Build-a-Thon: 2025

Prepare for the return of the Build-a-Thon, bringing with it all the thrilling design challenges, innovative solutions, and unforgettable moments you've come to expect! This year, two leading integration companies will go head-to-head, showcasing their expertise as they build the most impressive Ignition project. Witness the excitement live at this truly unique, educational, and competitive SCADA event, culminating in the crowning of our next Build-a-Thon champion!

Scaling Smart: Architecting for Industrial Growth

Sila's transition from R&D-scale experiments to a full battery material production facility required more than just more equipment — it demanded a shift in how systems were architected. Learn how Sila (working with DMC) deployed Ignition using a Unified Namespace design, UDT-driven standardization, and MQTT messaging via HiveMQ to create a consistent, scalable control layer. This structure not only streamlines deployment across the plant but also feeds contextualized process data to Snowflake for deeper insight and future optimization.

Return of the Dev Panel

Step behind the curtain and meet the minds shaping the future of Ignition. In this lively and interactive panel, you’ll have the rare opportunity to ask the developers who design and build the platform questions directly. From exploring the newest innovations to learning how features take shape, this panel gives you insider access to the visionaries driving Ignition forward. Bring your curiosity and your toughest questions. Our team is ready to share insights, stories, and a glimpse into what’s next for the software transforming industrial automation. Don’t miss this chance to connect with the people who make Ignition possible and be part of the conversation about where it’s headed next.

History of Industry: From 0.0 to 5.0

Explore how the evolution of humans, processes, and technology progressed us through the first industrial revolution and beyond. Follow the journey from the first engine, electricity, PLCs, and the Internet, and into the modern digital era. Discover what each industrial revolution contributed to human-machine collaboration. Then, find out how industrial automation and Ignition will level up industry into the future.

Making Music: Ignition in Manufacturing at Taylor Guitars

Taylor Guitars, a leading manufacturer of acoustic guitars and other musical equipment, first adopted Ignition for more cohesive HVAC monitoring. Soon after, new projects such as guitar neck quality control, legacy CNC monitoring, and UV print control have all been implemented through Ignition. Learn how Ignition helped a small engineering team at Taylor Guitars say “yes” to most production requests in manufacturing.

Designing Future-Proof Manufacturing Architectures with MQTT

This session explores how to design future-proof manufacturing system architectures using MQTT Sparkplug B, Ignition Edge, and centralized Ignition servers. Attendees will learn how this modern approach enables scalable, resilient, and easily maintainable systems while dramatically reducing commissioning time. We’ll discuss best practices for network topology design using both UNS and CDM architectures, the trade-offs between single and distributed MQTT broker architectures, and strategies for efficient device onboarding. The presentation will provide actionable insights for engineers and architects aiming to modernize their manufacturing infrastructure without compromising reliability or long-term flexibility.

API Integration: Level Up Your Ignition Deployment

Need to connect to external applications? Curious about using APIs in Ignition? Join Sales Engineers Brad Fischer and Tom Goetz to learn how to call external APIs, host API and file resources within Ignition, and use the new Ignition HTTP API.

Delivering Value Through Digital Transformation

Developing software moves your organization nowhere — it's a black hole of cost until it is adopted by users. Driving complex Industry 4.0 initiatives through the traditional "Define, Design, Deliver" process has left a wake of delayed go-lives, subpar results, or worse — unused systems. Using proven software delivery practices, Vertech is turning the model on its head by delivering immediate functionality within weeks of project kickoff and leveraging real user feedback on additional features. See Vertech’s approach and how it enables you to catch the "white whale" of Digital Transformation: value for the organization.

Achieving Scale With Ignition and Modern DevOps Practices

Get a front-row seat to a real-world project scaling Ignition with DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, and Git-Sync. In this session you’ll get an overview of these tools, examples of automated and GitOps-driven deployments, and practical tips for boosting performance, reliability, and operations in a large-scale, complex, critical systems environment.

10 Years Later: MQTT Foundations That Still Matter

This year marks Cirrus Link’s 10th anniversary of presenting at ICC. In that time, it has consistently championed core architectural principles that are now central to modern industrial systems: decoupling devices from applications, providing a single source of truth, and enabling plug-and-play OT integration. These ideas weren’t trends — they were foundational. Join Arlen Nipper and Nathan Davenport as they reflect on a decade of progress, demonstrate how these principles are more relevant than ever, and showcase what’s new in Ignition 8.3, including tools that further simplify and strengthen MQTT-based architectures.

