2027 Agenda

Mining is investing heavily in digital skills, automation and AI training. But as technology evolves faster than ever before, the challenge is no longer simply teaching people how to use new tools. It is understanding what the workforce of the future will look like. 

As autonomous systems, agentic AI and intelligent operations reshape mining, are companies preparing people for the right jobs, skills and ways of working? Or does the industry need to fundamentally rethink how it develops talent for a future that is still unfolding?