| When maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals gather on Marco Island, Florida, December 7–11, they won’t just be trading notes with peers. They’ll be learning directly from the people running some of the most demanding operations in the world. This year’s IMC speaker roster spans energy, water utilities, healthcare systems, aerospace, and heavy manufacturing, proof that asset reliability is a universal language. |
| NEWLY ANNOUNCED KEYNOTE SPEAKER | | Anat Baron: Futurist, Former CEO & Tech Founder | | IMC 2026 is proud to welcome Anat Baron to the keynote stage. With more than three decades of leadership across hospitality, entertainment, consumer products, media and technology, Anat helps leaders make high-stakes decisions in a world reshaped by AI, automation and rapid change. | | She is the creator of The Human + AI Equation, a decision framework for what should stay human-led as AI capabilities accelerate. It’s a natural fit for a conference built on the idea that skilled people working with IoT and AI deliver results faster. | | Best known as the marketing force behind Mike’s Hard Lemonade and now founder and CEO of StashWall, Anat’s insights have been featured in Forbes, Inc., CIO, NPR, CNN and Fox Business. |
| Companies to Watch on the IMC 2026 Stage |
| Energy, Oil & Gas | | Saudi Aramco, Phillips 66, Pembina Pipeline, Precision Drilling, Ameren, GE Vernova, OQ, Mari Energies, and Green Plains bring an energy-sector view of reliability where uptime drives output, safety and the bottom line. Attendees will hear how some of the largest producers, pipelines and power providers keep critical assets running. |
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| Water, Government & Public Infrastructure | | DC Water, Columbus Water and Power, Palm Beach County Water Utilities, Covington Water District, Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board, Fairfax County Government, Alberta Government, City of Lorain, Denver Public Schools, NASA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory represent the public-sector backbone of the conference. These are organizations managing reliability at community scale, where downtime is felt by residents, students and entire regions. |
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| Healthcare & Life Sciences | | AbbVie, Sanofi, Medtronic, B. Braun, Cincinnati Children’s, NewYork-Presbyterian, Mercy, and UCI Health bring a perspective growing fast within the reliability world: in healthcare and life sciences, asset uptime is a patient-safety and product-quality issue, not just an operations metric. |
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| Manufacturing, Materials & Aerospace | | Boeing, International Paper, Smurfit Westrock, Weyerhaeuser, Domtar, GAF, McKee Foods, Worthington Steel, Hydro Extrusion, BYK USA, Messer, and Cintas show what reliability looks like on the plant floor, from aerospace and paper to building materials, food and industrial gases. |
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| Technology, Consulting & Engineering Leaders | | IBM, SAP, Boston Consulting Group, Jacobs, Stantec, CBRE, JLL, Veolia, SKF, and Verdantix round out a lineup that spans enterprise technology, engineering, facilities and advisory work. With this year’s theme focused on getting to value faster with IoT and AI, these are the voices shaping what comes next. |
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| The World’s Best Run Companies are Speaking at IMC 2026 |
| Here’s every organization confirmed to speak so far, listed alphabetically. |
AbbVie
Adaptive Workplace Solutions
Alberta Government
Allied Reliability
Ameren
ARC Advisory Group
Asset Analytix
AssetWatch
B. Braun
Boeing Co.
Boston Consulting Group
Burgess & Niple, Inc.
BYK USA
C&W Services
CBRE
Cincinnati Children’s
Cintas
City of Lorain
Cogep Inc.
Columbus Water and Power
Covington Water District
DC Water
Denver Public Schools
Domtar
DP World
Electranet Enterprises
Elevotec Inc.
Energy Transition Dynamics
Fairfax County Government
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GAF
GE Vernova
Green Plains Inc.
Hydro Extrusion
IBM
I-Care Reliability Inc.
International Paper
IT Consol Group
Jacobs Engineering
JLL
KCF Technologies, Inc.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Life Cycle Engineering
Mari Energies Ltd.
MaxGrip
McKee Foods Corporation
Medtronic
Mercy
Messer
NASA
Naviam
NewYork-Presbyterian
Octave
OQ
Palm Beach County Water Utilities
PEAK Performance Consulting Group
Pembina Pipeline Corporation
Phillips 66
| Precision Drilling
Prometheus Group
Reliability Leadership Institute
Reliability Management Strategies
Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board
Sanofi
SAP
Saudi Aramco
SDT Ultrasound Solutions
SKF
Smurfit Westrock
SPARATECH
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
TD Synnex Inc.
TDK Components USA
TDK SensEI USA
Technical Associates
Total Resource Management
Transcat
UCI Health
Veolia
Verdantix
Verusen
WAF Engineering
Waites Sensor Technologies
Weyerhaeuser
Workplace Learning System
Worthington Steel Columbus
YZR Enterprises |
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