The maintenance, reliability & asset management conference for
companies that care about people, leadership, innovation & culture
May 21-24, 2017, The Renaissance Nashville, Tennessee
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why att nding
is a must
You will have access to a crowd of leaders and experts who care about cultivating
a culture of reliability within their organizations. This year, you will be part of
conversations and presentations aimed at the top six Hot Topics unearthed in
our research.
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Leadership Development – recognizing the need to train and develop
leadership skills in asset management professionals and building systems
to attract, identify, retain and nurture leaders
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Communication Alignment – learning to speak a common language
across sites and functions and aligning the goals of your team to that of
the organization
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Skills & Training – anticipating your skill gaps as demographics change and
addressing them with intentional and forward thinking programs
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True Value from Data – deriving actionable insight from collecting the
right data, and building a culture that values and embraces data-driven
decisions
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Asset Management Strategy & Philosophy – intelligent use of
benchmarking and systems/standards for operational excellence
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Capitalize on New Technology – innovative ways to depict real-time risk;
smart technology to contain cost and improve efficiency; accessing data in
near real-time for predictive analytics
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Pitch to Your Boss
The maintenance, reliability and asset management conference for
companies that care about people, leadership, innovation and culture.
• Learn from your peers: discover how to improve efficiencies, increase uptime, cut costs and uncover and nurture young leaders
• A uniquely curated program: the content is the result of extensive
research - a distillation of discussions with dozens of thought leaders and
organizations sharing what they want to learn, then expertly guided by
a conference steering committee
• Access information you won’t get anywhere else: this is the only event
of its kind specifically dedicated to asset management leadership current & future
• Join a global community: tap into the collective wisdom of experts,
senior leaders, decision-makers, directors, managers, engineers and more
• Meet select partners: the conference hosts among its partners the
thought leaders, consultants, service and technology providers reshaping
our space as we know it - come pick their brains
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overview
ARRIVAL DAY - Sunday, May 21
5:00 PM
Welcome Drinks, Networking & Life Hacks Expo
Conference Day One - Monday, May 22
7:00 AM
Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
8:30 AM
Conference Welcome
8:40 AM
Keynote: When ‘Remote Location’ Means Something Else Entirely: Reliability at NASA
Courtenay McMillan - Flight Director, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
9:20 AM
Keynote: Leading the Imagination Age
Silvia Damiano - Owner & CEO, About My Brain
10:10 AM
Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
track 1
track 2
track 3
workshopS
11:10 AM
Digitization: The Buzzword
for 2017
Art Durnan - Industry Thought
Leader, formerly Rio Tinto
Turnaround Change Management:
A Transformational Journey
Chris Vaughn - Maint. Team Leader
& Turnaround Leader, DuPont
Asset Planning: Linking Utilization
& Condition for Investment
Planning
Rod Pervier - Senior Manager Site
Services, The Boeing Company
11:55 AM
Are You Prepared for Your
Organizational Single Points-ofFailure?
Christopher Mears - Reliability
Engineering Manager, Arnold
Engineering Development
Complex
Journey to Excellence: Off the
Beaten Path
Cliff Williams - Global Corporate
Maintenance Manager, ERCO
Worldwide
Journey to Reliability: Alignment,
Training, Results, Empowerment,
Ownership
Larry Bryant - Director of Reliability,
Domtar Paper Company
Bill Yantz - VP Business
Development, Reliability Solutions
Training LLC
12:35 PM
Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
1:35 PM
Discussion: Shutdowns &
Turnarounds
John Bowie - Director,
Palm Crest
Discussion: Planning & Scheduling
Peter Durrant - Principal of
Education & Change Management,
Covaris
Discussion: Leadership
Development Program
Tom Moriarty - President, Alidade
MER Inc
2:40 PM
Creating an Integrated
Turnaround Team
Kevin Cadieux - Manager
Turnarounds, Canadian Natural
Resources Limited
Sustaining Improved Profitability
Through Structured Operational
Excellence
Roddy Evans - Global Production
Excellence Lead, Hess Corporation
Taking the Mobility Journey with
Alcoa
Mary Jane Hoesen - EAM & CMMS
Specialist, Alcoa Corporation
3:25 PM
The Reality of an ERP (Electrical
Reliability Program)
Scott James - Electrical &
Instrumentation Reliability
Technologist, Tate & Lyle
Implemting ISO 55000 &
Effective Asset Management
Tomorrow
Rhys Davies - Chairman, ISO
Committee & President, eAsset
Management Ltd
How to Build & Maintain a World
Class Condition Monitoring Team
Harvey Henkel - Condition
Monitoring Supervisor, Transalta
Generation Partnership
4:05 PM
Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
4:55 PM
Keynote: The Fat Kid Diaries: What I Learned Cycling Through Every Country in Africa
Ron Rutland - Banker Turned Adventurer
6:00 PM
Evening Reception: Join us for drinks, food & entertainment!
