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Events

 Join us for a live webinar or at an industry conference in 2024.

Upcoming Events

ARC Industry Leadership Forum

Date:
February 10
- February 13, 2025
Location: Orlando, FL
Description

Join HighByte at the 29th Annual ARC Industry Leadership Forum for three days of workshops, curated tracks, and networking events. The forum gathers leaders from the most innovative industrial companies to explore how the latest advancements in industrial platforms, AI, data fabric, and cybersecurity are driving sustainability and digital transformation. Attendees will connect with industry leaders, share insights, and discover new opportunities to transform their value chain and drive their business forward. Don't miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of the next industrial revolution.

Visit the HighByte booth to discuss your Industry 4.0 use case and view a custom demonstration of the Intelligence Hub.

ProveIt! Conference 2025

Date:
February 18
- February 20, 2025
Location: Dallas, TX
Description

ProveIt! is an industry-focused conference where vendors showcase solutions by integrating their hardware and software into a simulated manufacturing environment modeled after a real-life flexible packaging manufacturer. The inaugural conference aims to create a collaborative environment where vendors can “prove” their solutions in action in front of a live audience.

The conference is built around a common digital infrastructure using the Unified Namespace (UNS) architecture. As an exhibitor, speaker, and Gold sponsor, HighByte will demonstrate how the Intelligence Hub integrates into the conference virtual factory infrastructure by collecting, modeling, and orchestrating data in real time.

HighByte technical leaders will be on-site to answer questions and will lead a 45-minute session on Tuesday, February 20. In this session, we will answer the following questions:

  1. What problem does the Intelligence Hub solve?
  2. How was it solved?
  3. How long did it take to implement?
  4. How much did it cost?

Past Events

IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day

Date:
December 04, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day brought together a global audience to explore the most innovative real-world use cases of Edge & Cloud Computing, Analytics, AI, ML, and AR in Manufacturing & Supply Chain. 

HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington joined leaders from Deloitte, HiveMQ, and CrateDB for the panel discussion "From Data Overload to Actionable Insights: Mastering Data Management in Manufacturing." Moderated by Hamish MacKenzie of IIoT World, this session delves into the challenges of managing vast amounts of data and demonstrates how real-time analytics can transform raw data into valuable insights. Viewers will learn how modern data management solutions enable manufacturers to optimize production, improve operational efficiency, and drive innovation. From harnessing data streams in real-time to leveraging AI-powered analytics, this session will equip you with the tools to master data management and make faster, data-driven decisions.

HighByte Office Hours: Design and Query Your UNS

Date:
November 07, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 55-minute webcast, HighByte’s Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates a discussion between Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle and Product Manager Jeffrey Schroeder. Viewers will learn how to use an Industrial DataOps platform to drive data contextualization and system integration at scale—and bring your Unified Namespace (UNS) to life. 

The webcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 4.0 and Q&A. 

HighByte Office Hours are recommended for manufacturing IT professionals, data engineers, and system architects at industrial companies.  

Agenda 

  • Discuss and demonstrate best practices for data modeling, including model validation and pipeline modeling, to help you scale models across your organization and work more efficiently. 
  • Design, visualize, and project a Namespace to multiple targets to improve UNS governance and usability. 
  • Query metadata and values across your Namespace hierarchy to simplify pipeline processing. 
  • Discuss use cases for the new native integration with Ignition by Inductive Automation.  

A Digital Transformation Blueprint: Learn to Scale with Lindt

Date:
October 31, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 55-minute webcast, Hamish Mackenzie moderates a discussion between operational leaders at Lindt, HighByte, and Snowflake and delves into the people, processes, and technology driving successful digital transformation in manufacturing. Jessica Valli, Digital Transformation Program Manager at Lindt & SprĂĽngli, shares her experience driving successful digitalization projects from RFP to initial deployment to global rollout. The panel offers insights on how modern architectural design patterns and technologies from the edge to the cloud can help scale digitalization projects for manufacturers like Lindt.

