Biography

Steve Gravel is the Manager of the Centre for Smart Mining, a federally funded Technology Access Centre that focuses on facilitating new technology adoption in the mining sector by providing mining technology companies with technical services and funding. Prior to leading the Centre for Smart Mining, Steve held a position at the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE), where he worked with Ontario SMEs and tech firms as a Business Development and Commercialization Manager. In previous roles, Steve has studied the northern Ontario mining supply and services cluster in depth and understands its uniqueness and strategic value. Steve contributes a monthly technology column for the Canadian Mining Journal and also co-hosts a monthly innovation podcast called The Unlikely Innovators which highlights stories of unlikely sources of innovation from post-secondary education to start-ups and SMEs and a variety of industrial sectors. Steve is an active member of the CIM Innovation and Technology Society as well.