Have you heard about Xcelerate 2025, the maintenance and reliability conference from Fluke, held this year in Austin, Texas from March 18 – 20?

Xcelerate is a chance to deepen your knowledge, network with experts, and discover how to predict, prepare, and prevail in an era of labor shortages and supply chain issues with the power of new technologies.

Our agenda reflects why Xcelerate has become the defining conference for maintenance leaders: hands-on training to help save you time, streamline your operations, and boost your maintenance KPIs. New industry trends, and which ones matter. What technology you need to defeat downtime in 2025 and beyond – from automated work orders to AI-powered vibration analysis.

We’re inviting leaders, visionaries, and industry veterans to join us for Thought Leadership Day: a symposium of executives and innovators talking shop about the secrets to defeating downtime, cutting costs, and mastering global maintenance in 2025.

We think you deserve a seat at the table with the industry’s best.

Register today if you haven’t already had the chance – tickets are going fast.

What:

  • You will be sitting down for strategic dialogue and networking with senior leadership from Fortune 500 companies, Fluke Reliability experts, and maintenance leaders who may even remember the launch of eMaint in 1986.
  • And you will be answering the difficult questions with your colleagues…
    • How are maintenance teams actually harnessing AI in 2025 to cut costs? And how does everyone else get there?
    • Sustainability: is it worth it? What’s the return on investment (ROI) beyond regulatory compliance?
    • Global digital transformation is incredibly challenging – and the magic is often in the action plan. What does yours look like?

Who:

  • Leaders in maintenance, reliability, and industrial manufacturing, including the following:
    • Jay Hack – Vice President of Fluke Reliability
    • Vineet Thuvara – Chief Product Officer at Fluke Corporation
    • Will Ocean – Managing Director at Maintain Reliability Ltd.
    • Charli K Matthews – CEO & Founder, Empowering Brands
    • Thomas Wilk – Editor in Chief, Plant Services
    • Luke D. Clark – Senior Program Manager, Apollo HECO
    • Keith Larson – Vice President of Endeavor Business Media
    • Joe Anderson – Co-Founder & COO, ReliabilityX
    • Dennis Scimeca – Industry Week
    • Many more!

When & Where:

  • Tuesday, March 18, 2025, the day before our Xcelerate conference officially launches
  • Fairmont Luxury Hotel in Austin, Texas. Enjoy the beautiful Austin downtown, live music, and delicious cuisine. You’ll be staying in the hotel with the largest rooftop pool in Austin. (We’ve even got a handy guide to fun activities in the city).

Why?:

  1. Network: Connect with maintenance and reliability leaders, from the C-Suite of name brand companies to true reliability pioneers.
  2. Discover: Empower yourself with the best intel on AI, global labor and expertise shortages, and sustainability from the industry’s finest.
  3. Engage: Roundtable discussions where you discover shared pain points and work together on innovative solutions.
  4. Strategize: Leave our Thought Leadership sessions with new practical strategies, tactics, and colleagues that will enrich your career and help you break production records in 2025.

Your Guide to the Thought Leadership Day Agenda

Here is the agenda for Thought Leadership day at Xcelerate 2025:

Topic: The Future of Maintenance, AI, and 2025 Trends

We know that over 75% of companies want a predictive maintenance strategy in the future, but only 8% are executing the strategy now, as Fluke President Jason Waxman recently wrote about in Forbes.

How do we get there?

And how will maintenance and reliability transform in 2025, in response to new technologies like AI, ongoing economic and supply chain struggles, and geopolitical changes?

Relevant sessions:

  • Welcome: data and the digital thread
  • Navigating tomorrow, today
  • The road ahead: emerging trends and challenges in 2025
  • What’s keeping you up at night? Unpacking the top challenges your organization is facing

Topic: Labor & Skills Shortages

US manufacturing may need more than 3.8 million new employees by 2033 – with 1.9 million jobs unfilled – according to Deloitte.

