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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

Ryan Crownover
Integration Manager
Vertech

Reese Tyson
Senior System Engineer
Flexware Innovation

Scott Whitlock
President/CEO
Flexware Innovation

Chris McLaughlin
SCADA & MES Specialist,
Vertech

Kent Melville
Director of Sales Engineering
Inductive Automation

Kevin McClusky
Co-Director of Sales Engineering
Inductive Automation

Travis Cox
Co-Director of Sales Engineering
Inductive Automation
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
Sales Engineer
Inductive Automation
Jake Hall
Business Development Manager
Feyen Zylstra
Brian McClain
Business Development Manager
Corso Systems
Dustin Wilson
Sr. Project Manager
Phantom Technical Services, Inc.
Cody Warren
Sr. Control Engineer
Tamaki Controls
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

Dee Brown
Principal
Brown Engineers

Chris McLaughlin
SCADA & MES Specialist,
Vertech

J.C. Harrison
Director of Systems Engineering
Roeslein & Associates

Remus Pop
Sr. Partner Solution Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)