ISA’s Automation Leadership Conference (ALC) will be the automation event of the year! ALC combines ISA’s leadership conference with the best technical presentations from its automation event series into an unparalleled conference experience.
ALC will bring together a global audience of automation managers, engineers and technicians who want to stay abreast of trending industry topics focused on digital transformation, cybersecurity, IIoT, smart manufacturing and process automation.
This multi-day technical and leadership conference and exhibition will provide access to an array of subject matter experts from the US, Middle East, Brazil, Malaysia, Spain and India—and will offer best-of-the-best content and ultimate networking opportunities—in a fun, interactive format.
Location: Ballroom A/B
Available: Virtually and In Person
Correlating Standards and How to Deploy into a Successful Program
Workshop Time(s): 9:00 A.M - 1700 (In-Person Only)
*** Attendance is free to ISA100 invited guests only. Use discount code provided upon registration ***
The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute will host an all day ISA100 wireless training workshop, in conjunction with this year's ALC activities. As part of this special event, participants will learn about the industrial wireless technical landscape and what can be done with ISA100 Wireless, with the chance to ask questions in an open symposium environment.
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Added Bonus:
Preliminary Agenda:
09:00 – 09:45 ISA100 Overview
09:45 – 10:45 State of the Market
10:45– 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:15 ISA100 Wireless Technology (Applications and Use Cases)
12:15 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:15 Field Deployment Guidelines
15:15 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Q&A Symposium
16:30-17:00 Post-Test/Adjourn
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballroom A/B (Onsite)
Available: Online and In-Person
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Tackling the urgent global priority that is climate change will require solving the energy trilemma of economic development, reliability and sustainability. People around the world deserve access to sustainable, affordable and reliable electricity, which requires a combination of global action, national commitment and consistent policy and regulatory framework.
A cleaner energy future will be achieved through a combination of lowering emission today – growing renewables, coal-to-gas switching and modernizing digital and physical assets – and innovating in breakthrough technologies. GE has the ability to drive significant change because of its size and scale, and we are investing in a range of technologies, including digital technologies to modernize and digitize the critical assets run by energy suppliers. The digital technologies and their applications will drive the energy industry to achieve both short term and long term objectives along with their vision on value realization.
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Galleon 3
Today’s automation systems are much more highly connected than they were at the start of this millennium. Advances is technology, the cost of computing and the speed of communication in just the last seven years have brought industries higher performance, optimization, visibility, advanced system diagnostics with high reliability and availability fault tolerance, analytics and production yields that unquestionably have revolutionized all industry sectors. Convergence of site automation system technologies and traditional enterprise IT systems have become more prevalent and provide opportunities such as the remote mobile worker, integration into MES and ERP systems and remote access for troubleshooting and support. While this has benefits it also brings inherent risk to plant operating environments.
This talk will review and compare the standards-based (ISA 62443-3-2) approach and the Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering (Idaho National Labs CCE) methodologies.
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
Leaders today are required to tap into and cultivate different skills needed to achieve outcomes. In this session, we will explore some of the current skills that leaders need and how to begin implementing them.
Location: Yacht
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Panel Discussion - Brought to you by the Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF)
Unlocking innovation and implementing digital transformation strategies successfully in the manufacturing floor requires full access to data from all operational levels. This includes the highest levels of business systems down to the edge(or front lines). Recognizing the need for innovation and competition, leading global industrial and chemical companies are collaborating with leading process automation vendors and system integrators to bring a change in automation through the adoption of standards for Open Process Automation. The vision of the OPA Forum is the development of an open, standards-based, secure, and interoperable process automation architecture.
Concurrent with the standard, a business ecosystem is taking shape with increasing number of test beds, demonstration systems, and concepts, prototypes, and products starting to make their way into the marketplace. A panel featuring both end users and suppliers will discuss market needs, supplier capabilities and drivers as well as ongoing work in creating products to meet the open automation standard O-PAS™.
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Galleon 3
An effective incident response starts with knowing where to look, how to organize a response team and how to effectively respond. The number of incidents in the critical infrastructure sector related to cyberattacks have gone up in the last decade. This has led to governments, agencies and industries to look into their current incident response practices. This paper explores the current challenges in the incident response for critical infrastructure sector such as insider threats, complex and aging OT Systems, lack of expertise in OT security, lack of understanding of OT System architecture and IT focussed approaches to Asset monitoring, Vulnerability Management and propose possible solutions to a more effective and efficient Incident Response in the era of Industry 4.0. This paper also introduces the ICS4ICS framework and provide information for companies and organization to use ICS4ICS for incident Command System as a path forward for their Incident Command Systems for Industrial Control Systems.
