GMG Perth Forum – Program
Published: July 24,2024Day 1 - August 13
8:00-8:30
Coffee and Networking
8:30-9:00
Opening Remarks
9:00-9:30
IGO Cosmos Electrification Study – Targeted Technical Learnings
Speaker: Paul Linabury, Manager Electrification, Perenti Contract Mining
9:30-10:00
Pushing the Envelope on Digitalization and the Use of Technology. Why and for What value? ChatOBK (Ore Body Knowledge) Anyone?
Speaker: David Lawie, Chief Geoscientist and Chief Technologist – Mining, IMDEX
There’s nothing artificial about the level of intelligence being delivered in the mining sector today thanks to rapid technological change and innovation. But to talk of Artificial Intelligence means to ChatOBK (Ore Body Knowledge). There is no AI (nor ML) in mining without upstream data collection through the Internet of Geosensing, the supplier of ore body knowledge to enable AI to optimise mining operations. And yet the importance to the entire mining value chain of OBK gathered during exploration through to blasting is yet to be fully understood. We now have at our fingertips access to more data than ever before. But is it a case of being data rich but knowledge poor? To know the cost of everything but value of nothing? And how do we ensure the next generation of data analysts and geoscientists are properly trained to mine these rich veins of information to extract their true value?
Panel
10:00-10:45
Getting it Right: Enabling Industry Transformation
While industry is working to adopt new technologies to achieve future goals, we need to double-down on working together to ensure we’re able to move forward safely and successfully.
- Mark Dunn, Senior Principal Engineer – Mining Technologies, CSIRO
- Peter O’Loughlin, Senior Inspector of Mines, WorkSafe Mines Safety Directorate, Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, Government of Western Australia
- Andrew Scott, Australian Representative, GMG
10:45-11:15
Coffee Break
Breakout Session
11:15-12:15
Breaking the Mould
How do we revolutionize an industry set in its ways? How do we allow people to think outside the box and do things differently?
12:15-1:15
Lunch
1:15-1:45
Interoperability in Block Cave Remote Equipment Operation
Speaker: Patrick Marshall, Vice President – Technology, MacLean Engineering
Panel
1:45-2:30
Overcoming the Research <-> Industry Divide
What can industry do to tap into the powerhouse of ability across academic and research organizations? How do we develop new models to work together to meet industry’s current goals and to be investing into future technology development?
Moderator: Jacqui Coombes, Managing Director, SageAbility and Chair, Mining3
- Andrew Bailey, CEO, Mineral Exploration Cooperative Research Centre
- Sandra Occhipinti, Research Director, Discovery, Mineral Resources, CSIRO
- Neville Plint, CEO, Mining3
- Serkan Saydam, Chair of Mining Engineering, School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales
2:30-3:00
Coffee Break
Breakout Session
3:00-4:00
United Action
How do we play to our strengths, work together and really get things done?
4:00-4:30
System Safety: Learnings from the Rail Industry
Speaker: Gareth Topham, Director, CWG Project Services
4:30-4:45
Wrap up
Day 2 - August 14
8:00-8:30
Coffee and Networking
8:30-8:45
Setting the Stage
8:45-9:15
How Mining Company MMG is Optimizing its Cloud Operations Costs
Speaker: Laxmi Piska, Global Industry Leader – CloudSMART, HCLTech
9:15-9:45
Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Unlock Value
Speaker: Dr. Lucas Pereira, Researcher and Group Leader, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
9:45-10:15
Coffee Break
Panel
10:15-11:00
DATA!
Data is the building block of digital transformation. To be able to make the best use of our data, broad industry commitment is needed to develop the standards and platforms required.
Moderator: Rob Johnston, Manager – Solutions Delivery, CITIC Pacific Mining
- Nick Anderson, Product Line Manager, Deswik
- Christopher Hough, Principal Consultant, TerraneXus (representing OSDU for Mining)
- Mark Jessell, Professor, Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth & Oceans – The University of Western Australia
- Scott Pleiter, Software Development Manager, Micromine
Breakout Session
11:00-12:00
New Foundations
Imagine a solid new structure for robust data management and use as the bedrock for industry transformation. What will it take? What must industry do together?
12:00-1:00
Lunch
1:00-1:15
Introducing the Kiteshield Foundation and Foundry – Enabling the Next Generation of Mining
Speaker: Andrew Scott, Representative – Australia, GMG
1:15-1:30
Rio Tinto’s Journey to Managing Autonomous Mining Technologies: From Risk Evaluation to System Safety Performance Monitoring
Speaker: Carlos Viquez, Principal Major Hazards, Rio Tinto
1:30-1:45
Lessons for the Safe Implementation of Automation in Mining
Speaker: Robin Burgess-Limerick, Professor of Human Factors, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre, The University of Queensland
1:45-2:15
System Safety and Human Factors Q&A
Moderator: Andrew Scott, Australian Representative, GMG
Robin Burgess-Limerick, Professor of Human Factors, Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre, The University of Queensland
Gareth Topham, Director, CWG Project Services
- Carlos Viquez, Principal Major Hazards, Rio Tinto
2:15-2:45
Coffee Break
2:45-3:30
Supercharging Future Skills: Pathways for Success
What can we do to take action? How do we develop and support new pathways to bring in and nurture the workforce we need for the future?
Breakout Session
3:30-4:30
Unlocking New Pathways
Let’s build the action plans for developing and fostering new pathways to attract and retain the diverse skilled workforce mining so desperately needs.
4:30-4:45
Wrap up