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What’s Your Strategy for the Future?
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This educational session is a must-attend. Learn from leaders in the industry how innovation and readiness will allow companies to Capture the Advantage and be ready for the future.
The Mine of the Future
John McGagh, Head of Innovation, Rio Tinto
Capture the Advantage: What do you need to be ready?
Sean Samson, VP of Commercial Development, Kinross Gold
Pete Torrenti, Regional VP, Quadrem North America
Monday, September 22
Las Vegas Convention Center
North Hall - Second Level
Room N263
1:00 – 3:30 pm
Limited seating. Request an invitation now by clicking here.
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Complete Session Descriptions
The Mine of the Future
Driverless trains. A driverless “intelligent” truck fleet. Remote control “intelligent” drills. From Rio Tinto’s perspective, the Mine of the Future depends on innovation to improve productivity, safety and profits. The aim is fully automated mine-to-port operations and the supply chain that supports them. Find out from one of the architects of the vision how a leading international operator is building the future today.
Capture the Advantage: What do you need to be ready?
Mining companies are assessing supply chain readiness. Following a brief overview by Quadrem, Kinross Gold Corporation, the third-largest primary gold producer in North America by reserves, will discuss how they are charting roadmaps to reduce risk. Learn how your peers are leveraging today’s profits to ensure future success.
About the Speakers
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John McGagh, Head of Innovation, Rio Tinto
John McGagh joined the Rio Tinto Group in 1980. Originally based in the UK, he moved to Australia in 1987 and then lived in the United States from 1999-2007. He now resides in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife, Sharon, and two daughters.
John has held a number of Rio Tinto management roles in both business units: corporate offices and remote-location mine sites. His career roles include project engineering, operations, marketing, business development and operational business improvement.
Prior to his assignment as head of innovation, John led the development of procurement, which started as an embryonic project, ending with the establishment of a global function charged with the management of the in-bound supply chain for Rio Tinto operations.
John contributed to the establishment of the Mining & Minerals e-marketplace (Quadrem), holding the role of interim chief operating officer during the business start-up phase and participating on both the Quadrem board of directors and board subcommittees.
John holds honors degrees in Chemical Engineering and Management Economics. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining as well as a Member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
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Sean Samson, VP of Commercial Development, Kinross Gold
Sean Samson joined Kinross in July 2006. Reporting to the CFO, he is responsible for Supply Chain, Enterprise Risk, and Capital Approvals/Budgeting. Sean has also been active on special projects with Kinross, including managing the transition/integration of both the $3.6 billion Bema acquisition and a multi-mine swap with Goldcorp at the end of 2007. Prior to Kinross, Sean worked at Direct Energy (North American arm of Centrica plc) as director of strategy and M&A, and prior to that he was with Bain and Company, a management consulting firm.
Before business school Sean was an institutional trader with investment banks in New York (Lehman Brothers) and Istanbul (Global Securities). While in Istanbul he helped build an award-winning (1998 Euromoney Awards of Excellence) trading operation across Eastern Europe (Romania and Bulgaria) and southern CIS (Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan). Sean graduated from Harvard with bachelor's degrees in Government and Economics, and was on the Dean’s List each year, and spent a year at the London School of Economics. He earned his master's of business administration degree at Cambridge University (UK).
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Pete Torrenti, Regional VP, Quadrem North America
Pete Torrenti oversees Quadrem’s operations in North America from his base in Chicago.
Prior to joining Quadrem, Pete was senior vice president, Customers, at Exostar, a company that provides supply chain solutions to the aerospace and defense industies. He was responsible for demand generation and sales, as well as customer implementation and support for all of Exostar’s solutions.
Pete’s background also includes a number of leadership positions within W. W. Grainger Inc., including senior vice president of MaterialLogic, an MRO Internet-based procurement solution, and president of Grainger Integrated Supply, a division created to provide outsourcing of indirect materials and MRO procurement processes to large customers.
Pete has more than 23 years of business experience specializing in sales, strategic planning and business development.
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Quadrem: of the Mining Industry … for the Mining Industry
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This year Quadrem’s attendance at MINExpo International® 2008 has special significance. It marks eight years since 16 mining companies saw the need to simplify and streamline the business of doing business globally. To make that global vision a reality, they formed Quadrem, which was launched at MINExpo International® 2000.
Since its inception, Quadrem has grown to include offices worldwide and was named one of the top 100 leaders in supply chain innovation in the July 2008 edition of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine.
Quadrem develops solutions that remove costs for both buyers and suppliers by “digitizing” the many steps involved in buying and selling products and services. Quadrem’s Web-based solutions improve business-to-business transactions — and customers’ bottom lines.
Visit the Quadrem booth at MINExpo (Booth #1866, North Hall) to learn how we can help your company remain competitive.
Learn more about Quadrem
Checkmate Rising Supply Chain Costs by Streamlining Processes:
- Supply chain resources for deployment, strategy and process management
- Broad spectrum of applications to meet breadth of business needs
- Knowledgeable application support teams
Strategies that Keep Operations Running and Increase Efficiency
- Rapid application deployment in software as a service (SaaS) model
- “Always on” application availability and support
- Supplier community growth and adoption
- Tangible business results for Global 1,000 companies
Master Runaway Costs of Supply with Transparency and Fairness
- Supply chain professionals, linked in to critical business demands, in your local region of the world.
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MINExpo International® 2008: The World’s Richest Deposit of Mining Technology, Services and Products
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More than 1,100 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees from around the world are expected at the Las Vegas Convention Center from September 22-24. As with the Olympics, MINExpo is held only once every four years. Nearly half of the attendees will attend no other tradeshow!
The debut of entire ranges of new products is anticipated, along with highlighting state-of-the-art equipment and services that reduce risk, cut costs and increase efficiency. Educational sessions will tackle the current and pressing issues affecting the mining industry, with many of the industry’s top professionals leading the discussions.
For more information, please visit www.minexpo.com.
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Quadrem solutions were developed by global mining industry leaders to support reliable supply chain delivery. Today you can leverage what’s been built to ensure your mission critical goods and materials get to the right place at the right time. By aligning processes between buyers and suppliers, and supporting them with technology, you reduce manual steps and achieve:
- Greater accuracy in ordering
- Greater reliability in delivery
- More visibility and control at every step
- Better inventory forecasting
Learn more about Quadrem mining industry expertise
Quadrem Teaches Strategic Sourcing to Mining Companies in Onsite Workshop
Quadrem Professional Services is offering companies in the Mining and Metals industries a new on-site, two-and-a-half-day class, “Strategic Sourcing: Seven Steps to Sourcing Success.” This workshop helps procurement and sourcing teams identify qualified suppliers, optimally manage RFP events, and negotiate effective contracts.
The class agenda includes a lecture for each of seven modules followed by a case study demonstration. Then, the participants are broken down into working groups where teams are assigned a commodity to work through the process.
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