Operations Calling

Date:
October 08
- October 09, 2024
Location: Sommerville, MA
Description

Operations Calling is Tulip’s annual conference that celebrates and supports the people at the forefront of the industry's transformation. The manufacturing industry is undergoing significant change, and Tulip’s vision is to rebuild what it means to work in manufacturing by leveraging powerful, user-centric, and domain-specific technologies. 

HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington joined Walker Reynolds and other thought leaders from our ecosystem for the panel discussion, "Unlock Value: Maximizing Impact with a UNS Architecture." If you missed the live panel, you can view the recording on YouTube here

IIoT World Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Day

Date:
September 10, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

IIoT World Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Day is a one-day virtual event featuring subject matter experts from leading manufacturing, technology, and analyst firms. The panel sessions explored how the convergence of IIoT and AI is driving environmental impact and innovation across the industrial landscape.

If you missed the panel “Transforming Manufacturing: The Role of Data and IIoT in Achieving Sustainability," you can now watch it on-demand. In this session, HighByte's Torey Penrod-Cambra joined Brian Rosema from LEC and Luciano Narcisi from ARC Advisory Group for a discussion on sustainable practices that leverage data, connectivity, and automation to transform manufacturing. The discussion also covered how manufacturers implement circular economy principles by using data to improve recycling processes and resource reuse. Watch the recording to gain valuable insights into overcoming data silos and ensuring seamless connectivity across diverse manufacturing systems, paving the way for smarter, more sustainable operations.

Bio-Expo Live

Date:
July 30
- August 01, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description Bioprocess Online introduced Bio-Expo Live, a series of live virtual events designed to empower biopharma professionals. Through these sessions, attendees had the chance to explore innovations aimed at addressing challenges in the drug development process. 

On August 1, attendees of the “Data, Quality, & Analytical” session viewed a short presentation from HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington that explains how a DataOps approach to people, process, and technology can help biopharmaceutical manufacturers scale their Pharma 4.0 use cases across the enterprise. John discusses why data contextualization and data orchestration are critical components of a DataOps solution. John concludes with a case study that describes the business benefits that Catalent, a leading global CDMO for pharmaceuticals and biologics, was able to achieve by leveraging HighByte Intelligence Hub as the company’s Industrial DataOps solution. 

This event is recommended for biopharma companies or contract manufacturers seeking available quality, data, and/or analytical solutions to help them overcome their manufacturing challenges.

IIoT World Manufacturing Day

Beyond Silos: Streamlining Data Flow with a Unified Namespace
Date:
May 22, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

Watch this panel discussion with HighByte Chief Product Office John Harrington and industry leaders from McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing, HiveMQ, and EMQ Technologies for an in-depth discussion on the essentials of UNS, its unique advantages, and how it outperforms traditional systems by ensuring real-time operational visibility.

HighByte Office Hours: How OPC UA Accelerates UNS

Date:
May 21, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 55-minute live webcast, HighByte’s Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates a discussion between Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle and Product Manager Jeffrey Schroeder. Viewers will learn best practices for building a highly performant UNS with common industry protocols and a DataOps approach.
 
The webcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.4 and Q&A. 
 
HighByte Office Hours are recommended for manufacturing IT professionals, data engineers, and system architects at industrial companies.

Agenda

  • Discuss the benefits and limitations of common protocols leveraged in a UNS architecture, including OPC UA, SQL, REST, MQTT and Sparkplug.
  • Demonstrate how advanced OPC UA connectivity in HighByte Intelligence Hub, including Alarms & Conditions and Structured Data, makes data easier to acquire and use in a UNS.
  • Show how to publish valuable manufacturing data from SQL databases to a UNS, spotlighting the new SQL Change Data Capture support in the Intelligence Hub.
  • Discuss why DevOps and DataOps are complementary practices to meet scale and maintainability requirements.
  • Demonstrate Secrets Management and portable configuration.

