MaximoWorld 2026, PacMUG West Coast Tour, and the User Group Calendar That Defines Q3–Q4

The 2026 Maximo community calendar is the most consequential since the 2019 IBM Think / MaximoWorld convergence. The signals: MaximoWorld is back at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville (Aug 17–20), the Pacific Maximo User Group (PacMUG) is running a four-city West Coast tour in June and July, the Australian Maximo User Group (AMUG) has confirmed the dates for MaximoLive Melbourne in October, and the regional and industry conferences — IAM Global in London, SMRP in Raleigh, the Reliability Conference in Dallas, the Esri User Conference in San Diego — are stacked from mid-June through November. This article walks through the calendar and the practitioner takeaways.

The headline event: MaximoWorld 2026 (Nashville, Aug 17–20)

MaximoWorld 2026 runs Aug 17–20 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN. The format is the four-day, single-venue, multi-track conference that MaximoWorld has used since its revival: customer case studies, IBM product sessions, partner showcase, hands-on labs, and the contributor awards.

The 2026 edition is significant for three reasons:

1. The MAS 9.2 timing. With MAS 9.2 in the feature channel by August, MaximoWorld will be the first large in-person venue where IBM walks through the 9.2 capabilities in detail (OpenShift 4.19, MongoDB 8.0, native OAuth2, geofencing, 3D visualization, Reliability Strategies linkage). Practitioners planning the 9.2 upgrade will get the in-person walkthrough.
2. The Reliability Conference Solution Awards. The Reliability Conference and MaximoWorld co-locate the Solution Awards, with the People's Choice winners announced at MaximoWorld. The 2026 Solution Awards have a strong reliability-engineering focus — RCM, condition monitoring, AI-driven PM optimization, and the digital thread from RCM analysis to work execution.
3. The contributor track. The community contributor track has grown every year. The 2026 track has sessions on the Reliability Strategies library customization, the OpenRAG on watsonx.data pattern for Maximo knowledge bases, the agentic workflow patterns from the early adopters, and the user-contributed Jython libraries for the Maximo Mobile custom apps.

The early-bird registration typically opens in early summer. Practitioner groups of 3+ from the same company can usually negotiate a group rate through their IBM account team.

PacMUG West Coast tour (June–July 2026)

The Pacific Maximo User Group (PacMUG) is running a four-city West Coast tour in June and July 2026:

Each event is a single-day, single-track user group meeting with customer presentations, IBM product updates, and a networking session. The PacMUG events are the highest-signal community events on the West Coast for the working Maximo practitioner — no vendor keynotes, no sales pitches, just practitioners talking to practitioners.

The 2026 tour themes (from the PacMUG planning committee):

• MAS 9.1 in production — practitioners who have been on 9.1 for 6–12 months sharing what they learned
• The 7.6 to MAS 9 migration reality — practitioners who are mid-migration sharing the war stories
• AppPoints cost optimization — practitioners who have completed a year on AppPoints sharing the actual cost vs. the original forecast
• Mobile in the field — practitioners who have rolled out Maximo Mobile at scale sharing the adoption metrics

PacMUG is free to attend (IBM sponsors the venue and the lunch), but registration is required and capacity is limited. The PacMUG mailing list and the community page are the source of truth for registration.

AMUG and MaximoLive Melbourne (May 12–13 + Oct 14–15)

The Australian Maximo User Group (AMUG) ran two virtual sessions on May 12 and 13, 2026, covering the product roadmap, customer stories, and a MaximoLive 2026 preview. The community is the most active user group in the Asia-Pacific region, and the May sessions are the warmup for the in-person event.

MaximoLive 2026 runs Oct 14–15 at Crown Melbourne, with the early-bird tickets available now and the speaker submissions closed in February. MaximoLive is the regional counterpart to MaximoWorld — same community-driven format, same customer-led content, but focused on the Asia-Pacific operational context. The 2026 program will include a strong session track on the water and wastewater utility implementations of Reliability Strategies, the Australian mining operator deployments of Maximo Mobile in remote sites, and the New Zealand and Australian public-sector MAS rollouts.

