Sydney - Membership Engagement Forum
2026-05-13 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online – Register to be sent your link
This NSW Members Workshop is designed to actively engage AMC members in shaping the Sydney Chapter’s focus, priorities, and ways of working, while grounding discussions in real-world asset management challenges and practice.
The session will create a two-way dialogue between members, the Sydney Chapter, and AMC to ensure chapter activities remain relevant, practical, and value adding.
By the end of the workshop, we will have:

Identified key asset management topics and themes members want the Sydney Chapter to prioritise
Clarified how AMC can better support members and chapters with practical, on the ground asset management
Explored how the Chapter can improve engagement, participation, and knowledge sharing
Surfaced strategic and tactical issues affecting members’ day to day work
Generated clear actions and ideas to shape the Sydney Chapter’s forward program

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Asset Management Fundamentals - Virtual Classroom
2026-05-14 09:00 - 2026-05-15 13:00, 2026-06-15 09:00 - 2026-06-16 13:00, 2026-07-20 09:00 - 2026-07-21 13:00, 2026-08-13 09:00 - 2026-08-14 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
This training course run over two half-days, each from 9am until 1pm AEST (Melbourne time) and delivered in a live interactive online setting, offers a thorough overview of asset management. The purpose of the Asset Management Fundamentals program is to understand the fundamentals of asset management and how they can provide benefits to the organisation.
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Course learning objectives:

Define asset management within the context of ISO 5500x suite, the Asset Management Landscape and AMBoK
Identify the principles that underpin asset management
Identify available asset management tools and techniques that are applicable within organisational context
Identify opportunities to apply these learnings to improve individual and organisational performance.

Course materials provided in conjunction with online course:

Asset Management Fundamentals Workbook: covering the modules and learnings on the course
Living Asset Management, by J Lafria and J Hardwick: whilst touched-upon during the course, this book focuses on the subject of people and the need for good leadership and strategies for developing a high performance culture which ensures excellence in asset management. Click here for more information on Living Asset Management.
Asset Management Council Framework Book: Defines the strategic concepts of which the AM Council’s Asset Management Body of Knowledge (AMBoK) comprises.
AMBoK Publication 001; Companion Guide to ISO 55001

The Online Exam
To recognise and quantify your learning, an online exam is initiated on the day of the course. Should you choose to take and complete the exam, pass the exam, and agree to comply with a Code of Ethics, you will be certified as a Certified Associate in Asset Management (CAAM) – enabling you to offer evidence to your current and future employers of your personal asset management capability and present them with the knowledge that you have a deeper understanding of asset management related topics and issues. Your CAAM is a great step towards furthering your career in asset management.
Course flyer available for download here.

Adelaide - Bringing AMPEAK back to SA
2026-05-19 17:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Lucid Consulting Boardroom, Level 6, 80 Flinders Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
Join us in Adelaide as we bring key insights from AMPEAK 2026 back to the local community and introduce the new Adelaide AMCouncil Chapter Committee.
This one-hour session features a keynote presentation from Graeme Brown (Infrastructure SA) on South Australia’s State Asset Management Policy and Framework, followed by AMPEAK reflections from local practitioners Michael Sinclair and Gerry Mavrogiannis. The session will close with two technical presentations from Adelaide Chapter Chair Phil Kowalczyk, covering asset management in complex operating environments and lifecycle data management aligned to ISO 19650 and ISO 55013.
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Infrastructure SA – AMPEAK Presentation / State Asset Management Policy Update
This presentation articulates the importance of developing and implementing a statewide Government Asset Management Policy and Framework to drive the performance of the assets and ensure optimised infrastructure investments drive economic, environmental, and social value within acceptable government risk tolerances. It includes the need to implement an asset management assurance framework to ensure that the policy and framework deliver on its expected outcomes and benefits.
Infrastructure South Australia (ISA) is a South Australian (SA) Government statutory authority that provides independent expert advice to the SA Government on the coordination, planning, prioritisation, delivery, and operation of assets and infrastructure. ISA recently launched its new 20 – Year State Infrastructure Strategy 2025 – 2045.
The strategy is seeking to achieve four key outcomes:

Paving The Way to Prosperity
Liveable Today, Flourishing Tomorrow
Shaping A Sustainable Future
Elevating Impact

The fourth outcome strives to maximise the value of our existing state government infrastructure and strategically prioritising infrastructure investments by better managing demand, optimising the use of existing assets, strategically maintaining the assets and developing new assets that are aligned to agreed government service levels.
The strategy identifies four key Strategic Asset Management challenges:

Asset Management maturity levels across government agencies are mixed and should be consistent with best practice
Lifecycle maintenance planning is unsophisticated, based upon historical investment, often reactive, short-term, and inefficient
Assets face unnecessary risk exposure, leading to potential asset failures and service disruption
Climate change impacts are not strategically considered, particularly for critical infrastructure, and asset resilience is not integrated into asset planning and prioritisation.

To address these challenges, the Strategy has two recommendations aimed at providing a whole of – lifecycle, Strategic Asset Management approach that is aligned with government priorities and agreed service levels and supports effective demand management.
The recommendations will enable government investment decisions to be informed by sound asset planning with strategic asset management systems, plans and data providing whole of government oversight on the performance of the asset portfolio.
This presentation will describe how the recommendations will be implemented and managed across the SA Government, in support of an economy that is smart, sustainable, inclusive, and fit for the future.

Graeme Brown is an executive leader with extensive experience across asset and infrastructure sectors at Federal, State, and Local Government levels. He brings deep expertise in asset management, infrastructure planning and capital project delivery, as well as safety, security, emergency management, enterprise risk, and business continuity. Graeme has a strong track record spanning both strategy and operations, with a holistic and innovative approach to aligning resources to deliver effective and efficient outcomes. He is recognised for his collaborative leadership style and ability to engage across government, industry, and community stakeholders to maximise value from finite resources.

AMPEAK 2026 Insights
Hear local reflections from the recent AMPEAK 2026 conference, as Adelaide-based practitioners share their key takeaways, emerging themes, and practical insights from across the program. Featuring:

Michael Sinclair is the Assets Lead at Infrastructure Consulting in Adelaide, helping asset owners turn condition, risk and cost into decisions executives can defend and delivery teams can act on. With 18 years across contracting, consulting and client-side roles, he has coordinated Hastings District Council’s 268-bridge network through Cyclone Gabrielle, served as Deputy Team Leader on Waka Kotahi’s Structures Management Contract for Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne, and contributed to the Design and Construction Supervision of the 128m Puketapu super-tee bridge rebuild. He currently leads condition and structural assessment programs across bridges, culverts and marine structures for state government, regulators, councils, and private clients. Michael is a Chartered Professional Engineer and is a member of the Asset Management Council (Committee member and CAAM), IPWEA and PMI. His focus is the space between strategy and delivery and building the systems, conversations and prioritisation that link condition data to capital decisions, across bridges, marine and civil structures today and other critical infrastructure portfolios over time. Outside work, Michael loves to run (2:40 marathon time), 2-handicap golfer and ice hockey captain. Open to conversations with asset owners and executives looking for sharper decisions out of their structures portfolios.

Gerry Mavrogiannis is National Lead – Operational Readiness at Lucid Consulting and an asset management consultant specialising in the mobilisation of asset management functions across infrastructure and capital projects. He brings a strong foundation in financial modelling, economic analysis, and strategic decision support, with experience spanning FMCG, property, infrastructure, and technology sectors. Gerry has led commercial modelling for large-scale capital projects and now focuses on bridging strategy and delivery—ensuring asset management functions are established to operate effectively from day one. His work centres on operational readiness, including governance, processes, systems, and stakeholder alignment, enabling a smooth transition from project delivery into business-as-usual operations.

Leading Through Complexity: Queensland Government uplift on Government-Wide Asset Management Practices
This presentation provides an update on lessons learned following a 2025 industry presentation that explored the complex interplay between cost, risk, and performance in developing effective maintenance and replacement programs within high‑risk, operationally constrained asset portfolios.
The portfolios examined comprise diverse facilities operating under sustained utilisation pressures, limiting access for proactive maintenance, condition assessment, and renewal activities. These constraints significantly increase operational risk and necessitate a more deliberate, risk‑based approach to Asset Management decision‑making.
The presentation outlines the evolution of a criticality‑led framework that balances safety, service continuity, and asset integrity with lifecycle cost considerations. It reflects on implementation challenges, including data quality, contractor engagement, and operating within restricted environments, and identifies the leadership and governance mechanisms that enabled broader adoption across multiple public‑sector organisations.
By reframing Asset Management in terms of business outcomes rather than technical metrics, the approach demonstrates how risk‑informed Asset Management can support productivity, financial sustainability, and long‑term value creation in complex operating environments.
From Design to Disposal: Managing Asset Data Across the Lifecycle with ISO 19650 and ISO 55013
This presentation articulates the importance of managing Asset data through the entire lifecycle of an asset by adopting the principals of ISO 19650 and ISO 55013.
In an era of increasing complexity and digital transformation, the ability to manage asset data effectively across the entire lifecycle – from planning and design through to operation and disposal – is critical to achieving strategic asset management outcomes.
This presentation will explore the convergence of two international standards: ISO 19650, which governs the organisation and digitisation of information about buildings and infrastructure using Building Information Modelling (BIM), and ISO 55013, which provides guidance on the Management of Data Assets By adopting the principles of ISO 19650, organisations can ensure structured, interoperable, and accessible Asset Information from the earliest stages of a project.
When integrated with ISO 55013, this approach supports a robust Asset Management Framework that aligns data governance with organisational objectives, risk management, and value realisation.
The presentation will highlight practical strategies for embedding these standards into Asset Management practices, emphasising the importance of data continuity, stakeholder collaboration, and digital workflows.
The purpose is to provide a clear understanding of how to leverage ISO 19650 and ISO 55013 to build a resilient, data-driven asset management ecosystem that delivers long-term value. Case studies and implementation insights will demonstrate how this integrated approach enhances decision – making, reduces lifecycle costs, and improves asset performance.

Phil Kowalczyk has built his career on a strong commitment to collaboration, working closely with clients to share knowledge, apply strategic thinking, and unlock greater value from their asset portfolios. He brings a unique blend of strategic insight and operational expertise, enabling smarter decision-making across the asset lifecycle. Phil is passionate about building empowered teams—creating opportunities for individuals to develop their skills, strengthen their capabilities, and contribute meaningfully to the evolution of the asset management industry. This aligns with his purpose of supporting others to advance their careers while driving progress across the sector. He draws on a diverse background in property management, asset and facilities management, and capital project delivery. Phil is known for translating complexity into clear, actionable strategies, combining human insight with commercial precision to deliver practical, high-impact outcomes. He focuses on connecting insight with execution to drive meaningful change for clients, teams, and the broader industry.