HighByte Office Hours: UNS to Snowflake

Date:
February 08, 2024
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 55-minute webcast, HighByte’s Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates a discussion between Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle and Product Manager Jeffrey Schroeder with participation from event attendees. Viewers will learn how to confidentially leverage HighByte Intelligence Hub with Snowflake and AWS cloud services to put their unified namespace (UNS) data to work.

The webcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.3 and Q&A. 

HighByte Office Hours are recommended for manufacturing IT professionals, data engineers, and system architects at industrial companies.

Agenda:

  • Review the benefits and limitations of an Enterprise UNS with example architectures.  
  • Learn how to land contextualized, modeled data in leading cloud platforms, including Snowflake Data Cloud and AWS IoT SiteWise, while reducing compute, latency, and cost. 
  • See how to query Snowflake tables for use cases requiring closed-loop event handling at the edge.  
  • Explore data health with Pipeline observability and output connection monitoring in HighByte Intelligence Hub.  

IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day

Standards and Interoperability: Addressing the challenges related to standardization, interoperability, and integration of diverse IIoT devices.
Date:
December 07, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

IIoT World Manufacturing & Supply Chain Day brought together a global audience to explore the most innovative real-world use cases of Edge & Cloud Computing, Analytics, AI, ML, and AR in Manufacturing & Supply Chain.
 
HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington joined leaders from HiveMQ and Mackenzie Advisory & Coaching for the panel discussion “Standards and Interoperability: Addressing the challenges related to standardization, interoperability, and integration of diverse IIoT devices.” The session provided insights into practical solutions, protocols, and methodologies that facilitate a cohesive ecosystem, enabling diverse devices to communicate effectively and operate in unison. Watch the recording to learn how to pave the way for a more interconnected and efficient industrial landscape.

State of the Market: Why Manufacturers are Using DataOps to Outperform Their Peers

Date:
November 07, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

As manufacturers gather increasing amounts of data from their operations, Industrial DataOps has become an essential tool for using that data to improve efficiency, increase security, and reduce costs. New research reveals that high-performing companies are ahead in their digital transformation journey and making greater investments in DataOps technology compared to their peers.

​
But what exactly is DataOps, and how are manufacturers applying this technology in the real world to outperform their competition?

Join leaders from HighByte and Deloitte as they break down these questions and more during this special State of the Market webinar hosted by IndustryWeek. The panelists share and discuss new research data from 158 manufacturing professionals across operations, engineering, and IT to help viewers understand:

  • Where manufacturers are on their digital transformation journey, what investments are being made, and the most significant inhibitors to progress.
  • How well DataOps is understood and applied, and the benefits manufacturers see most from this approach.
  • How manufacturers are approaching DataOps deployments, including system architecture and data governance.
  • What impact culture and attitude have on digital transformation progress.

Where IT meets OT: Northrop Grumman shares Industrial DataOps best practices from the field

Date:
October 24, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

When IT and OT can break down siloes between their teams and systems, critical data is liberated, decisions are made faster and with greater accuracy, and critical changes to business operations accelerate. No one knows that better than Zach Etier, Sr. Principal Systems Architect at Northrop Grumman. Working across IT and OT for one of the world's largest defense companies gives him unique insights into best practices and how to keep everyone working toward the same goals.

Join Zach and HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington for a discussion on applying Industrial DataOps best practices to help bridge the OT-IT gap and deliver ready-to-use industrial data to business users. The panel covers topics ranging from system integration, enterprise architecture design patterns, CI/CD processes, data engineering, and data governance. 