Ignition Maker Edition Electronics Inventory and Storage System

Most DIY electronics hobbyists have large collections of development boards, sensors, antennas, and assorted components. Attend this session to learn about an Ignition Maker Edition inventory system that allows you to add new purchases with important information, datasheets, and details of where the item is stored. A dashboard displays at-a-glance inventory information, and you can quickly search the system for specific parts from project BOMs to stop accidentally repurchasing parts you already have! This Maker Edition project could also work well for makerspaces, so members can locate and document parts and projects (a constant challenge). The next iteration of the project will include a simple pick-to-light system for greater convenience.

Flex Your Knowledge on Perspective Containers

How well do you know your Perspective containers? Come test your knowledge in an interactive session, level up your design game, and maybe even get a new “perspective” on container types!

Beyond Installation: Production Ignition Operations

Many Ignition implementations stop at "it works," but running production systems requires comprehensive operational practices. Discover how to make your Ignition deployments easier to maintain and more secure with modern practices including observability, DevOps, disaster recovery, configuration management, and deployment automation. Learn proven strategies for monitoring, maintaining, and scaling Ignition systems that enterprises depend on. This session reveals the technical and operational frameworks that separate hobby projects from mission-critical industrial systems.

Secure, Scalable Edge Orchestration Using Ignition

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, SCADA systems deployed with edge devices are increasingly restricted, limiting direct access to individual nodes. Administrative and security frameworks introduce multiple layers across environments, often complicating centralized management and control of enterprise-wide operations. Join TIGA in this session to explore how it harnessed Ignition to overcome these barriers.

Modern Ignition Deployments: Containers, Version Control & Ignition

Take a look behind the scenes at how IA deploys the Ignition Public Demo with containers and version control. In this session, we’ll review the public demo’s previous legacy deployment strategy and architecture, and discuss the research and development phase for the new deployment. Then we’ll take a detailed look at the new deployment strategy and how it leverages containers and version control. Whether you’re already using these deployment strategies or learning about them for the first time, attend this session to learn more about how IA has taken a more modern approach to Ignition deployment with the Ignition Public Demo.

Fueling Manufacturing Integration With AI & Ignition Containers

Explore how AI is transforming the development of Ignition applications and integrations across the manufacturing enterprise. This session demonstrates how AI-assisted coding, architecture generation, and integration design accelerate the creation of modular, containerized Ignition solutions. By deploying Ignition in containers and leveraging AI to streamline development workflows, manufacturers can modernize legacy systems, unify data sources, and deploy more scalable, intelligent applications. Learn how this approach enhances developer productivity, reduces integration time, and supports more agile, connected operations across MES, SCADA, and enterprise platforms.

Ready to Level Up Your Machine Monitoring Game?

Do you have dark, unconnected operational data stranded on the plant floor or in the field? While Ignition excels at connecting PLC-based equipment, many assets without PLCs or smart devices can be far more challenging. Join this session to discover how to use edge industrial I/O to securely link almost any equipment to Ignition – including simple sensors – enhancing your plant's production tracking and operational awareness. You’ll also see real-world case studies, including the story of a Tier 1 automotive supplier that successfully implemented these techniques, improving efficiency, creating a Unified Namespace (UNS), and advancing its digitalization efforts as a result.

Migrating from 7.9 Vision to 8.1 Perspective

Frederick Water has been upgrading its Ignition instances from 7.9 to 8.1. In upgrading one of its water treatment plants, it decided to leverage Perspective for the platform’s easily reproducible styles and end-device flexibility. While Vision is a fantastic platform to work in, this session covers some of the benefits of moving to Perspective.

ISO 9001 Certification Journey

Learn about Inductive Automation’s ISO 9001 Certification journey in this moderated panel session. Panel members will share IA’s reasons for pursuing this certification, an overview of the project, lessons learned during the process, resulting benefits, and the impact on IA’s customers.

Tapping Tag Data Flows With SDK Actors

Ignition's Java API makes it easy to tap into raw data flows in the tag subsystem, allowing an SDK module to efficiently monitor, modify, or intercept values. This API can tie into the tag property model to present your features in the designer's Tag Editor with little or no UI code, blending into the Tag Editor like IA's own native features. The Ignition Tag Actor Pipeline will be reviewed in detail in this session, with code examples, implementation ideas, and known pitfalls to avoid.

Industry Panel: Leveling Up Insights Across the Enterprise

Hear from a panel of industry leaders as they discuss how embracing and integrating the different levels of the enterprise can empower industrial organizations with powerful insights and applications that drive growth. Learn strategies for inspiring innovation, unlocking critical insights, and driving significant productivity gains across your entire operation.