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballroom A/B (Onsite)
Available: Online and In-Person
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Sponsored by Fortinet
Large or small, cyberattacks are making headlines and elevating executive attention toward cyber resiliency. Preparing for, responding to and recovering from cyberattacks should be a strategic part of any business continuity plan. As recent cyberattacks have demonstrated increased risk to both IT and operational technology (OT) environments, readiness equates to enforcement of rules and policies that provide the visibility, control and situational awareness to respond at the speed of business. Cybercriminals are maximizing their opportunity by exploiting older vulnerabilities and an expanding attack surface. Strategic readiness should be underpinned with the notion that eventually an attack will happen, and when it occurs, you are proactively ready to respond. During this session, we will explore security considerations for developing cyber resilience covering security fundamentals and readiness planning to protect your IT and OT environments.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
In the process industry, the management of functional safety and industrial automation and control system cybersecurity have gone through different stages of standardization. Regardless of the maturity of standards, the practices in different parts of the world do not seem to fully align. Such practices do not just concern industry practitioners, but also authorities and standard development organizations. I will dive into the details on how Norwegian petroleum industry approach functional safety and IACS cybersecurity. The presentation will cover a brief overview of the relevant legislations, various authorities auditing practices especially on major risk prevention, standards adoption, industry guidelines development, joint industry research projects, industry wide technical forums, and so on.
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
American Mensa and Mensa Foundation
To be successful in DEIA efforts, one must first understand what it means. This session will explore the ever changing nature of DEIA and what you need to know as you navigate it.
Location: Yacht
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
This presentation will address the risks in ignoring your security device plan. Connected device risk is everywhere. According to the Microsoft, 2021 Security Signals Report, over 80% of enterprises have experienced a firmware attack in the past two years. BUT, just 29% allocate resources to protect firmware in their security budgets. This presentation will address the imminent dangers in ignoring your security device plan.
Sponsored by Finite State
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
The digitalization craze is coming to SIS world. There are many opportunities to automate activities and the transfer of data between activities. Automating the activities reduces the work to complete tasks, freeing skilled resources to focus on other tasks. Moving data between activities reduces work and human error. The data also provides new opportunities for insight and improvement. This session will share some example of digitalization work and the complexity of the some activities.
Location: Ballroom A/B
Available: Virtually and In Person
*** PAID STUDENTS ONLY -- Separate Course Registration Fee Required ***
IACS Operations & Maintenance Essentials (Hands-On)
Location: Galleon 2
In Day 2 of this fast-track training workshop, students will be able to apply what they learned in Day 1, covering the elements of the second and third phases of the IACS Cybersecurity Lifecycle (as defined in ISA/IEAC 62443-1-1).
Critical knowledge will now be applied in a hands-on environment showing how to detect and troubleshoot potential cybersecurity events, as well as how to implement countermeasures and test plans in an ever-changing threat environment.
Reinforced Topics Will Allow Students to be able to:
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Yacht
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
PureCycle currently plans to build 50 additional 'born-digital' recycling facilities over the next 15 years, where it will produce virgin-like recycled polypropylene (rPP) from waste polypropylene (PP). Join us as we take a look at PureCycle's proprietary technology licensed from The Procter & Gamble Company to recycle waste PP into ultra-pure rPP for myriad applications. The company chose Emerson's Plantweb™ digital ecosystem for its breadth of digital solutions, including intelligent sensors and control valves, advanced operations software and systems, cloud data management and analytics.
Let's examine where PureCycle is in the process, lessons learned, and where the company is going from here.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Clipper
Available: In Person Only
Location: Harbor
Available: In Person Only
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballrom A/B (Onsite)
Availabile: Online and In-Person
*** PAID STUDENTS ONLY -- Separate Course Registration Fee Required ***
IACS Operations & Maintenance Essentials (Hands-On)
Location: Galleon 2
In Day 2 of this fast-track training workshop, students will be able to apply what they learned in Day 1, covering the elements of the second and third phases of the IACS Cybersecurity Lifecycle (as defined in ISA/IEAC 62443-1-1).
Critical knowledge will now be applied in a hands-on environment showing how to detect and troubleshoot potential cybersecurity events, as well as how to implement countermeasures and test plans in an ever-changing threat environment.
Reinforced Topics Will Allow Students to be able to:
Location: Yacht
Available: In Person Only
Location: Ballroom A/B
Available: Virtually and In Person
Location: Seafarer Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Marlin Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Tarpon Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Marlin Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Seafarer Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Tarpon Room
Note: All standards meetings will be held at the San Luis Resort Hotel.
