Build, Buy or Integrate: Decision Making for Mining Technology Architecture

06 May 2026
River View Room 5
Collaborative Conversation

Every mining operation faces a defining choice: build custom technology systems, buy a single-vendor platform, or integrate best-of-breed components. This decision shapes operational performance, cost structures and competitive positioning for decades, yet most companies make it without a common framework.

In this Collaborative Conversation, experts from Aurecon, Orica and Accenture deliver sharp provocations before you join mixed tables of miners, METS and designers to solve real architecture scenarios. Your table will produce a practical decision-making framework you can take back to your organisation. The architecture you choose today becomes the advantage or constraint you live with tomorrow.

Leave with a technology architecture decision framework and practical tools you can apply to your own organisation's next major technology investment.

Supported by Accenture

Moderator
Mark O'Brien
Mark O'Brien, General Manager of Digital Technology & Innovation (CIO) - CITIC Pacific Mining
Speakers
Benny Chen
Benny Chen, Head of Data, Analytics and AI - Orica
Michael Argent
Michael Argent, Industry Director, Resources – Australia - Aurecon
Aldo Souza FAusIMM
Aldo Souza FAusIMM, Managing Director Strategy – ANZ | Global Consulting Client Service Lead - Accenture
Professor Serkan Saydam
Professor Serkan Saydam, Director of the ARC Research Hub for Next Generation Mining Methods (NextGenMIN) - UNSW