Mining Transformation Virtual Conference

Biography: Dr Carlos Tapia is a Senior Mining Engineer with over 15 years of experience in mine planning, production, software, technology development, telecommunications, market intelligence, research, and investment environments. He has acted in various senior roles, including planning engineer, project lead consultant, general manager, project valuation leader and principal technology engineer - a diverse skill set affording holistic knowledge of all aspects of the mining industry, from mine to port. Carlos holds a PhD in Mining Engineering-Mineral Economics from UNSW Sydney, specialising in AI, Machine Learning and Stream Data Mining in mining for digitalisation, automation, optimisation, forecasting and pattern recognition purposes. Dr. Carlos Tapia – Principal Mining Expert (Telecommunications & Automation)

Session Details: Panel – Open Discussion on innovation, people and organisations and how the industry can work together to achieve more. 29-06-2021, 3:00 pm View In Agenda

Biography: As the CEO of the Electric Vehicle Council, Behyad Jafari works with industry, government and the media to accelerate the electrification of road transport, for a more sustainable and prosperous Australia. With experience advising politicians, businesses and non-profits, Behyad has a strong understanding of Australia’s political, corporate and media landscape.

Session Details: Panel – Open Discussion on innovation, people and organisations and how the industry can work together to achieve more. 29-06-2021, 3:00 pm View In Agenda

Biography: Laura is a chemical engineer and hydrometallurgist with over 20 years’ of research experience in the minerals processing industry. Her main area of focus is in-situ recovery, or keyhole mining, which involves the injection of fluid underground, dissolution of value minerals within the orebody and fluid recovery at the surface for further processing. Laura joined the CSIRO 11 years ago from the research team of Anglo American and prior to that, worked in the research group of De Beers Consolidated Mines.

Session Details: Adoption of new technology with a focus on in-situ recovery 29-06-2021, 2:30 pm View In Agenda

Biography: Dean has a 20+ years’ broad based background in a wide range of mineral resources including oil & gas, iron ore, coal, gold, uranium, magnesium, oil shale, copper, nickel and aluminum.  He has been intimately involved in a vast range of resource projects globally, both as a strategist and as an Owner’s Representative.  Dean’s strong experience in modularisation of major projects has led to undertakings as Project Manager & Peer Review for Newcrest Mining in British Columbia C$150m, as well as Adani Mining Project A$16 billion, Queensland.  Furthermore, as Deputy Project Director for the Owners Team (Hancock/GVK)—Alpha Coal Project A$17 billion, Queensland.  Overall, he has been involved in projects to the value of AUD$13.5B in remote areas of the World and has extensive cross discipline expertise covering engineering, project (evaluation - design/construction) and operations (exploration - production) functions.

Session Details: Panel – Open Discussion on innovation, people and organisations and how the industry can work together to achieve more. 29-06-2021, 3:00 pm View In Agenda

Biography: David Bicknell has over 30 years’ experience in writing about and analysing the technology sector, both from the vendor and the user perspective, both in the UK and the US. His career in technology journalism and analysis has included detailed research into IT projects and he has co-authored a book, ‘Crash’, which explored why and how IT projects go wrong. He has also co-authored a novel on the life of computer pioneer Charles Babbage. Prior to joining Thematic Research, David spent six years editing a GlobalData title exploring the use of technology in the UK public sector. He has previously worked for a news agency and for the BBC.

Session Details: Data – How to truly leverage data to provide real value 29-06-2021, 1:30 pm View In Agenda

Biography: Kane is a process control engineer experienced in leading technical teams in process operations, design and optimisation. He has held various roles during an 11 year tenure with Newmont Corporation and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree majoring in both Instrumentation and Control and Industrial Computer Systems and a Master of Engineering degree majoring in Engineering Management. Under Kane’s guidance, in 2018 Newmont established the Process Control Operations Support Hub.  The Hub drives value-focused initiatives by streamlining process control systems, procedures and monitoring tools.

Session Details: Critical Automation Performance Monitoring - Locking in the Value 29-06-2021, 12:30 pm View In Agenda

Biography: With a background in Computer Science, Chandmani begun his career in data management, dissemination and visualisation in a large scale migratory bird-monitoring program spanning from the Rocky Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert of the North America.  Following, he has been working in the corporate world leading IT projects as well as large scale digital transformation projects namely in Mongolia, Thailand and Australia within Banpu Public Company Limited [an international energy provider].  Projects include financial insights portal running on top of an ERP system, Cloud solution implementations, IIoT data acquisition and real-time performance monitoring of equipment.  Chandmani is an evangelist of digital transformation at Centennial, a Banpu subsidiary in NSW, Australia.

Session Details: The importance of partners in mining digital transformation - how teamwork can expand digital ecosystems, raise productivity and improve safety 29-06-2021, 11:30 am View In Agenda

Biography: Jandro joined the Area C Leadership team in August 2019 as Manager for BOS Deployment (Site Coach). Previous to this role, Jandro has held a range of operational leadership and project delivery roles in South African mining and industrial water treatment operations. More recently, and since coming to Australia, Jandro has worked in Management Consulting and Improvement Transformations for BHP Rail and Mining Area C. Jandro is a Chartered Chemical Engineet and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration with over 14 years' experience in Processing, Maintenance, Project Deilivery and Improvement Transformations. He has worked across Base Metal and Iron Ore resource industries, as well as Industrial Water Treatment.

Session Details: PANEL DISCUSSION - Comprehending the full impact of the digital transformation journey on the workforce and work processes 29-06-2021, 10:00 am View In Agenda

Biography: Mr Jordan Morrissey joined Resolute in 2020 as General Manager People & Sustainability and is responsible for all aspects of the Company’s People & HSSEC divisions and the execution of the Group sustainability strategy. An experienced mining professional, Mr Morrissey has a Masters in Organisational Psychology from Curtain University and has over 15 years global mining experience across Africa, PNG, Solomon Islands and Australia. Prior to joining Resolute, Mr Morrissey held the Chief People Officer role for Syrah Resources Limited.

Session Details: PANEL DISCUSSION - Comprehending the full impact of the digital transformation journey on the workforce and work processes 29-06-2021, 10:00 am View In Agenda

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Session Details: Panel – Open Discussion on innovation, people and organisations and how the industry can work together to achieve more. 29-06-2021, 3:00 pm View In Agenda

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Session Details: PANEL DISCUSSION - Comprehending the full impact of the digital transformation journey on the workforce and work processes 29-06-2021, 10:00 am View In Agenda

Biography: Chris McLoughlin the Managing Director of Greenbase since 2014 previously spent 30 years in senior management positions in the IT industry helping numerous companies’ digitalization efforts in Industry 3.0 Greenbase provides Environmental and Sustainability Accounting services and systems for over 60 mining companies and more than 200 mines, across all commodities across 5 continents.

Session Details: Mining Transformation – Investor Driven but Technology Led? 29-06-2021, 12:00 pm View In Agenda