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Exhibitor Demo: SiteSync - The LoRaWAN-to-Ignition Easy Button

Exhibitor Demo: Flow Software - No-Code Data Cleansing, Calculations, and KPIs

Discover Gallery Opens

Exhibitor Demo: 4IR Solutions – OT Infrastructure, Simplified

Table Talks: Block 1

Exhibitor Demo: Cirrus Link Solutions - Everything Cirrus Link, MQTT, and Cloud Connectivity

Lunch

Exhibitor Demo: Snowflake - I4.0 Accelerator to Supercharge Edge-to-Cloud Business Outcomes with Snowflake

Exhibitor Demo: Opto 22 - Extend the Ignition® Platform to the Edge of Your Network

User Group Meeting: Ignition in Oil & Gas

Type: Industry Meeting   

Table Talks: Block 2

Exhibitor Demo: Sepasoft - MES Production Workflow Solution

Exhibitor Demo: SafetyChain - How the SafetyChain Ignition Module Drives Manufacturing Productivity

Table Talks: Block 3

Exhibitor Demo: HiveMQ

Table Talks: Block 4

Exhibitor Demo: Plantformance

Welcome Reception

Food Truck Dinner

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Main Keynote: Elevating Automation

Type: General    Track: Technology    Level: All

Let's kick off the 2023 Ignition Community Conference on a high note. Join Inductive Automation's leadership team as they reflect on the past year, look toward the future, and give you a bird's-eye view of our growing company, ever-evolving industry, and thriving Ignition community. This is ICC, elevated!

Speakers: Colby Clegg , Carl Gould , Kat Jeschke , Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Beginner

Whether you're new to Ignition or just want a refresher, this session is made for all. The Inductive Automation Training team covers all the basic knowledge and fundamental features you need to get started with Ignition.

Speakers: Kyle Van Eenennaam

We Love Ignition. But Can it REALLY Scale?

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Beginner

Can it REALLY scale? This is a question we have received for the last 10 years. Delve into the realm of enterprise Ignition rollouts with industry insights from the lens of an enterprise integrator. Uncover the strategies and best practices that accelerate the implementation and ensure the long-term sustainability of Ignition. Don’t just believe us – hear it firsthand from a guest appearance with one of our enterprise end users.

Speakers: Stephanie Mikelbrencis , Stephen Halligan

What’s That in the Sky? An Intro to Ignition in the Cloud

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Intermediate

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s Ignition! There’s enough buzz around deploying Ignition in the cloud, you’d think it would give your system super powers. But does a cloud deployment align with your organization’s grounded, realistic objectives? In this session, we’ll introduce cloud deployment concepts, discuss which architectures and scenarios benefit the most from cloud-based integration, and share real-world Ignition use cases.

Speakers: Brad Fischer

Lunch: Meet Your Account Rep

Sepasoft MES Orchestration for Digital Transformation

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Intermediate

Manufacturing workflows are required to execute critical processes the right way – every time. The correct tasks must be carried out in the correct order, with the correct materials, approvals, quality checks, and accurate records, especially in regulated industries (e.g., 21 CFR Part 11). This objective, and true Digital Transformation, can only be accomplished with a platform that is integrated, agile, low-code, and feature-rich. Join us for a demonstration of our various MES offerings to showcase Sepasoft’s orchestrated workflow solution.

Speakers: Tom Hechtman , Mark French

Elevate Your OT Data Securely to the Cloud

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Intermediate

Ignition Cloud Edition! Awesome! But wait… How can I possibly connect my PLCs or I/O systems to the cloud? Won’t that jeopardize them? And require heavy IT involvement? What’s the payoff? In this session, we’ll discuss how to use Ignition Edge and Ignition Cloud Edition together to quickly create scalable, high-performance, cybersecure architectures for democratizing your OT system’s data. Whether in brownfield or greenfield environments, you’ll unlock the power of edge-to-cloud hybrid architectures that are cost-effective, easy to manage, cybersecure, and deliver more value to your organization.

