2025 Full Session List

2025 Sessions – What do you want to achieve?

Whether you’re looking for new features, VTScada fundamentals, industry best practices, or emerging technologies, we made sure that this year’s lineup covers a broad range of topics to help you reach your short and long-term goals.

With over 55 hours of technical content, ScadaFest has something for everyone.

Overview

Unveiling 12.2 Features
· A sneak peek at what’s next
· Get first access when released

Staying Safe
· Data Diode – Data goes out, never comes in
· Two-Factor Authentication
· Security Guidelines – specific actions to harden your system

VTScada on the Edge
· VTScada does more on the Edge
· Easily interface with other systems

Accelerating Development
· Shortcuts and strategies to getting it done faster

Architecture
· Streamlining tag hierarchy – Sibling links: A New Order
· New options to scale multi-application systems

Recipes for Success
· Enhancements to recipe management

Reporting Updates
· See what’s new since last year
· New Manual Data Entry Forms

More New Features
· See everything released since last ScadaFest

Audience Favorites
· Tips and tricks
· Debugging
· Best Practices
· Development Process

Selected Recordings

Best Practices for New Systems
Tips for developing resilient, scalable systems that cover hardware choices, security considerations, and configuration testing.

New Sparkplug B Publisher
New Sparkplug B functionality will transform how you disseminate data from the edge to wherever it’s needed.

Full Session List

Session Title	Audience	Summary
Sharing Data on a Massive Scale	Everyone	A new Edge-based architecture option in 12.2 lets you efficiently and securely publish data to numerous SCADA applications and third-party platforms. Slidedeck
Safely Share Across the Air Gap – New Data Diode	Everyone	12.2 introduces a secure new method for sharing history and reports outside your air-gapped system via dedicated devices that enforce one-way communication. Slidedeck
Best Practices for New Systems	Developers	Tips for developing resilient, scalable systems that cover hardware choices, security considerations, and configuration testing. Slidedeck
Developer Tips and Tricks	Developers	20 new time-saving tools and short cuts we use every day at Trihedral that will accelerate your workflow. Slidedeck
The Driver Ecosystem	Developers	See how features like the DriverMux and Poll Driver help to modify or expand the functionality of comunication drivers. Plus, get to know some handy diagnostic tools. Slidedeck
New Exotic Recipes	Everyone	New Batching features, including Multi-Step Recipes, can streamline your manufacturing process or let you pump down water reservoirs in preparation for heavy rain. Slidedeck
A Smarter Approach to SCADA Historians	Developers	No other Historian can do what ours does, from efficiently logging and retrieving timeseries data, to bi-directional synchronization, to the many ways to share data with third-party platforms. Slidedeck
Make the Most of Alarms	Everyone	Alarms are the most important interface to your process. Learn the latest best practices to ensure critical alarms always find the right person. Slidedeck
New Data Entry Forms	Everyone	12.2 accelerates manual (e.g. lab) data entry by allowing you to create custom forms for operators to submit multiple timestamped entries all at once.
New Keyboard Shortcuts	Everyone	You asked for it! Maximize your efficiency by minimizing mouse handling with the new 12.2 keyboard shortcuts.
New OPC-UA Publisher	Developers	New OPC-UA publishing options will vastly improve how VTScada makes data available wherever needed. Slidedeck
New Report Studio Enhancements	Everyone	See what we’ve added to the Report Studio since last year and learn how you can get early access now.
New Sparkplug B Publisher	Developers	New Sparkplug B functionality will transform how you disseminate data from the edge to wherever it’s needed. Similar in function to OPC-UA. Slidedeck
New Two Factor Authentication	Everyone	New TFA features in 12.2 improve secure access by a factor of two! The built-in QR code generator makes set up a breeze! Slidedeck
Reducing Comm Costs Using MQTT Sparkplug B	Everyone	Learn how ELPRO, reduced the communications bill of a Louisiana utility by two-thirds by replacing Modbus polling over an aging landline with Cellular communications using VTScada’s MQTT driver with Sparkplug B.
Resiliency Through Load Balancing	Developers	Spreading the hard work of drivers and historians across multiple servers helps make your system bullet-proof and responsive.
Rematch! Modbus vs Sparkplug B vs DNP3	Developers	Back by popular demand! A quantitative look at three of the most popular communications protocols with some surprising results. Slidedeck
VTScada as a Service	Everyone	Running VTScada without a logged in user can improve security and make it easy to maintain cloud-based applications. Slidedeck
Securing an OT Environment Without Stopping Everything	Everyone	Lack the staff, time, or regulatory pressure to align your OT environment with cybersecurity standards but don’t want your system frozen by ransomware? See what a textbook process looks like and learn from a series of case studies ways to do things in a methodical, iterative, fashion.
Sibling Links – A New Order	Developers	A better way to organize drivers, ports, and Historians within Context Tags that will shorten tag names and boost Tag Browser performance. Slidedeck
Software Development Life Cycle Processes	Developers	Getting your procedures in order will help avoid paying for Technical Debt in the long term. Slidedeck
Stories from the Back Shift	Everyone	Gather round while Tech Support legend Doug Spurrell tells stories of systems gone sideways so we might learn from them.
Tag Modification in Excel	Developers	Working with tags in Excel is an efficient way to manage large systems. 12.2 helps you go even faster by letting you export only the tags you need.
Small But Mighty New Features	Everyone	The big stuff get lots of attention, but these smaller lesser known tools can help level up your VTScada game. Some are out now, some are coming in 12.2. Slidedeck
The Debugger – Get to the Root of the Problem	Programmers	See how VTScada’s most powerful and comprehensive debugging tool makes it easy to track down performance issues and bugs. Slidedeck
VTScada Configuration Challenge	Developers	Game on! Test your VTScada chops. Winner walks away with a trophy, prize, ticket to 2026, and bragging rights! *Requires a laptop with VTScada 12.1.63 pre-installed We have our first ever 3-Peat Winner!
A Guide to SCADA Cybersecurity	Everyone	Harden your system against bad guys using principles outlined in the VTScada Security Guidelines Manual built into every VTScada license. Slidedeck

Slidedecks are for reference only – for more in-depth details, the recordings will be available shortly.
Any and all 12.2 features mentioned are subject to change prior to release