Samantha Langley has more than 20 years' experience in the mining, energy and resources sector, with expertise in environmental and sustainability management, operational compliance and reporting, climate change action planning and decarbonisation project delivery across complex mining and mineral processing value chains. Prior to joining Vulcan Energy as its Head of Sustainability, Ms Langley was Superintendent of Asset Decarbonisation at BHP Nickel West. She has been publicly recognised for her leadership in sustainability and has been the recipient of the 2023 Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA Women in Resources Technological Innovation Award, and was a finalist in the 2023 National Minerals Council of Australia Women in Mining and Resources Awards. Ms Langley holds a Bachelor of Science (Environmental Science) from Murdoch University and postgraduate qualifications in occupational health and safety.

Sasha Edwards is a third year undergraduate student at Monash University. She studies a bachelor of Science Advanced Research with a major in chemistry and earth science. For her excellence in chemistry Sasha has received three Rowe Scientific Foundation Prizes. Sasha is the operations lead for Sustainable Water Monash, an engineering team focused on solving water security challenges and participates in WaterWatch at her local reserve. After completing an internship at RioTinto, the complexities of environmental monitoring in heavy industries revealed themselves. Sasha’s research focuses to mitigate this by developing new ways to detect environmental pollutants through chemical sensors.