Additional Technical Program details will be posted in fall 2019
The PDAC Convention Planning Committee is responsible for planning and execution of the Technical Program. In order to ensure delivery of the relevant programming and selection of the high calibre speakers, the planning process begins 1.5 years in advance of every convention.
Industry experts are invited to share timely insights during these dynamic series of presentations. Attendees learn next and best practices that can be applied to their work right away.
PDAC 2020 Technical program themes include:
- Advances in Archean geology
- Back to North America: New opportunities
- Commodities and market outlook
- Geophysics : New proven advances and applications in exploration geophysics
- Gold deposits of west Africa: Recent discoveries and developments
- Keynote session: Discoveries of the 21st Century
- Managing and exploring big data through artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Metallurgical coal and iron ore
- Metallurgy and processing revenue components of geometallurgy
- Moon and asteroids: The next exploration and mining frontier
- New discoveries and developments
- New exploration technologies
- Precompetitive data
- Putting your best foot forward: Presenting investors with what they want to hear
- Supply and services market potential
- Technology metals 2020: Recent trends and opportunities
- The business of diamonds: From rock to ring
- The trends of resource sustainability in The Americas
Note: Technical Program themes are subject to change