Schedule

How to Build Projects in Ignition Perspective

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

Perspective is Ignition's newest module and in this workshop, you'll learn how to use it to build new mobile-first applications in HTML5 from start to finish. In this instructional, hands-on workshop led by Ignition and mobile design experts, you'll get practical tips for using Perspective's powerful new features such as container types, mobile features, and more. If you're ready to learn how to easily make your application mobile-optimized, this is the workshop for you.

Speakers: Bobby McKenzie

Python and Ignition

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Extend Ignition’s capabilities with Python, a versatile, easy-to-use programming language. In this workshop, hosted by training specialists, you'll learn how to make your Ignition project more powerful than ever by making Python work for you. Topics include hands-on scripting examples, best practices, and common scripting pitfalls. With Python, the possibilities are limitless.

Speakers: Stevenson Yuan, Paul Scott

Getting Started with Machine Learning and Ignition

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Machine learning is an emerging technology that's growing more important to the industrial space every day. In this workshop, you'll learn what machine learning is and which Ignition features can be used with machine learning. You'll also learn some practical lessons on scripting to use machine learning to analyze data to identify patterns and develop models.

Speakers: Kevin McClusky, Kathy Applebaum

Lunch

Discover Gallery Opens

How to Build Projects in Ignition Perspective

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

Perspective is Ignition's newest module and in this workshop, you'll learn how to use it to build new mobile-first applications in HTML5 from start to finish. In this instructional, hands-on workshop led by Ignition and mobile design experts, you'll get practical tips for using Perspective's powerful new features such as container types, mobile features, and more. If you're ready to learn how to easily make your application mobile-optimized, this is the workshop for you.

Speakers: Bobby McKenzie

Python and Ignition

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Extend Ignition's capabilities with Python, a versatile, easy-to-use programming language. In this workshop, hosted by training specialists, you'll learn how to make your Ignition project more powerful than ever by making Python work for you. Topics include hands-on scripting examples, best practices, and common scripting pitfalls. With Python, the possibilities are limitless.

Speakers: Stevenson Yuan, Paul Scott

Getting Started with Machine Learning and Ignition

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Machine learning is an emerging technology that's growing more important to the industrial space every day. In this workshop, you'll learn what machine learning is and which Ignition features can be used with machine learning. You'll also learn some practical lessons on scripting to use machine learning to analyze data to identify patterns and develop models.

Speakers: Travis Cox, Kathy Applebaum

Utilizing MQTT and its Basic Concepts with Ignition 8

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

This workshop will step through the concepts of an MQTT-with-Sparkplug solution and highlight where to use it, while also showing the benefits of using MQTT with Ignition 8 and the new Ignition Perspective Module. There will be a practical, hands-on project to download, configure, and connect using MQTT and Ignition 8. Using real hardware, attendees will also be able to access the Perspective Module from their mobile device and use QR codes to monitor and control a live demo. This workshop will also contain an interactive project for workshop attendees; those attendees who achieve the outlined goals of the project will be entered into a drawing for a prize.

Speakers: Wes Johnson, Chad Kienle, Nathan Davenport

How to Build Projects in Ignition Perspective

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

Perspective is Ignition's newest module and in this workshop, you'll learn how to use it to build new mobile-first applications in HTML5 from start to finish. In this instructional, hands-on workshop led by Ignition and mobile design experts, you'll get practical tips for using Perspective's powerful new features such as container types, mobile features, and more. If you're ready to learn how to easily make your application mobile-optimized, this is the workshop for you.

Speakers: Bobby McKenzie

Utilizing MQTT and its Basic Concepts with Ignition 8

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

This workshop will step through the concepts of an MQTT-with-Sparkplug solution and highlight where to use it, while also showing the benefits of using MQTT with Ignition 8 and the new Ignition Perspective Module. There will be a practical, hands-on project to download, configure, and connect using MQTT and Ignition 8. Using real hardware, attendees will also be able to access the Perspective Module from their mobile device and use QR codes to monitor and control a live demo. This workshop will also contain an interactive project for workshop attendees; those attendees who achieve the outlined goals of the project will be entered into a drawing for a prize.

Speakers: Wes Johnson, Chad Kienle, Nathan Davenport

Easily Connecting Business Systems with Sepasoft MES

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

Connecting your business systems is crucial to building and enhancing your enterprise. The new Sepasoft Business Connector Module gives you the ability to communicate seamlessly with your business systems including ERPs like SAP, QMMS systems, and other vital tools. In this workshop, Sepasoft’s experts will provide instruction on how to configure your Ignition Gateway to communicate with an ERP server to pull in and send back essential data, including material definitions, schedule entries, process orders, and more. See firsthand how this game-changing tool can help you end your reliance on lengthy and brittle scripts, and democratize the creation and maintenance of the essential data flows that power your operations.

