symposium

23rd March 2015Perth, Western Australia

AimTo overview data management and effective data conversion to knowledge that delivers growth in

the exploration and mining sectors

OrgAnizersHeidi Pass (reFLeX geochemistry)

suzy Urbaniak (Kent street senior High school) Julian Vearncombe (sJs resource management)

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Visit www.geosymposia.com.auto register online for the symposium.

Pay by credit card or electronic funds transfer. One registration per person.

Please remember to give us your direct email address (in addition to accounts and personal assistant email address)

Alternatively, you can pay directly by cheque or EFT (print online registration and post cheque to PO Box 1093, Canning Bridge 6153 Western Australia), by credit card online or by requesting an invoice for your employer (please supply a purchase order number).

• AlltalksandoralpresentationswillbeaccompaniedwithacomputerprojectorrunningPowerPoint.Therewillbenootherprojectionfacilities.

• AllPowerPointsandoralpresentationsshouldbeinEnglish.• Speakers,pleasecheckthetimesthatapplytoyourtalk.• Therewillbetimeforquestions.• Papertitlesofmorethaneightwordsmaybeabbreviatedbytheorganisersinthe

symposium programme.• TheAIGandGSrecognisetheimportanceoftheauthorsIP.PowerPointswillnotbe

distributedtothedelegatesandtheaudienceaskednottorecordtalks(visualorsound).• AuthorsareinvitedtosubmitaPowerPointforuploadingtotheAIGwebsiteintheweekafter

thesymposium.Thisisoptional.ThePowerPointshouldfairlyreflectthetalkandnotbeanadvertisementforacompanyorproduct.However,authorsarenotexpectedtosubmitpageforpageexactlythesamePowerPointasthatpresented.

Please Note: All speakers (except invited speakers) are required to register and pay for attendance at the symposium.

i n S t r u c t i o n S t o p r e S e n t e r Sthe Western australia mining industry is known world-wide for its lead role in occupational health and safety. all Symposium participants will be required to comply with health and safety laws, regulations, recommendations and leader requests. Specifically:

• There will be compulsory safety inductionsprior to all activities.

• For all activities there will be a designatedleader responsible for safety and she/he is your first communication point on any safety issues.

• Allsafetyandhealthissuesshouldbereportedto the responsible person immediately.

• The Symposium committee has a zerotolerance policy in relation to any behaviour that is unsafe. Persons deliberately not complying with the law, rules, recommendations orinstructionswillbeimmediatelyremovedfromthe mine, excursion, course or Symposiumand no refund offered.

• In the interests of everyone’s health, allsymposia events, including courses, minevisits and field-work are strictly no smoking.Thereistobenosmokinginvehicles.

• Delegates to the symposium and short coursesshouldwearcoveredfootwear.

• All safety incidents and accidents should bereportedassoonaspossible,irrespectiveofhowminortheymayappear.

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Contact training@geosymposia.com.au or 08 9364 7098

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Symposium: Big Data, Inspiring Information

and Strategic Knowledge

23rd March 2015

tawarri, esplanade dalkeith,Western australia

08h00 to 18h00

The Symposium features:

• Technicalsessionsandinvitedspeakers

• Earlymorningandafternoonteaand coffee

• Lunch

• Networkingfunction

proviSional inforMationThisdocumentisuptodateasoftoday.Forsmoothandeffectiverunningthedetailsand

programmewillinevitablychange.

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We encourage non-members of the australian institute of geoscientists (aig) to join and take advantage of discounts for members. A photo copy of a recent AIG applicationaccompanying your registration form is enoughtoobtainAIGdiscounts.visit www.aig.org.au

the cost of aig membership is:

Student: $0

Graduate: $128.70

Associate:$151.80

Member: $176.00

Fellow: $176.00

Speaker affiliation topic

dave lawie reflex real time acquisition and Management of data at the rig

caroline ludemann rio tinto development of user-driven reporting and

analysis tools

viv preston Maxwells the Business of data Management

andrew Waltho rio tinto integrating geophysics with geology (with a focus on down-hole logging)

eun-jung Holden uWa Minimising uncertainty in geoscientific data

interpretation

david lescinsky ga High performance data

Mark jessell uWa understanding uncertainty in geoscience data

alex ip gathe australian geoscience data cube – a common analytical framework for petabyte-scale data

robert Woodcock cSiro Breaking down the Barriers to effective use

of Big data in national exploration

jonathan law cSiro Strategic Knowledge and competitive advantage

peter Ketelaar anglogoldashanti geo-metallurgy at tropicana: Bringing data together from a diverse range of Sources

paul Hodkiewicz BHp Billiton from Big data to Big value: turning Better

data into Better Business decisions

philip little expedio always accurate data

Brad ladhams newmont lnsights to Building a global exploration database

panel Big data initiatives – a series of 5 Minute presentations Highlighting online and community groups and initiatives

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This is a preliminary list of speakers. The final timetable will be posted on the AIG and Geosymposia websites in the week before the symposium. The final timetable will inevitably differ from this draft.

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delegate feeS (incl. gSt)

aig members and/or sponsor members and additional registrations from commercial sponsors: $440.00

non-members: $550.00

Student and unemployed members: $220.00

All prices are in Australian Dollars

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profeSSional developMent

Geoscientist Symposia (GS) and Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) course andsymposiamayassistwithContinuingProfessionalDevelopment (CPD)complianceformanyAIGRegisteredProfessionalGeoscientists(RPGeos).

Geoscientists Symposia works with SJSResource Management Pty Ltd and TheAustralian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) toprovide training courses and symposia across awiderangeofthemes.Geoscientists Symposia also organize shortcourses,fieldtrips,lecturesandminevisitsaswellasregularnetworkingandsocialevents.

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a u t H o r S & p r e S e n t e r S a B S t r a c t v o l u M e

abstracts are required from all presenters.

• Abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee for Transparency, Materiality andCompetence before final acceptance of the abstract.

• For all abstracts, please supply a short paragraphon thequalifications, employment andcompetenceoftheseniorauthorandpresenter.Thisdescriptionparagraphwillbeprintedwiththeabstract.

• All abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible and definitely before the deadline 1st february 2015 to training@geosymposia.com.au

• Submitabstractsandfigureswiththesurnameofthepresenterasthefirstwordinthefilename. Submit your abstract in Microsoft Word. Please submit figures as a JPEG or TIFFseparately(notembeddedinWord).Tablesshouldbeofrealisticsize,uprightandinWord.

• TheAIGwillproduceadigitalpdfAbstractVolume.TheVolumewillbeavailableasadigitalfileontheAIGwebsiteinadvanceoftheevent.Thevolumewillalsobeavailableonathumbdriveatthemeeting.TheAIGwillnotbeprintingthevolume.

• Abstractsshouldbebetween250and2,500words. Ideally,allabstracts includeafigure,typically a map or summary diagram. Please ensure that your abstract correctly and fairly referencestheworkofothers.

• Abstractswill bedesktoppublishedby theAIG - youdonotneed to format your text forpublication.ForthestyleofpublicationandpastabstractspleaseviewanyofAIGBulletins54to57compliedbyJulianVearncombeandpublishedbytheAIGforfreedownloadatwww.aig.org.auandwww.geosymposia.com.au

• Abstractsandtalkshouldcompriseeither(orbothof)novelscienceand/orabalancedwide-rangingreviewofnewtechnologiesandfuturedevelopments.Inbothabstractandtalk,wediscouragetheexcessiveuseofpartnernamingandcolleaguereferencing.

• Thepresenterwilltakefullresponsibilityforallabstractandtalkcontent.

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