Bianca is a Comminution Specialist with over 15 years of experience leading the design of comminution circuits across the Americas. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at the University of Sao Paulo and PhD in mineral processing at the University of Queensland (JKMRC). She was awarded the prestigious Ian Morley Prize in recognition of her research excellence, leadership, personality and commitment to outcomes. Bianca has extensive experience in design, modelling and simulation of comminution circuits, focusing on energy efficiency and lean design. Her previous accomplishments include planning and supervising testwork programs, geometallurgy, process optimisation and development of smart expansion strategies. Marque projects Bianca has been involved in include Carrapateena (Australia), Mina Justa (Peru), Magino (Canada), Las Chispas (Mexico), Copper Mountain (Canada), Blackwater (Canada), Eva (Australia) and Valentine (Canada).

Janine is the Executive President and Director of CEEC International, founder of MetVal Consulting Pty Ltd, Convenor of the MetPlant Conference Series, former Non-Executive Director of Base Resources Ltd and former Director and Immediate Past President of the AusIMM. In her role as Executive President of the Not-for-profit Coalition for Eco Efficient Comminution (CEEC), Janine is striving to assist the resources sector globally to reduce the impact of mining operations on the environment and communities. This is achieved by promoting best practice in eco-efficiency in crushing and grinding and sharing established tools such as the CEEC Energy Curves, whilst developing important new tools to tackle water efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions via new projects in Water Curves and GHG Curves. Janine has over 30 years’ experience in the resources sector, across multiple commodities; starting her professional career as a graduate metallurgist in Mount Isa and later working in various operational and project roles across numerous greenfields and brownfield sites, including 10 years with Iluka Resources. As General Manager - Minerals and Industrial, with Amdel she led a major expansion and transformation of the company culminating in overseeing a portfolio of 7 Business Units with over 700 technical staff. In 2008 Bureau Veritas acquired Amdel and Janine moved on to establish her consultancy MetVal in 2009. A Fellow and Chartered Professional (Metallurgy) of the AusIMM, Janine is currently Chair of the AusIMM International Advisory Forum (IAF), and Chair of the AusIMM Awards Committee Highest Honour Panel. She is also a frequent chair of the Global Mineral Professionals Alliance (GMPA) and its Global Action on Tailings (GAT) initiative. During her 17 years on the AusIMM Adelaide Branch Committee, Janine created and led an informal mentoring program for South Australian resources students and has been a stalwart of the Adelaide Branch Interview Panel for the annual EEF and Adelaide Branch Playford Trust scholarships. With a passion for promoting life-long learning, Janine is a member of the Steering Committee for the NExUS program, on the Advisory Board for the ARC Training Centre for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources, co-presenter in the AusIMM’s Professional Certificate in ESG and Social Responsibility and is on the Advisory Board of the Australian Society for Off-Earth Construction (ASOC) which operates out of the Andy Thomas Centre for Space Resources.

Metallurgical engineer graduated at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and currently pursuing a master's degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Engineering Research (COPPE/UFRJ). Túlio is a research assistant at Laboratório de Tecnologia Mineral (LTM/COPPE/UFRJ) and works with mathematical modeling of comminution, process simulations, fundamentals of particle breakage, and grinding circuit optimization. In 2020 was appointed the second-in-command of the University of Rio de Janeiro’s group in the Global Comminution Collaborative (GCC). In 2021 was one of the recipients of the IMPC Young Author's Award, which highlighted the most outstanding papers of authors under 35 years of age from papers published in the proceedings of the XXX International Mineral Processing Congress 2020. Túlio is interested in developing and applying phenomenological and mechanistic process models to improve and integrate total process simulation in the minerals industry.

Grant is a Director of Technical Solutions at Ausenco with experience in design, optimisation, operation, research and development. In 2019 he won the CEEC medal and in 2017 he was awarded the Minerals Engineering Young person of the year award. He worked many years at the JKMRC after completing his PhD and at Ausenco, Grant co-ordinates the international comminution group and provides critical input at the front-end of engineering design projects, particularly focussed on new technologies such as coarse particle flotation and bulk ore sorting.

Felix Heinicke is a senior process manager for Köppern Aufbereitungstechnik in Freiberg. After a MSC at Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg with focus on Particle Technology, he received his PHD in Mineral Processing from RWTH AACHEN. He is working in research and sales for roller processing including both lab and industrial cases as well as installations for grinding and agglomeration all around the globe since 15 years.

Dr. N. Francois is an experimentalist with a strong expertise in complex materials and fluids. He has been working at the forefront of experimental research in various domains principally soft matter, hydrodynamic turbulence and geoscience.

Malcolm has applied fundamental comminution research to design and process improvement on over 60 mines worldwide during 35 years at Mintek, UCT, and then as Professor of comminution at the JKMRC in Australia. His work is published in over 200 papers and has been presented in as many conferences worldwide. Malcolm collaborates extensively, with close compatriots on 5 continents forming the Global Comminution Collaborative (GCC) – providing an expert research and consulting base covering the full comminution process chain. Malcolm provides on-site experiential training and site reviews to empower mine staff to upgrade the productivity and their skills. Malcolm’s research vision is of integrated total process simulation as a tool for innovation – linking geology, mining, energy and size reduction, gangue rejection and recovery into flexible process design and process optimisation.