Melbourne - Managing Ageing Infrastructure at Scale: A Local Government Perspective
2026-05-21 12:30 - 13:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Level 10 / 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Join the AMCouncil Melbourne Chapter in the Melbourne CBD on 21 May, from 12.30pm to 1.30pm, for a technical presentation exploring the challenges local government faces in managing large volumes of ageing assets — both physical and digital.
Presented by Tze-Sian Hor, Coordinator Asset Management & Systems, Environment & Infrastructure at the City of Stonnington, this session will share practical insights from asset-focused, enterprise-wide business process mapping across key asset classes. Tze-Sian will discuss current and future state mapping, AMIS requirements development, governance uplift, data standards, asset hierarchy considerations, and the importance of aligning asset processes with finance, works management and broader corporate systems.
The presentation will also highlight real-world lessons around system limitations, change management and cross-department alignment, offering valuable takeaways for anyone involved in asset management, digital transformation or local government infrastructure planning.
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Tze-Sian Hor is the Coordinator Asset Management & Systems within the Environment & Infrastructure division at the City of Stonnington. He has over 15 years’ experience with the organisation, beginning his career in the Project Management and Infrastructure Design team as an engineer. Over this time, Tze-Sian has worked across a range of functions, including Transport and Parking, as well as Infrastructure Maintenance, building a broad understanding of local government asset operations. In recent years, he has focused on strategic asset management, leading the development of asset management plans and overseeing asset management systems.

Perth - Women Creating Value: Aligned and Assured Leadership in Asset Management
2026-05-21 17:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia
Women Creating Value brings together five speakers to share their perspectives and experiences under the theme Aligned and Assured Leadership in Asset Management. Spanning leadership, sustainability, artificial intelligence, operational excellence and reliability, this session highlights the many ways women are contributing to value creation in asset-intensive industries. Through practical insights and real-world reflections, attendees will gain a broader view of how leadership, technical capability and innovation come together to shape stronger organisations and better outcomes.
Date: 21 May 2026Time: 5.30pm (for 5.45pm start) – 8pmVenue: City West Lotteries House Conference Room, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth 6005Cost: Free for AMC members. Non-members: $35, or $30 early bird until 11 MayCPD: 4 CPD points available
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Featuring

Natalia Bustamante – Maintenance Superintendent, Hancock Iron OreLeading Through Complexity: Asset Management Leadership in Dynamic Industrial Environments
Daniela Rivas-Aybar, PhD – Sustainability and Carbon Solutions Analyst, Clear CarbonManaging Sustainability like an Asset
Dr Eunice Sari – Director and Co-Founder, Customer Experience Insight and Western Australian AI HubFrom Data to Decisions: How Humanity-Centred AI is Redefining Value Creation in Asset Management
Jacinta Barnett – Manager Operational Excellence, Dampier Salt, Rio TintoLeadership skills for today’s dynamic workplace environments
Shereya Parashar – Senior Reliability Engineer, Woodside EnergyThe Accidental Reliability Engineer: Turning Difference into Strength

Abstract and speaker bios:

Natalia Bustamante
Maintenance Superintendent, Hancock Iron OrePresentation: Leading Through Complexity: Asset Management Leadership in Dynamic Industrial Environments
Abstract:
Effective asset management in pit-to-port operations demands more than technical expertise — it requires leaders who can navigate ambiguity, build credibility across diverse stakeholder groups, and drive organisational change from within complex, high-stakes environments.
Drawing on over 15 years of experience across the mining Industry in Australia, this presentation explores how the integration challenges faced by new leaders in complex organisations and the multi-level responsibilities of transcendent leadership play out in real-world asset management contexts.
Three key themes will be examined through practical examples: how credibility is built incrementally through performance before transformational change becomes possible; how external pressures — regulatory, operational, and technological — can be leveraged to shift organisational interpretive schemes; and how leading self, others, and organisation simultaneously is essential to delivering safety, reliability, and cost outcomes in large-scale industrial portfolios.
The presentation challenges the “romantic” view of the all-powerful leader, offering instead a grounded perspective on how influence is earned, governance is embedded, and lasting operational improvement is achieved in organisations where authority is shared and expertise is distributed.
Speaker bio:
Natalia Bustamante is an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience across the full asset management lifecycle in Australia’s mining resources sector. Her career traces a deliberate path from the operational front line in asset integrity, maintenance reliability, and engineering governance through to strategic investment planning and capital project delivery, giving her an end-to-end perspective across mining, processing, port, and rail environments.
Spanning both the technical and strategic dimensions of asset management, her experience bridges governance, operational performance, and long-term investment planning. A Senior Practitioner in Asset Management and MBA graduate, Natalia combines deep technical expertise with a strong track record of leading diverse teams and driving measurable outcomes in complex, high-value operations.

Daniela Rivas-Aybar, PhD
Sustainability and Carbon Solutions Analyst, Clear CarbonPresentation: Managing Sustainability like an Asset
Abstract:Sustainability is often treated as a reporting requirement, disconnected from how organisations create value. Drawing on her experience at Clear Carbon, Daniela shares her perspective on how improving data integrity, governance, and alignment enables more confident, value-driven decisions across asset-intensive industries. Through this lens, she highlights how managing sustainability like an asset can strengthen leadership, reduce risk, and unlock long-term value.
Speaker bio:Daniela Rivas Aybar is a Sustainability and Carbon Solutions Analyst at Clear Carbon and holds a PhD from Curtin University. She works with asset-intensive organisations to improve the quality, governance, and alignment of carbon and operational data, enabling more reliable reporting and better decision-making.

Dr Eunice Sari
Director and Co-Founder, Customer Experience Insight and Western Australian AI HubPresentation: From Data to Decisions: How Humanity-Centred AI is Redefining Value Creation in Asset Management
Abstract:
AI is changing asset management, but technology alone doesn’t create value. The organizations that achieve the best returns are the ones that put people, governance, and purpose at the heart of their AI strategies.
Drawing from her leadership of the Western AI Hub and over 25 years of experience in human-centered AI, digital transformation, and responsible innovation, Dr. Eunice Sari will explain how organisations in asset-intensive sectors, such as critical minerals, infrastructure, government, and defence, can fully realize the potential of AI while ensuring human judgment, fairness, and accountability remain central.
Key themes include:
– Why “human-centered AI” is essential for governance, not just an afterthought, and what ISO 55000 aligned leadership looks like in the era of agentic AI.
– Real-world examples of AI-driven value creation in mining, infrastructure, and government, where inclusive design principles resulted in more reliable, auditable, and trusted outcomes.
– How women leaders are shaping more resilient, ethical, and high-performing AI systems, and why diverse leadership gives a competitive edge in asset-intensive industries.
– Practical steps for boards, CxOs, and asset managers to transition from AI pilots to consistent, assured, and sustainable AI adoption.
This presentation connects with the event’s three main goals: strengthening leadership skills, promoting governance in line with ISO 55000, and raising the visibility of women leaders in asset-intensive fields.
Speaker bio:Dr Eunice Sari is a globally recognised pioneer in humanity-centred AI and responsible innovation, with over 25 years of experience leading digital transformation across government, industry, and academia in Australia, Southeast Asia, the USA, and Europe. As Co-Founder and Director of Customer Experience Insight Pty Ltd and Co-Founder of the Western AI Hub, the Western Australia’s most active grassroots AI community, she advises governments, enterprises, and startups on building AI that is accountable, equitable, and human-first. The first Asian female Google Mentor in Product Design and Strategy, she has mentored 500+ startups through Google for Startups and global accelerators, helping founders scale responsible AI products. Eunice holds adjunct academic appointments at UNSW, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, Charles Darwin University, and the University of Indonesia, where she teaches and researches AI, Human-AI Collaboration, and Responsible AI governance. Winner of the Belmont Migrant of the Year Award 2025 and CCIWA D&I Small Business Finalist, she is also the Co-Founder of Marginpreneur, championing diversity, equity, and inclusion across WA’s innovation and business ecosystem. Eunice’s life’s work is a single conviction: that the most powerful AI systems are the ones designed around people, not the other way around.

Jacinta Barnett
Manager Operational Excellence, Dampier Salt, Rio TintoPresentation: Leadership skills for today’s dynamic workplace environments
Abstract:In a workplace defined by constant change, agile problem-solving has become a critical leadership capability. This presentation will explore the leadership skills required to unlock the full potential of teams, identify hidden talent, and enhance performance. A key focus will be the importance of recognising and developing capability across the workforce, particularly among women, who continue to be underrepresented in leadership roles. By embracing diverse perspectives and fostering inclusive leadership, organisations are better equipped to navigate complexity, respond to challenges, and succeed in today’s dynamic work environment.
Speaker bio:
Jacinta Barnett is an executive mining and industrial leader with more than 23 years of experience across operations, maintenance, asset renewal, business improvement, operational readiness and large-scale transformation in the resources sector. Her career spans mining, rail, ports, chemical processing and facilities, giving her a strong whole-of-value-chain perspective on asset management and operational performance.
Jacinta currently holds the role of Operational Excellence Manager for Dampier Salt Ltd at Rio Tinto and previously served as Acting General Manager, where she helped lead the business through cyclone recovery while maintaining safety focus and production performance. Across her leadership roles, she has been responsible for major operational and capital budgets, business strategy, contract negotiations, licence-to-operate matters and the leadership of large multidisciplinary teams.
Her experience in asset-intensive environments includes leading rail network renewals across track and civil assets, overseeing large contractor workforces and budgets exceeding $500 million, improving rerail productivity, and strengthening safety performance across internal and partner teams. She has also led cultural and performance transformation in operations, including measurable improvements in safety maturity, people experience and productivity across maintenance and production teams.
Jacinta brings a practical and credible leadership voice to asset management, grounded in real operating environments where reliability, safety, people capability and long-term business value must work together. With qualifications in Minerals Process Engineering, Project Management, Business Leadership and the AICD Company Directors Course, she combines technical depth with executive, strategic and governance capability. She is also a current Vice Chairperson of the Pilbara Kimberley University Centre.

