Sandy Gray, co-founder and Technical Director of Gekko Systems, is a globally recognized inventor and innovator.  He is a recipient of the prestigious Clunies Ross Award , Australia’s pre-eminent award for scientists, technologists and innovators and the UK’s I0M3 Futers Gold Medal. Sandy has also received the AusIMM Mineral Operating Technique Award, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Technology, Communications, E-commerce & Life Sciences – Southern Region), the Victorian Premier’s Design Award and is an inductee of the International Mining Hall of Fame. Sandy is a world leader in gravity gold and leaching flowsheet design, pre-concentration, polymetallic, materials handling and effective plant design. He invented Gekko’s patented systems including the InLine Pressure Jig, InLine Leach Reactor, G-Rex Resin Exchange and the Python Processing Plant. His inventions are breakthroughs in the field of mineral processing with over 600 installations at mines in 43 different countries over the last twenty-five years.

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.

Raoni Lage is a PhD student at the JKMRC at the University of Queensland. His PhD program investigates the potential of artificial intelligence for process control of grinding circuits under equipment constraints. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering and completed an MPhil degree in mineral processing, focusing on technologies to improve mineral separation and upgrade

Jason Harding will be beginning a new career as a Manufacturing Engineer at Alcoa refinery. Respecting people's honesty and integrity, Jason's work relies on effectively communicating data driven facts to illustrate high end standards in Mechanical Engineering. With an award winning mechanical trade background, Jason has the ability to align both theory and practical aspects illustrated through a range of Leadership and Management skills, Process engineering, Dynamic Modelling, Feasibility Studies and Fit for Service Inspections. With a positive attitude and tireless energy to encourage others, Jason's success has come from the enjoyment of personal development. Inspired by the simple things of life, Jason likes to spend time illustrating how to make dreams possible to family and friends.

Sandile Nkwanyana completed a BSc (Chemical Engineering) at the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2014, followed up with a MSc, which was converted to a PhD. His research looked at the potential of converting ball-mills to composite media mills (use of a mixture of critical size pebbles from AG/SAG mills and steel balls), using experiments and DEM simulations. He joined Mintek in 2020, as a researcher in the Minerals Processing Division.

Mehdi Parian is an associate professor of mineral processing in the Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering division at the Luleå University of Technology. He has an interdisciplinary background and is active in geometallurgy, process mineralogy, and mineral processing, as well as modeling and simulation. He is currently focusing on investigating ore texture and relating textural information to process parameters. His research goal is to incorporate particle and mineralogical data into mineral processing modeling, and predictions.

With graduation and post-graduation in Chemical Engineering, Mr Aman Mittal has a keen interest in rigorous computational analyses of industrially relevant mineral processes characterised by multiphasic flows to obviate experimental effort by developing a novel platform for reliable prediction of particle dynamics in tandem with fluid phases.

Leila Hosseini has a master`s of metallurgical engineering from Iran`s toppest technical university (Sharif university of technology). She has more than 11 years of experience in R&D department, is experienced in iron ore beneficiation, iron pelletizing and steel making, as well as the conceptual design of iron beneficiation plants. She has test designed and supervised the designing pilot tests of iron beneficiation plants and iron pelletizing plants, as well as the conceptual design of iron beneficiation and pelletizing plants. She is a member of the commissioning team of iron beneficiation plants and a member of the commissioning team of iron pelletizing plants, and she has presented papers in previous IMPCs (Chile, Canada, Russia, Canada, South Africa).

Raoni Lage is a PhD student at the JKMRC at the University of Queensland. His PhD program investigates the potential of artificial intelligence for process control of grinding circuits under equipment constraints. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering and completed an MPhil degree in mineral processing, focusing on technologies to improve mineral separation and upgrade

With three doctorates in chemical engineering, mineral processing and business economics, Jannie has a track record of commercialising technology. Jannie is CEO of Zeobond and is an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he was Dean of Engineering until 2007. With a Scopus h-index of 84, Jannie is one of the world’s highest cited researchers in cement science. Also, he was ranked number 2 in the world in mining and metallurgy research by Stanford University. Jannie has received several awards for his research and has been listed three times as one of Australia's most influential engineers. Jannie is a frequent plenary and keynote speaker at research and industry conferences.

A mineral processing engineer with experience in the minerals industry in Australia, Canada and China. Zeljka has been involved in the commissioning, operation and optimisation of polymetallic mineral processing circuits and holds a PhD in the design of energy efficient comminution circuits. Her thesis, awarded through the JKMRC, was named 2010 winner of the TMS Vittorio de Nora Prize for environmental improvements in metallurgical industries. Zeljka has a passion for data and analytics, particularly in the area of process optimisation and circuit design. Since joining PETRA Data Science in 2015 she has played an integral role in the formulation of data science solutions at are relevant to the minerals industry. She is also a Founding Director of CEEC International, a global not-for-profit group aimed at increasing awareness around energy efficiency in comminution.