From Pit Stop to Power Drive: A Data-Driven Digital Overhaul

Get a walk-through of the basics of utilizing Ignition to start transforming your manual physical-based processes into a modern digital format. The goal of this session is to equip you with the knowledge of how to utilize the tools within the Ignition Designer "garage" to implement a practical use case with a data-driven and templatized model. If you're interested in a targeted under-the-hood presentation that focuses on the implementation side of Ignition, with examples of the grease, gears, and gadgets at your disposal to tune up your plant, this session is for you!

Hello AI, Meet Ignition: Leveraging LLMs in the Ignition Ecosystem

Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance the Ignition platform in practical, effective ways. This session will introduce approachable methods for integrating LLMs into your industrial systems — no advanced AI expertise required. Learn how to use LLMs to streamline development, generate insights from historical data, automate repetitive tasks, and improve operator interfaces. We’ll walk through client use cases, development tools, and project management examples to show how LLMs can add value without adding complexity.

Empowering Humanity: Prosthetic Arm and Open-Source Homeless Management System Powered by Ignition

Join HebronSoft and Inductive Automation’s Vice President of Sales, Chris McLaughlin, for an inspiring look at how Ignition is being used to power innovative, socially impactful solutions. This session explores two real-world projects that harness the flexibility and power of the Ignition platform: - Prosthetic Arm Project: Learn how Ignition was used to develop a cutting-edge prosthetic arm that enhances mobility and quality of life for individuals with limb differences — including Ukrainian soldiers who have suffered amputations due to the war. - Homeless Management System: Explore how a volunteer-driven initiative, originally led by Chris McLaughlin during his time at Vertech, evolved into a robust, open-source system — refined in partnership with HebronSoft — to help communities better coordinate support for those experiencing homelessness. Discover how these projects combine cutting-edge technology with social good, setting a new standard for automation in purpose-driven applications.

Compliant Innovation: Ignition in 21 CFR Pharmaceutical Environments

Explore how to navigate the complexities of 21 CFR pharmaceutical environments with Ignition. This session delves into CSA vs. CSV, overcoming the challenges of deploying innovative applications like Ignition, fostering successful partnerships, and rethinking traditional approaches. Gain insights into doing things differently while ensuring compliance and efficiency in regulated spaces. This session is perfect for professionals seeking actionable strategies and collaboration in tech-driven compliance innovation.

Technical Keynote: What's Next?

The industrial technology landscape demands constant evolution. As architectural complexity grows, AI advances rapidly, and enterprise management becomes more challenging, companies must have the software tools they need to keep pace. In this keynote, we'll reveal how the Ignition platform's development is addressing these forces. We'll explore our approach to building distributed architectures, the potential for AI in automation, and the new tools we're designing to deliver the best customer experience in the industry. Join us for an exciting presentation and engaging live Q&A session with Ignition experts.

MES and Beyond: Where Execution Meets Intelligence

Build systems that support today’s goals — and shape tomorrow’s possibilities. This session explores how open, modular MES platforms provide the digital backbone for future-ready operations. In addition to core functions like production tracking, traceability, and quality management, modern MES should drive execution on the plant floor, orchestrate workflows, and enable proactive decision-making through real-time insights, advanced analytics, and AI readiness. Join experts from Sepasoft to see how Sepasoft MES supports continuous improvement and fuels long-term innovation.

Ignition Perspective UX Development & Model-Driven UI

In this session, join Tetra Pak® to learn how to level up your food and beverage process automation with Tetra Pak® PlantMaster. Hear about how Tetra Pak® designed a new front-end application library using Ignition Perspective, exploring collaboration between process automation engineering and UX/UI design teams. You’ll discover UX/UI best practices, how to implement reusable application standards in Ignition Perspective, and how to leverage the Ignition tag provider to accelerate your Perspective application development workflow with model-driven UI.

Creating Modern Smart Manufacturing Architectures and Better Namespaces

Join CESMII CEO, John Dyck, and CESMII Chief Technology Architect, Jonathan Wise, to learn about the three imperatives for smart manufacturing architectures, and how Ignition is positioned to leverage them. Manufacturers stand at an inflection point, facing a generational choice to either continue propagating the architectures, methodologies, and mindsets of the past, or pivot toward smart manufacturing, a journey that positions your enterprise for a significant leap forward in value creation and productivity, and a much more effective, organic collaboration between your OT, IT, and ET organizations. In this session you'll learn best practices for unifying your namespaces with standards, evolving your architectures for AI-readiness, and building portable applications that accelerate agility and prevent vendor lock-in.

