Full Name
Coert du Plessis
Job Title
Cofounder
Company
Data Alchemists
Speaker Bio
Coert is an energetic speaker who speaks his mind. He is a strategic thinker, prioritising , clarity, and momentum to complex industrial environments where the human factor is all too often forgotten.
He has decades of Technology Innovation in industrial and human behavior applications, across mining, logistics, and advanced manufacturing—leading transformation at scale for current clients, raising capital and scaling a startup as CEO of MaxMine (tripling ARR and launching a global award-winning carbon product), and was the Global Leader at BHP for Digital and Data. Before that Coert was a Deloitte Partner, launching and running Advanced Analytics back in 2009 for WA, specializing in big data and AI. He blends deep capability in AI, robotics, data systems, and operating-model design with a practical understanding of how humans behave in high-pressure environments. Coert likes to make the hard things simple, the slow things faster, and the serious work more fun. He speaks on industrial AI, autonomy, culture, and the future of human–machine collaboration.
He has decades of Technology Innovation in industrial and human behavior applications, across mining, logistics, and advanced manufacturing—leading transformation at scale for current clients, raising capital and scaling a startup as CEO of MaxMine (tripling ARR and launching a global award-winning carbon product), and was the Global Leader at BHP for Digital and Data. Before that Coert was a Deloitte Partner, launching and running Advanced Analytics back in 2009 for WA, specializing in big data and AI. He blends deep capability in AI, robotics, data systems, and operating-model design with a practical understanding of how humans behave in high-pressure environments. Coert likes to make the hard things simple, the slow things faster, and the serious work more fun. He speaks on industrial AI, autonomy, culture, and the future of human–machine collaboration.
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