Shereya Parashar
Senior Reliability Engineer, Woodside EnergyPresentation: The Accidental Reliability Engineer: Turning Difference into Strength
Abstract:What starts as an unexpected career turn can become a defining strength. Shereya reflects on her journey from mechanical engineering into reliability, and how she learned to use difference as advantage rather than setback. She shares the lessons that helped her build credibility, simplify decision-making with data, and inspire others to lead from exactly where they are.
Speaker bio:
Shereya is a mechanical engineer by degree and a reliability engineer by pure chance. She entered the field of reliability engineering seven years ago, and what began as an unexpected career path quickly grew into a genuine passion. Today, she can’t imagine doing or being anything else.
She is deeply passionate about connecting people to data to enable informed, confident decision‑making. Shereya has spent much of her career specialising in the development of digital tools and products that support maintenance strategy optimisation, improve asset performance visibility and translate complex data into practical reliability insights.
Beyond the workplace, Shereya applies reliability principles in her day‑to‑day life as a mother, using root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and data‑driven thinking to navigate the beautifully unpredictable realities of family life. Through both her work and her lived experience, she brings a grounded, human perspective to reliability, leadership, and asset management.
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Webinar - AI in Asset Management and Municipalities
2026-05-28 08:00 - 09:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
Join us to explore AI in Asset Management and Municipalities, featuring:

Dean Trumbley, Chief Administrative Officer, Greenwood, BC, and Christina Benty, Founder, Strategic Leadership Solutions, will present on their Award-Winning project. Resilient Greenwood – Building the Future Together won a Union of British Columbia Municipalities Excellence in Asset Management Award for implementation of a transformative approach to infrastructure planning by integrating strategic asset management with proactive community engagement. This forward-thinking initiative, led in partnership with Strategic Leadership Solutions and LandInfo Technologies Inc., is redefining how municipalities sustain essential services like water, roads, and waste management – and how they shift the narrative from talking about taxes to focusing on services.

Stephen Lothrop is an Electrical Engineer with PAE Engineers and leader of an AI innovation project with the Linux Foundation’s Coalition for Smarter Buildings and the Asset Leadership Network. Mr. Lothrop will outline the ways AI for Assets was introduced to the award-winning PAE headquarters building in Portland, Oregon. The building was purposefully built to publicly demonstrate advanced technology tools and processes that can advance management of all facility assets. However, the smart assets in the building were not communicating effectively with each other. The AI innovation project allowed visibility to photovoltaics charging battery storage assets in a way that improved combined use of these assets, which mimic a utility grid and is therefore advantageous beyond facility asset management. Other repeatable innovations will be shared.

Wendy McPate, Chair, Asset Management Council will provide a brief overview of her recent trip to Washington, D.C. for the Global Asset Management Summit: Repeatable Success Stories, which promoted this VBAM web series.

The presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel with Dean Trumbley, Christina Benty, Nick Phillips, Mike Bordenaro and Wendy McPate to answer your questions!

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Virtual Event - Research and Industry Day 2026 (RAID)
2026-06-09 10:00 - 14:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
In collaboration with Federation University, this free for all guests event is where Academia meets Industry to share the latest research in maintenance and asset management. Consisting of a series of virtual presentations by final year students undertaking maintenance and asset management research projects, it’s an opportunity for students to share their research and findings with Industry and for Industry to find out what is happening with the latest research and how this can be applied to your organisation. A number of students will present their research in rapid fire presentations with an opportunity for participants to ask questions after each presentation. Tune in for the whole day or just the presentations that are of interest.
It’s a good chance to discover:

Findings from latest research and studies
How it applies to what you do
What skills and experience can contribute to your success
How to stay ahead of your competition to remain viable

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Program:

10.00am

Introductions (AMCouncil Anne Gibbs, and Professors Gopi Chattopadhay, Ivan Mareels and Joarder Kamruzzaman)

10.30am

Reliability Improvement and Fire Risk Mitigation on Conveyor Belts in Mining (Vipu John Mathew)

10.50am

Enhancing Train Software Reliability in Maintenance Stage – A Case Study on Train Stopping-Aid Function Failures (Haocheng Shi)

11.10am

Power system monitoring of Control Systems Assets for the Alumina production plant (Amr Hegab)

11.30am

Risk-based Decision Making in Maintenance Intervals of Light Rails in Australia (Muhammad Hussain)

11.40am

A Modified Total Cost of Ownership Framework for Fatigue Testing Equipment in Academic Laboratories (Adewale (Moses) Oyeku)

12.00pm

LUNCH

12.30pm

Reliability-Centred Digital Modernisation Framework for CNC and Metal-Forming Assets in Australian SME (Srinivas Polisetti)

12.50pm

Risk-Informed Life Extension Decisions Using Unstructured Maintenance Data (Venkata Sai Prashanth Sudula)

13.10pm

A Bayesian Decision-Making Framework for Life Extension of Long-Life Complex Assets under Data Scarcity (Ravi Welandge Don)

13.30pm

A Comparative Analysis of Key Performance Indicators for monitoring and preventive interventions in the Rail Sector (Dennis Noble)

13.50pm

Risk-Based Overall Equipment Effectiveness to Total Productive Maintenance: Translating Measurement into Action in Meat Manufacturing (Vickram Chundhoo)

14.20pm

Closing Words

Webinar - Systems Thinking for Land Maintenance: Integrating Digital Engineering, Analytics and Machine Learning for Sustainment Optimisation
2026-06-10 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
Modern sustainment environments are becoming increasingly complex, requiring organisations to move beyond siloed maintenance approaches toward integrated, enterprise-wide systems thinking. This webinar explores how Systems Thinking principles, combined with Digital Engineering (DE), Machine Learning (ML), and advanced analytics, can support smarter and more effective land maintenance and sustainment outcomes.
The session will present a high-level model-based approach to maintenance optimisation, demonstrating how data-driven decision-making and integrated digital ecosystems can improve operational effectiveness while maintaining technical integrity and assurance.
Key themes will include:

Applying Systems Thinking to maintenance and sustainment environments
Leveraging Digital Engineering and Machine Learning to improve maintenance decision-making
Reducing inefficiencies, delays, and wastage across sustainment processes
Enhancing visibility, governance, and enterprise integration through data and analytics
Balancing cost optimisation with technical integrity and capability assurance

The webinar will also discuss the growing importance of integrated engineering ecosystems, enterprise data alignment, and advanced analytics in shaping the future of Defence and complex asset sustainment.
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Presenters:

Manas Dhiman is a Systems Engineer with a biomedical engineering background and experience across defence health capability, vehicle sustainment, and enterprise systems. She holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering and has developed her career working across complex, integrated Defence programs. She spent three years in Land Division supporting JP2060 Phase 3 – Deployable Health Facilities, contributing to the delivery and sustainment of deployable health capability. She also worked within PMSPO Bushmaster, supporting sustainment activities for a critical land capability. She subsequently moved into Engineering Technology and Materiel Logistics (ETML) Division, where she works as a Systems Engineer on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) programs, with responsibilities including standards management, systems integration, and assurance across enterprise-level capabilities. Her experience spans across systems engineering, standards governance, sustainment support, and capability integration across multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on delivering reliable and scalable solutions in complex operational environments.

Sandeep (Sunny) Jadhav is an accomplished Electrical Engineer and senior Defence leader with extensive experience in Army project delivery, through-life support, Defence reform, and continuous improvement. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma, with multiple master’s degrees and a strong publication record in systems engineering, organisational excellence, and data analytics. He is also an active educator, mentor, and advocate for STEM, agile thinking, and digital transformation across Defence, industry, and academia. Currently, he serves as Director Systems Engineering – CASG (ETML), having also led Digital Twins, IoT, and Defence analytics initiatives within Defence ERP.

Christchurch - Growing Asset Management Capability (Hybrid Event | Technical Presentations & Exclusive KiwiRail Tour)
2026-06-11 16:00 - 18:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | KiwiRail Waltham Maintenance Hub, 67 Mowbray Street, Waltham, Christchurch
Join the Asset Management Council New Zealand Chapter in Christchurch for an afternoon focused on growing asset management capability through practical industry insights, followed by an exclusive behind-the-scenes technical tour of KiwiRail’s new rolling stock and maintenance facilities.
This hybrid event will feature two technical presentations from industry leaders, exploring asset management capability uplift, regulatory-driven transformation, rolling stock investment, and ISO 55001 implementation.
Following the presentations, attendees joining us in person will have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive technical tour of KiwiRail’s new rolling stock and maintenance facilities.
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Please note: In-person attendance is capped at 30 and priority will be given to AMCouncil members. The KiwiRail technical tour is available to in-person attendees only and requires mandatory PPE, including suitable safety footwear.

Event format
4:00 pm – 5:15 pmTechnical presentations (available in person and online)
5:15 pm – 6:30 pmExclusive KiwiRail technical tour (in-person attendees only)
Please note:

Online attendees are welcome to dial in to the presentation session and will be disconnected following the presentations.
The KiwiRail technical tour will not be broadcast online.
No photography or video recording is permitted onsite during the technical tour.

Due to site restrictions, in-person attendance is strictly capped at 30 participants, with priority given to AMCouncil members.
Presentation 1
Transpower’s Regulatory Journey and Asset Management GrowthJames Collinson-SmithAsset Planning Manager – HVDC and Reactive, Transpower
Across four regulatory control periods, Transpower has built the asset management capability required to justify long-term grid investment.
This presentation explores how RCP3 represented a step-change in capability, including the introduction of new health models, criticality modelling across 10 asset classes, and forensic life-extension investigations.
Looking ahead, RCP4 (2025–2030) builds on this foundation through modern data platforms, Python-based modelling, lidar and drone-enabled risk management, and structured workforce development — all underpinned by a regulatory framework increasingly focused on service-measure accountability as New Zealand prepares for the energy transition.

James Collinson-Smith brings over 40 years of experience across New Zealand’s electricity sector, spanning generation, transmission, wholesale markets, and trading. Over the past decade, he has led the establishment and maturation of asset management systems aligned to ISO 55000 at Transpower. His experience includes asset planning and portfolio management for complex grid assets, including HVDC Converter Stations and Subsea Cables, reactive assets, protection systems, and substation systems, as well as the successful development and delivery of regulatory proposals to the Commerce Commission.

