Audience facing a stage with four speakers at the MAINSTREAM Summit

Thirty years of:

Community, Content & Connection

The most loved community in Asset Management, Reliability and Maintenance. Join us in Perth 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 Whadjuk Nyoongar people as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters where PCEC is situated today. We pay our respect to the ancient and continuing cultures and connections to land and to Elders past, present, and emerging.

MAINSTREAM Features

Maintenance Leaders Who Outperform, Master Themselves First

Tools and systems won't sustain reliability – strategy, culture and capability will, and they sit in your hands. A distilled leadership program covering self-awareness, emotional intelligence, influence, safety leadership and accountability, for leaders ready to lift their organisational impact. A workshop by Justina Stromnes.

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The Tracker's Mind: Reading Weak Signals Before Failure Strikes

Ian Schubach is one of the world's foremost African trackers that maps the discipline of the bush onto asset management. Four hours on spotting faint precursors of failure, cutting through alarm noise, testing assumptions, and moving your whole team down one trail.

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Asset Management in Dollars and Sense: Governance That Pays

Heavy investment in maintenance, digital tools and capital projects rarely delivers full value without governance. Build a value thesis, risk-scaled decision rights, clear ownership across the lifecycle, and a 12–24 month roadmap tied to measurable safety and performance outcomes. A workshop by Drew Troyer.

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Escape AI Pilot Purgatory: From Proof to Production

76% of AI initiatives miss expected returns. Diagnose whether you're AI-ready or merely AI-curious, fix data, integration, literacy and governance. Then ask the bigger question: not optimising maintenance by 10%, but reinventing it. Bring your hardest problems. A workshop by Shane Scriven.

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I Should Not Be Alive

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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WA's most forward-thinking companies attended - 750+ registered

More than 750 professionals from 118 of Western Australia's most progressive companies secured their place, representing the organisations driving change, embracing innovation, and shaping the future of our state's economy.

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