​By watching this recording, you will gather practical advice on how to architect their digital infrastructure for multi-site system deployments and analytics, including:

  • Best practices for designing an enterprise architecture that meets business requirements, today and tomorrow
  • How to apply IT best practices to OT data and systems
  • Tips for OT-IT collaboration

HighByte Office Hours: Spotlight on the UNS and Data Pipelines

Date:
October 04, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute live broadcast, HighByte’s Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates a discussion between Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle and Product Manager Jeffrey Schroeder. The team discusses the UNS and demonstrates how quick and easy it to build a UNS in HighByte Intelligence Hub using the embedded MQTT broker, new UNS client for visualization, and the Intelligence Hub’s core data engineering capabilities. HighByte CTO Aron Semle also demonstrates the new Pipelines builder with powerful event stream processing. 

The broadcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.2 and a Q&A. 

Meeting today’s industrial data access, governance, and scale requirements with Industrial DataOps

Date:
June 15, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute broadcast, HighByte’s Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates an interactive discussion between Chief Product Officer John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle with participation from event attendees. The team discusses the role DataOps plays in addressing data accessibility, governance, and scalability requirements for industrial companies.

  • Why is data accessibility important in industrial environments? How are these requirements changing?
  • Which governance practices and technologies best prepare industrial data for enterprise-wide use?
  • What are the biggest barriers to developing a scalable industrial data architecture?
  • How does HighByte Intelligence Hub specifically address data access, governance, and scale from a technical perspective?


​This broadcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.1 and a Q&A. 

IIoT World Manufacturing Days

The importance of having a good data strategy.
Date:
May 17, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

IIoT World Manufacturing Days brought together Industrial IoT (IIoT) subject matters experts from all over the world to share insights on IIoT & AI technologies with 6,000+ expected attendees.
 
HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington and other leaders from Schneider Electric, EMQ, and EY joined together for "The importance of having a good data strategy." This session explored the critical components of an effective data strategy and best practices for developing and implementing a data strategy that aligns with business objectives. The panel explained how IoT data infrastructure affects data quality, how engineers can get started on improving data quality, and how to better express the ROI when we talk about data.

Data Architecture Trends, Best Practices, And Pitfalls For Life Sciences 4.0

Date:
April 05, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 50-minute panel session, Ryan Martin, Research Director at ABI Research moderates an interactive discussion between Alcon Data Analytics Manager John Patanian, Catalent Plant Data and Analytics Global Lead Chris Demers, and HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington, highlighting:

  • New frameworks for data contextualization and business analytics prosperity
  • How to scale and remain agile with respect to constantly fluctuating market requirements, even in complex and regulated industries
  • What it truly means to be a digital enterprise.

Trends Shaping Enterprise Deployments in Manufacturing: Unified Namespace, DataOps, and the Edge

Date:
March 06, 2023
Location: Virtual
Description

In this broadcast, Torey Penrod-Cambra moderates an interactive panel discussion between Chief Product Officer John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle. The team discusses key trends that are shifting the way industrial companies think about their system architectures and data governance. Together, they explore: 

  • What problem does Industrial DataOps solve?  
  • How has DataOps changed the way enterprise companies are modeling and contextualizing industrial data?   
  • Why is the unified namespace attractive to manufacturers, and how can it be achieved?  
  • How have architectural patterns changed in the last 12 months, and where are they going?  
  • What are data pipelines, and how can they accelerate my projects?  
  • How has HighByte Intelligence Hub evolved to meet changing market requirements?   


This broadcast includes quick demos of new features in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.0 and a Q&A.

Two Approaches to Extract Value from Your Machine Data

Date:
December 15, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

Are you struggling to merge machine data with other systems, like ERP or CMMS? Are you looking for integration solutions that are scalable, flexible, and cost-effective?
 
You are not alone. Many manufacturers find it difficult to manage and merge transactional data with other systems. Thankfully, modern software solutions like HighByte Intelligence Hub can address this challenge by aggregating, merging, and modeling plant floor data so it can be leveraged by business users throughout the company and its supply chain.
 
