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5th Surpac User Meeting in Austria 2009

After the successful 4th Surpac User meeting in the year 2006 mine-it is proud to announce now the 5th Surpac User Meeting in this year. We want to stress with this event the thight relationship between Surpac and its clients and users and we hope that all participants will benifit from this meeting in terms of a successful application of Surpac in the daily working process.


Goals and who should attend

The meeting takes place at March 16th and 17th in Leoben, Austria.

The goals of the meeting are:

  • provide newest information on the recent development of Surpac
  • supporting information exchange between Surpac users
  • provide an introduction in the capabilities and features of Surpac
  • allowing clients to give their comments and whishes for future developments to the software vendor
  • giving hints and support for special topics requested by the clients

The meeting should be of interest both for current Surpac users and all persons interested in a application of a mining planning tool in their company in the future.

Take the chance to contact Surpac-users and software vendor representatives to get a comprehensive overview on the Surpac product!

We proud to announce that again experienced and competent representatives of Surpac-Gemcom will join the meeting (persons will be announced as soon as available).


Program

According to the positive experiences of the last event this meeting will be structured two parts.

The first day (Monday, March 16th, 2009) will focus on general information about Surpac. These information should help the user to get an overview on the current capabilities of Surpac Vision and also to get informed about future developments planned by Surpac. Besides that it is quite important to us to give the participants the possibilitiy to put request on inprovements directly to those responsible for the development. Persons thinking about an application of a mining-planning-tool in their company will find here comprehensive information about the capabilities and advantages of Surpac.
In addition the software product Insite will be briefly presented. Insite is designed to manage and organize production and planning data. With this we want to stimulate ideas how Surpac can be integrated into the overall scenery of planning and operating a mining business. mine-it regards this as a particularily important aspect, which is demonstrated also by the product ProMIS intended for and sucessfully implemented at small and medium sized operations.
The main issues of the program are:

  • Presentation of Surpac-Mines and their products
  • Presentation of the neweset developments and future strategies of the development (current version Surpac Vision 6.1 and outlook for the developments to be expected for the next versions)
  • Presentation of Insite (mine performance management software)
  • Brief Presentation of the activities of Austrian Surpac-clients as as basis for exchanging experiences and discussing future improvements.

The presentations are held primarily by the representatives of Gemcom:
Stephen Bishop : Technical Product Manager - Gemcom Software International Inc
Tina Zizek: Technical Support Consultant - Gemcom Software Europe Limited

The second day (Tuesday, March 17th, 2009) is organized as a workshop, with practical application of Surpac. According to requests of our clients this workshop will focus on aspects of "automation and customization". The corresponding tools integrated in Surpac are capable to significantly improve general prosessing tasks. As these tools are somehow related to "programming" (which hardly belongs to the favorite activities of most Surpac users), typically some resistance against applying this tools can be stated. The goal of the workshop therefore is to demonstrate the participants the potential power of these toosl, but also to guide them through some simple examples in order to overcome the initial scary feelings while exploring this new fields. The workshop starts with some simple examples which can be executed also by the participants ("do it!"). The workshop then gradually moves towards more enhanced examples primarily intended to give the participants an impression of what can be done ("watch it!"). At the end the participants should be able to estimate whether the application of theses tools is appropriate for their own working, and eventually start to deal with this aspect of Surpac more in detail in the future.

More detailed information about the program ...

In the evening of the first day (Monday, March 16th, 2009) we also organize an informal event ("Surpac evening") - with plenty of time for discussions on Surpac, mine planning and other topics.

During the whole meeting both the representatives of Surpac Gemcom as well as the staff of mine-it are available for individual talks and discussions (persons will be announced as soon as available).


Organization

  • Date: March 16th and 17th, 2009
  • Location: Leoben (Center of Applied technology)
  • The meeting will take place in the rooms of the IWZ (center of applied technology), Rosegger Str. 12, 8700 Leoben (4th floor). The IWZ is in the center of Leoben and within walking distance from all of the indicated hotels.

Meeting fees:

 participantsstudents
total seminar200€50€
1st day80€free or 25€ *)
2nd day120€25€
*) fee only in case of attending Surpac-evening
Fees excluding 20% VAT

The meeting fees include coffee and drinks during breaks, lunch buffet and the evening event (Surpac evening)

Participants are kindly asked to register until March 11th 2009 (Fax, Mail).
Payment is possible by invoice or in cash (during the meeting).

Note for the 2nd day: Surpac users are requested to take their surpac keys and laptop with them. Unfortunatel the organizer cannot provide laptops to the participants.


Adresses and contacts

Mine-IT (organizer):
Mine-IT Sanak Oberndorfer GmbH, Peter Tunner Str. 4/2, Tel.: +43 (0) 699 / 10 525 991

Venue:
Conference center IZW, Roseggerstr. 12 , 4th floor, A-8700 Leoben

Surpac Evening:
Schwarzer Hund, Hauptplatz 11, 8700 Leoben, Tel.: +43 (0) 3842 / 420 74

Hotels (selection without obligation, please refer to tourist center for complete list):
Hotel Kindler, Straußgasse 7-11, A-8700 Leoben, Tel: +43 (0) 3842/432 02-0, http://www.kindler.at
Hotel Kongress Leoben, Hauptplatz 1, A-8700 Leoben, Tel.: +43 (0) 3842 / 46800, http://www.hotelkongress.at
Hotel Zum Greif, Waasenstraße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Tel +43 (0) 3842-21486, http://www.zum-greif.at
Hotel Bachgasslhof, Gösserstraße 69, A-8700 Leoben, Tel.: 43 (0) 3842-98283, http://www.bachgasslhof.at
Asia Spa - Falkensteiner Hotels, http://www.asiaspa.at