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Share your expertise at CIM CONNECT 2027. Explore the topics below and review the requirements before submitting your abstract.

Submission deadline:

November 20, 2026.

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Conference topics

Under the theme Intelligence in Operations, CIM CONNECT 2027 is bringing together leaders from exploration mining to metallurgy to explore how optimization and advanced technologies are transforming decision-making, productivity and performance across the minerals’ value chain.

Share your experience with mining professionals, technical experts and industry leaders. Help peers address operational challenges, exchange ideas and apply proven approaches across the mining value chain.

We welcome practical, non-commercial contributions from mine operators, researchers, consultants and technology providers.
Choose the topic that best fits your proposed presentation. We welcome practical case studies, lessons learned and technical insights that show what worked, what changed and what others can apply.

  • Improving production predictability (mine planning, design & scheduling)
  • Optimizing drilling and blasting outcomes
  • Increasing productivity, utilization and mine performance
  • Managing material flow, stockpiles and logistics
  • Scaling automation and robotics in operating mines
  • Improving coordination across open pit and underground operations
  • Strengthening community-integrated operations

  • Turning operational data into better decisions (analytics and visualization)
  • Deploying AI to improve productivity, safety and recovery
  • Scaling autonomous and automated operations
  • Bringing digital twins and simulation into daily practice
  • Extending operational reach through remote operations
  • Applying robotics to improve safety and efficiency

  • Increasing recovery and metal production
  • Stabilizing and optimizing plant performance
  • Reducing cost per tonne through process improvement
  • Advancing beneficiation and mineral processing technologies
  • Advancing hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and electrometallurgical performance
  • Applying leaching and emerging extraction technologies
  • Digitizing and automating processing operations

  • Eliminating critical risks before incidents occur
  • Strengthening health, safety and human performance
  • Extending asset integrity, reliability and uptime
  • Improving emergency preparedness and operational resilience
  • Using technology to increase risk visibility (digital monitoring, automation and analytics)
  • Building resilient supply chains and support systems
  • Strengthening governance, compliance and operational assurance

  • Improving orebody predictability (grade control, mine geology and reconciliation)
  • Increasing confidence in resource models and mine plans
  • Connecting geology, geometallurgy and processing performance
  • Accelerating discovery and target generation
  • Advancing geological characterization (core scanning, hyperspectral mineralogy, geochemistry and remote sensing)
  • Unlocking value through geophysics, structural geology and mineral systems
  • Managing geological uncertainty and exploration risk

  • Moving projects from concept to production faster
  • Making smarter investment and capital allocation decisions
  • Improving project economics, valuation and benchmarking
  • Delivering successful mine development and infrastructure projects
  • Enhancing project execution, commissioning and operational readiness
  • Strengthening project governance and change management
  • Supporting decision-making through technical studies and NI 43-101 reporting

  • Improving ground stability and underground performance (rock mechanics and ground support)
  • Reducing geotechnical uncertainty through characterization and modelling
  • Enhancing slope performance and open pit stability
  • Using monitoring, instrumentation and AI to anticipate risk
  • Advancing tailings, waste rock and backfill performance
  • Improving mine water management and dewatering strategies
  • Achieving closure readiness and long-term geotechnical stability

  • Reducing energy intensity across mining operations
  • Accelerating fleet and infrastructure electrification
  • Improving energy reliability through storage and grid solutions
  • Optimizing ventilation and thermal efficiency
  • Advancing mine decarbonization strategies
  • Recovering and reusing waste energy and heat
  • Integrating alternative and renewable energy solutions

  • Improving environmental performance and stewardship
  • Protecting water resources and watersheds
  • Building enduring Indigenous partnerships
  • Creating shared value through community relationships
  • Navigating permitting, compliance and regulatory requirements
  • Delivering successful closure, reclamation and decommissioning outcomes
  • Protecting biodiversity, air quality and local environments

  • Leading through change, uncertainty and disruption
  • Building the workforce and skills needed for the future
  • Attracting, retaining and developing critical talent
  • Creating cultures that accelerate innovation and improvement
  • Strengthening inclusion, engagement and psychological safety
  • Preparing people for automation, AI and digital technologies
  • Turning workforce capability into operational performance

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Why present at CIM CONNECT?

