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Ignition in Smart Cities and Smart Factories Applications with ORing and AT&T

In this fascinating session, get a look inside the AT&T IIoT service, learn about ORing edge-to-cloud Ignition solutions for smart cities and smart factories, and check out successful real-world applications being used in various industries. See IIoT solutions in action!

Adding Ignition Perspective to Your Vision Projects

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.

Security Panel: The State of Control Systems Today

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.

Ignition Firebrand Award Presentation (2019)

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.

ICC 2019 Keynote

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!

Ignition Build-a-Thon: Team Travis vs. Team Kevin

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.

Designing Effective Mobile-Responsive Industrial Applications

Designing an effective user experience for mobile applications requires a very different mindset than designing applications for desktops or panel devices. In this session, we’ll breakdown three real-life customer projects and transform them into effective and intuitive mobile-first applications. You’ll come out of this session with new information on design, and tips and tricks to use in your next project.

Simplifying Single-Machine to Full-Enterprise MES Implementations

In this session, you'll learn about practical solutions to the common pain points associated with implementing new MES systems. You'll get a look at the new and exciting MES products and features that Sepasoft will be introducing to the Ignition community. Attendees will also get to see a live demonstration of ERP integrations, enterprise functionality, and other tools that will simplify their own MES implementation. Don't miss your chance to get an early preview of Sepasoft's new and exciting MES products.

Limitless Scalability: Building Elastic Architectures

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.