Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE)

Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) is an international big science program promoting open geoscience data and AI-driven collaboration. This Mining Indaba session highlights DDE’s “Talent & Innovation” initiatives and fosters Sino-African partnerships for sustainable mineral development, and to achieve UNESCO SDGs


Tuesday 10 February 11:30 - 13:00 Interactive Workshops Okavango Delta Stage (CTICC2 - Level 1)

Add to calendar 02/10/2026 11:30 02/10/2026 13:00 Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) is an international big science program promoting open geoscience data and AI-driven collaboration. This Mining Indaba session highlights DDE’s “Talent & Innovation” initiatives and fosters Sino-African partnerships for sustainable mineral development, and to achieve UNESCO SDGs Okavango Delta Stage (CTICC2 - Level 1) Africa/Johannesburg
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Speakers

Fengxue Song

Executive Director, Mining Investment Department, China-Africa Development Fund

Hongyang Chen

Senior Research Expert, Zhejiang Lab

Natajarajan Ishwaran

Secretary General, Deep-time Digital Earth

Prof. Rongqing Zhang

Associate Professor, Nanjing University

Shuzhong Shen

Academician , Nanjing University

Tianyu Chen

Professor, Nanjing University

Yang Song

Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences