Planned sessions
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| CONFIRMED SESSIONS | SPEAKER(S) |
| Welcome remarks and conversation with the Dean of the Doerr School of Sustainability | Jef Caers, Mineral-X Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability |
| Keynote: Setting the stage: Why critical minerals are the defining resource challenge of our era. | Jacob Helberg, U.S. Department of State Josh Goldman (Moderator), KoBold Metals |
Mineral Geopolitics & Supply Chain Security
| Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes, Former State Dept. Jonathan Weigel, UC Berkeley Tony Carrol (Moderator), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
| US policy on Critical Minerals | Ted Lieu Member of US Congress Alan Carroll (Moderator), KoBold Metals |
| Mineral-X Agentic-AI launch: quantitative investment decision making under geological, economic & geopolitical uncertainty | Jef Caers Greg Forbes. Mineral-X Dale Nesbit, Arrowhead Economics |
AI & Digitization across the African Landscape
Mineral-X collaboration with the DRC mining ministry | Jef Caers, Mineral-X Tony Carroll Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (moderator) Rob Strayer, CMF Sandrine Tshiamala, Kolesha Jen Fendrick KoBold |
Quantifying Epistemic Uncertainty for Resource Estimation & Drill Testing A rigorous framework for measuring what we don't know — and how that shapes drill decisions. | Kurt House KoBold Metals |
AI for Subsurface Uncertainty From fundraising story to frontier science: using AI to navigate uncertainty beneath the surface. | Mykel Kochenderfer, Mineral-X John Mern, Terra-AI Tyler Hall, ExploreTech |
| Ideon: Unlocking Subsurface Potential | Ideon |
| Fleet Space - World models for geophysical exploration - integrating real-time 3D data into traditional LLM | Fleet |
| Xcalibur session – Stochastic inversion in remote sensing and geophysical mapping | Xcalibur + Mineral-X
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| Mineral-X lightning talks | Mineral-X Students |
Don't Just Prompt Better. Think Better. A geologists perspective. As AI handles more of the analysis, the premium shifts to the geologist who knows what question to ask. | George Gilchrist KoBold Metals |
| The challenge of mining in different jurisdictions | Bob Quartermain, CEO, Dakota Gold Corp. David Strang, Executive Chairman, Ero Doris Hiam-Galvez (moderator) |
Photons In, Geology Out: KoBold's AI powered airborne Hyperpod, KoreCam360 & Koresight
| Nick Knezek Tom Hunt KoBold Metals |
| New member spotlight: NorthIsle, combining excellence in exploration & community engagement | Sam Lee, NorthIsle Chief James Nelson Chief counselor Quatsino Nation |
| AI: the next frontier in mine planning | Jef Caers, Mineral-X Doug Schouten, Ideon Marta Dec/Iris Hwang, KoBold Metals Mahdi Al-Huseini, Mineral-X |
| Mineral Processing: vertical integration, digital twins & AI, from exploration to processing | Steve de Jong, VRIFY Turner Caldwell, Mariana Minerals Ramón Barua Costa, Aclara Resources |