WD Mining for Solutions
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
9am to 12 noon PST
Vancouver Convention Centre, West Rooms 116-117
Session Objective: To accelerate the adoption of near term solutions by bringing together mining industry representatives with potential solution providers/SMEs
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome and Overview | Carol-Ann Brown |
| 9:05 – 9:10 | WD Welcome | Martin Sutherland, Director of Policy, Planning & Performance Integration, WD |
| 9:10 – 9:20 | Innovation and The Mining Sector: Perspective from NRCan | Philip Jennings, Associate Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada |
| 9:20 – 10:30 | Mining Challenges:
· Tailings re-purposing/processing · Remote, Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring · Reduction of Oversize in Draw Points in Underground Mines · Low Grade Energy Recovery in Mining Operations · ICT and Mining |
Richard Shaw, Director of Metallurgy, Goldcorp Clemente Miranda, Teck
David Sanguinetti, CMIC
Carl Weatherall, CMIC
Peter Van der Gracht, Wavefront |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Stories from the mine: Innovation success in mining operations
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David Kratochvil, BioteQ
Gonzalo Tudela, CEO Vandrico John Thompson, ex VP at Teck. Don Furseth, CRM GeoTomography Technologies, Inc Peter Kowalczyk, Ocean Floor Geophysics |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Ecosystem Partners: Observations and Support | Chrysalix, Richard Mackellar
CAMESE, Ryan McEachern Foresight, Neil Huff NRC-IRAP, Bruce Hardy |
| 11:45 – 11:55 | Innovation and Tech Summit Opportunities for the Mining Sector | BCIC, Carl Anderson |
| 11:55 | Wrap Up and Next Steps | Carol-Ann Brown |
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