Virtual Meetup: Opening Reception

Type:  Networking   

Keynote: Smarter. Faster. Stronger.

Type:  General   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Beginner

At ICC 2019, we discussed the limitless possibilities of Ignition. Last year we envisioned the bright future of innovation in store for the Ignition community. Now, at ICC 2021, as the industrial world changes, the community continues to evolve to create smarter, faster, and stronger solutions than ever before. Join the leaders of Inductive Automation as they discuss the growth of the company and the community over the last year. In this year’s keynote, we’ll celebrate the community’s innovation by looking at the fantastic success they are achieving using the Ignition platform to evolve the industry for the better.

Speakers: Steve Hechtman , Wendi-Lynn Hechtman , Don Pearson , Ilene Block , Colby Clegg , Carl Gould , Katharina Robinett , Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky

Practical Smart Water Solutions Capitalizing on the Digital Wave

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

The demand for reliable, secure, and scalable automation technology is growing exponentially in the water/wastewater industry. Municipalities struggle with “data silos” that limit the flow and availability of information to the various stakeholders and systems, limiting insights that can be gleaned from the operation. At Brock, we are using Ignition to break open these silos and aggregate disparate data sources into a connected central point, providing a complete view from tap to treatment of the water operation.

Speakers: Dave Haller , Joseph Donohue

How to Develop a Low-Cost, Open-Source Machine Learning Solution Using Ignition

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Advanced

The benefits of applying machine learning in complex industrial systems can be immense, and Enuda has found an open-source approach using Ignition that can give the benefits of ML at a low cost. In this session, you'll learn how they did it by exploring their considerations, testing (and failures), as well as why they decided on using a combination of Docker, Flask framework, and Ignition to create their solution. The session will include an example using the chosen environment for a practical case, and advice on how to get started with machine learning and Ignition.

Speakers: Ivana Šenk

Keeping the Cure, Secure: COVID-19 Vaccine Batch Monitoring

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical arm, Janssen, embarked on a global effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and worked with a contract manufacturer to supply one billion doses of vaccine. Large-scale manufacturing of Janssen's vaccine would occur at the contract manufacturing site, specializing in rapidly manufacturing vaccines and other treatments in large quantities during public health emergencies. Janssen required access to near-real-time data to monitor key production and quality metrics and to assure the success of each batch. The contract manufacturer's Operation Technology infrastructure of control systems and data collection is isolated from internal and outside networks — particularly networks with internet access. The contract manufacturer tasked Automation Control Concepts (ACC) with creating a secure data pipeline providing this information to Janssen, which is an evolution in the collaboration between contract manufacturers and vaccine developers, as historical data is usually exchanged via Excel or text files after the batch is completed. In this session, learn how ACC used Ignition to provide the real-time data required to react to deviations immediately and save batches that would otherwise be lost.

Speakers: Guru Thakkar , Kevin Hannigan

Creating Perspective Graphics Using Inkscape

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

This session will offer a quick introduction to the Inkscape vector design program and a hands-on demonstration of how to use Inkscape to create SVG files, import them into Perspective, and animate them in Ignition.

Speakers: Michael Schmid

Ignition Platform: Enabling Scripting for Smart Manufacturing

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

In this session, Automation Excellence will be showcasing three case studies that highlight the power, flexibility, and versatility of the Ignition Platform to adapt to multiple industrial applications, including HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT. In addition, you'll learn how Ignition works with other smart ecosystems through its open connectivity, ability to work with multiple product vendors, and support of numerous communication protocols.

Speakers: Ramnath Mani , Prabakar Selvam

Virtual Meetup: Meet the Exhibitors

Type:  Networking   

Collaborating on Digital Transformation for Enterprise Scale!

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Intermediate

A panel of longtime Ignition users and integrators discuss the challenges and successes of tackling Ignition deployments at an enterprise scale. Learn about how collaboration with other integrators can unlock opportunities to take on global projects. We will discuss what it's like to have three to four different companies working together to complete a project and how to make sure the customer's needs are always front and center.

Speakers: Chris McLaughlin , Remus Pop , J.C. Harrison , Dee Brown

MQTT – Invented for SCADA, Adopted by IT, Solving Digital Transformation Today | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

Although MQTT was first invented for efficient SCADA communications and decoupling of data 20 years ago, it has been adopted by cloud service providers to become a dominant cloud IIoT messaging technology. Using a live SCADA infrastructure, we'll share new Ignition module capabilities, new wireless technologies, and Ignition's native Data Ops tooling to demonstrate how efficiently OT data is shared across the entire enterprise. Whether you are tasked with implementing digital transformation strategies, adopting big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or simply looking to incorporate wireless sensors into Ignition cost-effectively, this session will provide a path forward for your projects.

Speakers: Arlen Nipper

Industry Panel: Enterprise Evolution - Successes and Challenges of Digital Transformation | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Shifting away from manual data processes through digital transformation has proven to be critical for a company’s stability, security, and growth, but it’s also easier said than done. Join thought leaders and experts from various automation verticals as they discuss the challenges and benefits of digital transformation at the enterprise level, share their personal experiences, and answer your questions about digital transformation.

Speakers: Don Pearson , Todd Anslinger , Jonathan Saunders , Hugh Roddy , Pugal Janakiraman

Virtual Meetup: Meet Inductive Automation

Type:  Networking   

Virtual Meetup: Ask an Engineer

Type:  Networking   

Developer Panel | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

What’s coming up for Ignition? What new features and fixes do the developers have planned for the next year? Join us for this year’s all-new, live-streamed Developer Panel featuring Inductive Automation’s VP of Technology, Colby Clegg, and Director of Software Engineering, Carl Gould, as they tackle your questions and give insight into what’s in store for the Ignition Platform.