Presentation 2
Overview of KiwiRail’s New Rolling Stock and Maintenance Facilities, and ISO 55001 CertificationSteven RosserRolling Stock Organisational Standards Lead, KiwiRail
Major investments in rolling stock and maintenance capability across New Zealand’s South Island are reshaping how rolling stock is maintained.
This presentation provides an overview of KiwiRail’s recently developed maintenance facilities and how their design, capability, and workflow integration are enabling safer and more efficient maintenance outcomes.
Steven will also discuss the introduction of new DM locomotives and the opportunities and challenges they present for asset management — including reliability improvements, condition monitoring, skills uplift, lifecycle planning, and integration with KiwiRail’s asset management systems.
Supporting these developments is KiwiRail’s implementation of ISO 55001, including the recent certification of its Major Plant and Equipment Asset Management team. The presentation will highlight lessons learned, practical implementation steps, and how the standard is helping embed consistency, governance, and continuous improvement across rolling stock asset management.

Steven Rosser is the Organisational Standards Lead based in Christchurch, where he plays a key role in strengthening Asset Management practices across Rolling Stock. Steven leads the Rolling Stock ISO 55001 certification programme, implementing systems and processes, and delivering training and coaching to meet the standard. His work is focused on driving the adoption of a risk-based, aligned approach that enhances asset integrity and reliability.

Important PPE Requirements for In-Person Attendees
As this event includes access to an operational workshop environment, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is mandatory.
Attendees must wear:

Safety footwear (minimum requirement: covered footwear suitable for a workshop environment)
High-visibility clothing
Safety glasses
Bump cap or hard hat

KiwiRail can provide high-visibility clothing, safety glasses, and bump caps onsite if required. However, safety footwear cannot be provided, and attendees must bring their own suitable footwear.
Registration Information
In-person registrations close: Thursday 5 June

AMCouncil members: Free (priority access for in-person attendance)
Non-members: Registrations open from 1 June, subject to availability, $50 per person

Those unable to attend in person are encouraged to register for the online presentation session.

Melbourne - The Capital Investment Playbook - Building Defensible Business Cases
2026-06-17 12:15 - 13:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Level 10 / 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Every asset management leader has experienced it.
The condition data is solid.
The risk is real.
The numbers stack up.
And yet the funding request stalls, gets deferred, or comes back with questions that have nothing to do with the engineering.
This is not a data problem. It is a framing problem.
In this session, Shane Scriven walks through SAS-AM’s Capital Investment Playbook. First published in the AMC Journal March 2026. Attendees will learn how Boards actually read papers, what each of the five director archetypes is looking for, and how to anchor an asset management proposal to an existing Risk Appetite Statement.
The session covers five repeatable plays, from deferred maintenance through to decarbonisation and capability uplift, and gives everyone a portable mental model they can take into the next business case cycle.
You will leave with:

A seven-block structure for any Board paper
A translation layer from engineering KPIs to clinical outcomes
A pre mortem template you can run with your team this week
Five reusable Plays

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Shane Scriven is the founder and Managing Director of SAS Asset Management, an Australian advisory and analytics firm that helps asset owners across health, transport, resources and the public sector turn engineering knowledge into defensible investment decisions. He has spent two decades working with operators of complex, high consequence assets, and has personally led capital business cases through Treasury gates, executive committees, and Boards of Directors. Shane writes and speaks regularly on asset investment strategy, decision quality, and the persistent gap between technical evidence and the way leadership groups approve funding.

Online Workshop 1 of 4 - Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project (Knowing the Asset)
2026-06-25 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
AI is rapidly entering asset management — but where should it support decision-making, and where must humans remain responsible? This online workshop series invites AMCouncil members and asset management professionals to explore the Human–AI Boundary in asset management, sharing practical examples, concerns and insights across the asset lifecycle to help shape future AMCouncil guidance.
Online Workshop 1 of 4 – Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project
Title: Knowing the Asset
Purpose: Explore how AI can help organisations understand what assets they have, what they know about them, and where asset information is incomplete.
Focus areas: Asset registers, drawings and manuals, inspection photos, field notes, work orders, document extraction, data cleansing, tacit knowledge capture, digital twins, knowledge graphs.
Core Question: “Can AI help us know our assets better, or will it amplify poor asset information?”
Participant Expectations: Attend one or more online workshops, respond to live polls, contribute questions or comments, complete a short post-session survey
Benefits to Participants: 1hr CPD point per online workshop, access to workshop notes, exposure to collective emerging AI-in-AM thinking, chance to shape AMCouncil guidance, opportunity to hear cross-sector examples
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Register for other workshops in this series
This session is part of AMCouncil’s online workshop series exploring What Should AI Do in Asset Management — and What Must Humans Still Do?
Participants are welcome to attend one or more workshops. Each session will focus on a different asset management decision area and help shape AMCouncil’s Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management.

Workshop 1: Knowing the Asset – Thursday 25 June – Register here
Workshop 2: Condition, Performance and Risk – Wednesday 1 July – Register here
Workshop 3: Planning, Prioritisation and Investment – Wednesday 15 July – Register here
Workshop 4: Work, Operations and Intervention – Thursday 30 July – Register here

Online Workshop 2 of 4 - Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project (Condition, Performance and Risk)
2026-07-01 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
AI is rapidly entering asset management — but where should it support decision-making, and where must humans remain responsible? This online workshop series invites AMCouncil members and asset management professionals to explore the Human–AI Boundary in asset management, sharing practical examples, concerns and insights across the asset lifecycle to help shape future AMCouncil guidance.
Online Workshop 2 of 4 – Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project
Title: Condition, Performance and Risk
Purpose: Explore AI in asset health, condition assessment, predictive maintenance, risk modelling and reliability decisions.
Focus areas: Asset health, deterioration, predictive maintenance, risk models, criticality, reliability
Core Question: “When AI predicts condition, performance or failure, what must humans validate before action is taken?”
Participant Expectations: Attend one or more online workshops, respond to live polls, contribute questions or comments, complete a short post-session survey
Benefits to Participants: 1hr CPD point per online workshop, access to workshop notes, exposure to collective emerging AI-in-AM thinking, chance to shape AMCouncil guidance, opportunity to hear cross-sector examples
Click here to register
View Project Page
Register for other workshops in this series
This session is part of AMCouncil’s online workshop series exploring What Should AI Do in Asset Management — and What Must Humans Still Do?
Participants are welcome to attend one or more workshops. Each session will focus on a different asset management decision area and help shape AMCouncil’s Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management.

Workshop 1: Knowing the Asset – Thursday 25 June – Register here
Workshop 2: Condition, Performance and Risk – Wednesday 1 July – Register here
Workshop 3: Planning, Prioritisation and Investment – Wednesday 15 July – Register here
Workshop 4: Work, Operations and Intervention – Thursday 30 July – Register here

Online Workshop 3 of 4 - Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project (Planning, Prioritisation and Investment)
2026-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
AI is rapidly entering asset management — but where should it support decision-making, and where must humans remain responsible? This online workshop series invites AMCouncil members and asset management professionals to explore the Human–AI Boundary in asset management, sharing practical examples, concerns and insights across the asset lifecycle to help shape future AMCouncil guidance.
Online Workshop 3 of 4 – Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project
Title: Planning, Prioritisation and Investment
Purpose: Explore AI in renewal planning, capital prioritisation, maintenance optimisation, budget allocation and whole-of-life decision making.
Focus areas: Renewals, maintenance plans, capital allocation, whole-of-life cost, budget optimisation, trade-offs
Core Question: “Should AI optimise asset investment, or should it only show humans the trade-offs?”
Participant Expectations: Attend one or more online workshops, respond to live polls, contribute questions or comments, complete a short post-session survey
Benefits to Participants: 1hr CPD point per online workshop, access to workshop notes, exposure to collective emerging AI-in-AM thinking, chance to shape AMCouncil guidance, opportunity to hear cross-sector examples
Click here to register
View Project Page

Register for other workshops in this series
This session is part of AMCouncil’s online workshop series exploring What Should AI Do in Asset Management — and What Must Humans Still Do?
Participants are welcome to attend one or more workshops. Each session will focus on a different asset management decision area and help shape AMCouncil’s Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management.

Workshop 1: Knowing the Asset – Thursday 25 June – Register here
Workshop 2: Condition, Performance and Risk – Wednesday 1 July – Register here
Workshop 3: Planning, Prioritisation and Investment – Wednesday 15 July – Register here
Workshop 4: Work, Operations and Intervention – Thursday 30 July – Register here

Webinar - ISO/IEC 19770-11: 2021 Systematic Review
2026-07-16 13:00 - 13:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
This presentation outlines the current 5-year systematic review of ISO/IEC 19770-11:2021, the global standard that defines how organizations are audited and certified for IT Asset Management (ITAM) systems. The primary objective of this session is to gather vital industry feedback on the relevance of the standard, potential gaps or risks, and whether a local AS/NZS adoption is needed to support ITAM certification in high-value environments. By participating, attendees will help shape the future of local auditing consistency and determine how closely ITAM should align with broader asset management standards like ISO 55001.
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Ashley Choy has over 20 years of global experience in data analytics and visualization in the asset management and engineering sectors. She is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMI) and Certified Practitioner of asset management (CPAM). For the past 9 years till now, she has worked for Aurecon to help the digital transformation and increase operation efficiency by at least 30% of an average effort. She is keen on picking technology to develop efficient business processes and data analytics, big data processing, which in turn help improve the business continuity. She has been nominated as the technical committee on behalf of Asset Management Council on IT-015 (Software and System lifecycle) in Standard Australia.

