PROFESSOR ALAN BYE

The Director of Digital Value Chains at Curtin University and founder of Imvelo Pty Ltd.

Alan has 22 years of operational and executive experience focusing on the innovation and integration of the mining value chain. Alan was most recently Vice President Technology at BHP, in his global role he was accountable for execution of major innovation programs across 5 commodity value chains covering both digital and extractive technologies.

Prior to this Alan led the establishment and was CEO at the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction. A $100m venture involving 34 partners with the purpose of ‘Transforming Mining into an Advanced Manufacturing Industry’. He was previously, Professor and Director of the Bryan Research Centre at the University of Queensland.

Alan has a mining operational background, spending 10 years with Anglo American where he held mining operational roles both in underground and open pit operations. Over his career Alan has worked in 15 countries covering 9 commodities.

Alan has a PhD in mining engineering and is a fellow of the Academy of Technology Science and Engineering (FTSE). He is a Non-executive director at Scitech and a member of the CSIRO’s Minerals Resources Flagship Advisory Council