3rd Annual Plant Shutdowns & Turnarounds Summit 2026
As India's process industries continue to expand capacity while operating increasingly complex and aging assets, plant shutdowns and turnarounds have evolved from routine maintenance events into strategic business interventions. Organizations today face mounting pressure to maximize asset utilization, shorten turnaround durations, optimize costs, and maintain the highest standards of safety and regulatory compliance - all while ensuring long-term asset reliability. Successfully navigating these challenges demands risk-based planning, engineering excellence, digital execution, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decision-making across every phase of the turnaround lifecycle.
The 3rd Annual Plant Shutdowns & Turnarounds Summit India 2026 will bring together senior leaders from refineries, petrochemicals, chemicals, fertilizers, oil & gas, power, steel, cement, and other process industries to explore the latest advancements in shutdown, turnaround, and outage (STO) management. The summit will focus on next-generation turnaround strategies, including reliability engineering, risk-based scope optimization, advanced inspection technologies, digital planning and execution, SIMOPS management, contractor and workforce excellence, asset integrity, and lifecycle management. Through insightful keynotes, technical case studies, and interactive panel discussions, attendees will gain practical strategies to improve turnaround predictability, enhance operational resilience, reduce downtime, optimize costs, and build safer, more reliable manufacturing facilities in an increasingly competitive industrial landscape.
Corporate Partner
Exhibit Partners
SPEAKERS
Amol Bagade
General Manager - Operation
DRT-Anthea Aroma Chemicals Pvt. Ltd.
Ashok Pawar
Manager – Reliability Engineering & Projects
General Mills India Pvt Ltd.
Dr. Dheeraj Mishra
Projects and Engineering Lead India
Mondelez International
Dr. Urvesh V
Head of Material Engineering & Technology
Larsen & Toubro Energy Hydrocarbon Ltd.
Gagan Gupta
Lead Maintenance Strategy, Digitalization and Planning
Essar Oil (UK) Ltd.
Jagadish Patra
Vice President, Head Of Maintenance
Hindalco Industries Limited
Kavishwar Kalambe
Whole Time Director & Vice President
Crystal Crop Protection Ltd.
Nilesh Suryawanshi
General Manager - Group Head QA,QC
TEMA India Pvt. Ltd.
Ravi Asalkar
Assistant Vice President (Engineering)
Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd.
Sai Vamsidhar Bontha
Asset Integrity & Maintenance Management - Leadership
Sahara Group
Sanjiv Prasad
Vice President- Power, Utilities & ETP
Reliance Industries Ltd.
Sh. Arun Kumar Agrawal
Chief General Manager (Production)
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
Uresh Antani
General Manager - Engineering
Piramal Pharma Ltd.
Topic Highlights
- Pre-Shutdown phase engineering: scope freeze, contractor qualification, and work pack readiness as the foundation of a successful TA
- Advanced inspection technologies in turnarounds: Drones, robotic crawlers, phased array UT, and digital NDT for static and rotary equipment
- Accelerating brownfield asset modernization through intelligent automation, industrial IOT and digital integration
- Shutdowns under business pressure: Balancing production targets, cost constraints & asset health
- SIMOPS management in large-scale turnarounds: Safely executing simultaneous operations without compromising schedule or safety
Key Takeaways
- To get insights on managing shutdowns in multicultural and multi-stakeholder environments
- Get to learn strategies for flawless restart, safe commissioning, and operational readiness reviews
- Get acquainted with digital innovations, RBI-driven inspection, and asset reliability practices
- To understand best practices in STO planning, execution, contractor management, and risk frameworks
- Get to explore capital project integration and workforce upskilling solutions for turnaround success
WHO WILL YOU MEET?
- Manufacturing
- Plant & Site Operations
- Shutdown & Turnaround
- Asset Integrity
- Reliability & Maintenance
- Operations
- Production
- Inspection
- Oil & Energy
- Power & Utilities
- Petrochemicals & Chemicals
- Metals & Mining
- Pharmaceuticals
- Food & Beverage
Why should you attend?
A platform to learn from the collective experience of front running chemical manufacturers in India on their approaches, challenges and solutions being implemented for driving operational excellence programs.