The 2011 Summit was held in Rapid City, South Dakota. Learn more about the summit from Rapid City's News Center 1.
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Since 2004, the summit has become the place for 550 international mining process improvement professionals to gather real-world techniques for implementation in their companies. The program is shaped by top leaders from the industry, and the keynote speakers are mining executives whose focus on cost containment, increasing safety and productivity performance, organizational change, risk management, and sustainability helps improve business improvement efforts.
Past attendees included operating vice presidents, general managers, mine superintendents, maintenance superintendents, and all the positions directly associated with process improvement, such as corporate executive vice president, corporate director, corporate manager, mine-based manager, or coordinator of process improvement. To see who is attending this year, visit our Who Is Attending page, which is updated automatically.
The committee is pleased to have selected two excellent keynote speakers for the 2011 event, Jagannath Rao, the President of the Siemens Industry Solutions Division, and Colin Marshall, the CEO of Cloud Peak Energy. Both will be speaking at the keynote address at Mount Rushmore on Wednesday, May 11.
Previous Summit keynote speakers include:
Summit I: Glen Barton, Chairman of Caterpillar
Summit II: Dave Francisco, COO of Newmont Mining
Summit II: Greg Boyce, Chairman, President, and CEO of Peabody Energy
Summit III: Paul Dowd, Vice President Australia New Zealand Operations of Newmont Mining
Summit III: Tony Elringham, Vice President Operating Excellence of BHP Billiton
Summit IV: James Dietz, Executive Vice President, COO of PotashCorp
Summit IV: Gordon Fife, Executive Vice President of Barrick Gold






