2021 Program | PEMAC

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Pre-Conference Presentations 12:00pm
Week One	Week Two	Week Three	Week Four
August 31	September 7	September 14	September 21
Reliability Engineer Balancing risk and performance with Reliability Block Diagrams: A Journey for Expansion Kent Knight, Reliability Engineer, Arms Reliability Canada LP	Asset deterioration modelling in a major process plant – an EPCOR story Owen James, Asset Management Practice Lead Associated Engineering,(Sask.) Ltd.	Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting is coming – how will it affect asset managers and how can they help? Boudewijn Neijens CMO, Copperleaf Technologies Inc.	Alignment and a Culture of Excellence Nigel D'Souza Manager of Facilities Services, Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board
September 2	September 9	September 16	September 23
Managing Asset Management Return-on-Investment (ROI) Risk Paul Casto APM Industry Principal GE Digital	The Magic CPR Triangle Paul Daoust Scio Asset Management Inc. Founder, Managing Director	The Importance of Precision Maintenance and How it Greatly Affects IIoT John Lambert President Benchmark PDM	Leveraging BIM & Construction 4.0 For Asset Management Lieu Dao Innovation Manager, R&D and Special Projects Pomerleau & Romain Leygonie, VDC Integrator

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
10:00 - 11:00	Pre-Conference Networking
11:00 - 11:50	Plenary Session and Keynote
11:50 - 12:00	Break
Track	Asset Management	Reliability	Maintenance	Technology/Other
12:00 - 12:45	Asset Management is a Team Sport - The Local Austin Tokarek, Cowichan Valley Regional & Tauseef Waraich, MSc., CAMP, City of Burnaby & Keir Gervais, Cowichan Valley Regional District District Asset	Utilizing Innovation and Reliability Block Diagrams to Increase Production Capacity Errin Evans, Reliability Engineer, ARMS Reliability	Asset Performance and Health Monitoring Ian Michael Flood Asset Manager, Thermal Northwest Territories Power Corporation & Ricomar Santiago, Asset Manager, Hydro	When a “solution” is not a solution James Reyes-Picknell, Managing Consultant Conscious Group Inc.
12:45 - 1:00	Break
1:00 - 1:45	Strategic Asset Management - An Illustrative Nuclear Case Study Ronald Gavrin Owner, Instructor, Retired Self Employed	Case Study: Use of Drone Technology for an Internal Tank Inspection Brad Owen, Sr. Specialist – Asset Health Monitoring, Cameco Corporation - Cigar Lake	Simplifying Data to Enable Better Decision Making Brian Ropitini, Managing Director/Executive Adviser, Mana Consulting NZ Ltd	Machine Learning to Improve Performance in Asset Management, Reliability, and Supply Chain Danaka Porter, Regional Managing Partner, Iota Consultants
1:45 - 2:00	Break
2:00 - 2:45	Data Diagnosis and Strategy for Asset Planning Katie Geoghegan Asset Management Specialist, Strategic Advisory Services Associated Engineering & Judy Yu, Manager	Tactical Lifecycle Collaboration in Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants Nitti Subramaniam, Director, Water and Wastewater Treatment Division Philip Lawlor, Manager, Treatment plant maintenance Mark Connell, Manager, Plant Capital and Engineering Robert Newman, Manager, Water Treatment John Duong, Manager, Wastewater Treatment	Weathering the Challenges - PR Pharmaceuticals Ricardo Ortiz, Sr. Reliability Engineer, Viatris Inc	A Mobile Maintenance Execution Solution … Built by technicians, for technicians Henry Luong, Sales/Business Development Associate, S4A IT Solutions & Ken Choi, Managing Partner / Co-Founder, S4A IT Solutions & Quentin Clement, Presales Architect, Zag BlueWorx
2:45 - 3:00	Break
3:00 - 3:45	How the Cornerstones of Asset Management Can Build More Resilient Operations – Lessons From the Pandemic Melissa Demsky, Sr. Director of Asset Management, Veolia	Bowtie Analysis and Risk Matrix: Application To Equipment Health and Worker Safety Wayne Weidner, Maintenance Superintendent, Skeena BioEnergy	Maintenance Must Win Battles Peter Phillips, Maintenance Systems Support Manager, Certainteed Gypsum Canada	Motion Amplification Technology and Fastening Best Practices Janos Pattantyus, Sales Manager Canada, RDI Technologies & Florian Buder, Executive Partner
3:45 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:00	Power Panel Moderator Daniel Gent, Director of Risk, Reliability and Resiliency, Canadian Electricity Association Panelists Erin MacNeil, Asset Management Operations Manager, Nova Scotia Power Ehsan Abbasi, Senior Reliability Engineer, Lifecycle Maintenance Engineering, Altalink Management Kyle Smith, Supervisor, Maintenance and Reliability, Hydro Ottawa
5:00 - 6:00	Break
6:00 - 7:00	Virtual Awards Celebration Video and Networking

