Sarah Coleman

Sarah Coleman

Chief Executive Officer

Idoba

Sarah is an experienced mining operations and management consulting executive. She has worked with a wide range of top tier organisations across mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, and healthcare through the companies she founded and ran for over a decade. 

Her companies were acquired by Perenti Group in 2020 to establish idoba, a new digital transformation service business for the mining industry and beyond. Under Sarah’s leadership as President, idoba has continued to grow with the subsequent acquisitions of Optika Solutions, Orelogy, and Atomorphis. In 2022, Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corporation took out an equity stake in Idoba.

Sarah has been recognised for her excellence including being named as last year’s winner of the  Women in Industry, Excellence In Mining Award. Sarah is passionate about challenging traditional thinking and barriers that have been the constraints as well as the norms of working environments.  She is driven to forge a new path for her own children and future generations where being who you are is more than enough and freedom of thought is not only encouraged but thriving in mining and beyond.

Sarah Coleman

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  • 14:00
  • Tue, 31 Oct
  • 14:00 - 16:45 AEDT
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  • 165 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
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  • Digital Transformation
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  • Digital Transformation Theatre

Applications of Digitalisation & Artificial Intelligence

  • 14:00 - 14:05
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  • 5 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Welcoming Remarks
  • 14:05 - 14:20
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  • 15 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Mining Keynote: Practical Applications of AI in Mining
  • 14:20 - 14:40
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  • 20 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Landing the Digital Promise: What it Really Takes to Deliver Value
  • 14:40 - 15:00
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  • 20 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
A Technology Journey that Supports the Increasing Complexity Facing Operations
  • 15:00 - 15:20
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  • 20 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Leveraging Rugged Machine Vision and AI to Go From Raw Data to Insight and Impact: Examples, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • 15:20 - 15:40
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  • 20 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Maximising Tyre Life: The Role of Real-Time Hazard Detection
  • 15:40 - 16:00
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  • 20 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
AI Trends in Mining
  • 16:00 - 16:45
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  • 45 min
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  • Tue, 31 Oct
Industry Panel Discussion: Key Learnings from the Most Recent Applications of AI and Data Analytics in Mining