In this 45-minute session, Ectobox IoT Engineer Frank Galuska, HighByte Solutions Engineer Kurt Peterson, and David Schultz from G5 Consulting & Engineering Services take a deep dive into how to leverage HighByte Intelligence Hub with other tools from Inductive Automation and Canary Labs to create a complete solution for digital transformation. 
 
By watching this webinar, you will learn:

  1. Two approaches to merging plant floor data with other systems 
  2. How (and why) to define data for its destination application
  3. How to enrich time series production data with transactional data
  4. The benefits of building a unified namespace (UNS)

Smart Manufacturing Episode #4: Bridge the OT-IT Gap for DataOps at the Edge

Date:
October 24, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

Cloud services have become a key component of digital transformation because of their ability to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data in a centralized location. However, integrating industrial data with enterprise systems in the Cloud has proved to be challenging for many industrials. Bridging the OT-IT gap requires a solution that can merge real-time, transactional, and time-series data into a single payload, model and contextualize this data, exchange information with Cloud services, and deliver an agile architecture. Bridging the OT-IT gap requires an Edge-native DataOps approach. 

In this 35-minute episode, HighByte's John Harrington and Rajesh Gomatam Ph.D., Principal Partner Solutions at AWS, discuss how to collect and transform industrial data from various sources, including AVEVA PI System, and prepare the data for analytics on AWS. John shares 4 real-world use cases of industrial companies leveraging DataOps at the Edge to achieve multi-system integration, high-resolution data analytics, multi-site monitoring, and Cloud-to-Edge execution. Viewers will gain an understanding of data modeling and architectural best practices through these 4 use cases.

HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 2.5

Date:
September 21, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.5 is packed with new features that improve system connectivity, monitoring, and management— enabling IT organizations to rapidly deploy Industrial DataOps within their existing IT infrastructure. Version 2.5 offers better support for Microsoft Azure with a new IoT Edge connector, support for IoT Central, and the ability to import DTDL models from Azure Digital Twins. The release also includes support for Active Directory, data source monitoring and alarming, flow performance metrics, and more.

In this 20-minute video, HighByte CTO Aron Semle demonstrates the new support for Azure IoT Central by walking through a use case that collects OPC UA data, models the data using the Microsoft DTDL standard, and then flows the modeled data into Azure IoT Central. Along the way, he shares how to remove unwanted data from payloads, define system variables, view flow statistics, and create alarm conditions. Aron closes with a quick demo of how to import third-party libraries and decode the binary using Sparkplug Payload. 

More Data, Less Clicks: Automate Your Industrial Data Operations with Templates and Event Flows

Date:
June 30, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte product leaders introduce new capabilities in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.4. Version 2.4 enables users to scale data integration projects faster with less effort across a wider range of connections. More data, less clicks.

By watching this webinar, you will learn how to: 

  • Model hundreds of common assets in minutes with templatized inputs and instances
  • Minimize latency and ensure critical data is not lost using Event Flows
  • Load contextualized data directly into leading data lakes and data warehouses like Amazon S3 and Redshift

Scaling analytics to manufacturing? 7 steps to implementing DataOps for Industry 4.0

Date:
May 11, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, Novotek Chief Innovation Officer Veronika Grozdanovska and HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington discuss the current state of analytics in manufacturing and why many CIOs are struggling to get usable industrial data to drive analytics for line of business users. They present a practical 7-step guide that begins with articulating an analytics use case and concludes with managing and monitoring data pipeline flow.