Brisbane - July Trivia and Networking Event (Christmas Themed)
2026-07-16 17:30 - 19:30 (Australia/Brisbane) | Cicada Blu – The Star (Skydeck), 33 William Street, Brisbane City, QLD, 4000, Australia
We’re excited to invite you to the Asset Management Council Brisbane Chapter – July Trivia and Networking Event (Christmas Themed), back by popular demand.
Following the overwhelmingly positive feedback from last year’s July event and repeated requests from participants to bring it back, we’re thrilled to deliver the same format, same vibe and same fantastic location once again. This year’s event will feature the following:

Asset Management related trivia (win cool AMCouncil stickers!) and
Brief overview of Advancing Asset Management Through Intelligent Monitoring and Predictive Technologies

This will be complemented by an enjoyable evening of connection, networking and festive fun in a relaxed Christmas-themed setting.
📍 Venue: Cicada Blu, The Star Skydeck (Brisbane)
📅 Date: Thursday, 16 July 2026
⏰ Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
We’ll have free light nibbles to keep you fuelled and you can grab your favourite drinks at the bar (on you!).
Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors: Detection Services and Rockfield Technologies Australia for making this merry event.
We look forward to welcoming you for another engaging and memorable evening. 🎄
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Melbourne - Asset Investment Planning: Critical Success Factors for a Strategic Business Function
2026-07-21 12:00 - 13:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Brightly Office, Level 9, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Asset Investment Planning (AIP) is a critical function of any asset intensive organisation. When performed well, organisations can unlock significant capital and generate additional value for stakeholders. Conversely, inadequate AIP practices often result in elevated lifecycle costs, uncoordinated activities and an underperforming asset portfolio that poses service interruptions, public safety risks and misalignment with evolving societal needs.
The presenter, Rory Gibbons, brings over a decade of expertise in implementing AIP frameworks across both public and private sectors. With comprehensive experience spanning diverse industries including education, local government, maritime infrastructure, transportation, and water utilities, Rory has successfully delivered AIP initiatives across an extensive range of assets from municipal streetlighting to critical national port infrastructure.
In the session, Rory will share a selection of key learnings and case studies from his professional portfolio which will demonstrate the successful application of AIP principles. Rory will emphasise the importance of project fundamentals, the power of asset criticality and the need for a multilingual expression of outcomes. Furthermore Rory will highlight common watchouts and provide tips that can become strength multipliers for your AIP practices.
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Rory Gibbons is an Asset Services Team Lead at Brightly, where he leads asset investment planning projects for APAC clients. As a chartered asset management & engineering professional with over 14 years in the industry, Rory has extensive experience working with infrastructure, throughout all lifecycle stages and across a broad range of sectors, including local government, ports, energy, transport and water. Rory is dedicated to helping clients optimise value and achieve sustainable infrastructure outcomes through strategic asset management initiatives.

Webinar - Data to decision making
2026-07-23 18:00 - 19:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
There is a common theme building around ensuring we have a clear line of sight from data to decision making.
The idea is that any data we collect needs to align with the core value drivers for the organisation and the associated decision points. Each presentation will speak to this concept from a different perspective.
Presentations:
Executive Engagement

Executive sponsorship and governance provide the ownership, accountability, and momentum needed to successfully deliver asset data transformation. Communicating the asset data model in business terms helps executives understand its value in improving investment decisions, reducing risk, and enhancing operational outcomes. Early stakeholder engagement, clear communication, and practical examples build confidence, support change adoption, and sustain commitment.

Ian Aldridge is a water industry professional with over 30 years of international experience. Throughout his career, he has led the lifecycle delivery of major water and wastewater infrastructure projects across the UK and Australia, developed asset management frameworks with a particular focus on asset data and information management, and supported utilities in improving operational performance and long-term asset sustainability. A passionate advocate for the value of high-quality data and information, Ian is well placed to share insights on asset management, digital transformation, infrastructure planning, and the critical role that data plays in delivering sustainable and resilient water services.

Leveraging asset portfolio data for integrated maintenance investment modelling

How do you turn millions of asset data records into confident maintenance decisions? Main Roads Western Australia manages a diverse infrastructure portfolio spanning roads, bridges, electrical assets, intelligent transport systems and associated infrastructure across one of the largest geographically spread road networks in the world. This presentation explores the critical role of data quality, completeness and timeliness in building a reliable long-term maintenance investment model. It shares the journey of transforming disparate data sources into asset-class-specific models that collectively provide a portfolio-wide view of future maintenance needs. The result is an integrated decision-support capability that translates complex asset information into practical, evidence-based insights for long-term maintenance planning and investments.

Lalinda Karunaratne leads the asset management modelling and analytics function at Main Roads Western Australia, with a multi-disciplinary team spanning modelling, analytics and geospatial intelligence to strengthen evidence-based maintenance planning and investment decision-making. With over 15 years’ experience across engineering, consulting and government, Lalinda specialises in asset lifecycle modelling, data governance and communicating complex technical data to support strategic decision-making. Lalinda is a Chartered Engineer (CPEng), Certified Practitioner in Asset Management (CPAM), and a Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA), with postgraduate qualifications in infrastructure asset management and pavement engineering.

Data to Dollars: Data from the Executive’s Viewpoint

Executives do not experience data as rows, tags, dashboards, or reports. They experience data as confidence, risk, timing, trade-offs, accountability, and enterprise value. This 15-minute executive overview introduces Data to Dollars: a practical framework for converting operational evidence into better decisions, better actions, and measurable outcomes across financial performance, safety, environmental stewardship, service reliability, and license to operate. The session also reframes data sustainability. Data are sustainable when they are anchored to gaming-resistant KPIs that signal the value being sought — as leading or lagging indicators. When the KPI is meaningful, the data required to support it become durable, governed, and decision-relevant. The message is simple: data are the difference between deciding and guessing. The executive challenge is to create a clear line of sight from operational evidence to enterprise value.

Drew Troyer is an asset management, reliability, and sustainable manufacturing executive with more than 35 years of industrial experience. A former senior asset management leader with Rio Tinto and Anglo American, he is now Executive Principal – Asset Management & Sustainable Manufacturing with Bootleg Advisors. He has authored more than 450 publications and is the founder and editor of Reliable Magazine. Drew holds an MBA from Oklahoma City University and a master’s degree in sustainability from Harvard University. His work helps executives connect operational evidence, risk, and decision architecture to measurable enterprise value.

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Adelaide - People, Purpose and Perspective
2026-07-28 12:00 - 13:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | Spot Coworking Adelaide, Level 6, 12 Pirie Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
Join us for an engaging session that brings asset management to life through the stories, insights and experiences of industry professionals. People, Purpose & Perspective will explore how effective asset management is driven not only by systems and technical decisions, but by the people, culture and shared purpose behind them. From crisis response and risk-based decision-making to career journeys and strategic objectives, this event will offer fresh perspectives on building resilient assets, stronger organisations and better outcomes for the communities we serve.
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Presentations:
What a Drinking Water Crisis Taught Me About Risk, Assets and Culture
The Havelock North drinking water contamination incident fundamentally changed how New Zealand’s water sector thinks about risk, public health, and asset management. Drawing on more than a decade of experience supporting Hastings District Council following the incident, Carly Price-Hopgood will reflect on the lessons learned about the relationship between technical systems, organisational culture, and decision-making.
This presentation explores how asset management extends beyond maintaining infrastructure, requiring organisations to understand and communicate risk effectively. Carly will share insights into translating complex technical information into meaningful conversations that enable better decisions, build resilience, and support long-term improvements in water services.

Carly Price-Hopgood is a water industry professional with more than 25 years of experience across New Zealand, New South Wales, and South Australia. Having worked for water suppliers, regulators, and consulting organisations, she brings a unique perspective on the challenges of balancing technical, regulatory, and operational priorities. For the past decade, Carly has been closely involved in the transformation of water management practices following the Havelock North drinking water contamination incident in NZ, supporting improvements in asset management, risk management, compliance, and organisational culture. She is particularly known for her ability to translate complex technical information into accessible insights that support confident and informed decision-making. Alongside her technical expertise, Carly is a professional workplace coach who believes that lasting improvements in asset management are achieved through both strong systems and strong people. She is passionate about helping organisations better understand risk, build resilience, and deliver safe and sustainable water services for their communities.

Asset Management Objectives and my Journey
The joy of seeing asset management objectives start to embed through the business and the possibilities it creates for people to embrace the value of asset management as a result.

Ali Walsh has over 10 years experience at SA Power Networks leading both operational and engineering teams. She is passionate about ensuring that decisions made today will stand the test of time which is the fundamental goal of good asset management. Her current role as Manager Expenditure Forecasting allows her to bring together business and asset management knowledge to ensure that the forecast of required expenditure to deliver good customer outcomes in the short and long term can be well understood and supported by the Australian Energy Regulator.

My Career Journey
Excerpts from the various trials and tribulations that have shaped and developed me as an asset management professional.

Emily Mboya is a Principal Engineer in Electrical safety at BHP, where she has spent four years driving critical risk management and safety assurance across Olympic Dam in SA. With a background in Electrical Engineering and a focus on capital project oversight, Emily has worked across project scope development, contractor management, and risk-based decision making. Her work sits at the intersection of operational safety and asset integrity, both which drive effective asset management. Emily is passionate about embedding risk thinking into how Olympic Dam plans, executes and sustain their asset management practices.

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Online Workshop 4 of 4 - Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project (Work, Operations and Intervention)
2026-07-30 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
AI is rapidly entering asset management — but where should it support decision-making, and where must humans remain responsible? This online workshop series invites AMCouncil members and asset management professionals to explore the Human–AI Boundary in asset management, sharing practical examples, concerns and insights across the asset lifecycle to help shape future AMCouncil guidance.
Online Workshop 4 of 4 – Human-AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management Project
Title: Work, Operations and Investment
Purpose: Explore when AI should move form decision support into action.
Focus areas: Work orders, scheduling, field support, operations optimisation, automated intervention, human override
Core Question: “When should AI move from recommending work to triggering work?”
Participant Expectations: Attend one or more online workshops, respond to live polls, contribute questions or comments, complete a short post-session survey
Benefits to Participants: 1hr CPD point per online workshop, access to workshop notes, exposure to collective emerging AI-in-AM thinking, chance to shape AMCouncil guidance, opportunity to hear cross-sector examples
Click here to register
View Project Page

Register for other workshops in this series
This session is part of AMCouncil’s online workshop series exploring What Should AI Do in Asset Management — and What Must Humans Still Do?
Participants are welcome to attend one or more workshops. Each session will focus on a different asset management decision area and help shape AMCouncil’s Human–AI Boundary Framework for Asset Management.

