Asset Performance 2026 · Programme Highlights
See asset performance innovation in action
Discover how leading industrial organisations are using AI, reliability strategies, asset data and new ways of working to improve uptime, reduce risk and increase maintenance performance.
Explore selected cases from the Asset Performance 2026 programme, organised around the challenges that matter most to maintenance, reliability and asset management leaders.
18–19 November 2026 · Antwerp, Belgium
Opening keynote · Pragmatic AI
Domtar
AI for Reliability at Domtar: Hype, Help, or Hard Truths?
Get a pragmatic perspective on where AI can genuinely strengthen reliability—and why strong maintenance fundamentals, disciplined execution and realistic expectations still determine whether technology delivers value.
View keynote →Tor IdhammarDirector of Reliability, Paper and Packaging · Domtar
Turn reliability into measurable business value
How do better reliability strategies translate into increased availability, lower costs and stronger business performance? Explore cases where the impact can be measured.
OQ RPI
Turning Reliability into a Measurable EBITDA Driver: A Structured Asset Management Transformation at OQ RPI
Discover how OQ RPI connects structured asset management and reliability improvement with measurable financial performance—and makes the business value of reliability visible.
Attila Kiss
Strategic Asset Performance Principal · OQ
Liqui Moly
20% More Uptime with AI: The Liqui Moly Success Story
Explore a concrete AI use case built around an outcome every maintenance organisation understands: increasing equipment availability and extracting more productive time from existing assets.
Fabian Ziegler
Enterprise Account Executive · remberg
Move from AI potential to practical applications
Where is AI already delivering value? Discover concrete applications in anomaly detection, asset data and maintenance decision-making.
INOPSYS
AI for Early Anomaly Detection – Case: Heat Exchangers of INOPSYS
See how AI can support earlier identification of abnormal equipment behaviour through a practical heat-exchanger application and help maintenance teams move towards earlier intervention.
Dominique Archambeau
Senior Sales Account Manager · Indao
Aquafin
Efficiency in Data Management: The Shift from Manual Data Input to AI-Driven Extraction
Learn how AI-driven extraction can reduce manual asset-data work and create more structured, usable information for maintenance and asset management.
Joris Dircx
Manager Asset Data · Aquafin
Build maintenance excellence across sites
How do you standardise maintenance while accounting for different assets, organisations and local realities?
Sanofi
Sanofi’s Value Driven Global Maintenance & Reliability Program
Learn how a global industrial organisation approaches maintenance and reliability improvement across its operations while maintaining a clear focus on value.
Gunnar Markus
Global Head of Reliability & Maintenance (EMEA/APAC) · Sanofi
Turn asset health insights into action
Ageing assets require difficult choices about risk, investment and intervention. Which assets require attention first, and how can assessments be translated into prioritised action?
INEOS
Translating Asset Health Assessments into Action at Aging Chemical Production Sites
Explore how asset health assessments can become a basis for prioritising action at ageing chemical production sites rather than remaining another layer of technical analysis.
Toon Van Melckebeke
Global Manager Operations Excellence Programs, INEOS Styrolution and INEOS Aromatics · INEOS Styrolution
Give maintenance teams better tools
AI is not only about predictive models. Some of its most immediate opportunities are closer to the frontline: capturing knowledge, improving access to information and helping technicians spend more time on value-adding work.
ROCKWOOL / Dunlop
Stop Leaving Your Frontline Workforce Behind: How AI Voice Agents Redefine Maintenance ROI in Europe – ROCKWOOL & Dunlop Case
Explore how AI voice agents can bring digital tools closer to technicians, capture frontline knowledge more effectively and create a practical route from AI adoption to maintenance productivity.
Martin Pock
Vice President · 2BM Software
Make performance improvement part of daily work
Technology provides better information. People turn that information into better decisions and sustainable performance.
Alpro
OEE: From a Scorecard Metric to the Heart of Daily Operations
Explore how OEE can move beyond reporting and become part of daily operational decision-making—connecting performance data with the people responsible for improving it.
Raf Swinnen
Industry 4.0 Advisor · Maecos – Manufacturing Ecosystem
Evening keynote · European Space Agency
European Space Agency
Sending Spare Parts to Mars Is a Bad Business Case
In space, failure has very different consequences. Spare parts, specialists and immediate intervention may simply not be available.
Discover how extreme space missions challenge conventional thinking about reliability, autonomy, risk and lifecycle performance—and what those principles can teach asset-intensive industries on Earth.
Discover the keynote →Dr. Stefaan De MeyHead of the Strategy Team for Human and Robotic Exploration · European Space Agency (ESA)
Closing keynote · Future of Maintenance
From Agentic AI to Self-Preserving Assets
Redefining Maintenance and Asset Management
Look beyond today’s predictive applications towards Agentic AI, autonomous decision support and assets capable of contributing more actively to their own reliability and preservation.
View closing keynote →Diego GalarProfessor / R&D VP · Luleå University of Technology & SISTEPLANT
Two days. One focus: better asset performance.
These highlights are only a selection.
Asset Performance 2026 brings together maintenance, reliability, asset management and digitalisation professionals to explore practical applications in AI, predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, asset health, EAM, asset data, maintenance strategy, risk and leadership.
18–19 November 2026
Antwerp, Belgium