Mining companies’ real competitive advantage is the speed at which they can adopt technology into their business that solves a business problem, while continuing to create value to society.
Michelle ASH has made significant contributions to the mining sector, focusing on innovation strategy, technology, and digital transformation, and focused on delivering sustainable solutions to create and shape our world through digital transformation and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
As Chair of the Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG), she helped develop best practices and guidelines for technology and socially enabled changes in mining. She is on advisory boards of startups, including Railveyor, OffWorld, Behault, and MineSpider.
Michelle was Chief Innovation Officer at Barrick Gold Corporation where she oversaw the company's innovation program. In 2016, Women in Mining UK named her one of “100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining” and she won “Technology Innovator of the Year” from Mines and Technology in 2019.
With over 14 years in the Mining and Oil and Gas industry (specialising in Operational Technology), Michael STOCKBRIDGE takes great pride in the economic and environmental improvements.
He has been able to deliver throughout my career. He brings to his working life great enthusiasm and persistence in communicating with the market on how enabling technology can make step changes in the quality of decision making across their company.
In his current role he is responsible for the identification of business benefit cases that justify the effort required for change, educating the market and executing the commercial process to drive regional revenue for Dassault Systèmes.
Sean has expertise in enterprise technology, business/digital transformation and heavy industry operations with a focus on IoT, big data and analytics.
Career passions include automating manual labor-intensive processes and developing/enhancing data-driven decision-making models.
Andy is the Global Industry Process Consulting Director of Dassault Systèmes.
Andy MULHOLLAND leads a global team responsible for business development across the mining sector, assembling innovative solutions that maximize the value clients can realize from Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE.