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Summit Series

Join a half-day experience that brings together like-minded individuals for idea sharing, problem solving, and community building through Automation Fair Summits.

Gain exclusive access to keynote speakers and subject matter experts, roundtable sessions, and other breakouts not available in the general course catalog. And, you’ll have plenty of time for topic-focused conversation during the Summit networking lunch and evening hospitality.

Process Solutions User Group (PSUG) Summit

As the world changes, so do the rules of doing business. The future of process automation is being shaped by sustainability, digital transformation, and innovative and flexible production processes. This Summit, focused on the technologies and needs of process automation professionals, will be powered by peer learning, executive panel discussions (featuring leaders from Cytiva, Itambé, ExxonMobil, CPKelco and many others), ask-the-expert sessions, and more. If you’re ready to share best practices, discuss emerging technologies like AI, and network with hundreds of peers, then this Summit is for you. 

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Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Net Zero Now Summit

Technology has the potential to expand what’s humanly possible, making the world more connected, more productive, and more sustainable. But no company can tackle global climate challenges alone. In this Summit, you’ll collaborate with experts in the field to look at new ESG solutions that move the world closer to solving Net Zero problems. If you’ve been strategizing around your energy usage, water consumption, or waste, then join this Summit.

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Plex Customer Summit

Do you have a Plex solution in your tech stack? Then join this immersive Summit that brings together the community of Plex users for a transformative experience rooted in discovery, collaboration, and inspiration. You’ll connect with Plex enthusiasts and PlexPerts and gain exclusive insights into the latest product advancements. Participate in interactive breakout sessions while talking through real-world examples of Plex in action, and experience exciting keynotes and fun networking. This is your ultimate destination as a Plex customer!

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OEM Leader to Leader Summit

Business challenges like workforce shortages, supply chain disruption, and shortened project turnaround times all add to the volatility of today’s market environment. End users are leaning on OEMs more than ever to help shape their operations. This Summit will drive meaningful connections between executives of machine and equipment builder companies and leaders at Rockwell Automation through panel discussions, thought leadership presentations, and knowledge exchanges that focus on delivering value to industrial end users with speed, agility, and innovation. 

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SM01 – Process Solutions User Group (PSUG) Summit

Monday, November 6, 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Welcome: Enjoy lunch while listening to the Summit keynotes and fireside chats

Process Talks: Process Users’ Knowledge Exchanges focusing on what is driving change and how business are creating Facilities of the Future. Choose from breakouts focused on:

  • Innovation in process management / future of process automation
  • Workforce sustainability and viability
  • Optimizing production management
  • Creating reliable, secure and safe enterprises

Specialist Rendezvous: Rockwell Specialist and Execution Partners Round Table discussion focusing on how our domain knowledge and capabilities enable the transformation of the industry, via deep-dives into use cases, business causes, and case studies. Choose from breakouts focused on:

  • Modernization strategies
  • Safety, security and reliability
  • Industry trends and solutions, etc.

Closing: Wrap up and comment

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Summit Hospitality & Networking Event at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

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SM02 – Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) Net Zero Now Summit

Monday, November 6, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. Program Outlined Below

Welcome: Lunch and all-attendee keynote: Net Zero Now: Solving Industrial ESG Problems Today

Choose a track based on your ESG focus and spend the afternoon with your peers:

  • Discussing adoption of emerging technologies to meet ESG goals
  • Learning about ESG case studies of sustainable solutions in action
  • Listening to panels on strategies to achieve net zero
  • Networking and making connections

Track 1: Smart Energy Management

  • Intelligently Deploying a Smart Energy Strategy
  • A Business Case: Achieving Net Zero and Zero Capex with Energy as a Service
  • Energy Management of the Future

Track 2: Water

  • Steps to Digitizing Water Conservation
  • A Case Study: Saving Water with Artificial Intelligence
  • Making WAVEs: Accelerating Industry’s Role in Water Stewardship

Track 3: Decarbonization

  • Evaluating Process Technologies for Decarbonization
  • A Case Study: The Standard Way of Scaling Green Tech
  • Evaluating Process Technologies for Decarbonization

Track 4: Evolving Your Business Model for ESG

  • Digital Solutions to Move from a Linear to Circular Economy
  • A Business Case: Circular Business Models
  • Greening Your Value Chains

6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Summit Hospitality & Networking Event at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

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SM04 – Plex Customer Summit

Monday, November 6, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Hospitality & Networking Event at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

Tuesday, November 7, 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Welcome: Start the day with a riveting keynote from Vice President of Product Management, Anthony Murphy, focusing on Plex’s future state and big wins from the last year.

Then cheer along as we honor our Plex Impact Award Winners on the big stage! Following the award presentation, we’ll move into breakout sessions, dividing into discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing groups to get into the details of how you can get the most out of your Plex subscription.

You’ll hear from our Directors of Product Management, Chris Balow and Jim Bresler on how Plex can better serve your business, customer successes in transitioning to UX, and the Plex Customer Service Support Team.

We’ll rejoin together and hear from the Plex Customer Advisory Board in fireside chat with Vice President of Business Development, Ben Stewart as our host.

Closing: We’ll end in the early afternoon with a closing keynote from Anthony Murphy and a networking lunch to discuss all of the exciting things we’ve learned in the session!

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SM03 – OEM Leader to Leader Summit

Monday, November 6, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Summit Hospitality & Networking Event at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport

Tuesday, November 7, 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Welcome: Keynote featuring Rockwell senior leaders’ perspectives on the value OEMs deliver to industry and their vision for continued OEM success through innovation.

Choose a breakout based on your interests. Breakouts repeat so you can attend two of the five topics during the Summit.

  • Reducing risk in the face of complexity: Explore ways from machine design and commissioning through operational efficiency and collaborative engineering
  • Cultivating customer experience throughout the equipment lifecycle: Manage increased customer touch points and create new value for end users
  • Unleashing the value of your machines’ data: Discuss the potential of data at the machine level and its power to support operational analytics
  • Responding to the evolving workforce: Evaluate automation, enablement tools, data-based decision making and grassroots approaches to training and development
  • The crucial role of OEMs in Smart Manufacturing: An End-User perspective: Hear about the role OEMs play in their IT/OT convergence strategies and what they look for most

Closing: A discussion on supply chain resilience, followed by a networking lunch

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FDT Group manages the open FDT standard (IEC 62453) for enterprise-wide network and device integration, enabling a unified environment for intelligent device and lifecycle management within a control system. The solution streamlines automation architectures sensor-to-cloud for the process, hybrid and factory markets.

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The International Society of Automation (ISA) is a non-profit association founded in 1945 to create a better world through automation. ISA develops widely used global standards and conformity assessment programs; certifies professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and articles; hosts conferences; and provides networking and career development programs.

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ODVA is an international standards development and trade organization whose mission is to advance open, interoperable information and communication technologies for industrial automation. ODVA embraces the adoption of commercial-off-the-shelf, standard Internet and Ethernet technologies as a guiding principle. This principle is exemplified by EtherNet/IP – today’s leading industrial Ethernet network.

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The Open Group is a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards. Our diverse membership of more than 890 organizations includes customers, systems and solutions suppliers, tool vendors, integrators, academics and consultants across multiple industries.

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The OPC Foundation (Open Platform Communications) is an industry consortium that creates and maintains standards for open connectivity of industrial automation devices and systems. The OPC standards specify the communication of industrial process data, alarms, events, historical data and batch process data between sensors, instruments, controllers, software systems and notification devices.

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