Harry Beal Joined Northparkes in 2024 and has since worked in Specialist Evaluation Metallurgy and Project teams as a metallurgist. His role currently in the projects team is as a Project Metallurgist providing technical input for major capital projects upcoming in the Northparkes Operation. He holds a B.Eng (HONS) in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland.

Samuel Oliver is a technical consultant from MathWorks who has dedicated the last 16 years to working closely with customers from the finance, mining, energy, defence, and automotive industries to help execute their most important projects delivering millions of dollars of value. Solutions leverage his broad range of skills in AI, statistics, optimisation, control systems, physical system modelling, big data, large-scale computing, the cloud, and embedded systems. Prior to joining MathWorks, Sam worked in the automotive industry developing advanced dynamic safety-critical control systems. He received an M.Eng.Sc. in mechatronics, a B.Eng. in mechanical and manufacturing engineering, and a B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr Rodolfo Espinosa-Gomez: has over 40 years’ experience in the minerals industry in academic, technical and production roles. He is expert in development and optimization of operations in precious metals, complex base metals, and metal accounting. Rodolfo applies sound mineral processing techniques (mineral characterisation, size by size and liberation, water and surface chemistry), process analysis information, technology and team work to develop solutions. In the last ten years, Rodolfo has spent a great part of his time developing metal accounting projects in Australia and overseas operations / Mining Companies. Rodolfo has mentored young metallurgists by establishing sound standards for circuit evaluation and optimisation, developing their analytical approach, implementing specialist training programs and developing effective working cultures

Kylie Blackwell is the Strategic Program Lead for the Gold Technology Group based at the WA School of Mines in Kalgoorlie. Kylie has worked in production, project and research roles in a range of commodities. Linking plant performance with theory to explain anomalies and extract the most from challenging ores has been a core component of her career. Kylie is completing a PhD at WASM investigating the flotation performance of precious metal tellurides.