General Sessions
ET ’16 Program
In addition to the wealth of technical sessions, the ET ’16 program also includes two General Sessions, one each at the opening and closing of the event, featuring dynamic speakers and pertinent industry information.
Here are some of the highlights…
| Industry Analysis: Aluminum Producer Perspective Gervais Jacques, Rio Tinto - Aluminum Product Group |
 Gervais Jacques is Chief Commercial Officer at Rio Tinto’s Aluminum Product Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for all commercial activities, including Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium at Rio Tinto Aluminum Products Group. He has a dedicated team working in regional offices located in Montreal, Cleveland, Paris, Singapore, Japan, China and Korea. Mr. Jacque will discuss the state of the aluminum industry from an aluminum producer’s perspective. |
| Living Indiana Jones Paul Sereno, University of Chicago |
 Paul Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, works with students, technicians and artists in his Fossil Lab to bring to life fossils unearthed from sites around the world. He also works every year closer to home excavating his own "Jurassic Park," a dinosaur graveyard in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. With a menagerie of spectacular dinosaurs to his credit, he also is known for discovering a series of extinct crocodilians, including the 40-foot long dinosaur-eater dubbed "SuperCroc."Fossil obsessions and a taste for adventure carry Sereno to the remote corners of the world to discover dozens of new species under the harshest conditions. Sereno’s field work began in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina, where he discovered the first dinosaurs to roam the Earth some 230 million years ago. Other expeditions have explored Africa’s Sahara, Asia’s Gobi Desert, India’s Thar Desert, and remote valleys in Tibet. Join Sereno as he shares the everyday life of a dinosaur hunter—crossing the Sahara challenged by bandits, on the Tibetan plateau, and in the heart of the Gobi. |