Workshop 1: Knowing the Asset – Thursday 25 June – Register here
Workshop 2: Condition, Performance and Risk – Wednesday 1 July – Register here
Workshop 3: Planning, Prioritisation and Investment – Wednesday 15 July – Register here
Workshop 4: Work, Operations and Intervention – Thursday 30 July – Register here

Sydney - AI in Action: Practical Applications for Asset Management Decision-Making
2026-07-30 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Ausgrid Roden Cutler House, 24-28 Campbell Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Join the Sydney Chapter for an evening exploring practical applications of AI in asset management. Across three short presentations, speakers will share how AI, machine learning and computer vision are being applied to complex asset management challenges — from improving system understanding and decision-making under uncertainty, to scaling inspection and condition assessment, strengthening failure classification, and supporting governed, auditable analytics. This event will provide a practical look at how engineering-led AI can support better risk visibility, data quality and asset management decisions.
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Building a Practical AI-Assisted Environment for Complex Asset Management Problems
In this presentation, Dr Kevin Hang demonstrates how a structured, engineering led approach to AI, grounded in professional judgement, validation, and practical workflows, can be applied to complex asset management challenges. Focusing on real world implementation rather than theory, he showcases how AI operating within a secure local environment can improve system understanding, enhance risk visibility, and support more informed decision making under uncertainty.
The presentation draws on insights and outcomes from the successful completion of the 2025 Asset Management Council Research Scholarship.

Dr Kevin Hang is an Asset Life Cycle Manager with Sydney Trains, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) in both Asset Management and Civil Engineering, and a Certified Senior Practitioner in Asset Management (CSAM). He specialises in asset lifecycle optimisation, data driven decision making, and AI assisted analytics for transport infrastructure assets. Dr Hang has developed practical approaches that integrate engineering expertise, machine learning, probabilistic cost-benefit analysis, and local data environments to support infrastructure investment decisions under uncertainty. His work focuses on transforming complex asset, operational, and environmental data into actionable insights that enhance asset performance, resilience, and long-term value.

ML/AI Image Recognition for Asset Inspection and Condition Assessment
This session covers how Ausgrid is applying computer vision and AI to detect and assess defects from inspection imagery, prioritise high-risk assets for early review, and deliver consistent assessments at a scale. Trained on Ausgrid’s defect nuance and built on a reusable cloud-based AI architecture, the capability extends beyond bushfire auditing to support broader asset inspection and condition assessment programs. The same foundation unlocks future use cases including identifying problematic asset inventory, opportunistic analysis of historical photo archives, transforming large volumes of visual data into structured, actionable insights for asset management and network risk.

Lili Chen is a Network Digitisation Technical Lead with extensive experience delivering AI at scale across critical infrastructure, building enterprise-grade AI systems that move well beyond proof-of-concept and into operational use. She specialises in translating innovative AI concepts into reliable, enterprise-scale solutions that support real-world decision-making in operational environments. Combining technical depth with strong domain expertise, her work spans computer vision for asset condition assessment across millions of drone images, satellite and LiDAR-based asset monitoring, predictive vegetation management, vegetation maintenance optimisation, and geospatial AI.

AI Assisted Notification Data Cleaning for Asset Failure Classification and Governance
This session covers how Ausgrid is applying AI, NLP, and rules-based governance to improve the quality and consistency of asset notification data. The capability interprets messy free-text descriptions, Ausgrid-specific abbreviations, and inconsistent failure tagging to recommend more accurate failure classifications, assign confidence scores, and route uncertain cases for SME review. Built with a governed feedback loop between Databricks processing and SharePoint-based SME review, the solution converts AI outputs into maintained rules tables, dictionaries, and failure-tree updates, ensuring the process remains explainable, auditable, and resilient even if AI models change over time. Beyond correcting individual records, the approach helps identify recurring taxonomy issues, failure-tree gaps, and upstream data-capture improvements, creating a scalable foundation for stronger asset analytics, risk modelling, and decision-making.

Xi Chen is a Technical Lead in Asset Modelling at Ausgrid, specialising in asset risk modelling, data-driven decision making, and AI-assisted analytics for electricity network assets. She develops practical approaches that combine engineering knowledge, statistical modelling, NLP and LLM methods, and governed data platforms to improve asset performance, resilience, and long-term investment planning. Her work focuses on turning complex asset, failure, and operational data into scalable, actionable insights for risk modelling, asset management, and regulatory decision support.

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Canberra - AI in Action: Practical Applications for Asset Management Decision-Making
2026-07-30 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Nellie Hamilton Centre, 257 Crawford St, Queanbeyan, ACT, 2620, Australia
We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive live stream event hosted by the Canberra Chapter. Join local Asset Management Council members for an engaging evening as we gather together and dial into Sydney’s technical session, “AI in Action: Practical Applications for Asset Management Decision-Making.”
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain insights, network with peers, and enjoy some light refreshments and nibbles in a relaxed setting. We look forward to welcoming you at the Canberra Chapter Meet!
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About the Session:
Building a Practical AI-Assisted Environment for Complex Asset Management Problems
In this presentation, Dr Kevin Hang demonstrates how a structured, engineering led approach to AI, grounded in professional judgement, validation, and practical workflows, can be applied to complex asset management challenges. Focusing on real world implementation rather than theory, he showcases how AI operating within a secure local environment can improve system understanding, enhance risk visibility, and support more informed decision making under uncertainty.
The presentation draws on insights and outcomes from the successful completion of the 2025 Asset Management Council Research Scholarship.

Dr Kevin Hang is an Asset Life Cycle Manager with Sydney Trains, a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) in both Asset Management and Civil Engineering, and a Certified Senior Practitioner in Asset Management (CSAM). He specialises in asset lifecycle optimisation, data driven decision making, and AI assisted analytics for transport infrastructure assets. Dr Hang has developed practical approaches that integrate engineering expertise, machine learning, probabilistic cost-benefit analysis, and local data environments to support infrastructure investment decisions under uncertainty. His work focuses on transforming complex asset, operational, and environmental data into actionable insights that enhance asset performance, resilience, and long-term value.

ML/AI Image Recognition for Asset Inspection and Condition Assessment
This session covers how Ausgrid is applying computer vision and AI to detect and assess defects from inspection imagery, prioritise high-risk assets for early review, and deliver consistent assessments at a scale. Trained on Ausgrid’s defect nuance and built on a reusable cloud-based AI architecture, the capability extends beyond bushfire auditing to support broader asset inspection and condition assessment programs. The same foundation unlocks future use cases including identifying problematic asset inventory, opportunistic analysis of historical photo archives, transforming large volumes of visual data into structured, actionable insights for asset management and network risk.

Lili Chen is a Network Digitisation Technical Lead with extensive experience delivering AI at scale across critical infrastructure, building enterprise-grade AI systems that move well beyond proof-of-concept and into operational use. She specialises in translating innovative AI concepts into reliable, enterprise-scale solutions that support real-world decision-making in operational environments. Combining technical depth with strong domain expertise, her work spans computer vision for asset condition assessment across millions of drone images, satellite and LiDAR-based asset monitoring, predictive vegetation management, vegetation maintenance optimisation, and geospatial AI.

AI Assisted Notification Data Cleaning for Asset Failure Classification and Governance
This session covers how Ausgrid is applying AI, NLP, and rules-based governance to improve the quality and consistency of asset notification data. The capability interprets messy free-text descriptions, Ausgrid-specific abbreviations, and inconsistent failure tagging to recommend more accurate failure classifications, assign confidence scores, and route uncertain cases for SME review. Built with a governed feedback loop between Databricks processing and SharePoint-based SME review, the solution converts AI outputs into maintained rules tables, dictionaries, and failure-tree updates, ensuring the process remains explainable, auditable, and resilient even if AI models change over time. Beyond correcting individual records, the approach helps identify recurring taxonomy issues, failure-tree gaps, and upstream data-capture improvements, creating a scalable foundation for stronger asset analytics, risk modelling, and decision-making.

Xi Chen is a Technical Lead in Asset Modelling at Ausgrid, specialising in asset risk modelling, data-driven decision making, and AI-assisted analytics for electricity network assets. She develops practical approaches that combine engineering knowledge, statistical modelling, NLP and LLM methods, and governed data platforms to improve asset performance, resilience, and long-term investment planning. Her work focuses on turning complex asset, failure, and operational data into scalable, actionable insights for risk modelling, asset management, and regulatory decision support.

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Webinar - China’s Three-Tier Digital Transformation Architecture: From Infrastructure to Industry Intelligence
2026-08-12 13:00 - 13:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
In this session, Fan Yunjie will introduce a progressive three-tier architecture for digital solutions spanning five key sectors: digital governance, non-traditional security, national communications, unmanned intelligence and industry applications. The architecture provides a complete end-to-end framework, extending from foundational infrastructure and shared technology platforms through to industry-specific applications. It supports digital transformation across a diverse range of sectors through solutions tailored to different levels of organisational need and capability.
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Fan Yunjie is a Senior Engineer with more than 10 years of extensive experience across public safety, emergency response, digital government and related fields. She has significant experience in providing technical support and delivering overseas projects, and has led the development of several national-level digital platforms and industrial digitalisation initiatives.

Webinar - Global Asset Management Summit: Repeatable Success Stories from Washington DC
2026-08-13 08:00 - 09:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Online – Register to be sent your link
Join us to explore Global Asset Management Summit: Repeatable Success Stories from Washington DC, web presentations building on the April 2026 Summit,
featuring:

Kerry Lowman is Asset Management Program Director, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Civil Works. He is a Civil Engineer with more than 17 years at the USACE, Civil Works. He has progressed from his original Structural Engineer position to Regional Asset Manager and is now Asset Management Program Manager. When asked to speak with us, Mr. Lowman was excited to share the 2026 US Army Engineering Research and Development Report on how the USACE Civil Engineers is improving how it estimates the likelihood of failure for its infrastructure, with recent reports highlighting a transition from expert-based assessments toward data-driven, statistical models to support risk-informed decisions. This will be provided in the VBAM format. Peter Dodgian formerly represented USACE.

Richard Dietz is Project Manager – Capital Asset Replacement Scheduling System at Office of the Chief Financial Officer for the Government of Washington, D.C. He has presented the measurable values and benefits from having 100 departments use the same system to report to the CFO, where more than US$22 billion is managed every year. By running the Asset Management system through the Chief Financial Office, there is a fiscal incentive to report assets accurately. With an increased amount of Asset Management efficiency and effectiveness, the department continues to develop gains for the City. Learn how AI and other tools and processes have continually improved Asset Management outcomes for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of Washington, D.C. The DC Government commitment to continual improvement is itself a value and benefit to the tax payers, citizens, and guest of the United States Capital.

