Schedule

Keynote: Envision Innovation

Type:  Inductive Automation   

As we enter a new decade, let’s look together with fresh eyes and envision a prosperous new future where the arbitrary limitations of the past are gone and innovation is free and open for all. Join the leaders of Inductive Automation at our annual keynote address as they reflect on the past year in the Ignition community, envision what the future holds for the industry, and share exciting glimpses of where the Ignition platform is headed and what that means for Ignition users.

Speakers: Steve Hechtman, Don Pearson, Colby Clegg, Carl Gould, Travis Cox, Kevin McClusky

Developer Panel: What’s Next For Ignition

Type:  Inductive Automation   

Join Director of Software Engineering, Carl Gould, and Colby Clegg, the VP of Technology, as they share what’s in store for Ignition for the next year and beyond. They will also be answering the audience’s questions live in this unique, live-streamed panel discussion.

Speakers: Colby Clegg, Carl Gould, Paul Scott

Tax Relief Incentives for System Integrators

Type:  Community   

In light of recent events, many business owners are concerned about payroll, cash flow, and related issues. Join alliantgroup for an informative session on the latest updates to powerful tax credits and incentives for system integrators and solution providers. Hear from alliantgroup’s technical director, Alexander Kirillov, as he walks you through the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit and why it applies to you, the latest changes to the tax code from the IRS, and how you can qualify for these critical credits and incentives. To date, alliantgroup has helped system integrators uncover over $246 million in credits and cash refunds as a result of this incentive.

Speakers: Alexander Kirillov

ANSI/ISA HMI 101 - Intuitive Information and Guidance

Type:  Community   

HMI design plays a critical role in determining an operator’s ability to manage an industrial facility’s systems effectively, particularly when detecting and resolving an abnormal situation. Adopting design standards, such as those developed by groups such as ANSI and ISA, allows organizations to add valuable context to data in a way that’s consistent, clear and scalable. During this session, GrayMatter Chief Technology Officer John Benitz will discuss how water/wastewater utilities, manufacturers and other industrial organizations leverage high-performance HMI design to enhance change management practices, convert veteran operators’ unwritten rules into intuitive design elements, and reduce the learning curve for new employees.

Speakers: John Benitz

Virtualization at the Edge

Type:  Community   

Digital Transformation is accelerating as manufacturers double down on onshoring and near-sourcing while adding KPI’s focused on resilience and adaptability, strengthening the ROI of digital transformation projects. We’re now well into OT/IT convergence with IT technologies permeating OT, reducing costs and increasing the speed and scalability of deployment. This session will explore the leading technologies moving to the industrial edge of OT. Driving virtualization technologies to the edge of networks is a key enabling technology that will soon become one of the keys to success in digital transformation.

Speakers: Mike Fahrion

Developing Well-Designed Projects in Ignition

Type:  Community   

Learn key user experience/user interface (UX/UI) concepts to improve the interface design of your industrial projects. From the most common design mistakes to avoid, to the newest design methodologies, the team from NV Tecnologías will walk conference-goers through key design principles for HMIs and other interfaces. If you are new to screen design or want a refresher for UX in 2020, this is the perfect session for you.
*In Spanish

Speakers: Esteban Núñez, Omar Segura

Cellular and VPN Connectivity Management for Remote Applications Using Moxa’s ThingsPro

Type:  Community   

Learn how to use Moxa’s built-in software utility to effortlessly manage the complex task of cellular and VPN connectivity for your remotely distributed applications.

Speakers: Elliot Willis, Russ Tibbetts

Improving Automation Systems with MQTT

Type:  Community   

Leveraging the fundamentals of MQTT as an application will bring your existing automation systems up-to-date and even future-proof them. Learn how to get your company and colleagues on board with using the MQTT protocol with persuasive strategies backed up by great information. You’ll learn the importance of embedded security, how to deploy cross-interactions between plant-floor enterprise applications, and more.
*In Spanish

Speakers: Esteban Núñez

Success Stories: Digital Transformation Done Right Across Industries

Type:  Distributor   

Leverage Ignition’s Unlimited SCADA and MES Platform

Type:  Distributor   

Envisioning a Better Ventilator Monitoring Experience with Ignition

Type:  Community   

Shortly after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, a network of more than 180 of the brightest minds in medicine and engineering assembled to design and develop an open-source ventilator that can be built quickly, at a low cost, and using commonly available components. LifeMech, the organization leading this effort, developed an Ignition-based prototype for a remote user interface that can display data from multiple ventilators simultaneously, providing nurses and physicians with a faster and safer way of monitoring patient status. This session will bring together some of the contributors to this project, including end users, system integrators and strategic partners, as they discuss this important work and how Ignition made it all possible.

