Keynote Speakers
Prof. Nicholas Barton
International Consultant, Rock Engineering
Norway
Topic – Let us try: Continuum or Discontinuum, GSI or JRC
Prof. Jamal Rostami
Prof. T N Singh
Director, Indian Institute Technology, Patna
India
Dr. H.S. Vankatesh
Director, National Institute of Rock Mechanics
India
Topic – Rock Engineering for enabling Engineering Decisions
Prof. Dr. A. Srikant
Director, Master Geotech Services Pvt Ltd, Napur, India
India
Topic – Geotechnical Engineering to improve Mineral Reserves
Prof. Dr. Atiye Tuğrul
Vice President of National Resources and Reserves Reporting Committee
(UMREK)
Turkey
Topic – Sustainable Mining and Recent Developments in Aggregate Industry
Mr. Bhola Singh
Chairman cum Managing Director, Northern Coal Fields
India
Dr. Danial Armaghani
Senior Researcher, South Ural State University, Russia.
Adjunct Research Fellow, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Topic – Theory-Guided Machine Learning Techniques to Predict TBM Performance
Prof. Debasis Deb
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
India
Mr. Girish Dingre
Environment Consultant
Australia
Assoc. Prof. Dr.-Ing. DANG Trung Thanh
Hanoi University of Mining & Geology
Vietnam
Prof. Jeyatharan Kumarasamy
President, Tunnelling and Underground Society
Singapore
Prof. Jian Zhou
Central South Univesity
China
Topic – Rockburst prediction using machine learning methods
Jim O Brien
GAIN
Ireland
Mr. Nico Pienaar
Director – ASPASA
South Africa
Prof. Paweł Kawalec Switzerland
Switzerland
Prof. PINNADUWA H.S.W. KULATILAKE
Professor Emeritus, The University of Arizona
USA
Mr. Ranjan Sahai
Ex Controller -General Indian Bureau of Mines
India
Prof. Saffet Yagiz
Nazarbayev University
Kazakhstan
Topic – Examining factors influencing the full face machine advancement in rock masses
Prof. Samir Kumar Pal
Head, Mining Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
India
Samuel Frimpong, PhD, PEng
Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science
Director, Heavy Mining Machinery Research Lab
Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T)
USA
Topic – Understanding the Stress-Intensity Profiles of Electric Shovels within Hard, and Abrasive Oil Sands Formations for Better Design and Performance
Subash Chandra(IFS)
CEO, Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA)
Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)
India
Mr. Susarla Sastry
South Africa
Mr. Wayne Scott
CEO Aggregates and Quarrying Association of New Zealand, and
MinEx, the extractives Health and Safety Council
President – MQA
MQA
Malaysia