The presentations will be followed by a Discussion Panel with Kerry Lowman, Richard Dietz, Nick Phillips, Mike Bordenaro, and Peter Kohler to answer your questions!
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New Zealand Asset Management Symposium - Collaborating for Greater Impact
2026-08-13 09:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Auckland University of Technology Conference Centre, 56 Wakefield Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
Date: 13 August 2026
Time: 9am (for 9.30am start) – 4.30pm
Location: Auckland University of Technology Conference Centre
Theme: Collaborating for Greater Impact
Cost: $250 (Australian Dollars)

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Keynote Speaker: Jessie Lea (New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga) – From projects to long-term planning: asset management as the foundation
Panel Session: Both Sides of the Fence: What Public and Private Asset Managers Can Learn from Each Other
Other speakers:

Wendy McPate (AMCouncil) – AMC 2026: Building Capability, Community and the Future of Asset Management
CDR Phil Bradshaw and CDR Robyn Locke (Royal NZ Navy) – Maritime Fleet Renewal Programme
James Kilty (Transpower) – Innovating to deliver New Zealand’s electrified future
Nathan Cammock (Auckland Transport) – Electrifying Auckland’s ferry fleet
Dawn Inglis (Co-Lab) – REG Consistent Condition Data for NZ Roads – efficient delivery enabling effective decision making and vice cersa
Phillip Conroy and Christopher Butt (Babcock) – Risk based decision making and asset management planning for the RNZN
Alex Castellanos (Unison) – Automating the visual assessment of copper conductors

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Keynote: From projects to long-term planning: asset management as the foundation
New Zealand’s infrastructure system is under increasing pressure to deliver better outcomes from existing assets, while responding to affordability constraints, changing demand and long-term investment needs. This keynote will introduce Te Waihanga Infrastructure Commission’s role in the investment management system and outline how the National Infrastructure Plan, the Government response, and the Commission’s emerging asset management assurance function are shaping expectations for stronger, more disciplined asset management across central government.
The presentation will provide a practical overview of Te Waihanga’s Asset Management and Investment Planning Guidance, with a particular focus on meeting Cabinet’s requirements, performance metrics, and the shift from project-led decision-making to long-term, portfolio-based asset management planning. While the Guidance is directed at central government agencies, the principles are relevant to all asset-intensive organisations: better use of evidence, demand and economic forecasts; stronger whole-of-life planning; and ensuring that business cases are grounded in robust asset management and investment plans – moving beyond short-term responses and building the strategic foundations needed.

Jessie Lea is Special Advisor for Asset Management at the Infrastructure Commission, leading initiatives to improve asset management across central government. A Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor (MRICS) with over 20 years’ experience in property and asset management in the UK and NZ, she is shaping long-term strategies aligned with the National Infrastructure Plan and Cabinet’s asset management programme. Jessie advocates for elevating asset management professionalism within government, driving meaningful change and equipping agencies with tools and guidance to deliver effective practices.

Maritime Fleet Renewal Programme
An overview of the Maritime Fleet Renewal Programme, the largest acquisition and transformational programme ever undertaken by the NZDF and some of the workforce, engineering and logistical considerations as the programme progresses.

CDR Phil Bradshaw is a Marine Engineer who has held a diverse range of roles including leadership of the Navy’s Marine Engineering Training School, two years as Marine Engineering Head of Department onboard an operational Frigate and four years as resident Naval representative for the lower South Island. Since promotion to Commander he has been Director of the Defence Media and PR Organisation, held responsibility for the introduction into service of major maritime capital projects, been Deputy Chief Naval Engineer, Chief of Staff for HQ Defence Logistics Command and is currently leading the infrastructure component of the MFR programme.

CDR Robyn Locke is a marine engineer with a specialty in naval architecture. She started her career in the Canadian Navy, serving at sea on HMCS Regina and Fredericton and ashore in naval architecture focused areas. She joined the NZDF in 2018, working in engineering policy and regulation before joining the MFR programme as the Technical Lead.

Innovating to deliver New Zealand’s electrified future
As New Zealand electrifies in an environment where resource costs are escalating ahead of inflation, at Transpower it’s more important than ever that we innovate to meet the growing demands of our work.
As the owner and operator of the national grid and a major infrastructure builder, we put considerable effort into keeping our costs as low as possible without sacrificing reliability or moving too slowly for New Zealand’s electrification needs. We have a number of work programmes underway to do this, including carefully managing our assets to get as much life out of them as possible, and a new challenge to help us accelerate key improvement activities underway to increase throughput and find savings for the long term while delivering on committed outcomes.
This is about working smarter and building on what we are already doing well, while adapting and innovating as an organisation to continue to deliver for New Zealanders.

James Kilty joined Transpower as Chief Executive in February 2025, prior to that he was Chief Executive at Powerco for three years. He has 25 years’ experience in the energy industry, holding a range of leadership roles at Contact Energy including Deputy Chief Executive, and has held a range of industry Board and leadership roles. James holds an LLB (Hons) (1st class) from Waikato University and has completed both the Harvard Business School High Potential Leadership Course and the Advanced Management Programme at Chicago University Booth Business School.

Electrifying Auckland’s ferry fleet
Auckland Transport’s Low Emission Ferry Programme is delivering a significant ferry asset transition, responding to the dual challenge of fleet renewal and decarbonisation. While ferries carry only around 6% of Auckland’s public transport passengers, they account for approximately 20% of its emissions highlighting both the urgency and opportunity for change.
This paper outlines how Auckland is enabling electric ferry operations through the deployment of fast charging infrastructure, including New Zealand’s first marine Megawatt Charging System (MCS) installation. Operating at up to 3.3 MW, this infrastructure supports rapid ‘opportunity charging’ during passenger boarding, enabling electric vessels to maintain existing timetables without requiring additional vessels or operational compromise.
Delivering this capability within constrained waterfront environments and legacy electricity networks has required innovative approaches to both engineering design, system integration, and ongoing asset management. Key challenges include maintaining high operational reliability, integrating emerging international standards that are still under development, and enabling the flexibility to adapt to future industry direction.
A central feature of the charging solution is the use of advanced load management, allowing ferry charging demand to be actively managed as a flexible load. This enables peak demand to be reduced, network constraints to be respected, and existing infrastructure to be utilised more efficiently without overbuilding network capacity.
As the first vessels and charging systems transition into operation, Auckland’s experience demonstrates how complex transport electrification can be delivered while balancing performance, cost, and risk to do more with less.

Nathan Cammock is a chartered electrical engineer and Programme Director for Auckland Transport’s Low Emission Ferry Programme. He has experience delivering complex programmes of work as an asset owner, consultant, and construction contractor across power transmission, distribution, and generation sectors – both locally and in the UK. Nathan joined Auckland Transport in 2020, and has led road safety initiatives, busway construction, and more recently the renewal and electrification of Auckland’s public transport ferry fleet.

REG Consistent Condition Data for NZ Roads – efficient delivery enabling effective decision making and vice cersa
Consistent condition data is important in the transport sector’s approach to lifecycle asset management, benchmarking, performance management and investment decision making. The Road Efficiency Group Te Ringa Maimoa (REG) is delivering the first phase of the Consistent Condition Data Collection (CCDC) project: sealed pavement surfacing data collection of all local authority roads. This presentation outlines how the programme was developed, the business case objectives, and what the data is enabling – benchmarking and better investment decision making.

Dawn Inglis is the Manager of RIMU – Road Infrastructure Measurement & Use – a business unit within Co-Lab, in the Waikato. RIMU plays a key role in delivering the Consistent Data Collection Contract (CCDC) project for the Road Efficiency Group Te Ringa Maimoa (REG) programme. A Fellow of Engineering NZ, Dawn is a passionate and experienced engineer who has spent most of her career in local government. She brings deep expertise in transport asset management, having previously served as Group Manager Service Delivery at Waipā District Council and Manager of RATA (Regional Asset Technical Accord).

Risk based decision making and asset management planning for the RNZN
In May 2022, Babcock Australasia commenced its journey toward achieving and maintaining ISO 55001 certification. A key milestone in this process was the establishment of an effective asset management team comprising of a support, asset risk and assurance.
A structured approach has enabled the creation of comprehensive Asset Management Plans which forecast maintenance and cost until EOL. This structured approach has also enabled Decision-makers to confidently approve treatment actions based on clearly defined Risk detail incorporating evidence of impact, likelihood and mitigation details.
Risk Management is a key part of Asset Management. Knowing a risk is there is the easy part. Getting that information to the right person who can make the decision to improve it is the hard part. Technical teams and executive leadership speak fundamentally different languages, and neither side has developed adequate translation tools.
It is not easy to develop this competency across an organisation. In this presentation, we’ll look at some examples of good and bad risk communication, provide some tricks and hints on developing engineers to work well with others, and develop your skills at getting your decisions made.

Philip Conroy joined the Royal Navy in 2000 as a Marine Engineer. He served on Aircraft Carriers HMS Ark Royal, HMS Invincible and HMS Ocean. During his time in the Roal Navy he completed his Artificer training, receiving a Degree in Marine Systems Engineering and gained extensive knowledge of Marine Mechanical/Electrical systems. After 14 years Philip left the Royal Navy to start a new chapter in New Zealand. Philip Joined the Royal New Zealand Navy in 2014 and was assigned to HMNZS Canterbury. After reindorsement of his engineering certificates, he took on the role of Propulsion Plant Maintenance Manager. After three years serving on-board HMNZS Canterbury Philip came ashore to join the Operational Support Team, providing support for all Royal New Zealand Navy Platforms. He was also the Fleet Diesel Inspector during this time. After 20 years at sea, Philip left the Royal New Zealand Navy. He has remained in the Royal New Zealand Navy Reserve Force unit and regularly assists with training. He is occasionally deployed to assist in various engineering roles. Philip started a new role at Babcock (NZ) in 2020, working on a systems risk assessment project for 2 years. This project was the foundation for his current role where he leads a team managing Risk for all Royal New Zealand Navy Platforms.

Christopher Butt is the Availability, Reliability, Maintainability for Babcock NZ, working for the Royal New Zealand Navy. In this role he is responsible for root cause investigations and identifying corrective action into technical issues with Naval vessels. Chris has worked in defence, maritime and rail sectors throughout his 13 year career. Chris has a Master’s degree in Science from the University of Manchester. Outside of work, Chris enjoys bikepacking and whitewater kayaking.

Automating the visual assessment of copper conductors
This presentation explores the development of an automated approach for assessing the visual condition of overhead copper conductor at Unison Networks Ltd. The process deploys Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to capture pictures of electricity distribution lines, then Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are applied to the photographed conductor to provide a consistent visual score. The visual score output is used as an input to evaluate the condition of copper conductor. Learnings will be shared as well as future work including the potential use of these images to improve assets’ data quality.