Speakers: Benson Hougland

The OG Perspective: 10+ Years of Ignition Wisdom and Beyond

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Intermediate

In this session, we'll explore more than a decade of experience with Ignition, sharing valuable insights as a long-time member of the Ignition community. We'll take a practical look at how Ignition has evolved and its role in modern manufacturing, including topics like MES, OEE, AI, and more. It's an opportunity to gain practical knowledge and understand the journey from the early days to today's automation landscape.

Speakers: Jean-Paul Moniz

I4.0 Accelerator for Driving Edge to Cloud Business Outcomes

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Advanced

Come and learn with Cirrus Link and Snowflake what your data has to say. Snowflake, Inductive Automation & Cirrus Link have partnered to provide Data Cloud Solutions. With Ignition UDTs, MQTT, and Sparkplug, discover how easy it is to leverage Snowflake’s platform to gain derived data insights immediately through native AI tooling. Learn about the impact of the recent partnership of NVIDIA and Snowflake. See how this disrupting technology, in conjunction with Ignition, will elevate and simplify your journey to data insights.

Speakers: Arlen Nipper , Travis Cox , Pugal Janakiraman

An Overview of Ignition’s MongoDB Connector Module

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Intermediate

Earlier this year, we introduced a connector module that allows an Ignition Gateway to integrate with MongoDB. This session provides an overview of MongoDB, outlines the connector module's capabilities, and demonstrates how you can most effectively leverage it to elevate the functionality of your existing deployments.

Speakers: Matthew Raybourn

Tyson’s Smart Factory Journey

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Intermediate

This session provides an overview of how Tyson has standardized operations with Ignition as a SCADA platform, highlighting and detailing how consistent data and dashboards allow for faster implementations. The talk will also include best practices that Tyson has developed, and will identify some of the key integrations that have helped simplify and streamline data collection processes.

Speakers: Chris Windmeyer , Geoff Nelson

Industry Panel

Type: General    Track: Enterprise    Level: All

While each industry faces unique obstacles and requirements, each passing year reveals more opportunities for cross-industry solutions. Hear from a panel of thought leaders from various industries as they explore how enterprise-wide solutions have led their companies to a new level of growth. They’ll also answer your questions about large-scale Digital Transformation and other topics.

Speakers: Arlen Nipper , Don Pearson , Pugal Janakiraman , Jeremy Bunch , Chris Polarine , Micah Weber , Mike Flores

Deployment Patterns for Ignition on Kubernetes

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Advanced

Kevin Collins returns to ICC for a demonstration of how to harness the combined power of Ignition and Kubernetes. This session offers an in-depth look at methods for effectively automating deployment, scaling, and managing containerized Ignition applications.

Speakers: Kevin Collins

Inductive Automation Birthday Celebration & Dinner

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Technical Keynote

Type: General    Track: Development    Level: All

Developing industry-defining software is no easy task, but someone has to do it. Join our Development team as they highlight recent improvements and upgrades, current developments, and a behind-the-scenes peek at the future of Ignition before answering questions directly from the Ignition community.

Speakers: Colby Clegg , Carl Gould , Jason Waits , Kathy Applebaum , Paul Griffith , JJ Coffman

Introduction to Automated Testing of Perspective Projects

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Advanced

Learn the most effective ways for leveraging automated testing to safeguard your development-to-production process. This session will start by outlining how the core tenets of testing apply to automated testing, leading directly into best practices for verifying that your Perspective project development is production-ready.

Speakers: Cody Mallonee

Ignition Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Intermediate

Ignition offers numerous built-in tools for gathering diagnostic information about the health of your system. This session offers an overview of these tools and explains how our Support Division leverages this information during the troubleshooting process. By the end of this session, fixing problems will feel like shooting code in a barrel.

Speakers: Corbin Harrell , Cosmo Stevens

Don’t Get Lost in the Cloud: Tips & Tricks for Successful Ignition Deployment and Management

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Intermediate

With the release of Cloud Edition, it's never been easier to get Ignition running in the cloud. But are you ready for it? From security concerns to misconfigurations, there are plenty of pitfalls to stumble upon when managing applications in the cloud. But fear not, as help is on the way. Join the experts from 4IR in this session where they'll provide helpful tips and tricks for deploying and managing Ignition in the cloud.

