Perth could look very different in just a few decades as the falling cost of renewable energy opens the door to new ways of powering the city and our everyday lives.
Daniel Newell
The key to success will not be in collecting huge volumes of data but making sense of it, says the Big Australian’s chief transformation officer Jonathan Price.
Lisa Holland-McNair
The miner reckons it is more akin to a tech start-up given the leading roles innovation and technology have played in its startling fast rise into one of the world’s biggest iron ore producers.
Sean Smith
Hitoshi Okawa told delegates at RTS2019 that the massive project had taken 50,000 people working at locations across the globe more than 400 million work hours to develop.
Stuart McKinnon
There’s no doubt that technology has already helped to reshape the resources sector, but for the woman at the forefront of the next revolution, there’s still much to do.
Rio’s Ivan Vella has revealed the miner is using AI to pinpoint problems to within 100 metres on its rail network and to predict speed restrictions up to 16 weeks prior to them occurring.
Sarah-Jane Tasker
The next generation of mine will see AI optimising design; with fully electric, autonomous equipment and the ore mined selectively to improve grade and reduce the material required to be moved.
An autonomous, beyond line-of-sight drone flight 600m underground in a WA mine has been cited as a shining example of Australia’s resources ingenuity.
Ben Harvey
Rio Tinto’s head of group technical mining Santi Pal says the resources giant is close to realising a dream of having every step of its value chain connected and optimised in real time.
Woodside could use robots for autonomous surveillance or simple operating tasks at its production operations in northern WA, potentially building to maintenance roles on unmanned offshore facilities.
A solar power generation facility for the Chichester Hub will cut 100 million litres of diesel from Fortescue’s fuel costs and reduce emissions when completed in mid-2021.
The Shell Australia chief also revealed the company is looking at ways to maximise the project’s efficiency by creating a digital twin of the giant vessel.
Annual funding will help the university become the home of a new research laboratory for long subsea tiebacks.
WA has the opportunity to cement a place as the world epicentre of resource technology and innovation, according to BHP chief executive-elect Mike Henry.
The giant Ichthys LNG project is one of the most technically complicated projects undertaken anywhere in the world.
Rio Tinto’s Ivan Vella — the man in charge of the world’s biggest robot — says the success of the industry’s technology revolution will hinge on the potential of data analytics.
Fortescue Metals Group will lift the lid this month on how its Pilbara iron ore operations will evolve with advances in technology.
US-based Jean Savage will be in Perth in November to detail the latest trends in automation and robotics that are poised to transform the mining sector.
One of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of artificial intelligence has praised WA’s resources industry for taking an early risk on data analytics.
One of the most familiar faces on BBC World News is bringing his knowledge and understanding of all things business to Perth to host the world-first event in November.