Taking the Helm With Ignition on Kubernetes

Get a sneak peek of the new Helm Chart for setting up easier deployments of Ignition on Kubernetes clusters. Inductive Automation’s Lead Software Engineer, Kevin Collins, will share an overview of the chart to build out more advanced architectures.

Structured for Scale: Tag Naming & Data Modeling

Want to level up your Ignition game? It all starts with structure. This session dives into practical, real-world strategies for organizing tag names and designing scalable data models that can grow without turning into a mess. From clean naming conventions to solid architectural patterns, we’ll look at what actually works when building Ignition systems that are easy to scale, maintain, and understand — whether you're starting fresh or trying to bring order to an existing setup.

Welcome to the Next Level: The Future is Here

Industrial automation has changed forever. A new paradigm has taken hold. Old categories are collapsing. Legacy architectures are fading. And a new standard has emerged. This keynote unveils what this shift means and how it's already transforming operations across the globe for those who've made Ignition the cornerstone of their digital strategy for the future.

Integrating Ignition with Exciting Peripherals

Ignition is based on open standards, is deployable anywhere, provides data to anyone, and can integrate with virtually any system or device. This allows you to leverage best-in-class technology with seamless integration to Ignition. Perspective and the native iOS and Android application is a perfect example of this. Ignition enables people to extend their applications to a phone or tablet by leveraging the camera, GPS, NFC, Bluetooth LE, and other mobile tools. In this session, you’ll get some exciting use cases and live demos featuring one exciting OT peripheral and one very cool guest appearance you won’t want to miss!

Build-A-Thon

Behold, another Build-a-Thon is upon us, complete with all the intrigue, feats of daring design, unexpected surprises, and singing that usually accompany such a monumental event. This year, teams from two top integration companies will battle to see who can design the best Ignition project. Don't miss all the excitement of witnessing the crowning of a new Build-a-Thon champion live at this educational, one-of-a-kind competitive SCADA event!

Technical Keynote: What's New in Ignition 8.3

Traditionally, we've always held the Technical Keynote or Development Panel on Day Three of the conference, but this year, we've got something big to discuss, so we've moved it up to Day One of our conference content schedule. It's no secret that we've been working on the newest version of Ignition for several years now, and now we're finally able to dive deep into what's coming in Ignition 8.3 and how its powerful new features can lead users to their next big breakthrough idea!

Main Keynote: Exploring the Impact of the Ignition Community

The global community of Ignition users includes large multinational enterprises, government and professional organizations, small companies, and individuals. While each uses the software differently, they all use Ignition to harness the power of automation to accomplish their own mission of making something better. In this keynote, we'll explore how Inductive Automation is supporting the efforts of the Ignition Community and the incredible impact their work has on the future and improving people's lives on a regional and local level.

Build-A-Thon

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!

Technical Keynote

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.

From LinkedIn Connections to Community Leaders: The Automation Ladies Experience

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.

An Overview of Ignition’s MongoDB Connector Module

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.

Hitting a Home Run with Ignition

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.

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

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.

Rising to the Challenge - Adventures in System Conversion

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.

Learning Ignition Fundamentals

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.

Integrator Panel

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.

Tyson’s Smart Factory Journey

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.

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

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.

Elevate Your OT Data Securely to the Cloud

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.

We Love Ignition. But Can it REALLY Scale?

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.

Deployment Patterns for Ignition on Kubernetes

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.

Separating Design From Development - Using Design Tools with Ignition

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.

Ignition Exchange Resource Showcase

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.

Ignition Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Basics

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.

Introduction to Automated Testing of Perspective Projects

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.

Industry Panel: ICC 2023

I4.0 Accelerator for Driving Edge to Cloud Business Outcomes

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.

Sepasoft MES Orchestration for Digital Transformation

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.

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

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.

Main Keynote: Elevating Automation

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!

Build-A-Thon

The 2021 Build-a-Thon was the first ever to feature members of the Ignition community battling it out head-to-head. This year, we invited all of Inductive Automation’s Premier Integrators to apply for a chance to wear the Build-a-Thon blazer, and after three rounds of challenges, the final two integrators, DMC and Roeslein & Associates, will face off at the conference.

Running Ignition in a Container Environment

Leveraging Docker can be a powerful technology for rolling out large systems and setting up flexible development environments. In this session, you'll hear practical tips for running Ignition in a container environment from Inductive Automation's Docker expert.

