The conference was organized by Minerals Engineering International (MEI) in consultation with Dr. D. Bradshaw.

Dee Bradshaw has been involved in Flotation Research at the University of Cape Town and in particular the chemical aspects of flotation for more than 20 years.

She has been instrumental in starting the UCT Depressant Research Facility, (1999) and the Machine Vision research Programme (1998) and more recently has spearheaded an imitative into Process Mineralogy.

She has worked closely with industrial partners and has published widely, and especially in Minerals Engineering and has been a strong supported of MEI conferences. She was at the first Reagents conference in 1992 and the second in 2004.