Speakers: Colby Clegg , Carl Gould , Paul Scott

OMG APIs – How and Why You Should Integrate with Ignition Using APIs

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

In this session, you'll see various use cases that integrate Ignition with APIs to enrich applications and solve real-world problems such as alerting for location tracking, weather monitoring, integrating with a firewall — and something fun! You'll also learn through demonstrations about using authentication with API keys.

Speakers: Keith King , Michael Myers

Top 7 UI Design Tips in Perspective

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

Users crave a UI experience that is intuitive, efficient, memorable, and visually pleasing. Unfortunately, industrial automation projects can be 100% functional and still miss the mark because of poor design. Good UI standards improve user experience and function, reduce training time, and help ensure long-term use of the system. In this session, you'll hear specific UI strategies that you can use right now to improve your applications in Perspective. Slash the learning curve on beautiful interface design with straightforward tips from a developer's point of view.

Speakers: Chris McLaughlin

Real-World, Practical and Achievable Transformation Using Ignition and Ignition Edge

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

In this session, you'll learn how Streamline uses Ignition and Ignition Edge to enhance operational assets from the field to the boardroom, empowering organizations with the data they need to make important decisions in a meaningful way. Join Streamline Controls in exploring IoT/MQTT ecosystems by walking through examples and use cases of how they build solutions that can deploy to any operational asset to start consuming and leveraging OT data.

Speakers: Jeremiah Hannley

Embracing the Cloud: How 4IR Solutions’ Ignition-Powered Platform Accelerates Life Sciences and Manufacturing

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

Industrial organizations, particularly in regulated industries like Life Sciences, have historically been hesitant to store GxP data in the cloud. But with COVID-19 pushing many organizations into accelerating their digital transformation roadmaps, the cloud has become a differentiating, and in some cases essential, technology that allows manufacturers to stay competitive through cost savings while enabling new ways to drive value. With deep experience in the Life Sciences industry, 4IR Solutions has developed a new cloud-hosted platform powered by Ignition, designed to meet the unique regulatory and compliance challenges faced by Life Science manufacturers, including Data Integrity and 21 CFR Part 11. This session will provide an inside look at how this platform makes Ignition a Smarter, Faster, Stronger tool by putting security first while enhancing Ignition's core capabilities through integration with cloud-native technologies. Executives from 4IR Solutions will provide an overview and demonstration of the platform and discuss how system integrators and manufacturers alike can leverage their existing Ignition skills to deliver secure, compliant, and cloud-enhanced solutions on top of 4IR's managed platform.

Speakers: Joseph Dolivo , James Burnand

Supporting Worldwide Digital Transformation with Ignition in the Cloud

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Technology   
Level:  Intermediate

Ignition is capable of more than just SCADA; it can support digital transformation by offering the possibility to create parametric services in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. HTC uses Perspective, the WebDev Module, and REST APIs on a cloud platform to help their international customers complete their digital transformation journeys. In this session, HTC will illustrate the architecture they use and their customers' results by using a scalable, secure, mobile, geographically distributed system that enables services like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, Ignition back-end and front-end architectures, gateway networks, high availability, Ignition Edge, and MQTT will be addressed in this session.

Speakers: Enrico Aramini

Virtual Meetup: Discover Gallery

Type:  Networking   

Discover Manufacturing Bottlenecks with Sepasoft MES | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Advanced

Explore new possibilities to evolve your MES architecture quickly and more robustly than ever before. From controlling critical processes and procedures to tracking quality and performance, our new ISA-88 Batch and Procedure Module and other solutions empower manufacturers to identify and reduce manufacturing bottlenecks. Learn how Sepasoft MES solves major pain points, from small to enterprise-wide MES implementations.

Speakers: Tom Hechtman , Mark French

3 Tips to Evolve Your Ignition System’s Communication to PLCs

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Intermediate

In this session, you'll get some great Ignition tips for communicating to PLCs. You'll learn about writing to separate tags to ensure data integrity and robust logic, leveraging direct OPC reads to obtain data synchronization, and using JSON-derived tags to reduce communication load with a PLC-hosted OPC UA server.

Speakers: Jay LaFave , Elizabeth (Hill) Reed , Paul Mangels

Integrator Panel: Which New Technologies are Fads or the Future | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Enterprise   
Level:  Beginner

During this panel discussion, you'll hear the leaders of some of the Ignition community's most successful integration companies discuss new technologies and innovations that are evolving the industry. Ideas and terms like IIoT and the cloud once seemed foreign but are now increasingly commonplace within the industrial sphere. What new trends and innovations will prove to be more than just buzzwords, but actual mainstays key to a company’s future success? How are automation professionals responding to these technologies? Hear our expert integrator panel answer these and other questions as they discuss what actually adds value within the industry and what's just hype in this fascinating panel discussion.

Speakers: Shay Johnson , Jake Hall , Brian McClain , Dustin Wilson , Cody Warren

Ignition Build-A-Thon: Vertech vs. Flexware | LIVE

Type:  Breakout   
Track:  Development   
Level:  Beginner

Travis, Kevin, and Kent are back for an all-new and evolved Build-a-Thon! This time, instead of keeping the glory all for themselves, Travis and Kevin will each be coaching a new competitor from two of the top integration companies in the Ignition community, Vertech and Flexware, to compete for the Build-a-Thon belt. Join us at this year’s jam-packed, live-streamed competition for bigger fun, bigger laughs, and bigger builds as the competitors build “next-gen” versions of an HMI and dashboard, using their own newly developed Ignition Exchange resource.

Speakers: Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky , Kent Melville , Chris McLaughlin , Scott Whitlock , Reese Tyson , Ryan Crownover

Virtual Meetup: After Party

Type:  Networking