The regional conferences that matter

Beyond the user groups, the Q3–Q4 calendar has the industry and regional conferences that are worth tracking:

• IAM Global Conference 2026 — Jun 17–18, London (Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge). The Institute of Asset Management's flagship event. The 2026 program is heavy on the ISO 55000x revisions, the digital thread from RCM to work execution, and the AI-augmented asset management patterns.
• 34. Maximo Anwenderkonferenz — Jun 16–17, Ehningen (Germany). The German-language Maximo user conference, run by TD SYNNEX. The 34th edition is the longest-running Maximo community event in Europe. The day after (Jun 18) is the Maximo Immobilientag, focused on the IBM TRIRIGA-to-Maximo transition for real estate and facilities management.
• Esri User Conference — Jul 13–17, San Diego. The geospatial community's flagship event. The 2026 program has a Maximo-Spatial integration track, with sessions on the geofencing patterns, the linear-asset inspection workflows, and the GIS-to-Maximo asset sync.
• Asset Management & Innovation Conference — Sep 14–17, St. Louis (St. Louis Union Station Hotel). The North American utility and infrastructure asset management conference. Strong Maximo presence, with sessions on the utility implementations of Maximo Health and Predict.
• SMRP Annual Conference — Sep 28–Oct 1, Raleigh, NC. The Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals' flagship event. Strong maintenance and reliability content, with a Maximo track that has grown every year.
• IAM North American Conference — Oct 5–7, Toronto. The North American counterpart to the IAM Global conference. Strong ISO 55000 and asset management content, with Maximo as the dominant EAM platform in the program.
• IBM TechXchange 2026 — Oct 26–29, Atlanta. IBM's flagship technical conference. The 2026 program has a dedicated Maximo track, with deep-dive sessions on MAS 9.2, the agentic AI patterns, the OpenShift and MongoDB underpinnings, and the integration architecture.
• Asset Performance International Conference — Nov 18–19, Antwerp (Flanders Meeting & Convention Center). The European asset performance management event. Strong APM content, with a Maximo track.
• Maintenance Switzerland — Nov 26–27, Zürich. The Swiss-German maintenance and asset management conference. Strong practitioner content from the DACH region.

The practitioner takeaways

For the Maximo practitioner in mid-2026, the calendar is the curriculum. The right way to use the calendar is to plan the year's learning around it:

1. Pick the two user group events you will attend in person. The PacMUG events are free and high-signal. MaximoWorld is the big one. Pick based on geography, budget, and the topics that matter most to your current work.
2. Submit a session proposal to at least one conference. The user group conferences (MaximoWorld, MaximoLive, PacMUG, the regional Maximo Anwenderkonferenz) accept practitioner presentations. The 2027 MaximoWorld call for papers will be in Q1 2027, and the MaximoLive 2027 call will be in Q1 2027 as well. The submission process is a forcing function to document what you have learned.
3. Plan the team's travel around the geographic clusters. The PacMUG West Coast tour is a four-city cluster in four weeks. The European Maximo + IAM cluster is in June. The North American MaximoWorld + SMRP + IAM + TechXchange cluster is in August through October. Travel to one cluster, hit two or three events.
4. Watch the community channels between events. The IBM TechXchange Maximo community, the regional user group mailing lists, and the community blog are where the practitioner signal is between the in-person events. The Maximo TechXchange community had a high-engagement month in May 2026, with active threads on the 7.6 to MAS 9 migration, the AppPoints cost reality, and the Reliability Strategies customization patterns.
5. Use the awards and the recognition programs. The Reliability Conference Solution Awards, the IBM Champion program, the Maximo contributor awards — these are the programs that recognize the practitioners who are doing the work. The 2026 awards cycle is open now, and the nominations are the way the community surfaces the work that is being done.

The 2026 community calendar is the strongest signal that the Maximo community is in a healthy, active, growing phase. The user groups are full, the conferences are stacked, the contributor track is recognized, and the practitioner signal is high. The teams that engage with the community in 2026 will be the teams that set the pattern for 2027.