Technology Meets Mining: A Digital Revolution at the Arizona Technology Summit
Phoenix, Arizona — September 10, 2025 At the Phoenix Convention Center, amid the bustle of America’s fastest-growing desert metropolis, technologists, analysts, and innovators gathered for the 16th Annual Arizona Technology Summit. For a single day, this corner of downtown became a nerve centre for one of the most pressing conversations of our age: how digital technology—artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, automation, and data analytics—is reshaping the backbone industries of the global economy. While the focus in Phoenix was enterprise, security, and infrastructure, the themes resounded far beyond. Mining, one of the world’s oldest trades, now stands at the cusp of a transformation as significant as the shift from pickaxes to dynamite. The same innovations shaping cloud-first companies and digital-native enterprises are rapidly finding new applications in mines from the Atacama Desert to Zambia’s Copperbelt, from the Canadian Arctic to Indonesia’s nickel fields. The story emerging...
