| The Companies Taking the Stage at MaximoWorld 2026 | | When reliability, maintenance and asset management professionals gather at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville this August 17–20, they won’t just be trading notes with peers — they’ll be learning directly from the people running some of the most complex, high-stakes operations on the planet. This year’s MaximoWorld speaker roster spans space exploration, national defense, global finance, healthcare systems, and the fast-food counter down the street, proof that asset reliability is a universal language. | | Companies to Watch on the MaximoWorld 2026 Stage | | Aerospace, Defense & Space | | NASA, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, and USAF anchor a rare cluster of speakers for whom “asset failure” isn’t an inconvenience — it’s mission-critical. Attendees will get a look at how reliability practices scale when the equipment in question is headed to orbit or protecting national airspace. | | | Government & Public Infrastructure | | USCG, World Bank, Amtrak, Salt Lake City International Airport, State of Arizona Department of Transportation, and Jacksonville Port Authority represent the public-sector backbone of the conference. These are organizations managing reliability at civic scale — where downtime affects entire regions, not just a single plant floor. | | | Healthcare & Life Sciences | | Eli Lilly, Kite Pharma, Cardinal Health, UCSF Health, and University of Michigan Health bring a perspective growing fast within the reliability world: in healthcare, asset uptime is a patient-safety issue, not just an operations metric. | | | Global Brands & Technology Leaders | | IBM, Microsoft Corporation, Honda, McDonald’s, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and US Foods round out a lineup that spans enterprise technology to the supply chains behind household names. With IBM as the creator of Maximo itself, its session is always one of the most closely watched on the agenda. | | | Finance, Consulting & Higher Education | | Transamerica, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Consulting, Northwestern University, and University of Pennsylvania show how far reliability thinking has traveled beyond the plant floor — into financial services, professional consulting, and academic research. | | | The World’s Best Run Companies are Speaking at MaximoWorld 2026 | | This is just a preview — the full roster is still growing. Here’s every organization confirmed to speak so far, listed alphabetically. | ABS Consulting ADP Inc AEP Amentum American Red Cross Amtrak Arcadis Asset Analytix BAE System Banetti Barrick Mining Company Bentley Systems Big West Oil Blue Origin Cardinal Health Chipotle Mexican Grill City of Minneapolis Cohesive Solutions Cook County Deloitte Consulting Dow Inc DPWorld EAM360 EBusiness Strategies LLC eCIFM Solutions Inc Eco Material Technologies EDI Edmonton Regional Airports Authority Eli Lilly Empresas Públicas de Medellín EPEC SAU | Ernst & Young US LLP Honda Hover Energy IBM / International Business Machines I-care Reliability Inc. IT Consol Group Jacksonville Port Authority JLL / Jones Lang LaSalle Kansas City Board of Public Utilities Kenvue Kite Pharma Kurve Solutions Inc Llama LLC Lockheed Martin Maxstack McDonald’s Metallus Inc. Microsoft Corporation Millerknoll Miral Experiences MRM-EAM Consulting Inc NASA Newmark NextEra Energy Northwestern University Nusano Oglethorpe Power Company ONEOK Outfront Media P2Insight Inc. Pampa Sul Energia | Penske Truck Leasing Perdue Foods Petronas Canada PNNL Portland General PRIUX Prometheus Group Salt Lake City International Airport Sedin Technologies (EAM360) Serco SLB State of Arizona / Dept. of Transportation Summit Midstream Partners Syensqo Tech Data TD Synnex Thiran Technologies PVT LTD Total Resource Management Transamerica TRM Group Tucson Electric Power UCSF Health University of California San Francisco University of Michigan Health University of Minnesota University of Pennsylvania US Foods USAF USCG World Bank ZPro Solutions | |