Schedule
Take the lead by getting the advanced knowledge, industry insights, and best practices you'll need to improve your Ignition projects. All ICC sessions and workshops are organized by tracks and experience level so there's something for everyone. Learn more here.
8:00 - 9:30 AM
What MQTT Can Do for You, And How to Get Started
Workshop Development Intermediate
This workshop will step you through the concepts of an MQTT-with-Sparkplug solution, highlight where it is used, and explain the benefits of MQTT versus the old poll-and-response way of doing things. This workshop will guide you through a practical, hands-on MQTT project that involves downloading, configuring, and connecting Ignition to real hardware to demonstrate the power of MQTT. As an added bonus, the workshop will offer a challenge, and the first person to connect to the live PLC in the workshop and complete the challenge will win a great prize.
Building Advanced Reports
Workshop Development Advanced
Learn how to more effectively build complex custom reports in Ignition’s Report Designer. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to query and display nested datasets in your report, and how to generate reports based on conditional triggers.
Speakers: Paul Scott
Best Practices for Deploying a Unified OEE with Track & Trace
Workshop Enterprise Advanced
Work through a live session configuring a plant to track OEE/downtime, and provide lot traceability. From set-up to reporting, gain the skills and best practices to aid your organization. Realize high-value MES features rapidly in this workshop.
10:00 - 11:30 AM
Python for Beginners
Workshop Technology Intermediate
Python, the main scripting language in Ignition, is highly popular and easy to learn. In this workshop we'll take a look at where to start using scripting in Ignition, as well as some of the common issues that beginners face. Topics will include useful scripting examples, common scripting pitfalls that beginners run into, and how to troubleshoot scripting errors.
Speakers: Paul Scott
How to Win More RFPs with Ignition
Workshop Enterprise Intermediate
If you're a systems integrator who wants to become more effective at winning projects using Ignition, this workshop is for you. Inductive team members will share their deep knowledge of Ignition and the request-for-proposal (RFP) process to help you unlock greater opportunities. The workshop will focus on three areas: how to find more RFPs, tips for evaluating which RFPs to go after, and how to answer RFPs effectively so you can win more jobs with Ignition.
Python for Advanced Users
Workshop Technology Advanced
Python scripting is a powerful tool for bringing your projects to a new level. In this workshop, you'll get to select one of several challenges and work in a group to solve a complex problem using Python in Ignition. Ignition development experts will guide you through the challenge and show you best practices for defining code that you can start using in your own project-development work right away.
11:30 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Best Practices for Building Enterprise Architectures
Workshop Enterprise Advanced
In this workshop, learn how to use the Enterprise Administration Module and Ignition's Distributed Services feature to build highly scalable enterprise architectures that allow better distribution of large workloads across multiple Ignition Gateways. You'll also learn how to extend Ignition from the enterprise level to the edge of the network using Ignition Edge.
Speakers: James Hunt
Getting Started with Machine Learning and Ignition
Workshop Technology Advanced
Machine learning is an emerging technology that's growing more important to the industrial space every day. In this workshop, you'll learn more about what machine learning is and which Ignition features can be used with machine learning. You'll also learn some practical scripting lessons for using machine learning to analyze data, identify patterns, and develop models.
Hardening the Security of Your Ignition Systems
Workshop Development Advanced
Protecting your SCADA systems against security threats is one of the most important issues faces by industrial organizations today. In this workshop you'll learn what specific actions you should take – and other actions you should definitely avoid – to improve the security of your Ignition system. Get step-by-step instructions on how to harden the security of your Ignition systems through things like building named queries, making your gateway more secure, and more in this highly informative and important workshop.
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Evening Dinner Reception
Join us for light refreshments and music before dinner.
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Dinner
Enjoy a delicious dinner and great conversation with your fellow conference-goers.
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Keynote: Leading the Way with Ignition
General Technology All
The world of industrial automation is changing for the better and the Ignition community of industrial professionals are leading the way. In this special extended keynote, you'll hear from Inductive Automation's leadership about the exciting new developments at the company, in the Ignition community, and for the Ignition platform as you get a preview of the game-changing new features of Ignition v8.0, this is a must-see event.
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Learning Ignition Fundamentals
Breakout Technology Beginner
If you're new to Ignition or just need a refresher, this is the session for you. Ignition's training team will cover the basic knowledge and fundamental features you will need to know to get started with Ignition.
Speakers: Bobby McKenzie
New Ignition Module Preview
Breakout Technology Intermediate
Get a preview of an upcoming Ignition module and get a first-hand look at how to use it to create amazing new Ignition projects. In this session, the Ignition development team will give you a guided tour of the module’s powerful new features in action.
Speakers: Carl Gould
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Development Advanced
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Building Open & Scalable Multi-Site Enterprise Architectures
Breakout Enterprise Advanced
With the powerful features, products and protocols available in Ignition — like the Gateway Network, Ignition Edge, and MQTT — building open and scalable enterprise architectures is easier and more beneficial than ever before. Get best practices from an Ignition expert on how to build multi-site enterprise architectures that efficiently distribute the workload across multiple Ignition gateways.
