a recorded October 2025 Arkansas Summit panel with Standard Lithium, Nano One, Arkansas Commerce and Ford representatives. Listed topics include cathode bottlenecks, margins and stationary storage.",
    "status": "public-primary-recording-and-description",
    "caveat": "Description verified through public indexing; direct fetch intermittent. Full audio not listened to. Discussed interests are not plant commitments or validated process economics."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-aedc-industry-transcript",
    "title": "Arkansas Inc. Podcast: Lithium Industry in Arkansas",
    "url": "https://www.arkansasedc.com/news-events/media-center/podcast/active-blogs/2025/10/13/arkansas-inc.-podcast--lithium-industry-in-arkansas",
    "published_date": "2025-10-13",
    "evidence": "Official full transcript with Hugh McDonald, Patrick Howarth and Jesse Edmondson discusses state midstream strategy and DLE/crystallization R&D, plus workforce and infrastructure issues.",
    "status": "primary-published-full-transcript",
    "caveat": "Statements are attributed speaker strategy/opinion at that date; old production schedules and broad numerical projections should not be adopted as current facts."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-2024-program",
    "title": "Standard Lithium Spearheads Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit",
    "url": "https://www.standardlithium.com/news/standard-lithium-spearheads-arkansas-lithium-innovation-summit",
    "published_date": "2024-02-09",
    "evidence": "Organizer/sponsor confirms February 15–16, 2024 Robinson Center event and planned panels on supply chains, stakeholder engagement, investment, infrastructure and workforce.",
    "status": "primary-program-preview",
    "caveat": "Advance agenda establishes planned themes, not measured outcomes or signed research demand."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-2025-program",
    "title": "2025 Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit Scheduled for October 28–29 in Little Rock",
    "url": "https://commerce.arkansas.gov/2025-arkansas-lithium-innovation-summit-scheduled-for-october-in-little-rock/",
    "published_date": "2025-10-14",
    "evidence": "Commerce identifies Statehouse Convention Center venue, October 28–29 dates, keynote speakers and full-agenda destination.",
    "status": "primary-program-overview",
    "caveat": "Original full-agenda website was not accessible in this research pass; no complete deck archive was located."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-next-event",
    "title": "Arkansas Lithium Innovation Hub",
    "url": "https://info.arkansasedc.com/ARlithiumhub",
    "published_date": null,
    "evidence": "Official AEDC hub currently advertises the Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit for Fall 2027.",
    "status": "primary-current-event-announcement",
    "caveat": "Undated live page checked at October 30 2026 cutoff. Do not invent a 2026 Summit. Its loose resource/reserve and valuation headlines are not technical evidence."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-ardot-infrastructure",
    "title": "Stakeholders Plan for Growth of Arkansas Lithium Industry — Arkansas Highways Spring 2024",
    "url": "https://www.ardot.gov/wp-content/uploads/ARHighwaysMagazine_Spring2024_web_Spreads.pdf",
    "published_date": "2024",
    "evidence": "ARDOT firsthand post-event account reports Summit infrastructure-panel perspectives and an agency road-condition baseline with industry road/bridge-needs discussions; printed pages 11–14.",
    "status": "primary-agency-panel-account",
    "caveat": "Use for panel/planning evidence, not proof of sufficient capacity. Exclude implausible truck/car lithium comparison and outdated demand numbers elsewhere in the article."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-uark-2024",
    "title": "Arkansas’ Lithium Economy and How the U of A Will Lead",
    "url": "https://arkansasresearch.uark.edu/arkansas-lithium-economy-and-how-the-u-of-a-will-lead/",
    "published_date": "2024-03-27",
    "evidence": "University describes Erik Pollock’s 2024 Summit presentation on geoscience, separation science, materials, logistics and applied AI.",
    "status": "primary-participant-presentation-account",
    "caveat": "Official indexed text available; direct fetch returned 502. Evidence of presented capabilities, not availability commitments or proof of commercial performance."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-adhe-2025-report",
    "title": "ADHE Commissioner’s Report, January 23 2026, item 5 — Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit",
    "url": "https://adhe.edu/File/Agenda%20Book%2C%20January%2023%2C%202026%20%286%29.pdf",
    "published_date": "2026-01-23",
    "evidence": "State higher-education attendee report identifies October 2025 Summit themes: domestic supply chain, scalable DLE, workforce, security, investment/infrastructure and collaboration; printed page 5-3.",
    "status": "primary-attendee-report",
    "caveat": "Not a technical validation or a completed workforce-demand forecast."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-technology-interviews",
    "title": "Global Lithium Podcast episode 222: The Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit (with Governor Sanders)",
    "url": "https://music.amazon.com.br/podcasts/c3ab628e-2f6f-4360-9e5c-485d1d3e718d/episodes/e7fb5028-eab1-4612-bbf1-3a488b1d61ba/the-global-lithium-podcast-episode-222-the-arkansas-lithium-innovation-summit-with-governor-sanders",
    "published_date": "2025-10-30",
    "evidence": "Producer describes Summit interviews with Governor Sanders, Equinor, Aquatech and Standard Lithium representatives, listing process optimization, Li-Pro/PEARL and value chains among topics.",
    "status": "public-primary-recording-and-description",
    "caveat": "Publisher-distributed description verified in public indexes; direct fetch intermittent. Full audio not listened to and no detailed engineering claim inferred."
  },
  {
    "id": "summit-nano-one",
    "title": "Arkansas Lithium Innovation Summit — Nano One",
    "url": "https://nanoone.ca/news/events/arkansas-lithium-innovation-summit-2/",
    "published_date": "2025-08-13",
    "evidence": "Company announces participation of Andrew Muckstadt and Dan Blondal at the October 2025 Summit.",
    "status": "primary-speaker-company-account",
    "caveat": "Participation announcement alone is not evidence of a plant location decision or a customer agreement."
  }
]