Radhika is a registered Australian patent attorney and is an Associate at Griffith Hack. She has been working at Griffith Hack for three years, where she has gained experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications, primarily in the chemical engineering realm. Radhika completed a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Sydney, where she went on to do her PhD in the field of mineral processing. Her research was on lithium extraction from hard-rock silicates, with a particular focus on spodumene. She then went on to work as a process engineer, where she specialised in mineral processing including both hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical processes.

Dr Aneeq Sarwar is Senior Manager, Workforce Planning and Policy at AUSMASA, overseeing our research, workforce planning, and policy functions. Dr Sarwar is an experienced research leader who has managed quantitative and qualitative research projects across industry, academia, and government. He is widely published with various national and international bodies and is passionate about using data insights to drive decision-making that benefits society and communities. Dr Sarwar helps drive policy, research and decision-making by leveraging stakeholder consultations. Dr Sarwar has a Doctorate in Economics, Productivity, Innovation, and Machine Learning.

Lisa Koch is a Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright who has been advising the International Seabed Authority on the regulatory regime for deep sea mining exploitation regulations. She has worked in South Africa, London and Australia. She advises on project finance and related transactions including royalty financing across mining, natural resources and commodities, and on commodity offtake arrangements, with a focus on cross-border and international transactions. Lisa has advised lenders, investors and companies on various aspects of the international deep sea mining regime. She sat on the advisory board of Blue Nodules, an EU funded consortium investigating the viability of deep sea mining. Jo Feldman is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright who has been advising the International Seabed Authority on the regulatory regime for deep sea mining exploitation regulations. She also advises governments, and mining, shipping, and energy companies, on international trade and investment, ESG, and international arbitration, including in relation to deep sea mining. Previously, Jo was a diplomat and international lawyer for the Australian government, negotiating free trade agreements throughout the Indo-Pacific and with the UK, and servings on postings to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, and the United Nations in New York.

Gavin Kennedy is an experienced geospatial project manager and business analyst at FrontierSI, with a strong track record of managing cross-sector, collaborative projects. Gavin works closely with Queensland Government agencies and other key stakeholders to apply geospatial and Earth observation (EO) technologies to critical challenges across mining and resources, agriculture, natural resource management, infrastructure, and climate resilience. Gavin is also the co-ordinator of the Queensland Earth Observation Hub, a multi-million-dollar initiative between the Queensland Government and SmartSat CRC to accelerate the growth of Queensland’s, and Australia’s, Earth observation industry by supporting commercialisation of research, the creation of collaborative networks and investment in EO product and service development. Gavin has a long and diverse career in data analysis, software development, research support and IT management. Gavin has managed significant IT infrastructure projects and products including software systems and high-performance computing infrastructure for genomics, research data storage across Australian universities and GIS data systems for seabed characterisation at Fugro.