By watching this recording, you will learn how to:

  • Build a use case and identify the right stakeholders at your organization to execute this use case
  • Select an integration architecture that will work best for your site or multi-site organization
  • Model data to meet the target goals of the project
  • Build and monitor data pipelines

Unlock the Power of your Industrial Data with Simplified Data Operations & Artificial Intelligence

Date:
April 28, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

In the past, manufacturing plants were built with the minimum requirements for safe and efficient operation. The data produced and consumed was well-known and well-defined. Today, many new sources of data are coming online as part of industry digital transformation journey efforts. There is now an even greater need for an efficient and scalable way to support the plethora of data points, along with an ever-increasing list of acronyms to define in the technology bag of IoT, IIoT, OPC, MQTT and the like. In this webinar, an unbiased look is taken at various options available to end users seeking secure, standards-based technology to support their IIoT architecture. Prominent industry expert speakers from various technology and business areas discuss the latest advancements in the interoperability arena. Each demonstrate how open-system architectures such as OPC UA and MQTT enable secure and timely sharing of data within control systems, across networks and across an entire enterprise.

Topics of discussion include:

  • History/background
  • Data modeling
  • Conformance and adoption
  • Version support
  • Cybersecurity
  • Unified namespace
  • Legacy equipment support and the future roadmap

From aggregates to files, state monitoring to UX: Experience HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.3

Date:
April 14, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

In the past, manufacturing plants were built with the minimum requirements for safe and efficient operation. The data produced and consumed was well-known and well-defined. Today, many new sources of data are coming online as part of industry digital transformation journey efforts. There is now an even greater need for an efficient and scalable way to support the plethora of data points, along with an ever-increasing list of acronyms to define in the technology bag of IoT, IIoT, OPC, MQTT and the like. In this webinar, an unbiased look is taken at various options available to end users seeking secure, standards-based technology to support their IIoT architecture. Prominent industry expert speakers from various technology and business areas discuss the latest advancements in the interoperability arena. Each demonstrate how open-system architectures such as OPC UA and MQTT enable secure and timely sharing of data within control systems, across networks and across an entire enterprise.

Topics of discussion include:

  • History/background
  • Data modeling
  • Conformance and adoption
  • Version support
  • Cybersecurity
  • Unified namespace
  • Legacy equipment support and the future roadmap

The ABCs of Interoperability and Standards Protocols

Date:
January 18, 2022
Location: Virtual
Moderator: David Schultz (G5 Consulting & Engineering Services)
Participant(s): Aron Semle (HighByte), Dominik Obermaier (HiveMQ), Jim Luth (OPC Foundation)
Description

In the past, manufacturing plants were built with the minimum requirements for safe and efficient operation. The data produced and consumed was well-known and well-defined. Today, many new sources of data are coming online as part of industry digital transformation journey efforts. There is now an even greater need for an efficient and scalable way to support the plethora of data points, along with an ever-increasing list of acronyms to define in the technology bag of IoT, IIoT, OPC, MQTT and the like. In this webinar, an unbiased look is taken at various options available to end users seeking secure, standards-based technology to support their IIoT architecture. Prominent industry expert speakers from various technology and business areas discuss the latest advancements in the interoperability arena. Each demonstrate how open-system architectures such as OPC UA and MQTT enable secure and timely sharing of data within control systems, across networks and across an entire enterprise.

Topics of discussion include:

  • History/background
  • Data modeling
  • Conformance and adoption
  • Version support
  • Cybersecurity
  • Unified namespace
  • Legacy equipment support and the future roadmap

How to use an Industrial DataOps solution to accelerate analytics in batch and process manufacturing

Date:
January 13, 2022
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte Chief Business Officer John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle introduce you to the new capabilities in HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.2. Version 2.2 makes it easier than ever to leverage historical data for analytics. For batch and process manufacturers, this means getting more value out of the extensive investments you’ve already made in process historians like OSIsoft PI System.

By watching this webinar, you will:

  1. See 3 real-world use cases for leveraging the new OSIsoft PI AF SDK connector to extract and publish data into PI System from AVEVA.
  2. Learn how to bi-directionally connect with time series and relational databases, including InfluxDB and Oracle Database, and integrate this data with other systems.
  3. See how to output modeled data to a CSV file as well as push modeled data to new AI/ML platforms for training.
  4. Understand all the new features in the latest release of HighByte Intelligence Hub, including OPC UA subscriptions and SAML support.

