MARCON 2026 — Maintenance & Reliability Conference

MARCON is one of the longest-running and most respected maintenance and reliability conferences in the industry, hosted by the University of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center. Each year, it brings together reliability engineers, maintenance leaders, and asset management professionals focused on practical improvement.

IRISS will be on site for MARCON 2026, connecting with peers, customers, and reliability leaders who are working through the same real-world challenges around safety, inspection access, and maintainability.

Why We’re Attending

MARCON consistently attracts people who are doing the work, not just talking about it. That makes it a valuable place for direct conversations about what’s actually changing in maintenance and reliability programs today.

We’re attending to:

• Listen to how organizations are adapting maintenance strategies to evolving standards and risk profiles
• Share perspectives on safer inspection access, condition monitoring, and maintainability by design
• Connect with reliability professionals who want practical, field-tested approaches

If you’re attending MARCON, it’s a great place to trade notes, compare experiences, and talk candidly about what’s working and what isn’t.

About MARCON

MARCON (Maintenance & Reliability Conference) is a multi-day, in-person event featuring workshops, technical presentations, and peer-driven discussions focused on improving equipment reliability, maintenance execution, and asset management outcomes.

The conference is known for its:

• Practitioner-led case studies
• Hands-on workshops
• Strong mix of industrial, utility, and asset-intensive organizations
• Emphasis on applied reliability, not academic abstraction

IRISS on the MARCON 2026 Program

Reliability Trends for 2026: From Data Obsession to Reliability by Design

Speaker: Mark Paul
When: Thursday, March 5 • 1:00–1:45 PM
Where: Room 301 AB

As monitoring technologies and data availability continue to expand, many organizations are finding themselves overwhelmed rather than empowered. This session explores where reliability is heading next, moving beyond data accumulation toward intentional design decisions that reduce risk, simplify maintenance, and improve long-term outcomes.

Panel Discussion: Electrical Safety and Reliability (ESaRA) and NFPA 70B — Two Sides of the Same Coin

Speakers:

• Mark Paul
• Jon Bucciarelli
• Adrian Messer
• Mike Doolan
• Alan Ross

When: Thursday, March 5 • 2:00–3:00 PM
Where: Lecture Hall

This panel brings together industry voices to examine how electrical safety and reliability are no longer separate conversations. With NFPA 70B reshaping maintenance expectations, the discussion focuses on how safety-driven decisions directly influence reliability outcomes and why treating them as independent disciplines is no longer viable.

Who You’ll Meet

MARCON attracts a broad cross-section of reliability and maintenance professionals, including:

• Reliability engineers and managers
• Maintenance and operations leaders
• Asset management professionals
• Plant and facility managers
• Consultants, educators, and researchers

If your work lives at the intersection of safety, reliability, and maintainability, MARCON tends to draw your people.

Let’s Connect

If you’re planning to attend MARCON 2026, we’d love to meet up while we’re there. Whether it’s a quick hello on the expo floor or a longer conversation between sessions, it’s always worth comparing notes face to face.