Oil and Gas Industry Symposium
This symposium is a complimentary, half-day event sponsored by National Instruments, which features specific industry trends, advanced control and measurement technologies, and customer case studies from a variety of oil and gas service companies.

Learn how engineers in the oil and gas industry are meeting complex drilling control and advanced measurement application challenges. Each technical presentation highlights a compelling case study that illustrates these technologies. Engineers and managers can also network with colleagues and partners who have deployed programmable automation controllers (PACs) into exciting, leading-edge upstream, midstream, and downstream applications.

Symposium Topics Include:

• Technology trends in oil and gas
• Graphical system design tools for HMI development, simulation, modeling, and advanced analysis and control
• PAC hardware for rugged, modern industrial applications
• Building a measurement and control application from scratch using NI PAC hardware and LabVIEW software

Agenda	Thursday, May 28, 2009
8:30 a.m.	Registration and Networking
9:00 a.m.	Key Trends in Oil and Gas presented by Paul Lutes, Baker Hughes
9:30 a.m.	Software Design Tools for HMI Development, Simulation, Modeling, and Advanced Analysis and Control
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Oil and Gas Industry Case Studies
11:00 a.m.	PAC hardware for Rugged, Modern Industrial Applications
11:45 a.m.	Wrap Up and Closing
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 p.m.	Building a Measurement and Control Application from Scratch Using NI PAC Hardware and LabVIEW Software (optional afternoon session)
4:00 p.m.	Afternoon Session Concludes