If you haven’t already heard, IndConn is being held as part of ConnectivityWeek, a collection of events focused at empowering the Energy Revolution driven by the need for sustainable green energy.    IndConn is a new event organized in partnership with the OPC Foundation and Open O&M that addresses the importance of interoperability data and information standards and the adoption of OPC UA and other IT products and methodologies.   There are two days of conference sessions, on May 20th-21^st.   Tuesday is the I2G (Industrial-to-Grid) Summit and Wednesday is Industrial IT & Connectivity.

Both are big days for those interested in OPC.  And what big days they’re shaping up to be.  The theme for this year is ‘Empowering the Energy Revolution’ and is geared toward anyone associated with electrical utility distribution as well as home and building automation.  That covers utility companies, users, integrators, industrial automation vendors, research and more.   The attendees tend to be made up of executive-level stakeholders (CEO, Presidents, Vice Presidents and divisional / area managers), strategic decision makers and IT device management experts.   If you take a look at the speaker line up, you can see all those areas are well represented.  There are utilities like PG&E and SCE, organizations like EPRI and DoE, building automation solutions like BacNet and LONMark, research labs like Berkeley and PNNL, as well as a host of industrial automation vendors.  The majority of speakers have titles like CEO, Director, President etc.   (I was glad to hear the VP of OPC Products, Sean Leonard, will be representing MatrikonOPC.  I’m not sure my business card would hold up in this influential crowd. J  )

It promises to be a great opportunity to meet with the real folks in the know about energy and sustainability.  Topics like green manufacturing, standardized operation and maintenance, energy management, facility automation and of course OPC UA are, and will continue to be, extremely important for the industrial automation world.  Those interested in getting in on the action can register here.