Alex Castellanos is working as Digital Engineering Technical Lead at Unison Networks Ltd. He obtained a PhD degree (2015) in electrical engineering from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). He has over 15 years of experience in the power and energy industry including energy use, power generation, and power transformers monitoring and control. His current area of interest is data analytics and condition monitoring for the management of electricity distribution network assets.

AMC 2026: Building Capability, Community and the Future of Asset Management
The future of asset management will not be defined by technology alone. It will be shaped by how quickly we can learn, adapt and collaborate as a profession. As artificial intelligence, climate resilience, ageing infrastructure and workforce capability reshape our industry, no single organisation has all the answers. Building capability now extends beyond organisational boundaries and depends on strong professional communities, practical knowledge sharing and global collaboration. In this session, Wendy McPate, National Chair of the Asset Management Council, explores how the profession is evolving to meet these challenges. Drawing on experiences from international collaboration, including engagement with the United Nations and infrastructure leaders in Washington DC, Wendy will share how the Asset Management Council is helping practitioners build capability through AI education, intelligent knowledge tools, professional pathways, technical communities and global partnerships. This presentation is not about technology replacing people. It is about empowering people to make better decisions, build stronger connections and prepare for the next generation of asset management challenges. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for building capability within their own organisations and a renewed appreciation of the role that collaboration plays in creating better outcomes for our profession, our organisations and the communities we serve.

Wendy McPate is the National Chairperson of the Asset Management Council and a senior engineering and asset management leader with more than 25 years of experience across Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom. Her career spans engineering delivery, asset strategy, organisational leadership and governance across energy, utilities, resources and critical infrastructure sectors. Wendy is passionate about building capability through connected professional communities and believes that the future of asset management will be shaped by collaboration across industries, disciplines and international borders. Under her leadership, the Asset Management Council continues to strengthen its role as a practitioner-led community that brings together expertise from energy, infrastructure, defence, resources and other asset-intensive industries. Through initiatives spanning artificial intelligence, professional pathways, global partnerships, technical committees and contributions to international guidance and standards, the Council is helping practitioners prepare for the next generation of asset management challenges and opportunities. Wendy is a strong advocate for lifelong learning, practical knowledge sharing and creating opportunities for people to contribute, connect and build capability together.

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Brisbane - Site Visit to Aurizon Rail Welding Facility (Yeerongpilly)
2026-08-18 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | 740 Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly QLD, 740 Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly, QLD, 4105, Australia
Join the Asset Management Council (Brisbane Chapter) for a technical site visit to Aurizon’s Rail Welding Facility at Yeerongpilly. This compact but critical operation produces long welded rail for construction and renewal programs across Aurizon Network, Queensland Rail and other rail operators.
The visit will commence with a site safety induction, followed by a guided tour led by Andrew Kumar, Site Manager. Participants will gain insight into the rail welding process and the facility’s role in supporting safe and reliable rail operations.
The session will also feature an asset management presentation by Sanjna Reddy (Asset Manager – Rail, Aurizon), covering how rail renewals are prioritised based on wear, fatigue and asset condition. This data-driven process enables Aurizon to identify and plan approximately 100 km of rail renewals each year. During the tour, Peter Hermann (Principal Engineer, Aurizon) will provide additional insights into rail performance, degradation mechanisms and renewal strategies.
Attendance is limited to 20 participants, with attendees split into two groups rotating between the facility tour and presentation/discussion session.
PPE Requirements
Participants must bring and wear:

Safety boots
Long-sleeve high-visibility shirt
Long pants
Safety glasses

Networking Lunch
Following the formal site visit, participants are invited to join an informal networking lunch at Café Bliss on Riverside, located just three minutes from the facility. This provides an opportunity to continue discussions with fellow asset management professionals and Aurizon representatives in a relaxed setting.
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AMCouncil Maintenance & Reliability Symposium 2026 (Sydney)
2026-08-27 08:30 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney Masonic Centre, 66 Goulburn St, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Maintenance for Resilience📅 Thursday 27 August 2026 | 📍 Sydney Masonic Centre
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Maintenance for Resilience
This year’s theme, Maintenance for Resilience, will explore how effective maintenance and reliability practices can strengthen organisational resilience, improve asset performance and support continuity in an increasingly complex operating environment.
At the centre of the symposium is the question:
How do maintenance and reliability practitioners keep critical assets safe, reliable and productive when assets are ageing, systems are increasingly connected, data is imperfect and disruption is becoming normal?
The symposium will bring together maintenance and reliability practitioners, asset managers, infrastructure operators, digital specialists, operational technology professionals and resilience leaders to explore the changing role of maintenance in asset-intensive organisations.
Across the day, presentations and case studies will take a practical look at some of the challenges currently facing maintenance and reliability teams, including:

maintaining ageing assets already under pressure
developing effective asset tactics and maintenance plans
designing maintenance readiness into new and greenfield infrastructure
using AI to create automation and reliability value
ensuring spares and supply chains support operational resilience
managing system disruption and energy dependency.

Through technical presentations, practical case studies and industry discussion, the symposium will examine how maintenance is evolving beyond traditional asset care to become a critical enabler of safety, productivity, operational continuity and organisational resilience.
Join us in Sydney for a day of technical learning, practical insight and professional connection.

Keynote: Keeping the Fleet Moving: Maintenance Trade-offs for Ageing Rolling stock
A deep dive examining:

how maintenance teams keep ageing fleets safe, reliable and available under operational and financial pressures
how short-term operational decisions can create longer-term reliability risks
how practitioners can defend essential maintenance interventions

Shane Day is the Asset Management and RAMS Discipline Manager for Downer Rail & Transit Systems, leading a multidisciplinary team of asset management, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) specialists across major rail and transit programs. He has extensive experience across asset management, maintenance operations, reliability engineering and through-life support, with a strong focus on applying data-driven analysis to improve asset performance, operational outcomes and whole-of-life value. A passionate advocate for modern asset management practices, Shane specialises in ISO 55001-aligned asset management, reliability analysis, maintenance strategy development, root cause analysis and asset performance improvement. Throughout his career, he has supported the delivery of major rolling stock, light rail and infrastructure projects, helping organisations bridge the gap between engineering, maintenance and operations to achieve sustainable performance improvements. His approach combines practical operational experience with strategic asset management leadership, ensuring investment and maintenance decisions are evidence-based, risk-informed and focused on delivering measurable business outcomes.

Ready for Takeoff: Effective Spares Management for Operational Resilience at Brisbane Airport
This presentation will share Brisbane Airport’s journey in improving its approach to spare parts management. Presented as a practical case study, it will explore where the journey began, the lessons learned along the way, where the organisation is today, and the next steps towards achieving better practice.
The session will provide practical insights for others looking to strengthen their own spares management processes and improve asset support outcomes.

Mitchell O’Shea is a Reliability Engineer at Brisbane Airport Corporation with eight years of industry experience across water, mining, oil and gas, and aviation. With a background spanning consulting and site-based operations, he brings practical insight into asset reliability, maintenance strategy and operational performance in complex infrastructure environments. Mitchell’s work focuses on improving operational resilience through applied reliability practices, data-informed decision-making and stakeholder collaboration aligned with operational needs. His cross-industry experience enables him to apply lessons learned from diverse asset environments to drive safer and more reliable outcomes.

Maintenance Readiness in a Greenfield Network

Juliano Santos is the Maintenance Director at ACEREZ M&L which is building a new transmission network in the Central-West Orana region. He leads the team that will train workers and look after the systems needed to keep this major energy infrastructure running safely for the next 35 years. Juliano has a keen focus on engineering, technology and problem-solving, including the use of drones, robotics and artificial intelligence to inspect, maintain and operate large energy assets. He is passionate about creating local careers in renewable energy.

Muhammad Tayyab is the Transmission Lines Asset Engineer at ACEREZ M&L which is building a new transmission network in the Central-West Orana region. He leads the asset management function for all things transmission lines and is focussed on understanding how the decisions made during planning and design ultimately affect those responsible for operating and maintaining the assets and associated outcomes. He is particularly interested in making sure reliability and maintainability are considered early at design stage, rather than being addressed once the asset is already in service.

Managing System Disruption and Energy Dependency

Erik Vandenberg is a Certified Fellow of Asset Management (CFAM), Chartered Engineering Executive (CEng, EngExec) and General Manager at Verbrec. With more than 25 years’ experience across energy, mining, and infrastructure, he works with industry and government to develop resilient, sustainable solutions spanning conventional energy, renewable gas, and emerging decarbonisation technologies.

Building Maintenance Plans That Deliver Reliability
Braeden will use case studies translating asset strategy into practical maintenance tactics, intervention choices and lifecycle planning.

Braeden Knox is an Asset Management Consultant with WSP’s Strategic Asset Management team in Sydney, with a background in mechatronic engineering, systems engineering and digital technology. He has worked across asset management strategy, planning, assurance, maintenance and digital engineering for organisations including Transport for NSW, Sydney Trains, Transgrid and Taronga Zoo. His experience includes ISO 55001 assessments, asset management planning, condition assessments, technical maintenance planning and asset information systems. Braeden brings a practical perspective on how engineering, data and technology come together to support better asset management decisions, and how emerging technologies such as AI may shape the capabilities needed by asset management professionals in the future.

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Melbourne - Asset Fair Value to AASB 13: bridging a gap between finance and asset managers
2026-08-27 12:00 - 13:15 (Australia/Melbourne) | Level 10 / 550 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Asset managers and finance teams have differing commitments in the management of assets for their organisation. Asset valuations require an understanding of both perspectives to form a unique perspective that is of interest to investors, owners, tax authorities and others.
Valuations for financial reporting are required to meet AASB 13 and they in turn are derived from Valuation Standards. Valuation professionals are obliged to comply first with their industry standards and then with accounting standards. While valuations are generally understood by most the detail is complex and often leads to misunderstanding and confusion.
The presentation seeks to inform and align asset managers understanding of the language and rational of valuations.
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Ben has spent over 20 years valuing and assessing balance sheet assets from a broad range of industries. Ben’s career commenced in manufacturing with Ford, then progressed to eCommerce, Asset Trading, Financing and Consulting with valuation a core discipline. He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser with the American Society of Appraisers, Certified Practicing Valuer with the Australian Property Institute, Member of the Asset Management Council and has completed a Master of Business Administrations (Executive), Master of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (Mech) and Grad Dip of Finance & Investment at key stages in his career.
