2026 Full Session List

2026 Sessions – Up Your Game

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.

Full Session List

Session Title	Audience	Session Summary
Advanced Tag Types – For Fast Future-Ready Systems	INT / ADV	Model complex systems more efficiently and with greater clarity. Create device-specific tag templates using expressions and overrides to build scalable, intuitive applications across any project size. SLIDEDECK
Data Diode – A “One Way” Path to Secure SCADA	Everyone	If you care about locking down OT without cutting off critical data, this session delivers the key to rock solid, one way protection while keeping information flowing exactly where it needs to go. Once again, Owl Cyber Defense steps in to help you level up your security game. Learn how to set up VTScada to transfer history through a Data Diode. Find out more about guest speaker, Dan! SLIDEDECK
Data Entry Forms – Speedrun Your Workflow	Everyone	VTScada Manual Data Entry Forms streamline field data capture by reducing errors and speeding workflows. This session shows how to design intuitive forms, validate inputs, automate calculations, and link submissions to tags, reports, and history, boosting accuracy, consistency, and operational efficiency. This is an invaluable tool for integrating lab data into your VTScada reports and history.
Development Best Practices – Grow like a Pro!	INT / ADV	Strong SCADA systems rely on disciplined development. Learn secure lifecycle practices—from managing technical debt and version control to testing, documentation, and long‑term maintainability. Gain practical tools to reduce risk, streamline workflows, and strengthen every stage of your VTScada development process. SLIDEDECK
Hacked at the Pump: An Operator’s Guide to Cybersecurity	Everyone	Cyberattacks on water/wastewater systems are real and increasing. This operator focused session covers how utilities are targeted, what regulators expect as well as clear actionable takeaways including how to respond calmly when things go wrong. Find out more about guest speaker, Shawn! SLIDEDECK
Hands‑On Lab: Wireshark & VTScada – Turbo Boost Network Diagnostics	INT / ADV	Sharpen your troubleshooting skills with a hands‑on deep dive into Wireshark + VTScada. Learn to capture and filter packets, analyze protocol behavior, spot anomalies, and trace communication issues, giving you the diagnostic power to resolve problems faster and boost SCADA reliability. SLIDEDECK
Historian Enhancements – Pushing Peak Performance	Everyone	Discover the newest VTScada Historian enhancements that boost data storage, retrieval, and analysis performance. Explore improved compression and query speed, plus tools for managing large datasets—helping you increase reliability, streamline troubleshooting, and deliver faster, smarter insights across your entire operation. SLIDEDECK
Lockouts & Control Tokens – Command & Control Your High Stakes Process	Everyone	Discover the power of VTScada’s Lockouts and Control Tokens to ensure safe, coordinated control by preventing conflicts and managing who can operate equipment and when. Learn to configure lockouts, apply token‑based control, and build reliable logic that reduces risk in hazardous multi‑operator systems. SLIDEDECK
Mastering Alarm Alerts – The Key to Situational Awareness	Everyone	VTScada’s Alarms Page and suppression tools help you avoid alarm overload by filtering, organizing, and highlighting only critical events. Learn to sort, suppress, group, and streamline alarms to improve clarity, reduce fatigue, and keep operators focused on what matters most. SLIDEDECK
Maximo / HTTP Publishing – Share Everywhere	INT / ADV	The new HTTP Publishing feature allows publishing VTScada data changes to a variety of external enterprise products, including IBM Maximo’s maintenance software, improving decision‑making, workflows, and real‑time awareness. Learn to structure payloads, configure secure publishing, map operational data, and streamline integrations to elevate SCADA‑to‑enterprise connectivity. SLIDEDECK
New Features Great and Small	Everyone	We’ve had a full year to add even more VTScada goodness and remember fun useful stuff we missed last year. SLIDEDECK
OPC-UA Publisher – Unlock a New Level of Connectivity	INT / ADV	Discover how the OPC UA Publisher enhances interoperability, streamlines data exchange, and securely delivers VTScada information to external systems. Learn to configure endpoints, organize data, and optimize performance so your IIoT and enterprise connections run efficiently, reliably, and fast. SLIDEDECK
Parameterized Pages & Widgets – Design Once, Reuse Everywhere	INT / ADV	Transform how you configure the physical structures that make up your process by building a library of reusable Parameterized Pages and Widgets. Learn to reduce errors, eliminate repetitive work, accelerate deployment, and streamline large scale development with smarter, scalable design. SLIDEDECK
