“ WE’RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT
COMBINING OUR MACHINE
LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND
RESEARCH WITH BETTER
WAYS TO DO DATA ANALYTICS
IN A PUBLIC REPORTING
SPACE. THAT’S WHERE OPAXE
COMES IN”coming up with novel ideas. One of the
things we’ve developed is a resource
intelligence product that’s become
very popular. We’ve recently spun that
off into a daughter company called
Opaxe, providing mineral intelligence
to mining professionals and investors.
The data analytics space is where the
industry is looking for new solutions
with things like big data and machine
learning. We’re very excited about
combining our machine learning
experience and research with better
ways to do data analytics in a public
reporting space. That’s where Opaxe
comes in.” http://www.opaxe.comSterk recently took on a Director role
at the Australian Institute of Minerals
and Metallurgy (AusIMM) where he
hopes to contribute at board level for
three years. Why is he so keen to give
back to the community that has
supported his business endeavours?
“We need to encourage the next
generation to enter the mining industry,”
he argues. “It’s critical to build a strong
industry and AusIMM allows profes-
sionals to come together to find ways—
René Sterk,
Managing Director,
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