By Colleen O’Hanlon
Seequent Chief Executive Officer Graham Grant told more than 500 assembled mining professionals that Seequent Evo would help the mining industry break free from siloed, inconsistent data and proprietary ‘walled gardens’.
Grant delivered a keynote at Perth Connect, a Seequent event which brought together senior and technical Australian mining professionals at WA Museum Boola Bardip on September 17.
Grant told the audience that Evo, the company’s revolutionary geoscience platform launched at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in March, brings data together in a ‘powerful and intuitive’ way.
‘Technology companies love living in walled gardens. They put up these walls and they house stuff and run things in proprietary format,’ he said. ‘But that is your data, you paid for it, so why should you struggle to get it from one thing to another – that makes no sense at all yet that is the paradigm we are in, so we set about trying to smash that paradigm.’
Seequent Chief Executive Officer Graham Grant gave a keynote at Perth Connect.
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Seequent Evo: an open, connected ecosystem
Grant highlighted Evo’s open architecture, which allows for bespoke apps and seamless data exchange, even with non-Seequent applications.
‘Open might be APIs, open might be the fact that you can exchange data that’s not ours – it’s not sitting in Seequent applications it’s someone else’s, that doesn’t matter. The point is it’s open,’ he said.
‘So why is that important? Because you know that you want teams around the world to collaborate. Every person I have spoken to here tonight already has teams in multiple locations, so surely you want to be working together all the time. You want to share information easily. You want to gain insights from past projects. One customer today said they have got a legacy system of 300 past projects – there is value in that data and you want to ensure that whilst you can deal with history you can also deal with the most up-to-date information that you possibly can.’
Seequent and Deswik announced a new integration between Evo and Deswik at Perth Connect – a step which brings together two powerful solutions to streamline workflows and unlock new possibilities for geoscientists and engineers. The collaboration between the two companies is built on a shared commitment to openness, innovation and customer-centric design.
Grant said Evo also lays the foundation for AI and machine learning at scale, accelerating innovation and enabling newer roles in the industry.
‘We have been trying to speed up the pace of innovation, and we have been trying to do it to enable new sorts of people to work in the industry like the data scientists, like the data engineers,’ he said.
More than 500 mining professionals gathered at WA Museum Boola Bardip for Perth Connect.
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Turbocharging discovery: Driver and BlockSync
Grant showcased two native Evo applications – Driver and BlockSync.
- Driver helps build 3D models faster, using machine learning to inform geological structures. Grant likened it to ‘popping a turbo charger on the top of a V8 engine’ – a huge leap forward for geoscientists.
- BlockSync opens up the traditionally locked-down block model, making it auditable, accessible, and collaborative. Teams can now make decisions on the fly, with multi-user access and real-time tracking.
Chief Executive Officer Graham Grant and Chief Customer Officer Angela Harvey explain how Seequent Evo is redefining how customers can work with their data to drive innovation.
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The future: continuous innovation and collaboration
Grant closed his keynote by encouraging the industry to innovate from within. Evo would help by enabling better decisions, simplified collaboration, and continuous innovation.
‘You yourselves will be able to innovate, which is what we need. Innovation has to come as a ground swell, it can’t always come in from the outside.’