What’s the future of this industry without the workers that are its lifeblood?

How do maintenance leaders fight back against labor shortages and the loss of retiring reliability veterans’ expertise? What can be achieved through maintenance management – and where do we need to look to new technologies and strategies?

Relevant sessions:

  • Shortage To Strength: What Leaders Need to Do to Stop Talent From Leaving the Organization
  • Fluke Reliability’s Skills Shortage Research: Key Findings and Industry Insights
  • Navigating The Skills Shortage in Your Business: Key Research Takeaways
  • Empowering teams in Smart Factories: The AI Conundrum

Topic: Digital Transformation, Standardization, and Change Management

Your maintenance team’s organizational health has a demonstrated impact on the reliability and availability of your assets.

But what is the best methodology for breaking down data siloes, and uniting sites that could be using a mix of paper, ERPs, excel sheets, or nothing at all to track their work?

Global maintenance success requires visionary planning, deep knowledge of reliability strategy, and rigorous change management: what are your secrets? Connect with other leaders in achieving digital transformation at a global scale.

Relevant sessions:

  • The next phase of digital transformation: the foundation for competitive advantage
  • Implementation excellence: lessons learned, challenges, and what’s next
  • Change management: the key to successful digital transformation
  • Turn it into action: creation of high-level change management action plan

Topic: Real-World Applications of 2025 Industry Trends

We talk a lot about predictive maintenance, labor shortages, throttled supply chains, sustainability regulations – how are you and your peers navigating these challenges?

Relevant sessions:

  • Building resilience through connected reliability
  • The ROI of sustainability: is it worth it?
  • Innovator insight – ntt global data centers: how we transformed our business
  • Innovator insight – monogram foods: our journey to maintenance success

Who Will Be Speaking?

  • Jay Hack – Vice President of Fluke Reliability
  • Vineet Thuvara – Chief Product Officer at Fluke Corporation
  • Will Ocean – Managing Director at Maintain Reliability Ltd.
    • Will Ocean is a passionate leader in reliability who invented the Detect, Solve, Improve (DSI) model and founded the Reliability Gang Podcast.
  • Charli K Matthews – CEO & Founder, Empowering Brands
    • Charli Matthews is a visionary leader with a mission to Connect, Inform, and Educate the Global Pump Industry whose groundbreaking connection hub has reshaped industry communication. She is also the Marketing Chair for the Fluid Sealing Association and earned the Award of Merit for dedication to industry growth.
  • Thomas Wilk – Editor in Chief, Plant Services
    • Thomas Wilk is the award-winning Editor in Chief of Plant Services, joining in 2014 and leading content creation and editorial, social, and video strategy for the publication.
  • Luke D. Clark – Senior Program Manager, Apollo HECO
    • Luke Clark is Senior Program Manager for the HECO remote sensor solution, Apollo, and has over 10 years of experience in maintenance and reliability, from implementation to reliability consulting and condition monitoring.
  • Keith Larson – Vice President of Endeavor Business Media
    • Keith Larson has more than three decades of experience covering industrial automation and other aspects of operational technology, and currently serves as market leader for Endeavor Business Media brands in industrial automation, engineering design, and process industry sectors.
  • Joe Anderson – Co-Founder & COO, ReliabilityX
    • Joe Anderson has over 30 years of experience in asset management, maintenance, and operational reliability, with certifications including: Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), Certified Reliability Leader (CRL), Reliability Black Belt (CRLBB), Maintenance Lubrication Technician & Analyst (MLT II, MLA I), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB), and ISO 55000 (ISO 55K).
  • Dennis Scimeca – Industry Week
    • Dennis Scimeca is a creator of brand-defining content for industry-leading publications, writing for executive audiences about new technologies like IIoT, automation, additive manufacturing, and XR.

Got Questions? Let’s Get in Touch.

We welcome you to reach out to our team with any questions about the Xcelerate 2025 agenda.

Register now if you haven’t already had the chance – tickets will be gone before you know it.