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Complement Your ERP with a
Mobile Maintenance Solution
Bob Stallard - Senior Consultant,
Viziya
Using Data Driven Insights to
Deliver Reliability Improvement
Jason Apps - CEO,
ARMS Reliability
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Conference Day two - Tuesday, May 23
7:00 AM
Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
8:25 AM
Welcome
8:30 AM
Keynote: C.A.R.E. (Create Amazing Results Everywhere) - A Story of Change & Leadership at Dow
Teresa Keating - Seadrift Site Operations Director, The Dow Chemical Company
9:10 AM
Keynote: Becoming Data-Driven: The Convergence of IT & OT
Larry Biess - Director of Business Intelligence, CSX Transportation
9:50 AM
Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
track 1
track 2
track 3
workshopS
10:50 AM
Continuous Vibration Monitoring:
Catching Small Problems Before
They Get Big
Amy Odom - Asset Effectiveness
Engineer, BASF
Addressing the Skills Gap with
Manufacturing Leaders
George Parada - Maintenance &
Reliability Leader, Cargill
A Decade’s Journey of Operational
Reliability: From Pilot to Full-Scale
JP Pascoli - Program Manager
Operational Reliability, Cameco
Corporation
11:35 AM
Refreshing the Improvement
Journey
Peter Durrant - Principal of
Education & Change Management,
Covaris
From Radio Work Orders to
Mobile PMs: A Plant’s Journey &
Road Forward
Brian Ricker - Director of
Operations, Martin Operating
Partnership
Leveraging Asset Data to Drive
Productivity
Daniel Plaizier - Senior Engineer
Asset Management, Rio Tinto
Omar Thorpe - Principal Advisor
Asset Management, Rio Tinto
12:15 PM
Lunch & Exhibition Viewing
1:45 PM
Keynote: It’s All About Value: Getting to the Bottom of ISO 55000 & Asset Management
Rhys Davies - Chairman, ISO Committee & President, eAsset Management Ltd
2:30 PM
Executing on Reliability from
Corporate to Individual Sites
Sam Deters - Reliability Engineer,
Novelis
Joe Reitz - Manager Central
Services Engineering &
Maintenance, Novelis
Eric Reeves - Engineering
Maintenance & Reliability Leader,
Novelis
Asset Strategy Management:
A Customer Case Study in
Making Reliability a Reality
Jason Apps - CEO,
ARMS Reliability
Take Your Organization’s Game
Plan from Getting the Next Down
to Winning the Playoffs
Kyle Wong - Engineering Manager,
Sammamish Plateau Water
Jillian Hostenske - Financial Analyst,
Sammamish Plateau Water
3:15 PM
Embarking on an Asset
Management Journey: Challenges
& Strategies
Vibhu Kaushik - Principal Manager
Asset Management & Generation
Strategy, Southern California
Edison
Kishore Billapati - Manager,
Plant Engineering, Southern
California Edison
Driving Op Integrity: Co-Opting
Your Organization into
Implementing Asset Management
Doug Kinzel - Manging Director
Operation Services, Transalta
Marina Van Koughnett Operations Process Specialist,
Transalta
Paul Daoust - Lead Engineer
Operational Integrity, Transalta
Revitalization of an Operation:
Empire’s Obsession with
Continuous Improvement
Steve Lallensack - Director of
Operations, Empire Level
4:00 PM
Keynote: Hail the Maintainers: What Happens After Innovation
Andy Russell - Dean College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY Polytech Institute
Lee Vinsel - Asst Professor Science & Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology
4:45 PM
Concluding Refreshments & Exhibition Viewing
Root Cause Problem Elimination
(RCPE) In Action
Tor Idhammar - President,
IDCON Inc
Change the Game with Cutting
Edge Technology for Asset
Managers
John Bowie - Director, Palm Crest
CMRP EXAM DAY - Wednesday, May 24
8:30 AM
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keynote speakers
When ‘Remote Location’ Means Something Else Entirely:
Reliability at NASA
Courtenay McMillan
Flight Director, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
“Houston, we have a problem.” How do you build and maintain a team to handle every possible
variation of that call through decades of operation? NASA’s Mission Control has done just that
for over 50 years of human spaceflight. With examples from that history, and looking forward
to future challenges, Courtenay McMillan will describe the core foundational principles for
Mission Control operations, and how to develop a culture of discipline and excellence that
underlies everything we do. Courtenay has worked at Johnson Space Center since 1996, first
as a flight controller supporting the Shuttle/Mir and International Space Station Programs,
and subsequently in increasingly responsible roles for human space flight operations. She has
directed over 400 shifts of ISS flight operations, and continues to plan, train and fly complex
mission objectives for ISS and its international and commercial partner teams.
