Wednesday Lunch with Guest Speakers | Wednesday May 6 | 12:00 | Ballroom B
Competing Ideas, Collective Impact: The future of mining technology
Automation, electrification and digitalization are accelerating across mine sites. But turning adoption into predictable performance remains a challenge. As operators pursue cost control and safer environments, they’re asking how to ensure emerging systems result in measurable outcomes.
Industry competitors Caterpillar, Komatsu and Sandvik will take the stage together to discuss how to scale and integrate technology to drive consistent performance. Each will offer perspectives on data-driven decision-making, interoperability, reliability and the realities of deployment at scale.
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Panelists
Riku Pulli
President, Digital Mining Technologies
Sandvik
Riku Pulli is the President of Digital Mining Technologies at Sandvik Mining, based in Tampere, Finland. With over 20 years at Sandvik, he has been instrumental in advancing automation, digitalization, and rock technology across the mining industry.
Braden Weisheit
General Manager North America, Mining Technology Solutions
Komatsu
Braden Weisheit serves as the General Manager for North America – Mining Technology Solutions at Komatsu, where he leads the strategic direction and execution of technology initiatives supporting mining operations across the United States and Canada.
Corey Wurtzbacher
Vice President and General Manager of Technology and Global Sales Support – Resource Industries
Caterpillar
Corey is responsible for capturing new sources of service revenue through technology and defining and executing commercial strategies to leverage emerging operational technology to create a sustainable mining & quarry technology business.
Moderator
John Rhind
President and CEO
Rhind Management Limited
John Rhind is a corporate director with more than 35 years of business and executive leadership experience in the oil and gas industry, primarily focused on oil sands operations.