Plenary Session - What are the future paths of mining and steel industry?

OCTOBER 2, 2018 - 16:30 - 18:50

Auditorium

Objective

Mining and steel industry, are facing huge challenges which goes over raw material high quality scarcity, intensive substitutes of steel competition, increasing environmental requirements, fair (and not fair) market competition, talent people attractiveness, insertion on 4.0 industry and last, but not least, a new wave of market protection (as recently USA 25% tax to steel imports). Steel industry is one of the most important drivers of economy, supported by another key driver as mining. In this panel, the audience will be updated of the most important ongoing strategies of selected industries from Asia, Europe, North and South Americas and Oceania, specially how are they dealing with such challenges. After the speeches, there will be a Q&A session, moderated by another important leader of Brazil steel industry.

Coordinators

Francisco Dornelas – Regional Director (Espírito Santo) of ABM – ABM

Vania Andrade – Technology Director at the Mining and Energy Ministry’s Department of Geology, Mining and Mineral Processing; member of ABM’s Board.

Moderator

Alexandre de Campos Lyra -CEO – Senior VP – Vallourec South America

Speakers

 Bryan Quinn – asset President Joint Ventures – BHP| Lecture title:  Reshaping the future

 Dong Ho Kim, project Director for international units / Chief of Operations – CSP/POSCO | Lecture title: The great new strategic vision

 Marcos Eduardo Faraco Wahrhaftig – chief Operations Officer at Gerdau Aços Longos in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay | Lecture title: A vision of the future

Vicente Lôbo – secretary of Mining and Geology at the Mining and Energy Ministry | Lecture title: Mining, geology and mineral processing