Speakers: James Burnand , Joseph Dolivo

Lunch: Meet Your Account Rep & Distributors

Integrator Panel

Type: General    Track: Enterprise    Level: Intermediate

Which new innovations will prove vital for future success and which flash-in-the-pan trends are destined to be forgotten by ICC 2024? During this panel discussion, some of the Ignition community's most successful integration professionals share how they are responding to emerging technologies and techniques that are driving the evolution of the automation landscape.

Speakers: Chris Fischer , Elizabeth Hill Reed , Jason Hamlin , Sean McFarlane , Sydney Bosworth , Nathan de Hoog , Barbara White

Separating Design From Development - Using Design Tools with Ignition

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Beginner

Building screens in Ignition is a breeze, but did you know you can design screens even faster by mocking them up using a design tool? Join us for this session as we talk about the benefits of moving the design process outside of a development platform. We'll cover topics such as design vs. development, UI vs. UX, benefits of using design tools, and an introduction to the design tool Figma.

Speakers: Doug Yerger

Hitting a Home Run with Ignition

Type: Breakout    Track: Technology    Level: Intermediate

Ignition is not limited to industrial applications alone; its powerful features extend to use cases of all kinds. From its intuitive design features to its robust scripting capabilities, you can harness the full potential of its flexible architecture and rich tool-set to create innovative solutions in non-industrial automation development. Witness this potential firsthand through a baseball scoring and statistics app developed entirely in Perspective, while providing examples of how tags, persistence, scripting, and views can be utilized in a non-industrial setting. Our goal is to inspire others to elevate their lives and hobbies in new creative ways with Ignition.

Speakers: Kyle Chase , Sophia Ruduke

Ignition Exchange Resource Showcase

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Intermediate

Since the Ignition Exchange’s introduction in 2019, members of the Ignition community have contributed hundreds of resources ranging from pre-built templates, tools, and scripts to Ignition-powered retro arcade games — all available for free. Discover the full potential of the Ignition Exchange as we highlight some of its most valuable assets, including a handpicked sampling of the top Exchange resources developed by IA engineers.

Speakers: Mara Pillott , Dereck Saunders

Rising to the Challenge - Adventures in System Conversion

Type: Breakout    Track: Development    Level: Beginner

The folks at Flexware are no strangers to a challenge. When the opportunity to convert a large system over to Ignition arose, they took it head on. Join them in this session where they'll talk about the project and share their lessons learned, talk about custom tools, and describe their thought process.

Speakers: TJ Holt , Jen Conner

From LinkedIn Connections to Community Leaders: The Automation Ladies Experience

Type: Breakout    Track: Enterprise    Level: Beginner

What happens when two passionate ladies in industrial automation meet on LinkedIn and decide to create a podcast? Magic. And growth, lots of growth. Dive into the journey of the Automation Ladies podcast and how it has become an engine for both business growth and network expansion. Nikki and Ali will unpack how amplifying your voice online can have real-world business benefits. If you want to grow your customer base, attract top-tier suppliers, or strengthen your community, this talk should have some actionable takeaways on the power of creating an authentic personal brand by sharing your journey with the world.

Speakers: Nikki Gonzales , Alicia Gilpin

Build-a-Thon

Type: General    Track: Development    Level: All

The conference is guaranteed to go out with a bang as the Build-a-Thon closes out ICC once again. Join us for the conclusion of the ultimate Ignition challenge, where the final two teams compete for the glory of developing the most elevated Ignition solutions and being crowned Build-a-Thon champions. Who will wear the orange winner’s blazer after the votes are all counted? There’s only one way to find out, so stick around to catch the competitive spirit and enjoy an unforgettable music performance from IA’s Department of Funk that you’ll be humming for weeks!

Speakers: Travis Cox , Kevin McClusky , Kent Melville

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