Name
Case Study: Scaling AI Across Mines: Inside the Third-Largest US Coal Producer's AI Program
Date & Time
Thursday, September 3, 2026, 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Eric Decker Mathias Korsgaard
Description
  • How treating AI as an ongoing program has helped NTEC avoid scattered PoCs, failed pilots, and company data used in ChatGPT.  

  • Building predictive models that catch major component failures worth $1.5M each, using only data the mines already had.  

  • Capturing senior operator intuition before it retires, improving time, safety, and cost.  

  • Embedding the governance, training, and change management to make change stick. 

  • Building a Fabric data platform designed to carry and scale the next use case, and the one after that.  

  • Handing ownership to NTEC's own people so the program sticks after the consultants leave, including what they'd do differently starting over.