| DAY 1 - Tuesday 21 October | |
| 0830 | TSF Operation and Surveillance Training |
| 1530 | TSF Training Tour |
| 1700 | Debrief and refreshments |
| 1730 | Registration closes |
| DAY 2 - Wednesday 22 October | |
| 0730 | Registration opens |
| 0830 | Tailings Forum Welcome |
| 0845 | Tailings Forum presentations |
| 1730 | Tailings Forum concludes |
| 1800 | Registration closes |
| 1830 | Forum Dinner |
| DAY 3 - Thursday 23 October | |
| 0730 | Registration opens |
| 0830 | Tailings Forum site tour commence |
| 1400 | Site visit concludes, return to Townsville |
| 1630 | Arrive in Townsville (airport drop off) |
*Please note that this program is a preliminary outline and is subject to change. We recommend allowing extra time for potential flight delays when making your travel arrangements for the forum.
Thank you to our Platinum Partner
| TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER (ADD ON TSF TRAINING) | |||
| TSF OPERATION AND SURVEILLANCE TRAINING |  |
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| 7:30 | 8:30 | Registration | Rydges, Townsville |
| 8:30 | 13:00 | TSF Operation and Surveillance Training | Derrick McKenzie Tailcon Director |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | 17:00 | TSF Training Tour – Ross River Dam | Derrick McKenzie Tailcon Director |
| 17:30 | 19:30 | Debrief and Networking Drinks | BridgeWater Q |
| WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER (FORUM DAY 1) | |||
| 7:30 | 8:30 | Registration | Rydges, Townsville |
| 8:30 | 8:37 | Welcome to Tailings 2025 Acknowledgement to Country |
Kate Brand
Forum Convenor |
| 8:37 | 8:45 | ANCOLD Executive Welcome | Sam Banzi Banzi Consulting Services |
| 8:45 | 8:55 | Ice Breaker Activity | Jack Moorhead BHP Kate Brand Forum Convenor |
| TOPIC 1: EVOLUTION OF THE OPERATOR’S ROLE IN TAILINGS MANAGEMENT: OBSERVED CHANGES AND LOOKING FORWARD | 
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| Chair: Jack Moorhead BHP | |||
| 8:55 | 9:20 | KEYNOTE Experience over the past 20 years and how the role has changed |
Tim Bell Evolution, North Parks NSW |
| 9:20 | 10:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION How has the role of operations changed in tailings management, and what could it look like in the future? |
Jack Moorhead BHP |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | MORNING REFRESHMENTS | 
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| 10:30 | 10:40 | Platinum Sponsor Talk Platinum address: Tony Eid, New Business Manager |
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| TOPIC 2: 101 DAM STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE | 
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| Chair: Ina Prinsloo South 32 | |||
| 10:40 | 11:10 | KEYNOTE 101 of Dam Stability Concepts - critical information for a site operations team |
Derrick McKenzie Tailcon, WA |
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Presentation 1.1 Operational changes that can introduce stability risks |
Anjan Kundu GHD, QLD |
| 11:25 | 11:40 | Presentation 1.2 Improving Tailings Dam Monitoring with GNSS-IoT Sensors: Ensuring Accuracy, Consistency, Availability, Latency, and Reliability |
Mark Wallace Kurloo, QLD |
| 11:40 | 11:55 | Presentation 1.3 A Ground Improvement Approach to Tailings Dam Safety and Stability Solutions |
Tierney Boulter Menard, QLD |
| 11:55 | 12:05 | Group Q&A
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Ina Prinsloo South 32 |
| 12:05 | 13:05 | Lunch |
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| TOPIC 3: TAILINGS DAM MONITORING - MONITORING METHODS FOR KEY FAILURE MODES, TOOLS AND THE CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTING | 
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| Chair: Naren Ramachandran Glencore | |||
| 13:05 | 13:20 | Re-focus activity – Failure modes vs monitoring | Naren Ramachandran Glencore, Mt Isa |
| 13:20 | 13:35 | Presentation 2.1 Dam Inspections – Tying observations to failure modes and design intent, and what could be missed? |
Danielle O’Toole SLR Consulting, Townsville |
| 13:35 | 13:50 | Presentation 2.2 New approaches to monitoring and how it is changing inspections |
Jack Moorhead BHP, QLD |
| 13:50 | 14:05 | Presentation 2.3 From Data to Action: Establishing Trigger Levels for Tailings Dams |
Hugo Brandao Klohn Crippen Berger, QLD |
| 14:05 | 14:15 | Group Q&A | Naren Ramachandran Glencore |
| 14:15 | 15:00 | GROUP ACTIVITY: WICKED PROBLEM A roundtable brainstorming exercise to discuss monitoring challenges. What has and hasn’t worked, and how badly has it failed? |
Nick Thomas-Kinsella GHD |
| 15:00 | 15:10 | Scenario wrap-up | |
| 15:10 | 15:40 | AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS |
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| TOPIC 4: TARPS – FROM TRIGGER TO RESPONSE: CASE STUDY AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES | 
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| Chair: Kate Brand Forum Convenor | |||
| 15:40 | 15:55 | Presentation 3.1 Critical control management in a world of different standards |
Charles Rose REE, WA |
| 15:55 | 16:10 | Presentation 3.2 Recent Experiences in developing and reviewing TARPs for Tailings Dams |
John Van Der Merwe IMBR-Mines Rescue NSW |
| 16:10 | 17:10 | KEYNOTE Taking the learnings from the morning and sharing how these can be applied in practice, working through real-world problems, and considering the barriers to activating TARPs |
Stu Henderson Rio Tinto, Qld |
| 17:10 | 17:20 | Group Q & A and Feedback
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Kate Brand Forum Convenor |
| 17:20 | 17:25 | SITE VISIT – WHAT TO EXPECT
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Kate Brand Forum Convenor |
| 17:25 | 17:30 | FORUM WRAP-UP |
Kate Brand Forum Convenor |
| 18:30 | 22:30 | FORUM DINNER A Touch of Salt Forum Dinner address: Scott Lines, Senior Geotechnical Engineer |
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| THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER (FORUM DAY 2) | |||
| 7:00 | Tailings Forum Geological Discovery Tour – Group 1 |   |
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| 8:30 | Tailings Forum Geological Discovery Tour – Group 2 | ||
| 12:15 | 13:45 | Lunch at Peppers - Magnetic Island | |
| 13:00 | 13:45 | Keynote Address | John Eckersley |
| 15:00 | Return to Rydges Townsville Group 1 (option to extend stay on Magnetic Island) | ||
| 16:15 | Return to Rydges Townsville Group 2 | ||