Speakers: Keith Adair, Jesse Records

Getting Started with Machine Learning and Ignition

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Machine learning is an emerging technology that's growing more important to the industrial space every day. In this workshop, you'll learn what machine learning is and which Ignition features can be used with machine learning. You'll also learn some practical lessons on scripting to use machine learning to analyze data to identify patterns and develop models.

Speakers: Kevin McClusky, Kathy Applebaum

Registration & Reception

Discover Gallery Meet and Greet

Food Truck Dinner

Keynote: The Future of Manufacturing is Limitless

Type:  General   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  All

The industrial automation space has seen amazing growth and change in the past few years, opening up endless possibilities for manufacturing professionals and the software they use. Empowered with unlimited licensing, driven by a passion for problem-solving, and energized by collaboration with colleagues from around the globe, the Ignition Community has redefined conventional boundaries to create virtually limitless opportunities for growth and innovation in the industrial automation field and beyond. Join Inductive Automation’s leadership team as they discuss the future of the company, Ignition, and the industry in this exciting annual keynote address. Be sure to come early – this session is always a full house!

Speakers: Steve Hechtman , Don Pearson , Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky , Doug Dudley

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Inductive Automation's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to get started with Ignition.

Speakers: Paul Scott

Cybersecurity’s Impact on You, Your Business, and Your Clients

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

By 2020, there will be more than 20 billion connected devices ranging from our smartphones to wearable technology to industrial machinery. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), our devices and platforms provide increased connectivity without boundaries. However, hand-in-hand with these new interconnected devices are a whole host of dangerous cybersecurity risks. Listen to the first Secretary of Homeland Security and Alliantgroup Chairman of Cybersecurity and Technology, Tom Ridge, discuss what exciting developments technology will bring us over the next few years as well as the associated threats that come with it.

Speakers: Tom Ridge

Digital Transformation Made Easy with Ignition & MQTT

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

Progressive leaders are demanding change in order to achieve Digital Transformation. This is driving the creation of new solutions which utilize Big Data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Digital Transformation increases performance and efficiency, and reduces unplanned maintenance and downtime, thus leading to increased revenue and market share and, ultimately, increased profits. In order to take advantage of these new technologies, companies must bridge the OT-IT gap and feed IT infrastructures with data that is secure, easily consumable, and cost-effective. This session will describe how utilizing MQTT and the Ignition platform implements an open-standard architecture solution to deliver a cost-effective Digital Transformation and bridge the OT-IT gap.

Speakers: Arlen Nipper

Lunch

Lunch meetup: Account Executives

Industry Panel: How Combining OT and IT Empowers Innovation

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

The convergence of operational and information technologies has been at the forefront of industry conversations for several years now, but how does this idea work in the real world? Join thought leaders from a variety of automation verticals as they discuss their experiences and answer your questions about the real-world integration of OT and IT in industrial processes.

Speakers: Don Pearson , Matt Latour , Thomas Quinn , Chris Hemric , Scot Lund , Peter Blenkiron

Adding Ignition Perspective to Your Vision Projects

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

Whether you are using the Ignition Perspective Module to add a new HTML5 mobile dashboard to extend your existing project or you’re moving your entire Vision Module project over to Perspective, there are many ways to use these two modules together to enhance your visualization system. In this step-by-step session, Ignition experts will offer practical tips for adding Perspective to your existing Vision projects along with strategies for migrating existing non-mobile-responsive systems over to a fully web-friendly, mobile-responsive format. Perspective brings new and exciting capabilities to Ignition projects and with this session, you’ll get the information you need to help you use Perspective to future-proof your existing Vision projects.

Speakers: Bobby McKenzie , Perry Arellano-Jones , Ray Sensenbach

Strategies for Optimizing Your Ignition System Performance

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Advanced

Ignition is an amazing platform for building just about anything, and to take full advantage of everything Ignition can do, you need to be smart about how you set it up. Hear the integration experts at Kymera Systems explain how they help optimize existing Ignition systems to run like new. In this session, you'll learn the key strategies and steps for optimizing your Ignition system to reach peak performance.

Speakers: Kyle Chase

Achieving Business Value with Enterprise Deployments

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Intermediate

Two years ago, Inductive Automation introduced the Enterprise Integrator program in response to the growing demand from large, complex global organizations to deploy the Ignition platform across multiple sites for multiple purposes. Inductive defines Enterprise Integrators as “very large integrators (250+ engineers) with a global presence and a reputation for executing large corporate initiatives across multiple sites simultaneously. Such integration firms tend to have long-term relationships with their clients.” Brock Solutions, the first integrator to achieve this status, will share their experiences working with enterprise clients leveraging the Ignition platform to achieve measurable business value – beyond HMI and SCADA.