Speakers: Travis Cox
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Enterprise Beginner
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Technology Intermediate
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Design Principles for Creating Mobile-Responsive HMIs
Breakout Development Beginner
Designing an effective HMI screen for a desktop or panel is much different than designing for a mobile device. Depending on the screen size and how the user interacts with it, the way the operator uses and views that screen can change drastically. In this highly informative session, you’ll learn solid, time-tested web-design principles for creating mobile-responsive HMI screens that work equally well on a mobile device or a desktop.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Enterprise Intermediate
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Technology Advanced
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Integrator Panel: How to Lead with Ignition
Breakout Enterprise Intermediate
At this panel discussion, you’ll hear from some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators about how they are finding success for their companies and their customers by leading with Ignition. In this session, our expert panel of integrators will discuss tips for how to win more projects with Ignition, keep up with technology trends, and open new opportunities for future development.
Speakers: Don Pearson
20-Year Anniversary of the Genesis of MQTT
Breakout Technology Beginner
It’s been 20 years since Arlen Nipper and Andy Stanford-Clark sat down in the IBM labs at Hursley, England, and started to devise a solution to a recurring problem in the oil & gas industry: how to send data over a bandwidth-constrained communication channel and share the data with an ever-increasing number of data consumers within the enterprise. They invented MQTT, but little did they know it would become the de facto standard for IoT 20 years later. This presentation will step you through the challenge they were trying to solve and the process they went through in the creation of the MQTT specification as we know it today.
Speakers: Arlen Nipper
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Development Advanced
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
9:00 - 10:00 AM
Developer Panel: The Future of Ignition’s Development
General Development All
Every year, this proves to be one of the most popular sessions of the conference as the co-directors of Ignition’s development discuss and answer questions about their development plans. Don’t miss your chance to hear what’s next for Ignition from the leaders of the Ignition development team.
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Practical Uses of Machine Learning and Ignition
Breakout Technology Advanced
Machine learning is a rapidly growing branch of artificial intelligence with huge potential to advance the way industrial organizations analyze data. In this session, you’ll get a primer on the basics of machine learning, a look at the technology’s potential impact on the industrial space, and some practical examples of how machine learning and Ignition can be used together.
Topic and Speaker TBA
General Development Beginner
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
Solving Typical Enterprise MES Architectures with Sepasoft
Breakout Enterprise Intermediate
In this session, Sepasoft will update the community on new products and features for MES. The focus will be on MES Enterprise 2.0 solving issues in enterprise MES use cases. See a live demonstration of MES Enterprise 2.0 functionality and how it can simplify your enterprise implementation!
11:30 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM
Industry Panel: Leading Through Innovation
Breakout Enterprise Beginner
This panel discussion brings together thought leaders from a number of different industries from around the Ignition community. In this session, our panel will discuss how they're utilizing Ignition within their enterprises to help meet their customers' needs and keep up with company growth in innovative ways.
Speakers: Don Pearson
How to Use Ignition’s Security Features
Breakout Development Advanced
Security is one of the most pressing issues industrial organizations face on a daily basis, and that's why Ignition was designed with a lot of security features. Some of Ignition’s security features have been around for a long time, and there are also many new ones coming out with Ignition v8.0. In this session, you'll learn more about how to use Ignition’s security features to make your system as secure as possible.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Technology Intermediate
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Live Ignition Build-a-Thon
Breakout Development Intermediate
Co-Directors of Sales Engineering Travis Cox and Kevin McClusky both have years of experience building Ignition projects for companies in just about every industry. At this one-of-a-kind session, you'll get a front-row seat to watch Travis and Kevin build an Ignition project from start to finish in under an hour. During the session, Travis and Kevin will answer questions and share tips about the many ways to rapidly build projects in Ignition.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Technology Beginner
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
Topic and Speaker TBA
Breakout Enterprise Advanced
This session will feature a speaker from the Ignition community. The topic and speaker for this community-led session will be announced soon.
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Ignition Firebrand Awards Panel
General Enterprise All
At the end of each conference, the Ignition Firebrand Awards are given to the most outstanding real-world Ignition projects featured in our yearly Discovery Gallery project showcase. Join us to celebrate the creative spirit of the Ignition community as we honor this year’s Firebrand Award winners and hear their stories of struggle, innovation, and triumph in a fun and informative panel discussion led by Inductive Automation’s chief strategy officer, Don Pearson.
Speakers: Don Pearson
Session Types
General Sessions
These sessions are for everyone at the conference and include the conference keynote address, engaging panel discussions, and special speakers from the Ignition community.
Breakout Sessions
Subject-matter experts from Inductive Automation and the Ignition community share their knowledge in sessions that break off into 3 tracks: development, technology, and the enterprise.
Workshops
Available for purchase to all ICC ticket holders, these personalized classroom-style hands-on lessons will take you on a deeper, more advanced dive into using Ignition. Each workshop is led by an Ignition expert and taught in a smaller group so you can get more one-on-one help. Come prepared with your own laptop, project, and questions, and let’s get to work!
Session Tracks
Technology
The Technology track explores the intersection of Ignition and the latest operational and information technologies impacting industrial organizations today.
Development
The development track puts a focus on the best practices for using Ignition’s full range of development tools to build first-class industrial applications.
Enterprise
The enterprise track puts an emphasis on the best strategies and practices to help industrial organizations using Ignition to increase their efficiency and profitability.
Experience Levels
Beginner
This level is for those who are relatively new to Ignition. It focuses on core concepts and foundational principles.
Intermediate
Those with a solid knowledge of Ignition can focus on the expansion of key principles and best practices.
Advanced
Well-suited for those with a high level of experience in Ignition, providing detailed applications of more complex operations.