Knackstedt is a Professor at ANU Research School of Physics. He leads a team that has undertaken leading edge fundamental research underpinning Digital Rock Technology and the OreAI program and translated the technology into tangible commercial outcomes. He led the adoption of Digital rock technology into the energy and carbon storage sectors and built the ARC ITTC for M3D Innovation driving the technology applications into mining, defence, and biomedical fields. He is globally recognised as the founder of Digital rock technology, having been awarded the ENI medal (unofficial equivalent to a Nobel prize in Energy Science) and been an invited lecturer to many Societies in the Energy industry. In 2019 he presented the technology to a range of industries through a sponsored award from Kimberley Clark Corporation.

Currently: PhD candidate in Economic Geology and Petrology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, in collaboration with LKAB. During my PhD studies, I will work on the characterization of apatite and REEs at LKAB's Per Geijer Iron Oxide-Apatite-REE deposit, in northern Sweden (both P and REEs are considered critical raw materials by the EU). My work will include research on apatite mineral chemistry, fluid- and melt inclusions, isotopic systems, and apatite (texture) occurrences and affiliation within the deposit. Using these methods, I hope to contribute to the understanding of the highly debated genesis of the Per Geijer deposit and to develop process mineralogical vectors that help in understanding apatite amenability to the potential future beneficiation process. Previously: M.Sc. European Mining Course (EMC) (2020-2023) - triple degree Master's Programme at Delft University of Technology, with exchanges to RWTH Aachen University and Aalto University. Master's thesis: "Spatial distribution of alteration mineral geochemistry at the Oijärvi gold deposit, Finland". B.Sc. Earth Sciences - focus on geophysics and geology (2017-2020) - Utrecht University Bachelor's thesis: "The geological architecture and tectonic evolution of New Guinea - an analysis and discussion of the existing models"

Robin Sheehy, Chief Technology Officer for Real Time Instruments brings 19 years of experience to the mining industry. Robin has spent most of his professional career focused on developing PGNAA sensor systems for the mining industry and played a pivotal role in bringing the world’s first long life Neutron Generation (n-Gen) PGNAA technology to market. Robin is passionate about driving advancements in ore analysis to improve material processing efficiencies across the mining value chain.

Tom Neville is a Principal Research Fellow at Orica Digital Solutions, where he dreams about the future of orebody characterisation technology. Tom has worked extensively in formation evaluation across the mining, oil & gas, and groundwater sectors, drawing on a multidisciplinary background in geology, geophysics, and petrophysics. With 29 years of hands-on experience in geochemical logging, Tom is currently focussed on developing downhole assay technologies that deliver rapid, high-resolution geochemical data for iron ore and other commodities. Tom began his career as a petroleum exploration geologist before joining Schlumberger in 1996, where he occupied multiple technical and leadership roles worldwide, including Research Director for Reservoir Geosciences at Schlumberger Doll Research and Petrophysics Advisor for the Asia/Australasia region. After leaving Schlumberger, he founded Asia-Pacific Formation Evaluation Services and Spectral Petrophysics, the later providing consulting and software solutions for integrated mineralogy and geochemistry interpretation. Tom joined Orica in 2021. Tom holds qualifications in geology and petroleum engineering, has co-authored more than 35 technical papers, and is co-inventor on 11 U.S. patents.

Eugene Donskoi graduated with MSc degree in physics and engineering from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and with PhD on coal based direct reduction of iron ores from Queensland University of Technology. He has more than 30 years experience in mathematical modelling and optimisation including 15 years of work with different gas solid reaction and heat and mass transfer processes and 20 years in mineral processing. Currently he is a project leader in CSIRO Mineral Resources and the main areas of his interests are Optical Image Analysis and Prediction of Downstream Process Performance in the iron ore and coal industry.