Salvador Accardo | Field Service East

Salvador Accardo

Salvador Accardo

SVP, Datacenter Solutions Pearce Services
Salvador Accardo

August 11, 2026

8:20 AM Keynote: Driving Strategic Customer Growth with Outcome-Based Service and Smarter Engineering

Outcome-based service is becoming a primary lever for growth throughout the industry, but most organizations still design engineering and service around internal tasks instead of customer outcomes. In this session, Salvador will unpack how his teams are leveraging smarter engineering (installed base insight, connectivity, and data-driven design) to tie service delivery directly to customer business results such as uptime, energy efficiency, and lifecycle value.

Sal will share practical examples of rethinking contracts, KPIs, and engineering decisions so outcome-based models generate better relationships, differentiated offers, and predictable revenue for your organization.
Key takeaways include:
  • Defining price and track outcome-based services so customer and engineering teams are aligned on what "value" actually means
  • Leveraging ways to use smarter engineering including asset data, remote support, and AI-assisted planning, to create clear upsell and cross-sell opportunities
  • Effectively scaling outcome-based models, including cross-functional KPIs that position service as a strategic growth engine

10:00 AM Panel: What Comes After Time & Materials: Outcome, Subscription, and “Rent a Product” Models in Practice

As more field service teams adopt proactive and predictive capabilities, traditional time and materials contracts increasingly clash with what customers actually value: guaranteed outcomes, simple pricing, and less downtime. This panel brings together leaders who have launched uptime as a service, tiered subscription bundles, and "equipment as a service" or rent a product offerings, and who are wrestling with the operational, financial, and cultural changes required to make them profitable.

Key takeaways include:
  • Deciding when to move beyond time and materials using asset data, and customer expectations to identify where outcome, subscription, or rent-a-product models make economic sense
  • Structuring practical price models, including how to define outcomes, set SLAs, bundling services and parts, and price risk
  • Making organizational changes required to make these models work in the real world, from aligning sales incentives and service operations to upgrading data so you can deliver and prove the promised outcomes

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Salvador.

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