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
Building Effective Reports
Workshop Development Intermediate
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
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.
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.
8:00 - 11:30 AM
Ignition Oil and Gas Collective Meeting
Industry Meeting Enterprise All
The Ignition Oil and Gas Collective (IOGC) is the first official collective of Ignition end users ever formed. Their purpose is to provide an outlet for the Ignition oil and gas end-user community to meet and discuss various aspects of Ignition software and its functionality as it relates to oil and gas. For the first time, the IOGC will be holding one of their meetings at this year’s ICC.
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
Enjoy a delicious and convenient lunch at the Harris Center.
Discover Gallery Opens
Visit the Discover Gallery to browse a video showcase of exceptional real-world Ignition applications built by the members of the global Ignition community.
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.
Ignition Cross-Industry Collective Meeting
Industry Meeting Enterprise All
The Ignition Cross-Industry Collective is a new collective made up of Ignition community members from a broad cross-section of industries. The goal of the group is to learn, collaborate and grow together by sharing their knowledge and Ignition expertise with each other. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this exciting new group — attend their first-ever meeting at this year’s ICC to join the discussion.
3:00 - 4:30 PM
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
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.
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
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Registration & Reception
The conference officially begins! Registration will be open in the lobby, where refreshments will be served.
Discover Gallery Meet and Greet
Discover Gallery project presenters will be on hand to answer questions in the Discover Gallery.
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Food Truck Dinner
Delicious food will be served up to conference attendees at the Harris Center from some of Sacramento's best food trucks.
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 8. 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 Development 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
Using SQL Databases to Grow Your Enterprise System
Breakout Enterprise Advanced
Using Ignition with SQL databases creates a powerful combination for handling enterprise data. In this session, you'll hear from the Sherwin-Williams Industrial Applications group on how they seamlessly use both technologies to meet the growing data demands of their organization. Get great first-hand tips for using SQL in large enterprises including how to annotate and model SQL data, using databases to drive user customized context in Vision clients, handling database downtime smoothly without impacting SCADA and operations, and more.
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Enjoy a delicious and convenient lunch at the Harris Center.
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Ignition & Water/Wastewater: Doing Less With More
Breakout Development Beginner
Water/wastewater lives the adage, “Do more with less.” Except Ignition is more: more than SCADA, more than visualization, more than a database front-end. And because it gives users more, they spend less time developing, less time maintaining, and less time securing their system. In this session, you'll hear the story of how a water district in the eastern US is using Ignition as their engine of innovation to drive continual advancements. Learn how they got started, the challenges they overcame, and where Ignition is helping them go, culminating in a sneak peek of the city’s newest cybersecurity project.
Connecting at the Edge: Real Hardware Solutions for the Real IIoT
Breakout Technology Intermediate
For years, the Industrial Internet of Things was more of an idea than a reality; now that's all changing because there are many solutions you can start using today to quickly and easily connect to all the "things" at the edge of the network. In this session, you'll get to see the many IIoT-ready products you can start using with Ignition to connect all kinds of devices like PLCs, panels, edge gateways, and more. You'll also learn some great tips and strategies for how to put them into action in brownfield situations so you can start leveraging legacy infrastructure to build a modern IIoT architecture.
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
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Industry Panel: Leading Through Innovation
Breakout Enterprise Beginner
This panel discussion brings together thought leaders in 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.
Midstream Middleware – An Evolutionary Journey with MQTT
Breakout Technology Intermediate
In this engaging session from the COO of Streamline Control Solutions, Peter Boyle, you'll gain insight into the innovative process Plains Midstream Canada used to move their SCADA serial communications infrastructure to middleware using MQTT. You'll learn more about the successes and challenges of the journey, including the initial objectives of the decision, the process to get there, the early-stage benefits of the conversion, and more.
Speakers: Peter Boyle
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 an abundance 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 8. In this session, you'll learn more about how to use Ignition’s security features to make your system as secure as possible.
4:30 - 5:30 PM
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.
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!
An Overview of ICS-Related Malware
Breakout Enterprise Advanced
This presentation discusses how industrial control system (ICS) malware has evolved over time. Specifically, it discusses the growing capabilities of ICS malware and how attacks on industrial control systems have grown more frequent, while the attacks themselves have grown increasingly sophisticated. This presentation will focus especially on the latest ICS malware analyzed by DHS: HatMan, also known as Triton/TRISIS.
Speakers: Derek Meyer
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 - 10:00 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 Tips for Rolling Out an Enterprise System
Breakout Enterprise Beginner
An enterprise rollout of a new system can be a daunting task. There are architecture and design considerations, technical and project management challenges, as well as financial and organizational demands that must be met. In this session, you'll get practical tips on how to tackle these kinds of challenges, all while staying focused on the most important part of any system rollout: delivering valuable, actionable data to your end user.
Speakers: Robert Barker
Top 6 Tips for Delivering a Successful MES Project
Breakout Development Intermediate
A successful MES project has the potential to deliver huge efficiency improvements that can boost production and save money. In this session, you'll hear specific strategies you can put into action right now to improve your MES implementations. Make your next MES project a success with great tips about how to plan your project, map your process, fully leveraging actionable information, and designing a great UX for OEE projects.
Speakers: Chris McLaughlin
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.
11:30 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
Enjoy a delicious and convenient lunch at the Harris Center.
1:00 - 2:00 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.
Technology Panel: Open Technology's Impact on Industrial Automation
Breakout Technology Intermediate
Industrial automation is changing faster than ever, and the adoption of open technologies is a big reason why. In this panel discussion, you'll hear from many of the innovators and thought leaders behind some of the open technologies that are impacting industry the most, such as MQTT, OPC UA, the Ignition platform, and more. In this fascinating session, our panel will also discuss the benefits and challenges associated with using open technologies as well as the potential role of these technologies in the continuing evolution of the industrial automation industry.
Speakers: Arlen Nipper , Andy Stanford-Clark , Colby Clegg , Travis Cox , Mike Milinkovich , Thomas Burke
Configuring Devices in Ignition Using UDTs and the EAM
Breakout Development Advanced
Configuring devices with user-defined type (UDT) tags on servers at multiple production sites can be challenging; in this session you'll learn how to do it in Ignition. The Ignition Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) is a powerful management tool that gives you the ability to manage not only servers and project objects but devices across the enterprise. Join Lynn Martineau of Autoliv to see how he's using centralized tools to configure devices, reducing the need to access multiple Ignition Gateways and Designers and simplifying training and support.
Speakers: Lynn Martineau
2:30 - 3:30 PM
Open Source, Open Collaboration
Breakout Technology Beginner
From transportation to the industrial sector, software is eating the world, and open-source software is one of biggest drivers behind this transformation. Join Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, to learn about their mission to create a mature, scalable, and commercially focused environment for collaboration and innovation. In this session, you'll learn about the many advantages of using open-source software, its impact on the emergence of IoT, and the things companies need to do to embrace and benefit from the digital transformation.
Speakers: Mike Milinkovich
Integrator Panel: How to Lead with Ignition
Breakout Enterprise Intermediate
At this panel discussion, you’ll hear some of the Ignition community’s most active integrators talk about how they are finding success for their companies and 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.
Live Ignition Build-a-Thon
Breakout Development Advanced
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.
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.