AVEVA Inspire Gladstone:
Future-Ready Operations 


August 11, Tuesday 2026  |  8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Event Room 2, Yaralla Sports Club, Gladstone, Australia

Unlocking Value Across Through Data, AI & Digital Twins

Join us at AVEVA Inspire Gladstone: Unlocking Value Across Operations Through Data, AI and Digital Twins an exclusive forum designed to bring together senior leaders from Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and IT to explore how industrial intelligence is transforming the future of mining and metals operations.

The forum will examine how connected data, digital twins, artificial intelligence and asset-centric information management can help unlock greater operational performance, improve reliability, accelerate decision-making and support sustainable operations.

Through executive discussions, industry insights and practical use cases, attendees will gain perspectives on how AVEVA's CONNECT platform, PI System, Engineering and Asset Information Management (AIM) solutions can enable a unified digital ecosystem spanning the entire asset lifecycle.

Agenda

Time Session Description Speaker
08:00 - 09:00 Arrival - Coffee & Tea, Networking

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome, Team Intro and quick overview of the Agenda
Riccardo Tenaglia
Enterprise Account Manager

for Rio Tinto, AVEVA
09:10 - 09:30 Executive Context – Industry priorities (safety, productivity, sustainability) and AVEVA vision for a connected enterprise (CONNECT) Glenn Kerkoff
Industry Principal, Mining, Metals & Minerals Industry
AVEVA
 09:45 The AVEVA Portfolio Evolution: The Connected Industrial Enterprise – Connecting silos Operations, Engineering & IT; leveraging CONNECT for Data Intelligence through AI.
09:45 - 10:30 Operational Intelligence with AVEVA PI & AI – Real-time visibility, predictive monitoring and optimisation to improve uptime and performance. Latest PI System & Roadmap Session Daniel Chaves
Principal Solutions Consultant, Presales, AVEVA
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 -  11:30 Smart Engineering & Digital Project Execution – AVEVA Engineering, digital twin, and integrated design workflows to reduce rework and accelerate delivery
Cristian S Medina
Consultant Pre-Sales, AVEVA
11:30 - 12:00 CONNECT – Why a Knowledge Graph makes perfect sense to build a Digital Twin and how it accellerates time to value for all industries
Jodie Graves
CONNECT Platform Sales Manager, AVEVA

12:00 -  12:45 Networking Lunch
12:45 - 13:30 Asset Lifecycle Intelligence with AVEVA AIM – What's new. A transition from capital Project Execution to an effective & rich Operations Portal
Zoltan Borbas
Senior Consultant, AVEVA

Richard Cross 
Digital Engineering, Rio Tinto
13:30 - 14:00 PI Data Infrastructure use cases for Industry, using PI Asset Framework to unlock insights for Asset Management Daniel Chaves
Principal Solutions Consultant, Presales, AVEVA
14:00 - 14:30 Building Value with PI Asset Framework. How a standards based approach unleashes value
John Messenger
GTS Group
14:30 -
14:45
Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:30 AVEVA - Predictive Analytics, concepts and implementation strategy Jason Tan
Services Director APAC, AVEVA
15:30 - 16:00 AVEVA - Production Management & why Delay Accounting is not just about Downtime. Riccardo Tenaglia
Enterprise Account Manager

for Rio Tinto, AVEVA
16:00 - 16:10 Closing Comments – Wrap Up, Summary, Key takeaways.

Registration Form

The program will feature strategic presentations, industry case studies and interactive workshop sessions
focused on key priorities across operations, engineering, asset performance, digital transformation and IT/OT
convergence. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with AVEVA subject matter experts and industry
peers to identify practical pathways for driving operational excellence, resilience and long-term value creation
through connected industrial intelligence.

Registration Note: Registration is complimentary and subject to confirmation.

Do explore this dedicated Rio Tinto Hub to see the measureable business outcomes and innovations
powering this collaboration.