Perth’s Resources Technology Showcase 2019: Free public seminars to explain how we’re unlocking our high-tech future, today

Learn about the fascinating new worlds being unlocked by science and technology at the free public seminars at the Resources Technology Showcase 2019 on Wednesday and Thursday this week at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

WEDNESDAY

9.10am: Amazon Web Service — Making Machine Learning Accessible for All

Get behind the keyboard for an immersive experience with AWS DeepRacer, an autonomous 1/18th scale race car designed to test navigation machine learning models by racing on a physical track, right here at this conference.

With AWS DeepLens you can build machine vision projects using simple pre-trained models as a kick-off. Innovators with no prior machine learning experience can learn new skills and apply their knowledge in a fun and exciting way.

10am: The Surfing Scientist

Ruben Meerman is a surfer with a physics degree and a passion for blowing things up. He uses liquid nitrogen, laser beams, hydrogen and helium in a presentation that make biology, chemistry and physics explode into life like you have never seen before.

11am: Robots Build Better People

Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. We call FIRST Robotics Competition the ultimate sport for the mind. High school student participants call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have”.

Robots pick up the balls and place them in the tall pillars plus they have to pick up other items to score more points.

12pm: STEMPunks —The future of work

What will the future of work look like? Right now we aren’t really sure. We know that innovators and futurists can have an educated guess on what it will look like, however, it’s still just a guess.

What we can be certain of is that it will look vastly different to what it is today. Find out how to equip today’s kids with a mindset to be able to face and solve the problems that lay ahead.

RTS2019: Everything to see and do at the free Resources Technology Showcase exhibition

1pm: Coding, robots and how to be future ready

Coding and robots, are you future ready? Take part in a conversation with specialists from Robogirls, She Codes and BHP to learn more about what our future looks like, the latest in robotics and coding.

2pm: IBM’s Quantum Computing Masterclass

Dr Claudine Simson explains how quantum computing will transform aspects of business and society.

Hear how rather than relying on transistors and bits, quantum machines are powered by qubits, which harness the properties of quantum mechanics found at the heart of nature.

This enables quantum computers to solve problems that are difficult – or even intractable – for classical computers.

As a result, they hold the potential to break new ground in fields as diverse as chemistry and materials discovery, optimisation of financial services and logistics, and machine learning.

3pm: Unique careers at Chevron: Information sessions for undergraduates

Dr Susmita Thomson will discuss her career as a senior woman in Australia’s energy industry — how and why she got involved in it and why others may want to follow in her footsteps.

Susmita’s diversified career has seen her traverse multiple disciplines — from mechanical engineering and physiology degrees, to pursuing interests in bioengineering and undertaking a PhD investigating non-linear biological systems. Come and be inspired by Susmita’s story.

THURSDAY

9.10am: Rio Tinto — Beyond Automation

Where are we, now that automation is normal business, and 2030 hasn’t yet arrived?

For the past two decades Rio Tinto has been leading the transition to large-scale automation in mining. But what about today, right now. What technologies are actually being used today that just a year ago were ideas and a few years earlier would have seemed far-fetched?

Learn about three digital technologies that Rio Tinto uses today to make operations safer and more productive.

10am: Aeroplane dreams

What do young people dream of doing in the future, and what does it take to make your dreams come true? Ewan McIntosh brings ideas on how to think like an entrepreneur, test out your ideas, and give your best shot to make your amazing ideas happen.

11am Space catastrophes and resource exploitation

How can the exploration of space connect with resource exploitation on Earth?

From the Space Science and Technology Centre at Curtin University emerges the world’s first connection within crater exploration, from tiny shocked minerals to grand crater models.

M2M is the new gold standard in determining where impacts came from in space, their shape and size, and how old they are.

12pm: STEMPunks — The future of work. (see Day 1 agenda)

1pm The real impact of Social Media: Are you using your socials to be future ready?

Take part in a conversation and hear from a specialist panel, from BHP, Hunter Communications and the West Coast Eagles, about the impact of social media, importance of personal brand and what not to do on social media!

RTS2019: Everything to see and do at the free Resources Technology Showcase exhibition

1.50pm: Innovating like Amazon in the Resources industry

“We had three big ideas at Amazon that we have stuck with for 20+ years, and they are the reason we are successful: put the customer first, invent and be patient.” — Jeff Bezos

During this session, learn how we innovate at Amazon, organised around four interdependent elements: culture, mechanisms, architecture, and organisation — and how we have found impactful synergies across all of these in the resources sector.

2.40pm: Inside a world-class quarantine system

Chevron Australia’s management of Barrow Island — an A-Class nature reserve located about 60km off the North West coast of WA – is demonstrating that with the right management, industry and the environment can coexist.

Find out how Chevron did it through the rigorous Barrow Island quarantine management system, the largest non-government system of its kind.

3.20pm: Making sense of the energy transition debate

WA’s Chief Scientist Professor Peter Klinken explains, in his inimitable style, why WA is ideally placed to be a global leader in the move towards renewable energy sources.

Hear Professor Klinken talk about how our sunny skies, windy coastlines and endowment of all the minerals necessary for lithium ion batteries can combine to make WA a world leader in this energy transition.

RTS2019: Everything to see and do at the free Resources Technology Showcase exhibition