“Plug & Play” IoT Compatibility with VTScada and MQTT	INT / ADV	Long time VTScada user Cattron demonstrates how their MQTT toolset provides customers with seamless, secure integration of Cattron’s IoT hardware with VTScada systems. MQTT brokers provide built-in encryption, cybersecurity, redundancy, and secure data sharing with reporting/AI platforms. Find out more about guest speaker, Charles! SLIDEDECK
Realm Filtering – Divide & Conquer	INT / ADV	VTScada Realm Filtering streamlines large SCADA applications by segmenting them into focused realms so operators see only relevant data, alarms, and controls. Learn to configure realms, refine navigation, improve clarity, and manage multi‑site complexity for cleaner, faster, operator‑friendly workflows. SLIDEDECK
SCADA Speed Run – Mastering Performance Optimization	INT / ADV	As VTScada applications expand, performance becomes essential. Learn the key strategies, settings, and architectures that keep large systems fast and efficient. We’ll walk through best practices for network architecture, Historian performance, UI responsiveness, tag organization, and server optimization. SLIDEDECK
SCADAMania – Enter the Arena.	INT / ADV	Get ready for the ultimate SCADA showdown as competitors race through rapid‑fire VTScada challenges. Solve puzzles, configure features, and outthink rivals in a high‑intensity gauntlet where only the fastest, smartest players survive. Who will walk away with the title?
Shield up! – Managing OPC and Driver Certificates	INT / ADV	Certificates are the silent shields of your SCADA network, protecting encrypted connections and ensuring trusted communication. Discover the new user interface to manage these certificates in VTScada. Learn to create, import, renew, and validate certificates as well as best practices to streamline lifecycle management and strengthen your overall cybersecurity posture. SLIDEDECK
The Debugger – Crush Bugs Like a Final Boss	Expert	The VTScada Debugger, your ultimate troubleshooting power‑up, reveals real‑time logic flows and pinpoints issues fast. Learn to trace logic, inspect values, spot misbehaving expressions, and optimize performance so you can hunt bugs and solve complex problems like a boss. SLIDEDECK
The RPC Page – The Nerve Center for Distributed Systems	Expert	The VTScada RPC Page gives you clear visibility into server to server communication in distributed applications. Learn how to monitor timing and call behavior, identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot replication issues, and keep multi server environments synchronized for smooth, reliable performance. SLIDEDECK
Tips & Tricks – Power‑Ups for SCADA Pros	Everyone	Everyone’s favorite VTScada power user returns with even more pro tips, shortcuts, and workflow boosters to help you set your high score by streamlined application development.
Two‑Factor Authentication – Up Your Security Game	Everyone	Cyber threats keep advancing, and your SCADA security must keep pace. This session dives into VTScada’s built in 2FA—how to configure it, manage users, and integrate it with your workflow—giving you the access control you need to stay ahead of attackers. SLIDEDECK
Understanding the New ANSI/ISA‑112.00.01‑2025 Standard – Modernizing SCADA the Right Way	Everyone	The newly released ANSI/ISA‑112.00.01‑2025 standard marks one of the most significant advancements in the SCADA world in years—providing a vendor‑neutral, technology‑independent framework for designing, operating, maintaining, and upgrading SCADA systems across all industries. This ScadaFest session introduces attendees to the foundational elements of this landmark standard and explores how its structured lifecycle model can help organizations “Level Up” their SCADA strategy for the next decade and beyond. Find out more about guest speaker, Steve! Plus – he’s our reigning 3-Peat Champion *Correction, 4 Time Champ now! SLIDEDECK
VTScada as a Service – Your Backup in the Background	Everyone	Boost reliability, security, and performance by configuring VTScada to run as a Windows service on servers in the cloud or behind locked doors without logged in users. Explore best practices for multi server environments so your SCADA network remains responsive, resilient, and ready for anything. SLIDEDECK
What’s New in Report Studio	Everyone	A quick refresher for Report Studio newcomers, followed by a showcase of powerful features added this year—including printing, SQL database connectivity, enhanced calculations, updated layout tools, and much more. Make the most of your early access and unlock the full potential of Report Studio. SLIDEDECK
Celebrating 40 Years of VTScada – Closing Remarks and Awards	Everyone	Join us for ScadaFest’s grand finale celebrating 40 years of innovation, partnership, and success stories. We’ll revisit conference highlights, honor exceptional contributors, and recognize VTScada Awards winners from around the world.