Share practical lessons with industry peers, contribute to better mining practices and build connections across the mining community.

• Share results and approaches others can apply.
• Exchange ideas with professionals facing similar challenges.
• Build relationships across operations, research and technology.

Who should submit?

We welcome submissions from:

• Mine operators and producers
• Technical professionals, engineers and project leaders
• Academics and researchers
• Consultants and technology providers working with the mining industry

Bring a practical case study, lessons learned or a technical insight relevant to the conference topics.

Choose your submission format

Oral presentation

Format: 20-minute presentation followed by five minutes for questions

Oral presentations are well suited to:

  • Case studies and project results
  • Technical innovations addressing mine-site challenges
  • Operational improvements and implementation experiences
  • Collaborative operator–supplier initiatives
  • Research with clear relevance to industry
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Your submission should provide technical depth and describe the lessons learned, quantitative outcomes or implementation details. It must align with one of the technical program topics listed below.

Generic overviews, sales pitches, product demonstrations and promotional presentations will not be considered.

Panel session proposal

Format: 75-minute moderated discussion
Panel sessions should bring together different perspectives around a clearly defined industry challenge, opportunity or emerging issue.

Panel organizers are responsible for:
  • Securing three to five panelists 
  • Including at least one mine operator, whenever possible
  • Confirming a moderator
  • Submitting a session description
  • Providing a list of invited or confirmed participants
Panels should prioritize discussion and the exchange of perspectives rather than a sequence of individual presentations. Commercial or product-focused sessions will not be considered.

Before you submit

How submissions are evaluated

Every submission will be reviewed for its relevance, quality and potential value to the CIM CONNECT audience.

Successful submissions must:
  • Align with one of the technical program topics, as space is limited
  • Offer clear technical or operational value
  • Be non-commercial
  • Avoid sales pitches, promotional claims and product demonstrations
  • Provide practical insights, evidence or meaningful opportunities for discussion
When a supplier or service provider submits a proposal, preference may be given to presentations that include a mine operator or client representative.

For panel proposals, preference may be given to sessions that include at least one confirmed mine operator.

Important presenter commitments

Before submitting, please ensure that you understand and can meet the following requirements.
Registration is required
All technical program participants—including presenters, speakers, panel organizers, panelists and moderators—must register for CIM CONNECT 2027 and pay the registration fee applicable to their category.

Participants who do not register by the established deadline may be removed from the program.
Presenters must be available throughout the conference

If your submission is accepted, you must be available to present on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

The technical program runs until 16:45 on Wednesday and is fully scheduled across all three conference days. Requests to present on a particular day cannot be guaranteed.

Withdrawing because of a preferred presentation day may affect the consideration of future submissions from the same author(s).

Abstracts may be submitted for an oral presentation or as a panel session proposal. Abstracts and session descriptions must not exceed 500 words.

Key dates

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  2. Acceptance notifications sent by email

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  3. Presenter registration deadline

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  4. Presentation date and time confirmed by email

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Submission process

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Review the guidelines

Review the topics and submission requirements.
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Prepare your submission

Prepare your abstract and author information. Pay attention to not exceed 500 words.
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Submit through the portal

Sign in or create an account in X-CD, our external abstract submission platform, then complete your submission
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FAQ

The abstract submission deadline is November 20, 2026. Late submissions may not be considered.

Abstracts and panel session descriptions must not exceed 500 words.

You may submit an abstract for a 20-minute oral presentation followed by five minutes for questions, or propose a 75-minute moderated panel session.

Yes. Technology and service providers are welcome to submit, but proposals must be educational and non-commercial. Preference may be given to submissions presented in collaboration with a mine operator or client representative.

You must be available to present on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Requests for a particular day cannot be guaranteed because the technical program is scheduled across all three conference days.

Yes. All presenters, speakers, panel organizers, panelists and moderators must register for CIM CONNECT 2027 and pay the registration fee applicable to their category by the established deadline