Tony is an experienced engineer and executive, who worked in the resources sector for over 30 years, with over 25 professional years of expertise in the full life cycle of mineral processing, extraction, refine and complex chemical projects, from concepts development, test work, engineering design, construction, commissioning, ramp up to steady production operations. Tony is passionate about developing innovative and sustainable solutions for critical minerals and energy challenges and facilitating industry-academia collaboration and knowledge transfer.

Peter is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Prior to his current appointment, he worked at universities in Canada and the UK. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide 2004-12. When he moved to Adelaide in 2004, he established the Mining Engineering degree programme at the University. He is currently Director of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources at the University of Adelaide. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. His research areas are in mathematical geosciences applied to natural resources and to environmental and climate variables. More recently, in collaboration with European colleagues, he has published widely in hydrology, groundwater, climatography, fractal analysis of karst landscapes, closed depressions on the surfaces of the moon and Mars, and fractal analysis of the Martian landscape. He was awarded the 2016 Krumbein Medal by the International Association for the Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) for his contributions to geostatistics and mathematical geosciences. He was President of the IAMG for the period 2020-2024 and is currently Past-President of the IAMG for 2024-2028.

Roussos Dimitrakopoulos is a professor of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development and Optimization under Uncertainty, and is director of the COSMO - Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory (http://cosmo.mcgill.ca/). Roussos holds a PhD from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and an MSc from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He works on geostatistical simulation and stochastic optimization as well as artificial intelligence applications in mine planning and production scheduling, along with the simultaneous optimization of industrial mining complexes and mineral value chains under uncertainty. He has published extensively, maintaining large competitive grants from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and a long-standing partnership with AngloGold Ashanti, BHP, AngloAmerican/De Beers, Agnico Eagle, IAMGOLD, Kinross Gold, Newmont, Vale SA and Vale BaseMetals (COSMO Consortium) who support this research. He has taught and worked in Australia, North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Japan.

Michelle has over 25 years of mining industry experience and 4 years in the space industry. She is now the Director of Mining and Space, leading the Resources Working group for IAC 2025 and was formerly at AROSE where she was the program director of Australia's first lunar rover, led mining missions to NASA and delivered the Space STEM program. Prior to this, she was the Program Director Technology Development, and leader of the Next Generation Mine Innovation Program, at South 32. At South 32 she was responsible for leading the identification, design and delivery of new technology and innovation for all greenfield projects as well as translation into brownfield operations. With a non-traditional technology background, Michelle brought her strategic and mining experience to deliver programs, and help drive the future competitiveness of the company. Michelle graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining (Hons) and a Master of Science (Mineral Economics) from Curtin University. In 2023, Michelle was awarded the Space Professional of the Year at the Australian Space Industry Awards, recognising her work connecting the resources and space industries together in Australia and with the US. And in 2024, Michelle was included in the top 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.