How Far We've Come - Ignition Across the Enterprise

Ignition was always great for solving problems and beloved by Operations. But could it scale? Could it be deployed across an enterprise? Could it stand up to scrutiny in the boardroom while execs are aligning on their digital strategy? Absolutely. Over the past several years, Brock Solutions has been deploying Ignition across enterprises, helping customers accelerate their digital transformations. But don't take it from Brock; hear it from our customers' mouths about how and why Ignition has become the real deal in their enterprise landscape.

Performance Tips & Tricks for Optimizing Gateway Networks

Getting the most out of your Ignition gateway network is important to your system’s performance, especially for large implementations. In this session, you’ll get expert tips about how to optimize the performance of your gateway network for heavy workloads.

Stone Brewing Successfully Implements Modern Batch System

In this session, Stone Brewing and Wunderlich-Malec Engineering will showcase the first successful implementation of Sepasoft’s Batch Procedure Module. Going into the project, Stone Brewing hoped to upgrade to a flexible and modern batch system that could handle complex recipes. With the support of Wunderlich-Malec, Stone Brewing easily configured the module to replicate existing processes. Attend this session to learn about Stone Brewing’s quick adoption of Batch Procedure and more project highlights.

Ignition: The New Enterprise Connection Platform

The quest for greater productivity and reduced costs is driving market forces and investments into new projects trying to combat today’s challenges from the supply chain, labor, and inflation. Learn how Ignition has advanced from the “New SCADA Platform'' to become the standard tool for OT-to-IT Enterprise Digital Transformation. The session will discuss and demonstrate how Ignition with MQTT/Sparkplug is the “Swiss Army knife” Digital Transformation platform from the edge to the cloud to achieve these goals. Get your Enterprise ready to Xperience and Xplore the serendipitous nature of your OT data!

Modern Cloud Deployment Strategies

With the systems getting larger and the need for flexibility increasing, effectively running Ignition in the cloud can be a powerful deployment strategy. In this session, Inductive Automation’s architecture experts will talk about how to utilize the cloud for modern deployment strategies.

Drain The Data Lake - Model And Contextualize Your OT Data at the Edge

Join a panel of Ignition community experts who helped the State of Indiana launch a Digital Transformation program for manufacturers quickly and simply. Energy data, manufacturing output, and other OT data can be collected and modeled in-plant, and efficiently published into cloud infrastructure and unsupervised AI for actionable insights with a pre-built “I4.0 in a Box” solution.

Integrator Panel: How Integration Has Changed & Where It's Going

This panel will bring together some of the Ignition community's most accomplished integrators to discuss how the industry has shifted over the past decade and what technologies and practices will be vital in the future. From IIoT-enabled hardware and cutting-edge security tools to eliminating paper from the plant floor, changes in the last 10 years have altered how integrators approach business and opened up new opportunities. But which areas still have room for refinement and innovation? Hear experienced professionals give their insight and answer your questions about the industry's past, present, and future.

Unlocking Innovation & Delivering New Services Through Digital Transformation

Digital Transformation has accelerated as a result of the pandemic as nearly every industry and every company has had to adapt to changing work conditions, market conditions, and environmental conditions. Those companies that are thriving in this new normal have uncovered new value in leveraging technology to accelerate innovation cycles and deliver entirely new products, services, and even business models. Imagine fully recovering from this pandemic better off than before it started with entirely new revenue streams that fill the revenue gaps with even greater profitability through new channels. Learn how this can be done and hear the stories of companies who have succeeded.

Industry Panel: Exploring Digital Transformation

It takes coordination to revamp processes or upgrade machinery, but it’s a far more complicated task to establish change all the way from the plant floor to the C-suite. While the necessary Digital Transformation of manual operations may look different across a variety of industries, the critical benefits of increased stability, flexibility, and security remain consistent. Hear from a panel of industry thought leaders and experts as they explore how enterprise-wide solutions have led their companies to a new level of growth and answer your questions about large-scale Digital Transformation.

Technical Keynote & Developer Panel

This year, the co-creators of Ignition, Colby Clegg and Carl Gould will be expanding the traditional developer panel into a new format. In this new Technical Keynote, Colby and Carl will cover the recent progress of Ignition and look at the roadmap for the near future of the platform. They will also get some help from a few Software Engineering Division all-stars to give further insight into specific aspects of the platform like security, advanced analytics, and design tools.

The OT Operating System: Ignition’s Central Role in Chobani’s Past & Future

Chobani will walk through its journey with Ignition, from early pilot projects and localized SCADA implementations to Ignition’s current role as the “operating system” of its OT layer across multiple sites. You’ll see how Chobani has used the platform to standardize system architecture, enable site-to-enterprise data visibility, and align IT/OT strategies without compromising flexibility or speed.