Information Revolution 2014

Session presentations may be downloaded by clicking the link in the right column.

Microsoft Briefing : Tuesday, 05 August – Morning Sessions

8:30 – 8:45 Thomas Burke OPC Foundation President & Executive Director Welcome & Opening Remarks (Thomas Burke)
Rohit Bhargava Global Technology Strategist, Discrete Manufacturing at Microsoft
8:45 – 9:00 Rohit Bhargava Global Technology Strategist, Discrete Manufacturing at Microsoft Microsoft Introduction & Session Overview
9:00 – 10:15 John Shewchuk Technical Fellow, Developer & Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Vision Keynote : Microsoft’s Platform for IoT – Connectivity, Cloud, Big Data
Josh Holmes Senior SDE, Developer & Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Demonstration and Q&A with Audience (No Presentation Available)
10:30 – 11:15 Egbert Schroeer Worldwide Managing Director, Process Manufacturing at Microsoft Transformational Business Opportunities : Manufacturing Trends – Industry 4.0, Operational Excellence, Connected Enterprise, Industrial IoT
Sanjay Ravi Worldwide Managing Director, Discrete Manufacturing at Microsoft Discrete Update – Reimagining Manufacturing in a Connected World; Seated Panel : Industry Specific Scenarios (No Presentation Available)
Bill Mitchel Worldwide Director, Public Sector at Microsoft
Egbert Schroeer Worldwide Managing Director, Process Manufacturing at Microsoft
11:15 – 12:00 Vojtech Kresl Europe Development Director at ICONICS Connected Operations : Evolving Manufacturing Operations with a New Data-Centric Culture
Enrique Andaluz Director, Manufacturing & Resources at Microsoft

OPC UA In the Information Revolution : Tuesday, 05 August – Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:30 Bernie Anger GM, Control & Communication Systems at GE Intelligent Platforms GE Invests in the Future with Controls Convergence Strategy
Wes Skeffington Principal Engineer at GE Global Research
1:30 – 2:00 Stefan Hoppe TwinCAT Product Manager at Beckhoff; President of the OPC Foundation Europe The Internet of Things & Industry 4.0 : Their Differences and Why OPC UA is the Solution for Both!
(Acatech Final Report, Industrie 4.0e)
2:00 – 2:30 Thomas Hahn Chief Software Expert at Siemens AG Future of Manufacturing – View on Enabling Technologies
3:00 – 3:30 Jon Butts Product Manager, Integration – Manufacturing at IBM UK The Information Revolution for the Enterprise
3:30 – 4:00 John Rinaldi President, Real Time Automation Breaking Through All the Bits and Bytes to Bring Real Data Modeling to the Factory Floor
4:00 – 4:30 Thomas Burke OPC Foundation President & Executive Director A Contagion of Interoperability – Collaborations with Other Industries

Security, Discovery & More : Wednesday, 06 August – Morning Sessions

8:00 – 8:30 Bill Lydon Automation Consultant, Chairman PLCopen North America; Editor Automation.com & InTech Magazine Business Value of OPC UA
8:30 – 8:45 Jim Luth Software Architect at Schneider Electric OPC UA Working Group – Overview of Security & Discovery
8:45 – 9:15 Jim Gilsinn Sr. Investigator, Industrial Cybersecurity at Kenexis Consulting Corporation Cyber & Process Attack Scenarios for Industrial Control Systems
9:15 – 10:00 Paul Hunkar President of DSInteroperability OPC UA Answers to Attack Scenarios
Nathan Pocock Director of Technology at the OPC Foundation
Darek Kominek Strategic Marketing Manager at MatrikonOPC
10:30 – 11:15 Paul Hunkar President of DSInteroperability OPC UA Security – How It Works
Nathan Pocock Director of Technology at the OPC Foundation
Darek Kominek Strategic Marketing Manager at MatrikonOPC
11:15 – 12:00 Matthias Damm Executive Director of ascolab GmbH OPC UA Discovery

GDS Demo, Intelligent Connectivity, Success Stories : Wednesday, 06 August – Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:30 Randy Armstrong Chief Architect at Sparhawk Software Using a GDS for Discovery and Certificate Management (Video link, Part 1; Video link, Part 2; Video link, Part 3)
1:30 – 2:00 Liam Power Principal Engineer, Embedded Systems at MatrikonOPC Enabling Embedded UA Security & Discovery
2:00 – 2:30 Martin Cavanaugh Consultant at Cavanaugh Consulting Drilling for Real-time Data – OPC UA in the Oil Business
3:00 – 3:30 Matthias Damm Executive Director of ascolab GmbH New Information Models for BACnet, AutoID and AutomationML
3:30 – 4:00 Jim Luth Software Architect at Schneider Electric OPC UA Working Group – Current Status & Roadmap