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 like sensor data, 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: Paolo Mariani, Paul Scott, Stevenson Yuan

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 powerful new features such as container types, mobile features like sensor data, 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: Paolo Mariani, Paul Scott, Stevenson Yuan

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

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

Workshop To Be Announced

Type:  Workshop   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Advanced

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 , Carl Gould , Colby Clegg , Travis Cox

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: Paolo Mariani

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Intermediate

Digital Transformation Made Easy with Ignition & MQTT

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Beginner

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

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Beginner

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

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

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

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

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Advanced

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

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

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

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

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

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Advanced

Lunch

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Groundbreaking Industrial Mobile Applications: Now and Tomorrow

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

While mobile devices have introduced amazing new possibilities for collecting and leveraging your industrial data, designing for mobile requires a new way of thinking. In this session, you’ll learn how four forward-thinking companies combined creativity and mobile technology to solve business problems in ways that weren’t possible only a few years ago. You'll also catch a glimpse of mobile industrial applications that may be possible in the near future.

Speakers: Perry Arellano-Jones , Ray Sensenbach

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Advanced

Session To Be Announced

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

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

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