C.A.R.E (Create Amazing Results Everywhere)
A Story of Change & Leadership at Dow
Teresa Keating
Seadrift Site Operations Director, The Dow Chemical Company
Your people’s performance and the organization’s ability to deliver results is a direct
function of how valued and respected your teams feel. They intuitively will know, gauge
and grasp how much their leaders really care about them. All this counts more than you
ever understood when you were just starting out as leaders. When people can express
themselves, have a vision to buy into, a tribe to belong to, a ‘captain to play for’ and their
chains are taken off, they will soar to new heights. Safety and reliability go hand-in-hand due
to the common denominator of ownership that all starts with CARE. Join this keynote to
listen and engage with Teresa Keating, Site Director at Dow’s Seadrift TX site, as she explains
how her site has gone from under to over achievers in performance across the board and
64% to 84% employee engagement in two short years. Bring your own leadership questions!
It’s All About Value: Getting to the Bottom of ISO 55000 &
Asset Management
Rhys Davies
Chairman, ISO Committee & President, eAsset Management Ltd
This keynote will highlight the role of leadership in delivering effective asset management
using ISO 55000. Getting to the bottom of aligned objectives is all about understanding
value, how it is derived and how it is communicated. Rhys Davies will share insight into how
the value of ISO is delivered through effective asset management decision making. Rhys
is the Chairman of ISO Committee (TC251) leading 31 countries in developing International
Standards for asset management leading to the publication of the ISO 55000 series in 2014.
He continues to lead that group in its ongoing work. He has been a member of the Executive
Committee of the Joint IET/IAM Technical Professional Network for Asset Management since
January 2011. Rhys is a member of the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) and has been
involved in a variety of roles including Board (2014 – 2016) and Council previous to that.
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keynote speakers
Becoming Data Driven: The Convergence of IT & OT
Larry Biess
Director of Business Intelligence, CSX Transportation
With a 3,800 locomotive fleet, 220,000 cars on our railroad at any time, 21,000+ miles of
mainline track and the data that is collected or otherwise available from testing and operating
these assets, data isn’t in short supply at CSX Transportation. The trick is to commoditize
the data and glean meaningful that can help our people make better decisions, and be more
effective at doing their job which is easier said than done. In the last three years, CSX has
taken another run at making sense of our data. In the last year alone this journey has resulted
in a 5x return on our initial investment. This success has not exclusively been the result of
the aforementioned technology advances. Equally vital is the convergence of IT (Technical
Expertise) and OT (Domain Expertise), with a common focus on meeting or exceeding
operational goals (reliability) and challenging our current ways of thinking (failures are
opportunities to learn). We learned that a combination of people, processes and technology
is necessary to be successful.
Hail the Maintainers: What Happens After Innovation
Andy Russell
Dean College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY Polytech Institute
Lee Vinsel
Asst Professor Science & Technology, Stevens Institute of Technology
Our culture worships innovation, which comes at a high cost: innovation fails to capture
the essence of human life with technology. To put it another way, acts of creation and
innovation do not by themselves entail the totality of human experiences with technology.
Most human effort around technology involves maintenance, repair, upkeep and mundane
labor. We know that innovation is necessary and drives us forward in culture and business
alike, but focusing on innovation, and excluding everything else, does us all a disservice.
This keynote begins with a brief history of innovation, and describes how modern societies
became obsessed with it. We will then present an alternative view: we need a culture that
values what happens after innovation. We need to cultivate a broader understanding of
the many roles that technology plays in our lives, and we need to appreciate maintenance,
repair and the unsung workers—the maintainers—whose labor sustains our modern
technological existence.
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keynote speakers
Leading the Imagination Age
Silvia Damiano
Owner & CEO, About My Brain
The impact of increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity is seen in
heightened competition, lost jobs, new ways of working (contract and remote) and greater
levels of mental health issues as the work/life boundary has disappeared. We have reached
the tipping point. Join Silvia Damiano in this fascinating keynote to explore the new mindsets,
behaviors and abilities that are required to navigate these new challenges and lead ourselves
and others in the Imagination Age.
The Fat Kid Diaries: What I Learned Cycling Through Every
Country in Africa
Ron Rutland
Banker Turned Adventurer
On June 30, 2013, after selling everything he owned, 45 lbs overweight, alone and unaided,
and with no ‘adventure’ experience, Ron Rutland left Cape Town Stadium on his bicycle to
fulfill a lifelong dream and embark on a world-first… a single continuous journey through
every country on mainland Africa. 24,855 miles, 841 days and 75 countries later, Ron arrived
in Brighton, UK on September 17, 2015, in time to watch Japan beat South Africa in their
opening game of the Rugby World Cup – an historic end to an historic journey! Drawing on
his experiences from some of the most inhospitable environments on the planet, Ron shares
the tangible ‘real life’ lessons he learned chasing and ultimately reaching the most audacious
goal imaginable.
