Navigate your way through the dozens of conference options with PathFinder. PathFinder assists you in selecting your own unique combination of sessions—a conference "path"—that shapes a learning experience suited to your individual job function and professional goals.

PathFinder identifies the best conference path for each of 5 professional groups: Technicians, Engineers, Management, Marketing, and Academia/R&D/Scientists. To provide you with optimum conference value, all technical tracks will offer topics appropriate for each of these job functions. It's the easy way to ensure you receive both breadth of exposure in automation disciplines and depth of study in useful areas matched to you career needs and interests.

If you are seeking more experience and the valuable knowledge so critical in the early years of your engineering career, or if you currently hold the heavy responsibilities of a senior engineering position, the Engineer Path through the Technical Tracks at ISA Automation Week is designed for you.

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Technicians keep the plant running and the processes on-line. If you're an automation technician, you're that key part of the team that installs equipment, maintains and monitors machinery, makes repairs on the spot, calibrates, and more. The automation and computerization of today's industrial plants is constantly advancing and the technician must advance with it. PathFinder can recommend the most helpful route through the Technical Tracks to give you the knowledge you need to keep your razor-sharp edge and quickly solve the many issues that arise daily in the manufacturing environment.

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The challenges that engineering and automation management professionals face are unique and carry great responsibility. Management issues and concerns will be specifically addressed and woven into each of the Technical Tracks through the Management Path as defined by PathFinder.

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Economic challenges and a highly competitive global environment make marketing, sales, public relations, and promotion essential to the operation of a successful and profitable manufacturing organization. Marketing and related professions are addressed within each of the seven Technical Tracks and PathFinder has identified a Marketing Path throughout these tracks for you. This special combination of technical sessions has the content you're looking for—highly relevant to those of you operating within these challenging areas of the automation profession.

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The future of automation is in innovation and optimization. Those in research and development and academia who study manufacturing and invent, test, and implement new technologies are the lifeblood of industry. Cutting-edge technology and pushing the envelope of ever-greater possibilities can put your company on the map—or keep it there. Use the PathFinder to locate the technical sessions that have content specifically geared toward those of you in academia and R&D.

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