Conversations We Are Looking Forward to at GRX Perth
Each year the resources sector gathers in Perth for Global Resources Innovation Expo 2026. For organisations across mining and engineering services, events like GRX provide a rare opportunity to step away from day-to-day operations and exchange ideas with peers facing similar challenges across projects, sites and workforces.
While the exhibition floor and seminars are always valuable, the most meaningful insights often come from the conversations between people navigating similar operational environments.
Across those conversations, one topic continues to appear again and again.
Workforce complexity.
Workforce Planning Has Become More Complex
Over the past decade the structure of many resource operations has evolved significantly.
Projects are becoming larger and more specialised. Engineering services companies are supporting multiple operators across different sites. Contractor workforces move between projects with increasing frequency.
At the same time, organisations are expected to maintain strong visibility across workforce readiness, compliance requirements and operational planning.
Managing that complexity across multiple projects and locations is becoming a growing challenge for many organisations.
Planners and operations leaders are often responsible for coordinating workforces across multiple sites while maintaining confidence that the right people are available, compliant and ready to mobilise when work begins.
As projects scale and timelines accelerate, maintaining that visibility becomes more difficult. And when visibility is unclear, decisions slow down.
Conversations That Matter
What makes events like GRX valuable is not just the presentations or the technology on display. It is the conversations that happen between industry professionals who are navigating similar operational realities.
Discussions around workforce planning often focus on questions such as:
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How do organisations maintain visibility across multiple projects?
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How are teams managing contractor workforces across different mine sites?
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How are planners maintaining confidence in their workforce data as operations scale?
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How can organisations mobilise quickly when project requirements shift?
These conversations often reveal that many organisations are facing similar operational challenges, even if their projects or sites are different.
Sharing those perspectives helps organisations learn from one another and explore new ways to approach workforce coordination and planning.
Connecting with Industry
Elisha Rogers from Cru Software will be attending GRX across the week and spending time across the Meet the Miners event, the exhibition floor and a number of the seminars.
While in Perth, the focus will simply be to connect with people across the industry and hear what organisations are experiencing across their workforce operations.
Events like GRX provide a valuable opportunity to step back from the day-to-day and have conversations about what is working, what is creating friction and where the industry is heading.
If you are attending GRX this year and open to a conversation while the industry is in town, we would welcome the opportunity to connect.
Because often the most valuable insights from industry events do not come from the stage.
They come from the conversations between people solving similar challenges across projects, sites and workforces.
Find a time that works for you either at the event or in your office and let's talk.