For information about ISA standards, contact Charley Robinson at crobinson@isa.org
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
Location: Yacht
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 2 & 3
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
Location: Poolside at the San Luis
Available: In Person Only
Location: Poolside at the San Luis
Available: In Person Only
Virtually and In Person
Location: Ballroom A/B
Leading Next Steps In Space
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballroom A/B (Onsite)
Available: Online and In-Person
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Join ISA and Dave Lafferty as we do a deep dive into common Digital Transformation projects, how to make a return on investment, and how to complete the project timely.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Hydrogen might be nature’s smallest molecule but its packs a mighty punch. It can provide new markets for our conventional energy resources and holds the potential to decarbonize many sectors of our economy, including resource extraction, freight, transportation, power generation, manufacturing, and the production of steel and cement. There are several ways to generate it and thankfully many ways to analyse it.
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
Continuing on from our opening keynote remarks, onsite participants will be able to partake in further exploration and discussion of the topic from a leadership perspective.
Location: Spinnaker
Available: In Person Only
Location: Harbour
Available: In Person Only
Location: Clipper
Available: In Person Only
Location: Schooner
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
In the last decade, renewable energy resources, including solar photovoltaic and wind, and energy storage systems are being integrated to power grids through converter-based interfaces, which significantly alter the characteristics of power system dynamical behaviors. Such unprecedented changes are challenging today’s grid operation and planning practices, calling for innovative solutions in analysis, simulation and control. This presentation will provide an overview of these challenges and introduce some of the presenter’s recent research efforts to tackle some of these challenges, including hybrid large-scale simulation of renewable-rich power grids, the identification of the destabilizing equipment in power grid, and the application of grid-forming inverter control to a real medium-size power system at transmission level.
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballroom A/B (Onsite)
Available: Online and In-Person
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Sponsored by Yokogawa
Discover how FKDPP-based AI safely and effectively ran chemical operations for 35 days.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Challenges nowadays are seemingly unprecedented. Compounded with pandemic and Russia-Ukraine Wars, the need to address climate change has become imminent. Oil and gas industry players realize that energy transition and industrial sustainability can be the license to operate in the future. This paper focuses on future-proof our engineers as we move towards the unchartered territory. Instrument and Automation engineer is Use Case for contextualization purpose. The need for engineers to do much more with much less require them to go beyond their traditional skillset otherwise they will be obsolete. Protecting the core engine at the same time working on the growth engine towards energy transition and industrial sustainability will keep them relevant for now and future. Engineers need break the traditional barriers and start to collaborate and co-create among end-users and eco-system suppliers/vendors/solution providers towards achieving common goals.
Location: Galleon 1
Available: In Person Only
This presentation is inspired by a request for advice from a newly appointed CISO at an energy company. The new CISO was concerned at the difficulty in communicating with the automation engineers working on the industrial side of the company’s operations. They each seemed to exist in two different worlds and a common language and understanding was needed to bridge the gap. It became clear that the approach to cybersecurity based upon a computer science background was not adequate for an understanding of industrial automation and control systems where the main operation is not protecting the data but in monitoring and controlling a physical process. This presentation will explain with examples the peculiar cybersecurity aspects of industrial operations and discuss how the gap in understanding between the CISO and automation engineers can be remedied. The listeners (hopefully consisting of Enterprise IT/CISO and IACS specialists) should return to their workplaces with the sense of “playing” together as a team with a common understanding of industrial cybersecurity.
Location: Spinnaker
Available: In Person Only
Location: Harbour
Available: In Person Only
Location: Clipper
Available: In Person Only
Location: Schooner
Availble: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 2
Available: Virtually and In Person
Sponsored by HighByte
In this 30-minute technical demonstration, a new category of software solutions will be introduced that offers a simple solution to the complex data architecture problems created by Industry 4.0. It will demonstrate how manufacturers are leveraging an Industrial DataOps solution to perform data contextualization and standardization at the Edge and securely flow modeled information to consuming applications running at the Edge, in on-premises data centers, and in the Cloud.
By attending this session, you will learn:
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Imagine we knew exactly where to direct our efforts and resources in the fight against climate change. Imagine we knew exactly where to find emissions sources and how to cost-effectively eliminate emissions. With the right data, we can but the challenge is to measure what matters. The current state of our society is that we estimate emissions rather than measuring them. There are practical solutions for measure products destined for a sales meter at many points along the supply chain. There are practical solutions to measure the efficiency of operational processes and the health of critical equipment. But this latest challenge of measure what is usually considered a waste stream is a now one for most industries. Using the example of onshore oil and gas production, we will review current technologies and challenges in the quest to better understand how to identify, locate and quantify greenhouse gas, and especially methane, emissions.
