Wayne Stasinowsky is a Senior Research Geophysicist at CSIRO in Brisbane. He is experienced in most geophysical techniques and has conducted research and development in hardware, software and field procedures for many of these. He has extensive experience with applying geophysics to operating open cut and underground mines to assist mine planning and to gain geotechnical information. Wayne is currently working on various radar projects, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial. His main focus is assisting mine operations to improve productivity and to gain insight into mine geotechnical properties at multiple scales.

Sam Evans has worked in a variety of blasting engineering roles for 14 years. His experience includes work as a drill and blast contractor conducting civil tunnelling, shaft sinking, and cavern excavations on major contracts in Hong Kong, managing Orica’s underground technical services team in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, and more recently working as Orica’s global lead engineer in the commercialisation of new underground technology, based in Perth, WA. He has hold a bachelors degree from the Camborne School of Mines, UK.

Dr. Yin is associated with the School of Resources and Safety Engineering at Central South University and specializes in Safety Technology and Engineering. His primary focus is dust pollution monitoring, where Dr. Yin mainly employs digital image analysis and deep learning. Dr. Yin's innovative approach involves establishing efficient mathematical relationships and developing online systems customized for real-time dust pollution assessment.

Jingcheng is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales. His research interests mainly focus on deep learning, multi-modal learning, sample efficient learning, and human activity recognition. He aims to develop effective, efficient, and scalable AI methods that can be applied in the real-life environments.

Sharna has 30 years of experience in the Resources sector with her career focusing on Engineering, Technology and People. Her career has involved working in large global mining corporations to now being the co-founder and CEO of Imvelo.ai. This diverse career allows for lessons learnt in the adoption of technology at the minesite to be shared for the success of others. Imvelo has grown under Sharna’s stewardship since its formation four years ago and has a team of mining engineers, automation and OT specialists that create resource value through the design and delivery of autonomous, connected and electrifed digital mining operations. Sharna holds a PhD doctorate in Engineering, a first-class double degree in Chemical Engineering and Science. Sharna was previously awarded the Technology Woman in Resources Awards for Queensland. Sharna is a Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed company Queensland Pacific Metals, and a Non-Executive Director of CarbonLink.