Speakers: John Southcott , Mark Holbrook

Enterprise Digital Transformation Journey — One Year Later

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

Dana Inc., a global leader in transportation, and Roeslein & Associates Inc., an Ignition Premier Integrator, won a Firebrand Award for their amazing work in 2018 when they partnered together to embark on Dana's enterprise-wide digital transformation journey. In this insightful session, you'll hear from both Roeslein and Dana about the challenges and triumphs of the first year of their journey together. Discussions will include the successful decisions as well as decisions that they would change if they could do it all over again. You'll learn from their first-hand experiences about what technology and cultural changes are needed to ensure that your own enterprise digital transformation journey is successful

Speakers: JC Harrison , Remus Pop

Limitless Scalability: Building Elastic Architectures

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

Architecting systems that are built to grow can be a challenge, and in today’s quickly-changing world it’s more important than ever for industrial organizations to be able to effortlessly scale to fit their customer’s needs. Fortunately, Ignition takes the growing pains out of scaling your architecture. Join an Ignition architecture expert from Inductive Automation for an informative discussion about how to use powerful features like distributed services and cloud hosting to create architectures that offer virtually limitless ways to easily scale your Ignition system.

Speakers: Kent Melville

Certified for Success — Building a Better Integration Business

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Over its 25 years, the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) has helped system integrators build better businesses one company at a time. In this session, you'll learn about the help CSIA offers integration companies and you'll hear first-hand from CSIA-certified system integrator Grantek about their successful partnership with CSIA. Grantek is a leading CSIA Certified member who joined CSIA in 2008. Come in and learn of the specific benefits Grantek has derived from this relationship and get ideas to help grow the success of your integration business in this informative, open discussion.

Speakers: Dave Paterson , Jose Rivera

Ignition in Smart Cities and Smart Factories Applications with ORing and AT&T

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

In this fascinating session, get a look inside the AT&T IIoT service, learn about ORing edge-to-cloud Ignition solutions for smart cities and smart factories, and check out successful real-world applications being used in various industries. See IIoT solutions in action!

Speakers: John McGarry , Angus Shih , Jacek Kondratowicz

Simplifying Single Machine to Full Enterprise MES Implementations

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

In this session, you'll learn about practical solutions to the common pain points associated with implementing new MES systems. You'll get a look at the new and exciting MES products and features that Sepasoft will be introducing to the Ignition community. Attendees will also get to see a live demonstration of ERP integrations, enterprise functionality, and other tools that will simplify their own MES implementation. Don't miss your chance to get an early preview of Sepasoft's new and exciting MES products.

Speakers: Tom Hechtman , Mark French

Evening Dinner Reception

Dinner

Developer Panel: What’s Next for Ignition?

Type:  General   
Track:  Development   
Level:  All

In this popular session, attendees get the chance to hear directly from Inductive Automation’s Co-Directors of Software Engineering, Carl Gould and Colby Clegg, about the future of Ignition. This year, Carl and Colby will discuss their plans for the upcoming Ignition 8.1 version. Don't miss your chance to hear firsthand what's in store for Ignition in the coming year of development.

Speakers: Don Pearson , Carl Gould , Colby Clegg

From Enterprise Order to Factory Implementation in One Week

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

Large enterprise-wide rollouts can be daunting. There are implementation challenges that have to be overcome, along with internal stake-holders that need to be aligned. The implementation for a single plant can take months alone; so what do you do if you have dozens of plants, spread across a large geographical area? Saint-Gobain Abrasives faced this challenge when implementing Ignition, so they turned to the rapid-Ignition-implementation experts at Plantformance. In this session, you'll see how to employ IT best practices, state-of-the-art hardware, and Ignition to go from an enterprise order to a factory implementation in just one week. You'll learn from the first-hand experience of how Saint-Gobain is doing this now, and you'll get to see a live world-wide Ignition infrastructure maintenance operation demo.

Speakers: Dominique Wille

The Endless Extensibility of the Ignition Platform

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

Inductive Automation often refers to Ignition as a “platform,” but what does that mean for customers, users, and software developers? Join expert Ignition project developers as they discuss how to take advantage of Ignition’s virtually limitless extensibility to build systems customized to a company’s exact needs. Find out how engineers are using tools like the Software Developer Kit (SDK) to build incredible internal applications and modules that solve specific problems for their teams and companies. See and hear the unlimited potential of the Ignition platform and get inspired to start extending your own Ignition system at this exciting session!