Achieving High Availability and Access Through Industrial DataOps

Date:
October 19, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte Chief Business Officer John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle introduce you to the company’s release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.1. Version 2.1 introduces new high-availability features including application redundancy and redundant MQTT brokers, ensuring the reliable collection, modeling, and delivery of data in critical environments. This release also expands connectivity and includes several enhancements that make it easier to configure and support large data modeling and integration projects.

By watching this webinar, you will:

  • Understand how application redundancy and redundant MQTT brokers give customers in critical environments an extra layer for reliability to eliminate the loss of functionality and data in the event of a failure.
  • See how the new Webhook, Apache Parquet files, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub connectors further extend the reach of HighByte Intelligence Hub to key source data and cloud platforms.
  • Learn how many of the existing connections in HighByte Intelligence Hub were enhanced with additional functionality and improved usability, including dynamic inputs and outputs, OAuth authentication and other new REST Client capabilities, Update and Upsert commands for SQL outputs, and expression syntax highlighting.

Building an Enterprise Unified Namespace (UNS) to Power Your Smart Factory

Date:
August 25, 2021
Location: Webinar
Description

In this 1-hour webinar, HighByte Chief Business Office John Harrington and HiveMQ Head of Marketing Ian Skerrett demonstrate a practical and efficient way to build an enterprise-grade UNS using HiveMQ as the MQTT broker and HighByte Intelligence Hub as the gateway. When combined, these technologies deliver a complete, easy to deploy, accessible, and structured solution to power your Smart Factory.

By watching this webinar, you will learn:

  • The UNS definition and the benefits of building an enterprise UNS for your company or your clients
  • The advantages of using an MQTT broker UNS architecture
  • How HighByte Intelligence Hub consumes data from multiple sources, assembles data into logical payloads, and publishes these payloads to the UNS
  • How HighByte Intelligence Hub subscribes to data in the UNS and publishes it to systems that don’t communicate over MQTT
  • How to work with topic structures in HiveMQ
  • The benefits of using HiveMQ to achieve a UNS with a publish-subscribe architecture

HighByte Intelligence Hub Version 2.0: Edge to Enterprise Industrial Data Governance

Date:
August 19, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte Chief Business Office John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle introduce you to the company’s major release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.0.

​Version 2.0 enables you to centrally manage all of your Intelligence Hub instances, making it easy to remotely configure, compare, and synchronize configurations at enterprise scale. Whether you’re deploying HighByte Intelligence Hub at the Edge to format data for your Unified Namespace (UNS) or deploying HighByte Intelligence Hub in each factory to standardize data sent to the Cloud, version 2.0 makes managing and standardizing data models easier than ever.

By watching this webinar, you will:

  • Understand the value of using an Industrial DataOps solution to prepare data and streamline system integration in a dedicated modeling abstraction layer.
  • Learn how to remotely configure hubs, compare configurations, and synchronize models and connections between multiple hubs from a single portal.
  • See how to simplify and accelerate high-volume data delivery to the AWS Cloud using the new Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose connectors in version 2.
  • See how to configure unique users and roles with permissions that appropriately restrict access and change.
  • Learn how to create an audit log and automatically generate project file backups.

Industrial IoT Today

Date:
July 29, 2021
Location: YouTube broadcast
Description

Product variability, supply chain complexity, and price volatility are just some of the pressures on modern industrial companies. To address these pressures, companies are increasingly connecting business systems to production equipment to improve production execution, increase business visibility, and optimize decisions. However, connecting business systems to the Edge to accelerate decisions and improve agility has its challenges. It requires companies to modernize their data architectures and technologies for real-time execution and analytics.

