Keynotes & Technical Sessions

The technical sessions showcase innovative research, applied learnings, and field-based insights shaping the future of mineral exploration. Spanning key themes—from AI and geophysics to sustainable development—these sessions offer global perspectives and practical knowledge.

The program is further enriched by keynote talks from leading voices in geoscience, mining, and technology, offering strategic insights into critical minerals, innovation ecosystems, and the evolving landscape of mining in the Super Region and beyond.

Advanced Exploration Technologies

This theme presents the cutting-edge technologies, methods, and workflows that are advancing mineral exploration from the regional to the project scale. The data acquisition techniques covered are highly diverse, whether surface, drilling, or airborne. This theme extends to innovative approaches to information management and processing, such as data fusion, machine learning, and AI.

Session 1: Inversion & Processing
Session 6: Inputs from Data Fusion, ML & AI
Session 13: At Project Scale
Session 16: Advanced Exploration – Seismic Methods
Session 17: Advanced Exploration – Downhole
Session 18: At Regional Scale

Keynote Speakers

Brownfield & Resource Expansion

This theme explores advanced methods and illustrates with case studies the extension of discoveries in mature sites and brownfield sites.

Session 11: Enhanced Discovery Potential

Keynote Speakers

Critical Mineral Exploration & Processing

This theme concerns in particular the issue of critical minerals needed for the energy transition, including the resilience of their supply chains.

Sessions 8 & 12: Critical Mineral Exploration - Part 1 & 2

Keynote Speakers

Early-Stage & Greenfield Exploration Strategies

This theme focuses on geophysical, geochemical, and multidisciplinary approaches aimed at reducing the risk and accelerating the stages of exploration for new deposits from the earliest phases of exploration.

Session 4: Geophysics in Greenfield & Early-Stage Exploration
Session 9: From Data Acquisition to Discovery: Innovations in Early-Stage Exploration
Session 10: Early-Stage & Greenfield Exploration Strategies
Session 14: Challenges in Early-Stage & Greenfield Exploration

Keynote Speakers

Future Skills & Workforce Development

This theme aims to explore solutions for building an efficient workforce to meet the challenges of mineral resources—from exploration to exploitation.

Session 2: Future of Technology & Workforce

Keynote Speakers

Geological Frameworks: Unlocking Regional Potential

This theme focuses on the role of geological mapping, conceptual frameworks, and knowledge-building in de-risking exploration and improving mineral potential assessments.

Session 3: Improved Knowledge of the Arabian Shield
Session 5: Geoscience Data Integration for Mineral Exploration
Session 19: Innovative Methods to Enhance Geological Understanding

Keynote Speakers

Sustainable and Resilient Practices in Mineral Exploration

This theme focuses on integrating environmental and social sustainability in exploration and mining practices.

Session 7: Sustainability in Exploration and Mining
Session 15: Environmental Sustainability in Mining