Speakers: Travis Cox

Security Panel: The State of Control System Security Today

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

The threats to your company’s security are always changing; how can you stay ahead of the curve? This panel, packed with security professionals from a variety of fields, will discuss the challenges faced by modern industrial professionals in securing all aspects of their control systems. Our expert panel will discuss the security of hardware and software, online and offline, as well as other pressing topics of discussion in the security industry today. Attend to get a diverse range of perspectives on locking down your company at every level.

Speakers: Kevin McClusky , Jason Waits , Joel Specht , Nathan Boeger , Simon Ritter , Albert Rooyakkers

Lunch

Lunch Meetup: Distributors

Building Better Systems Using Industrial Standards

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Standards aren’t meant to eliminate thinking and stifle creativity. If used properly, standards create a common language and a systematic approach to solving problems using industry-wide best practices. They encourage communication and foster creativity in solving engineering problems. In this session, Dennis Brandl, an expert on ISA and IEC international standards, will discuss how to apply the concepts of standardization to improve organizational collaboration and design better systems. You’ll also see how ISA 95, ISA 88, ISA 99, and their international equivalents are being effectively applied to systems today, and what new standards and tools are available now to help organizations build better control systems.

Speakers: Dennis Brandl

Designing Effective Mobile-Responsive Industrial Applications

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

Designing an effective user experience for mobile applications requires a very different mindset than designing applications for desktops or panel devices. In this session, we’ll breakdown three real-life customer projects and transform them into effective and intuitive mobile-first applications. You’ll come out of this session with new information on design, and tips and tricks to use in your next project.

Speakers: Perry Arellano-Jones , Ray Sensenbach

We're on The Edge of Glory: Building Intelligent Systems of the Future — Today

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an explosive, extremely toxic chemical found in most natural gas, so potent that it can kill a person with a single breath. Converting H2S into fertilizer-grade sulfur is a dangerous business, one which Streamline Innovations has perfected through superior chemistry, strong business practices, and a state-of-the-art control system that combines Ignition, Ignition Edge, Moxa devices, and MQTT. This semi-autonomous, intelligent system can be operated and managed easily and completely remotely. In this session, learn how Streamline created their control system of the future today using only off-the-shelf products, and get tips on how to do it yourself.

Speakers: Peter Photos

From Zero to SCADA: Rapidly Building a SCADA System from the Pipeline to the Cloud

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

What if you had to upgrade a large-scale pipeline SCADA system in only three months? That was the challenge facing ARB Midstream when it acquired a new pipeline asset. ARB contracted Industrial Networking Solutions (INS) to migrate from its slow, high-cost, legacy SCADA software to a modern SCADA solution with cloud-based reporting, management, visibility, control, and redundancy features. In this session, get a detailed look at how ARB Midstream and INS leveraged the limitless power of Ignition, Ignition Edge, MQTT and AWS to deliver a standardized network infrastructure and a scalable, centrally manageable SCADA platform in just a few months.

Speakers: Jerod Blocker , Mo Moore

Integrator Panel: The Biggest Trends Shaping the Industry

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Intermediate

At this panel discussion, you'll connect with leaders of some of the Ignition community's most innovative integration companies to discuss real trends shaping the industry. With so many buzzwords like Big Data, the cloud, and IIoT circulating, how do you sort out which trends actually matter? How are automation professionals responding to these big ideas? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what's actually impacting the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.

Speakers: Annie Wise , Ian Tooke , Davin McDougall , Wright Sullivan , Brian McClain

Taking Ignition to the Next Level with Machine Learning

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

Inductive Automation's machine learning experts will lead conference attendees through practical applications for machine learning, along with typical ML setups that Ignition users could implement on their own systems. Further, they will be illustrating how to use more sophisticated implementations of ML to advance your system.

Speakers: Kevin McClusky , Kathy Applebaum

Ignition Firebrand Award Presentation

Type:  General   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  All

The Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to industrial organizations and system integrators whose innovative work — showcased in the Discover Gallery — demonstrates the true potential of the Ignition platform. In this brief session, a representative from each Firebrand-winning company will accept the award from Inductive Automation Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson.

Speakers: Don Pearson

Ignition Build-a-Thon: Team Travis vs. Team Kevin

Type:  General   
Track:  Development   
Level:  All

A new tradition was born last year with the inaugural Ignition Build-a-Thon. This year our main event is a rematch between Inductive Automation’s Co-Directors of Sales Engineering, Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky, as they duke it out in an action-packed development showdown for Ignition Build-a-Thon glory! See live development in action as these two competitors take center stage with their teams. With endlessly entertaining commentary by host Kent Melville and a panel of Ignition development pros, this is a can't-miss event for all conference-goers.

Speakers: Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky , Kent Melville