Sacramento, CA | September 17, 2025 — At its 2025 Ignition Community Conference, Inductive Automation hosted industrial professionals from around the world to network, collaborate, and learn more about Ignition — an industrial automation software platform for SCADA, HMI, IIoT, MES, and more — and the ecosystem of technology solutions that work with it. During ICC, Inductive Automation honored several companies and individuals for their outstanding achievements and announced new products and initiatives.
Inductive Automation has held ICC annually beginning in 2013. This year for the first time, ICC was held at the SAFE Credit Union Convention & Performing Arts District, a state-of-the-art venue with over 240,000 square feet of space in the heart of downtown Sacramento, California. The new, larger venue provided room for more attendees, exhibitors, and attendees than ever before. Over 1,500 people attended the in-person conference with numerous others joining via a virtual livestream of the conference sessions, making this Inductive Automation’s most well-attended conference yet.
2025 Ignition Firebrand Awards & Discover Gallery Awards
This year at ICC, Inductive Automation presented Ignition Firebrand and Discover Gallery Awards to system integrators and industrial organizations that built exceptionally innovative projects with Ignition software. The company also recognized outstanding efforts in educating students about industrial automation with the Educational Engagement Firebrand Award, and honored contributions to the Ignition user community with the Community Impact Firebrand Award.
2025 Ignition Firebrand Award Winners:
• Concera (End user: Sibanye-Stillwater)
• Insight Engineering (End user: Haymes Paint)
• SAGE Group (End user: Sydney Airport Corporation)
• ASE Global
• National Renewable Energy Lab
2025 Community Impact Firebrand Award Winner: Nick Minchin, Senior System Engineer at SAGE Automation
2025 Educational Engagement Firebrand Award Winner: HebronSoft / Hebron IT Academy
2025 Discover Gallery Award Winners:
• CanDoIt Solutions (End user: Vide Ultra)
• CSE Icon, Inc. (End user: Ovintiv)
• Whiskey House of Kentucky
• TIGA (End user: EXCO Resources)
• ECON Tech (End user: Gerdau Corsa)
• Avadine (End user: Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District)
• Actemium Toronto (End user: Trioworld North America)
• 2Gi Technologie (End user: Veolia)
• SAFEgroup Automation (End user: Department of Environment and Water [DEW])
• Lucid Motors
• AT-Automation (End user: BMT Aerospace)
The winning projects can be viewed online at: https://icc.inductiveautomation.com/discover-gallery
Ignition 8.3
During the first day of the conference, Inductive Automation released Ignition 8.3, a comprehensive update to its Ignition platform. Ignition 8.3 delivers major advancements in data processing efficiency, security, management, and development speed in order to elevate OT to modern IT standards and meet the speed and scalability needs of modern enterprises. For more information, read the Ignition 8.3 press release.
Ignition Solution Suites
During the Main Keynote, company leaders introduced a new purchasing option called Ignition Solution Suites, which include collections of Ignition modules and optional support plans that provide Upgrade Protection.
Ignition Solution Suites simplify the Ignition purchasing process so that users can buy and deploy the precise solution they need more quickly. Five Solution Suites are currently available, and they align Ignition’s capabilities with common industrial use cases: The Application Building Suite, The Industrial Historian Suite, The DataOps Operations Suite, The Alarm Management Suite, and The Enterprise Integration Suite.
For more information, visit: https://inductiveautomation.com/pricing/solution-suites
Integrator Solutions
Also during the Main Keynote, company leaders announced an upcoming initiative called Integrator Solutions. The Integrator Solutions program will highlight production-ready solutions built by Ignition Gold and Premier Integrators that others in the Ignition community can adopt, and will be launched in the coming months.
About Inductive Automation
Inductive Automation creates industrial software that empowers organizations to swiftly turn great ideas into reality by removing all technological and economic obstacles. By cross-pollinating IT with SCADA technologies, Inductive Automation created Ignition software, the first universal industrial application platform with unlimited potential. Ignition empowers industrial organizations around the world and in virtually every industry, with an outstanding software platform and top-notch support. For more information, visit inductiveautomation.com.
Contact:
Kristine Zukose
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