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 – Appropriate Geotechnical Engineering helps 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 Jahed 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
Topic – Digital Image Correlation (DIC): A Non-Contact Tool for Displacement and Strain Analysis

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

Dr. O P Mishra
Scientist-G & Head NCS, Minstry of Earth Sciences
India

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
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Mr. Wayne Scott
CEO Aggregates and Quarrying Association of New Zealand, and
MinEx, the extractives Health and Safety Council

President – MQA
MQA
Malaysia