Speakers

Dr Kate Rubins is a mining strategy and performance improvement leader specialising in structural productivity across underground and open-pit operations. She partners with executive teams to translate operational data into strategic insight, strengthening competitiveness, capital efficiency and long-term value creation. Kate has led large-scale diagnostics, benchmarking and operating model transformations across multiple commodities and jurisdictions. Her work focuses on identifying structural performance gaps, aligning workforce and equipment intensity to production requirements, and reshaping operating systems to unlock measurable economic value. She brings experience across both mature and emerging mining regions, providing a comparative perspective on performance and capital discipline.

 At GRX26, Kate will explore how structural productivity shapes competitiveness and capital allocation, and what senior leaders can do to rebuild economic leverage in underground mining.