The Maintenance Summit. 9th Edition

Accelerating Reliability: Driving Excellence, Efficiency & Sustainability


27 - 29 April 2026.

Learn How to Transform Maintenance into a Competitive Advantage

The Pavillion, Evo Road, GRA. Port Harcourt City.

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Accelerate Reliability: Driving Excellence, Efficiency & Sustainability

The world of maintenance and reliability is evolving at lightning speed — driven by digital transformation, sustainability goals, and the growing need for operational resilience.

The Maintenance Summit 2026 invites leaders, engineers, and innovators to explore how Africa can accelerate reliability performance across industries — transforming maintenance from a cost center into a strategic driver of excellence, efficiency, and sustainability.

This year’s theme, “Accelerate Reliability,” emphasizes moving faster in adoption, innovation, and impact — leveraging people, processes, and technology to deliver measurable uptime and business value.

Summit Focus

The 2026 summit will focus on how organizations can accelerate reliability maturity through five interconnected dimensions:

  1. Leadership & Culture – creating high-reliability organizations.
  2. Digitalization & Data – harnessing CMMS, IIoT, and AI for predictive insights.
  3. Asset Integrity & Performance – ensuring safe, reliable, and optimized assets.
  4. Sustainability & Efficiency – building green, cost-effective maintenance systems.
  5. People & Competence – developing the next generation of reliability leaders.

    Special Features


  • Reliability Excellence Awards 2026
    Recognizing outstanding performance in innovation, reliability improvement, and sustainability.
  • Maintenance Technology Expo
    Showcasing digital tools, condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance systems.
  • Africa Society for Asset Management
    Promoting inclusion, mentorship, and leadership in engineering.
  • Young Professionals & Start-Up Track Encouraging emerging reliability innovators and entrepreneurs.

Meet The TMS2026 SPEAKERS

Ticket Pricing

Basic ticket

NGN

125,000

• All conference technical sessions
• Access to industry case studies
• Conference certificate
• CEU points
• Lunch & refreshments
• Access to exhibition area

corporate table

NGN

500,000

Includes 5 Full Delegate Passes

Core Access

• Access to 2-Day Conference
• Access to all technical sessions
Conference certificates & CEU points for all delegates
Lunch and refreshments for both days
• Access to networking sessions and exhibition area

Full ticket

NGN

250,000

• 2-Day Conference
• Half-Day Workshop
• Mentorship Session with Industry Leaders
• CEU Points
• Certificate of Participation
• Conference Proceedings
• Meals & Networking Sessions

vip ticket

NGN

450,000

• 1-Day Executive Masterclass
• 2-Day Conference
• VIP Front-Row Seating
• Exclusive Speaker Dinner
• Private Networking with Sponsors & Executives
• Conference Proceedings
• CEU Points
• Certificate
• Premium Delegate Kit

🏆 The Reliability Excellence Awards

 

The Reliability Excellence Awards recognize organizations and professionals who have demonstrated measurable, sustainable, and innovative achievements in maintenance, reliability, asset integrity, and operational excellence.

These awards celebrate leaders who move beyond routine maintenance and actively build reliability-driven cultures that improve safety, uptime, cost performance, and long-term asset value.

      AWARD OBJECTIVES
       The awards aim to:
  • Promote world-class reliability and asset management practices
  • Recognize organizations achieving quantifiable performance improvements
  • Encourage adoption of predictive, digital, and condition-based strategies
  • Celebrate leaders driving cultural transformation toward reliability excellence
  • Establish African industry benchmarks for maintenance performance
    GENERAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

        Applicants must demonstrate evidence in at least one operational facility, plant, or asset portfolio              over the last 24 months. Submissions must show:

  • Documented reliability or maintenance improvement initiative
  • Before-and-after performance data
  • Alignment with structured reliability methodologies
  • Evidence of leadership support and cross-functional involvement
  • Sustainability of results (not one-off success)

Reliability Excellence Award Categories

 

  1. Reliability Transformation Award
  2. Best Predictive Maintenance Program
  3. Digital Maintenance Innovation Award
  4. Asset Integrity Excellence Award
  5. Maintenance Cost Optimization Award
  6. Reliability Leadership Award (Individual)
  7. Young Reliability Professional Award
  8. Lifetime Contribution to Maintenance & Reliability



Summit Enrollments close on  April 27th 2026

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