Coert Du Plessis

Coert is one of those high-energy people that loves to build products, businesses, teams and communities. At heart he is an entrepreneur, avid water athlete and regular keynote speaker and investor.

Coert is CEO of MaxMine, a world leader in productivity technology for miners combining expert coaching, AI, Industrial IoT, and Software as a Service.

Coert’s impressive career in digital and data change, which started from a Commodore VIC20 computer on a remote farm, has seen him lead BHP's global digital transformation, building BHP's innovation mining, and lead BHP's global data strategy and data initiatives reporting to the Executive Leadership Team. Prior to BHP, Coert was a Senior Partner with Deloitte leading the data analytics practice specialising in machine learning and application in energy and resources.