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Dr Penny Stewart, CEO, PETRA Data Science to present at Open Pit 2021

We are excited to announce Dr Penny Stewart, CEO of PETRA Data Science will be a Keynote presenter at the Open Pit Operators Conference in 2021.

Dr Stewart will be presenting on The application of digital twin machine learning models for mine to mill, and pit-to-plant optimisation at the conference in July next year.

Penny is a mining engineer and the founder and CEO of mining AI software company PETRA Data Science. Penny worked on mine sites for five years before obtaining her Queensland 1st Class Mine Managers’ Certificate of Competency. It was during her time working in the underground and open pit mines of WA and Tasmania that she learnt how geological uncertainty affects our ability to mine to plan.

View Penny's profile.

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