Breaking New Ground: Sustainable Mining industry's needs & solutions
Join us for an engaging after-lunch coffee session during San Francisco Climate Week 2025, where industry leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs will come together to explore the future of mining and sustainability. The session will be divided into two exciting parts:
Reverse Pitching: What are Mining Corporations' Technology Needs?
Mining corporations will share insights into how their open innovation departments work, their current strategies, and the key innovation challenges they are facing in the realm of sustainability and resource extraction.Panel: Biomining, The Future of Sustainable Resource Extraction
Leading biomining startups will discuss the current state of the technology, its benefits, challenges to implementation, and their experience collaborating with mining corporations to scale sustainable solutions.
This session is open to all professionals working at the crossroads of mining and sustainability. It’s a great opportunity to connect over coffee and learn how innovative solutions are transforming the mining industry.
AGENDA
1:00 - 1:10pm: Welcome & Introductions
-Alex Aguilar, Innovation Advisor at Mind the Bridge
1:10 - 1:45pm Reverse Pitching: What are Mining corporations technology needs
-Masatoshi Ueno, Managing Director at KOMATSU
-Masatoshi Nishi, VP Venture and Business Development at INPEX USA Inc
-Mary Hayes, Principal at BHP Ventures
-moderator: Marco Marinucci, CEO & Founder at Mind the Bridge
1:45 - 2:20pm Panel: Biomining, The Future of Sustainable Resource Extraction
-Luis Valencia, CEO & Co-founder at AlkaLi Labs
-Sasha Milshteyn, Founder at Transition Biomining Inc.
-Jesica Urbina, CEO at Infinite Elements Inc.
-moderator: Jayme Feyhl-Buska, Program Lead (Geobiotechnology) at Homeworld Collective
2:20 - 3:00pm Coffee & Networking
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