Speakers: Brian McClain, Ian Tooke, Loe Cameron, Joe Dolivo

Use Docker & DevOps to Dominate Deployment

Type:  Community   

Deploying new features, bug fixes, and updates is necessary for every production SCADA/MES installation and without an established deployment cycle, modifications to any system pose significant risk. In this session, you’ll see Git source control, Docker containerization, and DevOps methodologies that you can use to effectively develop and deploy projects with Ignition. Apply standard Dev/Test/Stage/Prod practices from the software industry to support multiple developers, reduce unplanned downtime, and realize a more efficient process for developing and deploying Ignition projects.

Speakers: Ryan Crownover

Breaking the Myth of Industry 4.0 with Ignition

Type:  Community   

In this session, Automation Excellence gives viewers a simple approach to Industry 4.0, its principles, the components involved which include elements of both OT and IT, and the Ignition Platform.

Speakers: Ramnath Mani

Secure Your Ignition the Easy Way – Setting up Ignition with a Reverse Proxy

Type:  Community   

In this session, learn how to leverage free and open source reverse proxy software to secure your Ignition install with auto-renewing SSL certificates.

Speakers: Roy Westwood

The Power of Ignition and IIoT Secure Digital Power Solutions

Type:  Community   

Bedrock Automation has brought secure industrial digital power solutions to the IIoT edge. This session demonstrates how to get complete power system diagnostics remotely via Ignition designed dashboards, and details why software configurable devices are important, how to use built-in redundancy to eliminate power-related downtime, and more. See how remote operations can be simple, scalable and secure with significant cost savings.

Speakers: Bobby Ngabesong, Craig Allen, Shawn Hatton

Utilizing Ignition & MQTT for Auto-Discovery of Data Modeling and Time Series Data in AWS Cloud

Type:  Community   

In order to take advantage of the new technologies available through Digital Transformation, such as Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, companies must bridge the IT-OT gap, feeding the machine with secure and consumable data while also providing a superior OT solution. This session will describe how utilizing Ignition and MQTT in conjunction with AWS IoT SiteWise provides a simple and seamless integration of OT Data into a standard data model and pushes Tag data into a Time Series Database becoming instantly available for Big Data applications in AWS Cloud.

Speakers: Arlen Nipper

Ignition with Cloud Services

Type:  Community   

Cloud services like AWS and Azure used in conjunction with Ignition offer many advantages. In this session, find out how using Ignition in a cloud environment can improve your solutions at an administrative, uptime, and management level. This session will also detail the networking and security implications and solutions to ensure a robust and secure system, and will take you through examples for outage usability, highlighting Ignition Edge as a local failover.

Speakers: Dan Krohnemann, Michael Lehrich

Leveraging Container Deployments with Ignition on Docker

Type:  Community   

In the same way that virtualization changed the way we develop and deploy industrial software, container computing presses on as the next enabler for scalable, robust, and efficient deployments and developer workflows. Containers can help solve some of the challenges presented by today’s complex and distributed architectures. This session will demonstrate how you can leverage Ignition on Docker to model complex architectures quickly, facilitate multi-version Ignition environments, and increase density on your development systems. Join Kymera & EN Engineering as they show how you can use container concepts to achieve better simulation and load testing for your MQTT deployments. They’ll also share what they’ve learned in using Ignition on Docker and help you envision what you can create with this exciting technology!

Speakers: Kevin Collins, Kyle Chase

The 10 Commandments of Protecting Your Control Network and Assets

Type:  Community   

When it comes to cyber defense for industrial control networks, there seems to be an overwhelming sea of information. Join ICS Security for this session on cyber defense, breaking down the challenges plant owners and system integrators face and the protective measures they can take. This session will also take a look at SPARTA (SCADA Protection And Real Time Alerts) and how it’s helping to prevent most cyber attacks.

Speakers: Ilan Shaya

SCADA Client Management System

Type:  Community   

As SCADA systems grow and take advantage of Ignition’s unlimited client licensing model, managing these numerous clients has become more and more challenging. Join Piedmont Automation as they discuss and detail their SCADA Client Manager that allows IT & Maintenance personnel to quickly deploy clients anywhere in the facility, from management offices to the KPI monitors mounted high in the air in production areas.

