Overview

This presentation will delve into both the challenges and opportunities presented by the implementation of AI in the mining and mineral processing industry. While there are significant prospects such as operational efficiencies, enhanced safety, improved sustainability outcomes, reliable predictive maintenance, and data-driven decision making, there are also challenges to consider. These challenges include data hygiene, data quality and availability, integration with legacy systems, initial high costs, the need for a skilled workforce, regulatory and safety concerns, and change management. We will look at what industry practitioners must do to overcome these challenges to ensure effective implementation of AI in the mining and mineral processing industry.

Speaker

Adam Foot, Independent Consultant

Adam has specialized in bringing together people and technology for increased productivity, reduced cost, improved safety performance whilst increasing social value. Adam finds a way to build systems that benefit both companies and the communities in which they operate.

Adam has been a senior member within Rio Tinto’s and BHP’s Technology and Operational teams and currently consults independently to companies developing advanced systems. Adam’s operational expertise and detailed understanding of key business processes enabled the gap between operations and technology teams to be bridged, leading to improved performance, higher cyber security, improved database storage, simpler data accessibility, and end-user usability of systems.

Adam previously served as a Social Licence Committee Member for AusIMM and led one of the largest branches in Australasia, representing over 2,200 resource industry professionals. His leadership drove AusIMM’s competitive edge and built ongoing industry recognition. Most recently, he oversaw the response to industrial manslaughter legislative changes and worked on the team developing the first Social Value professional industry standards.

Blending design, engineering, art, and people together, Adam ensures that operations and products are fit for purpose, highly functional, and user-friendly - a characteristic directly attributable to his earliest entrepreneurship ventures.

Time

09:00 - 10:00 GMT.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web
portal.