Today’s business environment demands efficiency, flexibility and the capability to react swiftly to changing conditions. Advanced digital technologies are enabling industries to meet these challenges and maintain a competitive edge. Digitalization allows for greater connectivity, which paired with appropriate data management and analysis, provides facilities with powerful tools to respond to changing needs with increasing speed.
Whether you operate power generation assets and are navigating your way through the energy transition maze or operate a chemical processing facility and are balancing production efficiency, sustainability goals and changing production demands, digital technologies are now available to help you squeeze more from your investments and speed up your response. Technology is changing rapidly and now is the time
to keep up with those changes.
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Regardless of ownership structure, fleet size, or fuel, new digital cloud-computing operational and management tools are now available to help you squeeze more from your investments. Greater connectivity, paired with appropriate data management and analysis, can enable plants of any type address challenges and successfully implement solutions.
As soon as you arrive at the conference, you’ll have the opportunity to meet with industry leaders who have adopted the latest connected plant tools. Our speaker line-up provides access to leaders from the power and chemical process industry that have implemented the latest digital monitoring, diagnostic, analytics, Industrial Internet of Things, and decision-support technologies.
With nearly 25 sponsors and exhibitors at the conference, you will have ample opportunity to learn about the latest technologies in an intimate and stress-free conference setting. Tell vendor representatives what challenges you face and what capabilities are on your wish list. Get a firm grasp on the new digital operating environment and what solutions will work for your plant.
Our advisory board has been hard at work all year creating a program that will benefit every attendee. Whether you are new to the field or a seasoned professional, there’s something here for you, including detailed case studies and real-world examples that you can put to use at your facility.
Once a year, the who’s-who of the power and chemical process industries come together to learn about proven solutions and the latest innovations being created specifically to improve plant operations. From the dynamic world of artificial intelligence and machine-learning to the enabling technologies driving advanced connectivity and data analytics, leaders come away with tools to increase efficiency, productivity, reliability, and resiliency.
The Connected Plant Conference is the ONLY event covering digital transformation/digitalization for the power and chemical process industries. Get in front of the leaders you need to see!
Hundreds of peers and experts — including 65 speakers — discovered what top organizations are doing to stay ahead. Attendees seized the opportunity to discuss everything from control panel capabilities to cybersecurity challenges to the most effective wearables to help your team succeed. Check out these video highlights from the 4th Annual Connected Plant Conference!
Hosted by POWER and Chemical Engineering, the 3rd annual Connected Plant Conference provided attendees with the latest digital monitoring, diagnostic, analytics, Industrial Internet of Things, and decision-support technology for the power generation and chemical process industries. Check out highlights from the 2019 Connected Plant Conference by clicking the video icon. Thanks for making this event a successful one with a record 387 attendees from 10 countries!
Listen to Dorothy Lozowski, Editorial Director at Chemical Engineering, discuss how the advances associated with IoT are enabling the chemical processing industries to do much more with their data.
Listen to Aaron Larson, Executive Editor at POWER, discuss four major technology areas that can be leveraged to enable power plants to fully utilize digital solutions.
Presenters explore the fast-paced advances in automation, data analytics, computing networks, “smart” sensors, augmented reality, and other technologies that companies are using to improve their processes and overall businesses in today’s competitive environment.
Process Control Engineer, ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil
David DeBari is a Process Control Engineer for the ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company. He studied Chemical Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, and has an MBA. David has many years of automation experience in both continuous and batch processes and has been part of more than 20 projects that installed or replaced control systems. He is one of the original members of ExxonMobil’s Open Process Automation Program Team and is the Lead Engineer working on the development of a standards-based, open, interoperable, and secure system. David is also the Co-Lead of the Application Portability Sub-committee of the Open Process Automation Forum’s Technical Working Group.
Sr. Director – Digital Innovation & Transformation
Georgia-Pacific LLC
Kim Gilbert Ph.D., Director of Technical Sales Engineering, Beyond Limits
Sonal Patel, Senior Associate Editor, POWER magazine
Chris Benson
Principal Artificial Intelligence Strategist
Lockheed Martin
Dr. Mark Berry, Vice President of Environmental & Natural Resources and Research & Development for SCS, Southern Company
HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
Hotel Reservations:
Renaissance Austin Hotel
9721 Arboretum Blvd.
Austin, TX 78759
Cut-off date: Sunday, August 8, 2021
Room Rate: $209/night plus tax
Connected Plant Conference participants will receive a discounted rate of $209.00 plus applicable taxes at the Renaissance Austin. You can book your hotel online or by calling the Renaissance Austin at (512) 343-2626 and mentioning the Connected Plant Conference.
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