Speakers: Bob Worth, Michael Schmid

The Quickest and Simplest Method for Publishing Sensor and State Data Directly to Ignition

Type:  Community   

Real-time, real-world data from sensors and devices is key to creating the connected enterprise. In this session, Benson Hougland from Opto 22 will demonstrate how to quickly and securely connect, configure, and publish sensor and state device data directly into MQTT infrastructure — without using a PC or PLC. You’ll see how data “auto-magically” appears in Ignition using MQTT Engine, significantly streamlining your application development and digital transformation projects — from automation to OEE and everything in between.

Speakers: Benson Hougland

How to Build a Homeless Shelter Operations Management System in Perspective

Type:  Community   

Anything is possible with a dream and the Ignition community. Case in point: More than 30 engineers banded together to build an Operations Management System in Perspective for a homeless shelter in Nashville. Join Chris McLaughlin as he shares how a group of people working nights and weekends for free can leverage Ignition to create a unified platform to replace multiple other softwares and help serve people in need.

Speakers: Chris McLaughlin..

Blockchain-Based Operator Logs and Ignition Auditing

Type:  Community   

Most automated processes require tracking of system status and performance, including operator responses to process upsets. Typically, this is accomplished using a physical notebook, as it is relatively tamper-proof. Using Ignition’s built-in Audit Log, this process can be done digitally, but it’s possible to alter and tamper with after data has been entered. In order to prevent tampering of the digital operator log, Corso Systems has built a tool using blockchain technology to ensure records are not changed, including distributed validation to ensure data integrity and limit the impact of bad actors trying to interfere with the system. This session will cover the implementation and methodology of this technology, real-world use cases, and show how this tool helps keep Ignition at the forefront of digital operations.

Speakers: Alex Marcy , Andrew Geiger, Scott Emond, William Bohn

Scaling MES with Sepasoft

Type:  Community   

In this session, you’ll learn how the Sepasoft MES modules overcome common pain points associated with implementing and scaling MES implementations. Attendees will get an overview from ERP integrations, synchronizing production data across the MES enterprise, running MES on edge devices, and other tools to simplify MES implementations. Attendees will also see early previews of new exciting products.

Speakers: Tom Hechtman, Keith Adair, Mark French

Sepasoft Virtual Conference: Scalable MES

Hosted By:  Sepasoft

Sign up to attend Sepasoft’s virtual conference exploring the topic of Scalable MES. This live-streaming event will include an early preview of our Batch and Procedure Module based on the ISA-88 standard and our Document Management Module. Learn how MES can run on the edge and scale to be part of a global multi-site enterprise, including sharing production data with other business systems. Following the live event, project showcase videos from our Premier MES Integrators will be available to provide insights and highlight best practices.

Speakers: Tom Hechtman, Mark French

Positioning Ignition as a Solution for Industry 4.0 for System Integrators

Hosted By:  iControls Pty Ltd.

In this session for system integrators targeting the growing desire for digitalization and integrated manufacturing, iControls’ Glen Fry takes an in-depth look at some common pain points, particularly among medium-sized manufacturers. This session will also cover some of the types of businesses that are most receptive to this digitalization and what tools, technology, and strategies are most beneficial for manufacturers to become more efficient using the Ignition platform.

Speakers: Glen Fry

Flexibility, Scalability, and Mobility for Clover South Africa

Hosted By:  Element8

Ignition Change la Donne Dans le SCADA, le MES et l’IIoT. Trois Exemples par Leurs Concepteurs.

Hosted By:  IT Mation

Enterprise Success with Ignition: The Fundamentals

Hosted By:  NV Technologias SA

Learn how to get started with Ignition in enterprise environments. Get the best of your manufacturing data using Ignition and Sepasoft MES starting from the ground up with this live, post-conference session. Learn what you need to get started, how to digitize manufacturing performance, how to transition to a paperless enterprise, and more. This is a great session for those starting out with Ignition as well as those who are hoping to expand Ignition and Sepasoft MES throughout their organization.
*In Spanish

Speakers: Keith Adair, José Daniel Nuñez

Ignition Oil and Gas Collective Session

Hosted By:  Ignition Oil & Gas Collective

Unfolding the Ignition Cross-Industry Collective

Hosted By:  Ignition Cross-Industry Collective

The 80’s Called and They Want Their Architectures Back: How MQTT Actually Converges IT & OT for Faster Systems Integration

Hosted By:  Sparkplug Working Group