2026 conference
speakers
Monday - Workshop day
Morning Workshop
Paul Casto
GE Vernova
Building the Reliability Business Case
Paul.Casto@gevernova.com
Afternoon Workshop
Daniel Rodas
GE Vernova
Mechanical Integrity: Enhancing Industrial Efficiency
Daniel.Rodas@gevernova.com
tuesday - Conference Day
Track a
Syed Asharib Hussain
MaxGrip Americas
Preventive Maintenance Optimization: Resetting PM Programs for Today’s Operating Reality
asharib.hussain@maxgrip.com
Diti Sood
Bolo AI
From Data Overload to Decisions That Matter: How AI Context Layers Are Transforming Reliability Engineering
marty@bolo.ai
David Drerup
Operational Sustainability, LLC
The Digital Approach to Asset Integrity Management
david@drivingoe.com
Steve Beamer
The Operational Excellence Consortium
Empowering the Frontline: A Framework for Operator Driven Reliability
steve@my-opex.org
David Drerup
Operational Sustainability, LLC
The Missing Link: Why Your Financial Strategy Needs a Counterpart in Asset Strategy Management
david@drivingoe.com
Track B
Fabian Montealegre
Wood
Maintenance Build Best Practices for New Plants (lessons learned and recommendations)
Fmontealegre9@gmail.com
Ghitte Neethling
MaxGrip Americas
Five Common Challenges in Spare Parts Management
Ghitte.Neethling@maxgrip.com
Thomas Kurtz
Element6 Solutions
From Maintenance Cost to Business Value - A Leadership Approach to Strategic Investment
tkurtz@elmt6.com
Sean Rosier
ReVisionz
Data - TBA
seanrosier1170@gmail.com
Farshad Bakhshi
Neximatech
Why Failures Persist Despite CMMS, PM, and RCA - Insights from Repeat Failures in Critical Assets
info@neximatech.com
Track C
Andy Wang
Prescient Devices, Inc.
Predictive Maintenance for Variable Load Equipment
andy.wang@prescientdevices.com
Kristi Brooks
Equity Engineering
Integrated RBI and Electrical Safety Audits: Building Defensible Business Cases for Reliability
kbrooks@e2g.com
Fortunatus (Fortune) Udegbue
Indorama
The Physics of Reliability: Decoding the Real-Time Condition Variable to Operationalize Asset Health
fortunatus.udegbue@us.indorama.net
Edwin Rodriguez
Chesterton
Practicing effective communication and embracing Collaboration
edwin.rodriguez@chesterton.com
Kevwe Eghwrudjakpor
MaxGrip Americas
Scaling Reliability with RCM: A Fleet-Wide Deployment Case
Kevwe.Eghwrudjakpor@maxgrip.com
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