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Thursday, November 7th

4pm - 9pm

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Our team has been hard at work engineering another EPIC event - BESTFEST 2024!
We're bringing back all of the attendee favorites like the Innovations Tradeshow, Technical Seminars, Product Demonstrations, Food, Drinks, Networking and much more...

from our awesome new venue:

The Ballroom at Bayou Place in downtown Houston.


The name BestFest ties to our focus to be the best solution for our customers and Technology Partners. The AWC BestFest has always been about celebrating, networking, and sharing technological innovations.

The Ballroom at Bayou Place
What To Expect
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INNOVATIONS TRADESHOW

Hundreds of Innovative Technologies will be showcased throughout the venue.

 

Schedule
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Seminar schedule subject to change.

4:00 pm

Event Begins - Doors open. Tradeshow and Bars open.

4:15 pm

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Improve Safety, Reliability, and Energy Savings

with the new NDX Valve Controller

4:45 pm

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Innovative Temperature Measurement to Optimize Your Plant

5:15 pm

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- Smart Control Cabinets: Advanced Protection

   and Control Strategies
- Siemens Latest High-Performance Multi

   Purpose Drives featuring the G220

6:00 pm

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- Implementing AI utilizing Siemens Simatic IPCs

   with NVIDIA GPUs
- How Siemens is changing the Human Machine

   Interface with WinCC Unified

6:45 pm

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Overpressure Protection Applications with Varying Media Relief Scenarios

7:15 pm

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Application & Installation Considerations for Rupture Discs

7:45 pm

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Crossing the Ethernet Gap in Process with the Advanced Physical Layer (APL) 

8:15 pm

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Digitalization of Industrial Control Panel Building

9:00 pm

Event Concludes

Have a safe journey home. See you next year!

Amazing Seminar Prizes

At the end of each 20-minute seminar, random drawings for these amazing giveaways will be held with those in attendance. Five names will be drawn each session for a total of 45 giveaways! Prizes subject to change.

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Event Map

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PASSPORT PROGRAM

AWC's BestFest Passport Program provides attendees a fun incentive to visit each Technology Partner, learn about their latest innovations and receive a stamp. The first 200 attendees to turn in a completely stamped passport will receive a 10,000 mAh battery pack AND and entry into the grand prize drawing for:

Monster Indoor/Outdoor Portable Bluetooth Speaker

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EVENT PARKING

All BestFest attendees enjoy COMPLIMENTARY parking with these options:

FREE Valet Parking at front of building (compliments of AWC and our sponsors!)

  Use Smith St. entrance of The Ballroom at Bayou Place 

*Improved this year with 30 parking attendants

 

  OR

Self Parking in Theater District Garage

Pre-registered attendees will be emailed a QR code preceding BestFest to access the garage.

*Free parking is available with QR code use only. Sorry, no reimbursement on cash payments.

 

Exhibitors may unload beginning at 10am with assistance from AWC staff but will then need to valet or self-park.

 

At the close of the event, any vehicles left uncollected will be moved to Parking Garage for retrieval and sent a text/call to retrieve keys.

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Sponsors

Platinum+ Sponsor

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Platinum Sponsors

WIKA Logo
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Phoenix Contact Logo
Valmet logo
Rittal
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Gold Sponsors

ACE logo
Brooks Instrument logo
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ASCO Distributor logo
Banner Engineering logo
Crane logo
Festo Logo
Kenco Engineering logo
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APPLICATION
ENGINEERS

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VALVE SERVICES

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Honeywell Logo
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