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Get
e the most
conference
out of the
Take the CMRP Exam: Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional
Mainstream is proud to offer the CMRP exam as part of this year’s conference. The CMRP certification
is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), which follows ISO standards for its
accreditation and processes. Examining more than just textbook information, the CMRP is a thorough
examination of a broader scope of expertise measured against a universal standard. Register for the
CMRP exam through the Mainstream website to add this opportunity to your conference experience.
Cost for the exam is not included in Mainstream registration.
Workshops from Leading Experts
As part of this year’s agenda, you will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on extended
sessions lead by some of the leading experts in maintenance and reliability. This year’s workshops
will take place within the main agenda, giving you the option to spend your time with the best
thought leaders around, or immersed in direct practical training to help you execute on your reliability
strategies. Spend some time in these highly interactive, skills based workshops facilitated by our
partners Viziya, ARMS Reliability and IDCON.
The IoT Pavilion
More than just a buzzword on the page, the IoT pavilion is your place to witness some of the most
exciting new technology impacting the world of asset management. Hear from companies on the
cutting edge about how they are enabling organizations to see true value from connected machines,
big data, machine learning and other technologies at the forefront of innovation.
Life Hacks
On the Sunday before Mainstream fully kicks off, join us in the exhibition hall for a chance to show off
your best professional tips and tricks. We encourage everyone to come demonstrate that time saving
or cost-cutting trick you developed without a big line item in the budget! We know you have had your
own MacGyver moment - share it with the Mainstream community and maybe win some prizes!
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sponsors
Visit www.mainstreamna.com for the most up-to-date list of sponsors.
Produced by:
Eventful Conferences is an award-winning research and conference
company that specializes in crafting conferences that celebrate the people,
technology and innovations transforming the way we work and live.
A team of passionate and dedicated professionals have spent the last 20+
years building and nurturing communities and conferences. For over 20
years, the Mainstream Conference has been best known for its specialized
focus on people, leadership, culture, processes and the criticality of
alignment between reliability, maintenance and operations. To learn more
about Eventful Conferences and our upcoming events please visit
www.eventfulconferences.com
Premier Sponsors:
ARMS Reliability is a leading global provider of reliability engineering to
companies operating fixed plant, rotating equipment, mobile fleets, power
supplies and other infrastructure assets. Since 1995, we’ve helped companies
around the world - and across a broad range of industries - to get more from
their assets, avoid unplanned downtime and reduce operating costs. With
offices located world-wide our experienced team of engineers and trainers
can help you with: • Maintenance Strategy Development and Optimization
• Asset Strategy Development & Management
• RAMS Studies
• Spare Parts Analysis & Optimization
• Life Cycle Costing
• Root Cause Analysis & Defect Elimination
www.armsreliability.com
With over 55,000 users at 850 sites from Fortune 1000 companies, VIZIYA
is the standard for EAM systems worldwide. VIZIYA is the only certified
SAP Partner that helps asset intensive companies optimize their asset
performance. VIZIYA’s WorkAlign Suite, which is ABAP Certified, supports
®
multi-platforms, multi-instances and system transitions. VIZIYA’s portfolio
includes Scheduler, Scheduler: Field Service, Maintenance Analytics,
Maintenance Budgeting, Mobile, the IIoT Engine and Warranty Tracker.
VIZIYA creates purpose-built maintenance software solutions – in the cloud,
or on premise - for all of the major CMMS systems - web-based, out-of-thebox solutions that integrate seamlessly to optimize your asset utilization and
deliver continuous improvement.
www.viziya.com
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Silver
Exhibition Sponsors
Prometheus Group
Prometheus Group
Prometheus Group
Media Partners
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packages & prices
Early Bird
Standard
$1,795
$2,195
(Register by April 14)
For team & international pricing, please call +1 914 509 5354
register online
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accommodations
The Renaissance Nashville Hotel
The Renaissance Nashville is located in the
heart of Nashville’s business district within
walking distance of the Music City Center and
less than 10 miles from Nashville’s International
Airport. The special conference rate at The
Renaissance is $239 + tax per night. This rate is
valid until May 1, 2017, pending availability.
Visit www.mainstreamna.com for details
and booking.
Terms & Conditions
Cancellations cannot be made less than 28 days prior to the conference, after which time Eventful Conferences will only accept alternate delegates.
All requests need to be communicated to Greg Healy at [email protected] or on +1 914 509 5354. Cancellations directed
elsewhere or received after this cut-off time will not be eligible for refund. If circumstances or events beyond the control of Eventful Conferences
cause cancellation to all or any part of the conference, Eventful Conferences will refund the appropriate portion of the registration fee. Eventful
Conferences are not responsible for travel arrangements, travel fees or any expenses incurred by you as a result of such cancellation.