26-27 SEPTEMBER, 2022

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

Rio Tinto is once again calling all of its Super People to come forward to unlock their true superpowers, and help save the company from the evil forces of slow bureaucracy. This time in Brisbane, Australia!

Be the hero that stands up and makes a change!

What’s our plan?

We’re back and eager to announce our second Super People Hackathon is arriving in Australia!! After an amazing success in Montreal earlier this year, it’s now time to give our Super People Down Under the chance to do the same! All Rio Tinto employees based in Australia are invited to submit your ideas by the 26th of August — your favourites will be voted for and developed during a unique team building event in Brisbane, Australia, over the 26th and 27th of September 2022!

Through workshops, design thinking, and all kinds of fun activities, you’ll have the chance to develop new ideas to help simplify internal people processes, reduce tedious bureaucracy, and therefore improve the workflow, and your day to day at the company.

At the beginning of April 2022, and after you voted for your favourite projects from the whopping 40+ projects that were submitted to the Super People platform, ten finalists were chosen. They met in Centre Phi in Montréal, Canada for a 2 day event where they'd have the chance to sit down as a team and work towards making their ideas into reality. 

After 48 hours of hard work, it was time to pick the winning teams and with such amazing ideas, picking the winners was definitely an arduous task! The winning projects received up to $30,000 and a 3-month incubation period to develop their solutions.

Check out the video below to get the full recap of the Super weekend! 

3rd Place

Global Calculator for STIP

3rd Place

Simplification of remuneration details

2nd Place

Interview Scheduling Tool

1st Place

Swift Access to IT Systems

Suggest ideas to simplify and speed up internal processes — you take the lead!

Check in with your amazing mentors for support

Take part in the hackathon with a chance to win funding to make your idea come to life, fit only for the most heroic

Partake in design thinking workshops to help discover the best solutions and learn new fun ways of working

Incubate your idea with the help of agile and UX coaches

Dear employees of Rio Tinto, you are the Super People! Whether you work in the people team or not, everyone has their special ability and super skill that sets them apart. That’s why we need all of you to come and change the world — or at least our way of working. Your abilities and skills are what makes us proud of what we do. Now we need you more than ever! Have fun team building, and flex your superhero skills in activities and games. 

Like the Alfred to your Batman, you’ll have a helping hand from the Super Mentors.

The 3 best solutions will receive up to

to develop their ideas!

$30,000

4TH SEPTEMBER 2022

The 10 finalists announcement

BEFORE 26TH AUGUST 2022

Submit your idea on the hackathon platform

29TH AUGUST 2022

Rio Tinto employees, vote for your favorite ideas 

26 - 27 SEPTEMBER 2022

Hackathon in Brisbane, Australia — develop your solution!

OCTOBER 2022

3 month incubation phase to implement your solutions!

Being a Super Person isn’t always easy. 

With the help of the Super Mentors, you won’t have any difficulty fighting the evil forces of slow bureaucracy. 

Meet your mentors - basically your very own Professor X.

(Be ready, more Super Mentors will be joining!)

Yolanda Babnik

GM Products & Software

Rio Tinto

Bevan White

Senior Manager — Talent Acquisition

Rio Tinto

Sarah Pearce

People Experience, Digital

Rio Tinto

Leo Logan-Nelson

Manager Remuneration APAC

Rio Tinto

Scott Brown

Deputy Chief Information Security Officer

Rio Tinto

Chelsey Rowe

General Manager Finance

Rio Tinto

Russ Eley

Head of Exploration Data Science

Rio Tinto

Meet the Super Jury that will help you pick the hardest battle to tackle.

James Martin

Chief People Officer

Rio Tinto

Ulric Adom

Chief Financial Officer, Bus & Tech Supp

Rio Tinto

Monique Bensted

Head of Employee Communications and Business Partnering

Rio Tinto

Dan Evans

Chief Information Officer

Rio Tinto

Binyan Ren

CEO China

Rio Tinto

These Super Organisers are the reason this event is possible! They're here to help!

Priscila Gomes

Business Executive to the Chief People Officer

Rio Tinto

Duane Jensen

Manager – Partnership & Business Support, Human Resources

Rio Tinto

Melissa Pace

HR Business Partner – People function

Rio Tinto

Li Ping Kwong

Manager - Executive Reward Operations

Rio Tinto

Leo Bowers

Principal Advisor Org Effectiveness

Rio Tinto

Mélissa Bessa

Project Manager

BeMyApp

Leila Abedrabou

Project Manager

BeMyApp

Super People Headquarters

Brisbane, Australia

Any questions? Contact us at superpeoplehack@bemyapp.com

Privacy Notice: Participation in the People Hackathon is entirely voluntary. If you choose to participate, you will need to register using your first and last name, Rio Tinto email address and work location. You can also choose to share your job title and a telephone number (so that other Rio Tinto participants know what you do, and can contact you using that number).

In addition to this personal data being shared with other Rio Tinto participants, it will also be shared with Bemyapp, the company that is hosting and presenting the People Hackathon on behalf of Rio Tinto. Bemyapp is required to process your personal data for the purpose of our hackathon only, and to comply with strict contractual data privacy terms.  

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