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Adam Simon is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan, USA. He earned degrees in geology and geochemistry from the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. His scholarly work focuses on the global flow of energy and mineral resources with an emphasis on the geologic availability of energy critical metals. Adam has coauthored two textbooks—Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, and?Earth Materials: Components of a Diverse Planet—and published 100 papers in the field of energy and mineral resources. Adam has done research and given invited lectures on all seven continents, including a TEDX talk in 2022, and was awarded the University of Michigan Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize for his transdisciplinary pedagogy.

Moira Smith was, until recently, the V.P. of Exploration and Geoscience for Liberty Gold Corp, with development properties in Idaho, Utah, and Turkey. She is now a semiretired consultant to Liberty Gold, with a focus on the advancement of the Black Pine Carlin-type gold oxide deposit in southeastern Idaho and identifying the next big opportunity for Liberty Gold.

Formerly Chief Geologist, Nevada, for Fronteer Gold, Moira was instrumental in the successful advancement of Long Canyon, now an operating gold mine in Nevada. She developed an understanding of the geology and controls on mineralization at Long Canyon and built the geologic model for ongoing exploration and resource growth. Prior to Fronteer Gold, she managed exploration programs for Teck on several high-profile, advanced-stage gold and copper-gold projects (now operating mines) throughout the Americas, including the Pogo gold deposit in Alaska, the Cobre Panama Cu-Mo-Au porphyry deposit in Panama, and the El Limon gold deposit in Mexico.

She has a Ph.D. degree in geology from the University of Arizona (1990) and is a P.Geo. (British Columbia). She has held board or executive positions with numerous industry associations and is a Past President of the Society of Economic Geologists. She was a recipient of the Colin Spence award from the Association for Mineral Exploration of B.C. and is a director of Discovery Metals Corp.

Sarah Dare is an associate professor at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) in Canada where she holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Geochemistry Applied to Ore Deposits. She is also director of LabMaTer, a geochemical laboratory world-renowned for analyses of ore deposit materials. She specializes in using trace elements in the ore minerals (sulfides, Fe oxides, chromite, apatite) to unravel ore-forming processes and to develop indicator minerals for exploration. She has a Ph.D. degree in geology from Cardiff University (U.K.) and M.Sci. and B.A. degrees in geological sciences and natural sciences from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). After a postdoc at UQAC on magmatic Ni-Cu sulfide deposits, she was an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at the University of Ottawa before returning to UQAC as professor in 2018. Sarah was awarded the W.H. Gross Award (young scientist award) from the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada in 2016 and the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (SGA) Young Scientist Award in 2017.

Reimar Seltmann (Ph.D. 1987, Bergakademie Freiberg) joined the Natural History Museum (NHM) in 1999. At NHM he is a research leader in ore deposits and since 2002 founder and head of CERCAMS, the Centre for Russian and Central EurAsian Mineral Deposit Studies. Reimar served with his CERCAMS team as key partner of the U.S. Geological Survey Global Mineral Resource Assessment Program (GMRAP) for the Central Asia region and is recognized by the international mining industry for leading geodynamic and metallogenic research and exploration services to mining industry on the Altaids region between Urals and Mongolia, Russia, and Afghanistan with the CERCAMS ArcGIS database and digital map of geology and mineral deposits of Kazakhstan and Central Asia as key product.

Since 2021 he is an adjunct associate professor of Trinity College Dublin and visiting professor at the Ocean University of China, Qingdao. Since 2023 he is also an honorary professor of the University of Geological Sciences in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Reimar has almost 40 years of experience in studies of ore-bearing granitic systems of Transeurasian metallogenic belts, with special interest in fluid saturation textures and magmatic-hydrothermal transition processes of granite-ore systems. His mineral deposit research covers a wide range of mineral systems (Au, Cu, Sn, U, rare earth elements, Li, etc.), with regional focus on geodynamic and metallogenic processes in ore districts of accretionary and collisional belts (more than 50 deposit studies, including Kalmakyr, Muruntau, Dzhezkazgan).

He has more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and is editor of 30 reference books and geological-metallogenetic maps, mainly on metallogeny of Central Asia and adjacent regions.

Beatriz is a 5th-year Geology student at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, and holds a bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is currently a Geology intern at AngloGold Ashanti's Cuiabá underground mine, a world-class orogenic gold deposit in the country. At the university, she worked as a teaching assistant for several courses, such as Structural and Economic geology, and she is a member of the Metallogeny and Crustal Evolution Research Group of the CNPQ (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). She has been an active SEG student member for almost five years, participating in the UNICAMP SEG Student Chapter, where she served as President (2023) and Vice-President (2022), and in the SEGF Ronald E. Seavoy Student Field Trip Program to the Walker Lane trend in Nevada, USA. She's very fond of sharing opportunities with other students and helping their chapters worldwide.