Location: Ballroom A/B
Available: Virtually and In Person
*** PAID STUDENTS ONLY -- Separate Course Registration Fee Required ***
IACS Operations & Maintenance Essentials
Location: Galleon 2
This fast-track training workshop will cover elements of the second and third phases of the IACS Cybersecurity Lifecycle (as defined in ISA/IEAC 62443-1-1).
It will provide critical knowledge on how to detect and troubleshoot potential cybersecurity events, as well as the necessary skills in order to implement countermeasures and test plans for a new or existing IACS system in an ever-changing threat environment.
You Will Be Able To:
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Innovation doesn't have to be costly or even time-consuming. In fact, innovation must be absolutely achievable! This presentation will allow you to realize tomorrow's business goals with incremental steps to IIoT & Industry 4.0.
During this 30 min session, we will discuss how to create an accessible starting point and achievable strategy to continuously reach optimal business potential and open new revenue streams through IIoT and Industry 4.0.
We will discuss a strategy of incremental steps to implement digital innovation, smart technology and use real-time data, built on existing assets.
Presentation Highlights Include:
Location: Grand Ballroom C (Foyer)
Available: In Person Only
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
See what is going on across the world in Smart Manufacturing and learn how you can make sense of the dozens of definition, models, and implementations. This session covers the work in IEC, ISO, and multiple national and industry specific consortiums, and provides a steps for you to take to determine how to approach your Smart Manufacturing solution.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
Improving wireless adoption in plants or factories require performance assurance of the wireless systems employed. Often wireless systems are designed to perform under unrealistic conditions. Given the
growing prevalence of wireless technologies aimed at industrial or IoT
applications, the actual non-ideal wireless channel(s) must be considered to assure optimal wireless system performance. The non-ideal channel(s) could include blockages, interference, jamming, and machine noise that could degrade the performance of industrial wireless networks or systems to various degrees.
An emerging standard, IEEE P1451.5p, is being developed to address these issues. An overview of this standards project and its application to industrial wireless networks of interest such as ISA100.11a,
Wi-Fi, and 5G will be presented along with a timeline for its completion and
as well as a call for its participation.
Location: Grand Ballroom C
Available: In Person Only
Location: Virtual Hall or Ballroom A/B (Onsite)
Available: Online and In-Person
*** PAID STUDENTS ONLY -- Separate Course Registration Fee Required ***
IACS Operations & Maintenance Essentials
Location: Galleon 2
This fast-track training workshop will cover elements of the second and third phases of the IACS Cybersecurity Lifecycle (as defined in ISA/IEAC 62443-1-1).
It will provide critical knowledge on how to detect and troubleshoot potential cybersecurity events, as well as the necessary skills in order to implement countermeasures and test plans for a new or existing IACS system in an ever-changing threat environment.
You Will Be Able To:
Location: Galleon 3
Available: On-Demand
Digital transformation is impacting all segment markets and wouldn't be different with industrial-based organizations.
Depending on the sector where the professional wors, digital transformation is interpreted in different ways.
This presentation will bring a vision of this key topic, going beyond the buzzword, focusing on the specific strategic challenges that digital transformation imposes on industrial-based organizations. We will discuss how to generate sustainable competitive advantages using data strategically by extracting more.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
A Digital Champion is a person/team who has complete overview of the system and is conversant with business and technology aspects. S/he is involved right from concept to completion. S/he is the internal owner of the system and ensures acceptance, adoption and continued usage by end users. Key responsibilities after system goes live are handholding end users, take their feedback, identify improvement areas and plan for the same.
The panel will discuss multi-disciplinary nature of i4.0 initiatives, ecosystem; why many initiatives fail; role and importance of digital champion(s); who can become a digital champion; training requirements, etc.
Location: Galleon 3
Available: Virtually and In Person
In this presentation, we will discuss challenges and considerations regarding scaling your solutions globally for manufacturers and industrial applications.
Available: In Person Only
Bryan Museum | Galveston, TX, USA
Celebrate with us at our Boots and Bubbly Awards Gala! The event will honor the achievements and contributions of our members, sections and divisions. Explore some Texas history in a private exhibition at the Bryan Museum. Then, enjoy an evening of food, drink, and entertainment with automation professionals from around the world.
Cocktail attire recommended, but feel free to show off your best pair of boots.
Transportation will begin from the San Luis Resort to the museum gala location at 1730.