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Automation Fair
Nov 17-20, 2025
    • Overview
    • Advanced Training
    • Advanced Training
    • Overview
    • The Expo
    • The Expo
    • Off-site Tours
    • Off-site Tours
    • New Technology & Solutions
    • New Technology & Solutions
    • Overview
    • Summits
    • Summits
    • Overview
    • Agenda
    • Agenda
    • Travel
    • Travel
    • FAQs
    • FAQs
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Automation Fair 2025 Create What's Next

Experience

Create your path to success with experiences only at Automation Fair.
Automation Fair 2024 Keynotes CEO Blake Moret

A dynamic Expo floor, enlightening Off-site Tours, illuminating Keynotes – it’s all at the Automation Fair® event. Discover breakthroughs, solutions and best practices to chart your course to resiliency, agility and sustainability. You’ll find what you need for today’s challenges and tomorrow’s goals, wherever you are on your digital transformation journey.

Automation Fair 2024 Expo

The Expo

Build your blueprint for what’s next at the 500,000 sq.ft. Expo, packed with the latest in industrial technology and solutions.

Expo Floor: Three full days and 120+ exhibits from Rockwell Automation and our PartnerNetwork™ members.

Discovery Theater: Discussions on relevant trends, industry perspectives and new product innovations.

Expo Tours: Maximize your time with a guided tour of the Expo floor. 

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Keynotes

As visionaries and thought leaders take the stage, prepare to be energized for what’s next at the Automation Fair Keynotes. Three days of insightful sessions will go beyond the hype to reveal the true potential of the future of industrial operations. Keynotes are Monday through Wednesday and are open to all attendees.

Keynotes
Off-site Tours

Off-site Tours

Witness the future in action, up close and personal. Our popular Off-site Tours are unique opportunities to see cutting-edge technology and solutions firsthand at leading industrial facilities in the Chicago area. Exclusive to Automation Fair, you’ll be inspired by the power of industrial automation and digital transformation.

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New Technology and Solutions

In sessions and across the Expo floor, don’t miss your chance to dive into the newest technologies and solutions from Rockwell Automation and our exhibiting PartnerNetwork members to help build your future operations. Join hands-on demonstrations, discuss your applications and chat with the professionals behind the technology.

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New Products

Sponsors

Automation Fair 2025 is brought to you by Rockwell Automation and the following PartnerNetwork™ members.

Elite

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Rittal Eplan logo

Premium

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Cisco logo

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IMPERX Industrial Cameras & Imaging Systems
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  • “So many cool new technologies coming to the automation world and already a ton of ideas for future deployments at work. Thanks to Rockwell for putting on a great show!”

    Justin Hoover - Senior Project Engineer Controls, Abbott Nutrition
  • “The most valuable part was meeting experts and organizations that will now form part of our ecosystem. We uncovered insights that will influence our direction.”

    Ian Tribe - Global Head of Sales and Cyber Sec Lead, Mescada Pty Ltd
  • “It's a fantastic experience meeting highly knowledgeable suppliers, having insightful discussions about innovations, and making valuable new connections. Grateful for the opportunity to be part of this inspiring event!”

    Zilvinas Purtokas - Controls Project Manager, Mars
Automation Fair 2024 Expo

Automation Fair is a registered trademark of Rockwell Automation.

For more than 75 years, customers have relied on nVent HOFFMAN products and solutions to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio. The newly released DTM software paired with panel shop automation solutions, our high-quality NEMA and IEC enclosures and expanded climate control offerings are suitable for a vast range of high growth verticals and applications. Whether it is Industrial Automation, Energy, Critical Infrastructure, Food & Beverage, or Water/Wastewater our local sales and product specialists are here for you to ensure your critical controls, components and people are protected.

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Founded in 1961 in Germany, Rittal is a global leader in manufacturing industrial and IT enclosures, racks, and accessories, including cooling solutions and power management systems. As the largest enclosure manufacturer, Rittal offers innovative, high-quality solutions for industrial and IT infrastructure, with products tested and certified to UL, CSA, ATEX, NEMA standards. Rittal is part of the owner-operated Friedhelm Loh Group, along with EPlan. Established in 1984, EPlan provides leading design software and services for electrical, automation, and mechatronic engineering, enabling significant productivity gains and reduced time to market for panel and machine builders.

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EPlan

Endress+Hauser is a global measurement and automation technology leader for process and laboratory applications. The company is a reliable partner for its customers, helping them to improve their production processes, work economically and, at the same time, protect people and the environment.

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Fortinet is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security.

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Imperx designs and manufactures rugged, high-performance industrial cameras and imaging solutions, empowering automation, inspection, and vision systems across diverse industries worldwide.

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Bridging gaps between plant floor and your team. Real-time alarm notifications and advanced reporting—delivered directly to messaging devices keeping operations running at peak performance. 

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Delivering innovative solutions for level, pressure, and density measurement. Pioneers in radar measurement--with breakthroughs like VEGAPULS 6X--we set the standard in process instrumentation.

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Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that securely connects everything to make anything possible. Our purpose is to power an inclusive future for all by helping our customers reimagine their applications, power hybrid work, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals.

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