Keynotes

Jody Parsons, Leader and Organizational Development Coach, Tulsa, OK

This keynote challenges attendees to go beyond passive participation and fully engage with the opportunities at Reliable Plant and beyond. By exploring real-world examples of leaders who have mastered engagement, this session will inspire attendees to maximize their experience at the event and bring those practices back to their workplaces. Unlike traditional keynotes, this session shifts the focus to self-engagement—encouraging attendees to take an active role in learning, collaboration, and driving meaningful change in their reliability programs.

VIP Keynote

Jeff Winter, Industry 4.0 & Digital Transformation Enthusiast, Jeff Winter Insights

Jeff Winter explores how manufacturers can thrive in the era of industry 4.0 by capturing and harnessing the power of data to unlock innovation and deliver new revenue streams. Jeff explains how this can be done and highlights the companies who are doing it best.

Raymond Dalley, Business Development Manager, Trico Corp

Join Ray Dalley of Trico Corp/Predict for a captivating journey through the history of oil analysis—from its early roots in the 1960s to the cutting-edge technologies of today. With more than 30 years of experience in research, manufacturing, sales, and marketing of ferrography (wear particle analysis), Ray offers a unique perspective on how oil analysis has evolved and shaped the world of reliability. This keynote will also issue an inspiring call to action for the next generation to advance and carry this vital technology forward.

Howard Penrose, President, MotorDoc LLC

Energy costs are set to soar in 2025, with Midwest capacity prices jumping from $30 to $667/MW-day and Northern Illinois energy rates expected to rise 45% by July. As demand grows from onshoring and AI-driven data centers, companies must get proactive about energy management. This session explores how maintenance and reliability strategies can cut energy costs and emissions—up to 50%—while improving throughput and reducing equipment damage. Learn how to identify savings opportunities and why energy optimization is directly tied to your P&L, production costs, and sustainability goals.

Jeremy Drury, Owner, Jeremy Drury IoT

With new technologies flooding the reliability space, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed—or worse, invest in solutions that overpromise and underdeliver. While some innovations drive real improvements, others are just hype. This session cuts through the noise, highlighting the latest reliability-centered technologies, identifying those worth piloting, and calling out the ones that still need to prove their value. Attendees will walk away with a clear methodology for assessing, testing, and integrating new tech to ensure they’re investing in solutions that truly enhance reliability, not just chasing the next big thing.

Jon Bucciarelli, President, SDMyers

Join us for a time of reflection, fellowship, and interfaith prayer, along with an inspiring message from a guest speaker. This inclusive event is open to all who wish to take part in a moment of spiritual renewal before the day’s activities begin. Sponsored by: SDMyers This event is open to all attendees, but pre-registration is required.

VIP Keynote

John Weiler, Senior Sales Manager, Boston Dynamics

Teja Schubert, Director Automation Controls Technology & Support, West Fraser

What if you could automate your most mundane, tedious tasks—tasks you never thought you could automate—with robots? In this session, we’ll share how walking robots empower reliability teams to keep your plant running at peak efficiency as you face increasingly constrained resources. Whether you are a small business or a global enterprise, companies of all sizes are increasingly challenged to do more with less. You are being asked to increase reliability and uptime as assets continue to age. Your most experienced employees are leaving the workforce and not enough talent is coming in to fill the gaps. All the while, you face mounting pressure to make progress toward Manufacturing 4.0 goals. Artificial intelligence has promised to catapult you over these hurdles—and now, some of you have started seeing early success on this journey. In this presentation, we will share a firsthand look at how companies are realizing return on their investments in AI with the help of agile, mobile robots.

Frank Pereira, Managing Partner, Coleman Consulting Group

Sleep…we spend about a third of our lives sleeping, yet most of us know very little about it. Sleep affects almost every aspect of our daily life. We need to know the essentials of how the human body responds to work demands. As leaders and managers, we owe it to our staff to not only get them to work with the right training and tools, but mentally prepared to do the work. By understanding the human sleep cycle and adding in a few work rules and educational tools, we can make workplaces safer and more productive. Numerous organizations, especially those supporting high tempo operations with late hours or 24-hour schedules, report that employees arrive to work sleep-deprived. In these intense operations, employees may find themselves struggling to stay awake while working or while driving home after a long shift. We are not going to stop the need to work long hours, or even the need to operate late into the night to meet demand. By understanding the basics of sleep, we can develop and implement better schedules and systems to limit the fatigue risk.

Lake Speed Jr, Tribologist, SPEEDiagnostix

You’d never run your plant or fleet without used oil analysis—so why not your personal vehicle? This keynote explores how the same tools and techniques you rely on professionally can deliver real value for your car or truck. Learn how applying oil analysis outside of work can lead to smarter, data-driven decisions, reduce costs, and prevent unexpected issues. It’s a practical, even fun, way to bring your expertise home—and maybe impress your friends with what you know before the check engine light ever comes on.

Winston Mok, Founder, Woosh Air

Big ideas don’t always start in boardrooms, they often begin with frustration, curiosity, and duct tape. In this keynote, former Google Product Manager and Shark Tank entrepreneur Winston Mok shares how a simple idea to improve air filters sparked a smart tech solution that’s now helping businesses improve reliability, save energy, and prevent costly equipment failures. You’ll leave inspired to look at everyday problems differently and maybe even start building your next big idea in the garage.