In this 1-hour webinar, Kepware Partner Enablement Engineer Kyle Carreau, HighByte Chief Business Office John Harrington, Ectobox CEO and Lead Strategist Kevin Jones, and Ectobox Senior Architect and Software Consultant Tim Burris discuss the importance of data modeling and contextualization and best practices for system integration. Additionally, Kevin and Tim present a production-to-supply chain use case for one of their industrial clients that is modernizing their system architecture with Kepware's KEPServerEX and HighByte Intelligence Hub.

Connecting Your Business Systems to the Edge

Date:
June 22, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

Product variability, supply chain complexity, and price volatility are just some of the pressures on modern industrial companies. To address these pressures, companies are increasingly connecting business systems to production equipment to improve production execution, increase business visibility, and optimize decisions. However, connecting business systems to the Edge to accelerate decisions and improve agility has its challenges. It requires companies to modernize their data architectures and technologies for real-time execution and analytics.

In this 1-hour webinar, Kepware Partner Enablement Engineer Kyle Carreau, HighByte Chief Business Office John Harrington, Ectobox CEO and Lead Strategist Kevin Jones, and Ectobox Senior Architect and Software Consultant Tim Burris discuss the importance of data modeling and contextualization and best practices for system integration. Additionally, Kevin and Tim present a production-to-supply chain use case for one of their industrial clients that is modernizing their system architecture with Kepware's KEPServerEX and HighByte Intelligence Hub.

How an Industrial DataOps Solution Improves OEE With a Time Series Database

Date:
May 04, 2021
Location: Webinar
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte CTO Aron Semle teams up with InfluxData to demonstrate how HighByte Intelligence Hub integrates with InfluxDB for industrial data collection in the Unified Namespace. InfluxDB is an open source time series database designed to handle high write and query loads. Aron provides a brief overview of HighByte and then dives into:

  • HighByte’s approach to providing context to industrial data
  • How to use Intelligence Hub and InfluxDB to store time series data with context
  • How to use Fluxlang to quickly enable OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) applications​

Unified Namespace and Cloud-to-Edge: New Use Cases for​Industrial DataOps

Date:
April 14, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 45-minute webinar, HighByte Chief Business Office John Harrington and Chief Technology Officer Aron Semle introduce you to HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.4 and provide a demonstration of new features and their use cases. You'll see how to push SQL data to a Unified Namespace, process multiple rows of data from SQL queries, leverage MQTT inputs and OPC outputs to efficiently move data from Cloud to Edge, and work with OPC UA arrays and CSV files.

By watching this webinar, you will:

  • Understand the advantage of using an Industrial DataOps solution for data standardization and system integration
  • Learn how to work with SQL inputs and outputs
  • Learn how to move data from AWS IoT Core to an OPC server for Cloud-to-Edge use cases
  • See how to leverage the new CSV file connector to deliver data from legacy industrial devices and systems to an MQTT broker and SQL database

Intro to Industrial DataOps

What it is and why it’s important for industrial transformation
Date:
February 24, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

In this 30-minute webinar, HighByte co-founder John Harrington introduces you to Industrial DataOps, a new category of software solutions that offers a simple solution to the complex data architecture problems created by Industry 4.0. He demonstrates 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 watching this webinar, you will learn:
1. How an Industrial DataOps solution provides the foundation for a scalable data architecture
2. How to securely connect to your existing operational infrastructure without downtime
3. How to standardize and enrich operational data through models
4. How to merge and publish information to consuming applications—without writing code

HighByte Intelligence Hub: Merging industrial, enterprise, and cloud

Date:
January 14, 2021
Location: Virtual
Description

Build your new year on a solid foundation with a data architecture that’s ready to scale. In this 45-minute webinar, we introduce HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.3, an Industrial DataOps solution that’s bridging the data divide between OT and IT applications.

​By watching this webinar, you will learn how to:

  • Merge modeled OPC data with enterprise systems and publish to the Cloud
  • Build a scalable data architecture without writing or maintaining code
  • Deploy solutions at the Edge by leveraging Docker and Store & Forward to simplify system upgrades and improve data reliability

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