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
10:00 - 11:00	Pre-Conference Networking
11:00 - 11:50	Keynote: Conscious Culture: The Antidote to Asset Management Apathy Christina Benty, Principal Consultant, Strategic Leadership Solutions
11:50 - 12:00	Break
Track	Asset Management	Reliability	Maintenance	Technology/Other
12:00 - 12:45	Maintenance Improvement – Focus on all the Drivers of Value Frank Engli, Senior Advisor, Becht & E. Charles Maier, Senior Turnaround/Maintenance Advisor	Reliability analysis of centrifugal pumps using Reliability Block Diagrams Andre Ferrari, Reliability Engineer, Enbridge Pipelines	Principles of Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Richard (Doc) Palmer, Consultant/Owner, Palmer & Associates	Tablet Implementation in Facilities at the Toronto Transit Commission – The good, The bad and The ugly Emma Petch, Planner, Toronto Transit Commission
12:45 - 1:00	Break
1:00 - 1:45	How Facility Managers are Coping During COVID-19 and Preparing for the New Normal Marcia O'Connor, President, AM FM Consulting Group Inc	A Novel Approach to RCM Analysis during the Covid Pandemic Jason Spears, Fiber Line Manager, Port Hawkesbury & John MacKenzie, Senior Maintenance Engineer, Port Hawkesbury Paper	Providing Asset Management support in times of COVID Emilio G Sarno Severi, Director Global Maintenance, Kinross Gold Corporation	Wireless Machine Condition Monitoring in Asset Management Mike Bonga, VP Product Development, Smart Skin Technologies
1:45 - 2:00	Break
2:00 - 2:45	The Global Metricators Guidebook Richard Olver, Retired	The Link Between Reliability Engineering and MRO James Kovacevic, Principal Instructor, Eruditio LLC	Improving MRO Material Identities makes all MRO business processes run better, faster, and improves asset reliability Conrad Greer, Founder, SPC Results Inc	Minimizing risk of failure under constrained resources: A case study with a municipal transit company Janet Lam University of Toronto Assistant Director, C-MORE
2:45 - 3:00	Break
3:00 - 3:45	Asset Management - A Tale Of Two Deployments Erin MacNeil, Asset Management Operations Manager, Nova Scotia Power	Dynamic Monitoring & Analysis of Plant Equipment using Near-Real-Time Data Robert Otal, Executive Director, METSCO & Travis Squires, Manager, Data Sciences, METSCO	Overview of how EIA implemented new processes and work schedules for the maintenance group team Peter Agnew, Manufacturing Equipment Manager, Edmonton Airports	The Role of the MRO Lifecycle and Advanced Analytics in Making Better Asset Management Decisions Andrew Jordan, Managing Director, Xtivity Inc.
3:45 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:00	How Asset Management Contributes to Reliability in Unreliable Times Panel Moderator Susan Lubell, Principal Consultant, Steppe Consulting Inc. Representing: PEMAC, Asset Management Association of Canada, Canada Panelists John Hardwick, Executive Director, Sydney, Roads and Martime Services NSW Representing: AMC - Asset Management Council, Australia João Lafraia, President, Fábrica Carioca de Catalisadores S.A. Representing: ABRAMAN - Associação Brasileira de Manutenção e Gestão de Ativos, Brazil Johannes Coetzee, Managing Director, Machine Assessment & Reliability Technology (Martech) Representing: SAAMA - The Southern African Asset Management Association, South Africa Naoki Takesue, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc. Representing: JAAM - Japan Association of Asset Management, Japan