Celebrating 30 years of
Community Content & Connection
The most loved community in Asset Management, Reliability and Maintenance. Join us in Melbourne for two amazing days of content, networking, knowledge-sharing and fun as we celebrate the people, technology and ideas transforming asset management.
MAINSTREAM acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin as the traditional owners of the greater Melbourne area. We pay our respects to the ancient and continuing cultures and connections to land and to Elders past, present, and emerging.
The Safety Story You'll Never Forget
What began as an ordinary workday became a life-changing lesson in safety. After surviving 22,000 volts of electricity, Theo Venter will share a powerful story of survival, resilience and why safety is about people, not just procedures.
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Your MAINSTREAM experience in 60 Seconds
The MAINSTREAM 2026 trailer is here. Relive the energy, ideas and connections that defined 2025 – the community, the passion, the breakthroughs, and that something special you can’t quite put your finger on until you’re in the room. Get a glimpse of what’s coming on 6 & 7 August.
Fresh Eyes on the Plant Floor
As MAINSTREAM celebrates 30 years, we're handing the stage to the people walking in: four early-career engineers, shaped by internships at Glencore, Thiess, Aurizon and BAE Systems, in an honest, unscripted conversation about maintenance and reliability seen from the start of a career, not the end of one.
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Beatbox Brilliance Engineered Live
Join Tom Thum - internet sensation with 75+ million TED views - at MAINSTREAM's 30th anniversary. As The Guardian noted, he "appears to have swallowed an entire orchestra and several backing singers". Experience precision beat-boxing transformed into symphonic sound. Engineering meets artistry.
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Focused on 12 Industry Challenges & Opportunities
Shaped by research with 715 practitioners, the 2026 program tackles the 12 hot topics at the convergence of technical, human and process challenges – the issues keeping reliability, maintenance and asset management leaders awake at night, and the opportunities hiding inside each one.
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Who Attends: Australia's Reliability Heroes
Asset owners and operators, contractors, game-changers, startups and advisories from every asset-intensive industry. Global thought leaders, educators, planners and maintainers sit alongside superintendents, VPs of Asset Management and Heads of Maintenance – the people who keep the country running, in one room.
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MAINSTREAM is Next-Level Networking
The answer to your biggest challenge is already in this community – sometimes from an industry you’d never expect. Through curated formal sessions and the serendipitous, spontaneous moments between them, MAINSTREAM turns 16+ hours of networking into career-defining conversations.
Meet The Speakers
Maria Joyce
Vice President, BHP Maintenance & Engineering Centre of Excellence
BHP
Alberto Landeaux
Global Director Reliability - Ports & Terminals
DP World (UAE)
Drew Troyer
Contributing Editor
Reliable (US)
Ali Walsh
Head of Asset Strategy and Insight
SA Power Networks
Ed Van Cise
NASA Moon Base Mission & Systems Interoperability Office
NASA (US)
Kass Nofz
Group Manager Asset & Materials Management
Fortescue
Yolanda Babnik
General Manager - Asset Strategy
Transurban
Glen Fleming
Chief Operating Officer
Ego Pharmaceuticals
Hot Topics
Tackling the most pressing challenges and barriers to achieving asset and reliability management excellence
The MAINSTREAM Lecture
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The Intelligent Factory: How AI is Changing Everything
Jeff Winter – Industry 4.0 Analyst & Enthusiast
AI is not a tool. It’s a structural capability that fundamentally changes decision speed, accountability, and execution. One of the world's leading voices inIndustry 4.0, Jeff Winter, introduces the Intelligent Factory: not a collection of smarter machines, but an enterprise-wide operating model where intelligence and autonomy are deliberately designed into every decision. If your AI initiatives are stalling before they deliver real value, Jeff’s MAINSTREAM Lecture explains why, and what to do about it.
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Industry 4.0 Analyst & Enthusiast (US)
Vice President, BHP Maintenance & Engineering Centre of Excellence
BHP
Global Director Reliability - Ports & Terminals
DP World (UAE)
Chief Executive
ETEL Transformers
Principal and Managing Director
Covaris
Adjunct Principal, Education and Change Management
Covaris
Chief Operating Officer
Ego Pharmaceuticals
Contributing Editor
Reliable (US)
Head of Asset Strategy and Insight
SA Power Networks
“Hands-down, the most valuable Maintenance and Reliability conference in the world”
Christer Idhammer
Global Reliability Thought Leader and Founder, IDCON
“If there is only one Maintenance event you can attend, it has to be MAINSTREAM”
Janvi Shah
Head of Highways Asset Management (UK), Arcadis
“Mainstream is the most innovative, informative and inspiring asset and reliability conference in Australia”
Martin Sassenberg
Engineering Manager, Queensland Sugar
“MAINSTREAM is a community where people genuinely want the best for one another. We have found our tribe”
Tania Devoti
Founder and CEO, Obzervr
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MAINSTREAM Conference • 6-7 August 2026
Agenda Overview
Wednesday
17:00 - 18:30
- Speaker Briefing
18:30 - 20:00
- MAINSTREAM JumpStart
Thursday
07:00 – 08:30
- Registration, Tea & Coffee
08:30 – 17:30
- Keynotes
- Perspectives
- Innovation Theatres
17:30 - 19:00
- MAINSTREAM Networking Party
sponsored by Octave
19:00 - 22:00
- MAINSTREAM After Dark
Friday
07:15 – 08:15
- Tea & Coffee & Expo
08:15 – 15:45
- Keynotes
- Xchange
- Innovation Theatres
- Panel Discussions
16:00
- MAINSTREAM Close
They Attended
- AGL Energy
- ANSTO
- Aurizon
- Australia Post
- BAE Systems Australia
- Beach Energy
- Bega Group
- BHP
- BlueScope
- Coca-Cola Amatil
- ConocoPhillips Australia
- CS Energy Limited
- Department of Defence
- ElectraNet
- Endeavour Energy
- Energy Australia
- Energy Queensland
- ExxonMobil
- Genesis Energy
- Glencore
- Hydro Tasmania
- Incitec Pivot
- Melbourne Water Corporation
- Metro Trains Melbourne
- Nyrstar
- Orica Australia
- Port of Melbourne
- Power and Water Corporation
- Powerlink Queensland
- Rio Tinto
- SA Power Networks
- Saputo Dairy Australia
- Seqwater
- Territory Generation
- TransGrid
- TransUrban
- V/Line
- Visy Pulp & Paper
- Wilmar Sugar
- Yancoal Australia
By Numbers
An amazing 2 days of content, networking, knowledge-sharing and fun as we celebrate the people, technology and ideas transforming asset management.
- 70Speakers
- 716Attendees
- 214Companies
- 46Partners
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