PlugFest is an annual interoperability workshop that allows vendors to test their products in a friendly and neutral environment. The event provides opportunities to improve BACnet implementations and testing methods. Mark your calendars! This year’s PlugFest will be held September 24th – 26th at the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Lab in Durham, NH. The BTL-WG meeting will be held on September 23rd. Corporate Members and BACnet International volunteers receive discounts on registration.
Benefits:
- Test the interoperability of your company’s BACnet products with the BACnet products of other vendors in a friendly and neutral environment.
- Fix implementation errors before they are discovered in the field.
- The BTL Technical Advisor will be onsite to assist and answer questions along with other BACnet experts.
- Education opportunities are available.
- Network with fellow engineers and developers.
Special Notes for Member Registrations and Committee Member Discounts
- You may register yourself as well as additional colleagues to your team(s). Each attendee must agree to the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) electronically, when registering, or in writing, if being registered by someone else.
- Corporate Members of BACnet International, in good financial standing, are eligible for the member rate.
- In the event your company or a team member is not in our database, please register them separately as a guest, or send an email to kelsey@bacnetinternational.org requesting the special promotional code to receive the correct rate.
- If you, or anyone you are registering, is a member of the BACnet International Board of Directors, or an active volunteer on a committee (Education, Marketing or BTL-WG), please send an email to kelsey@bacnetinternational.org requesting the special promotional code to receive an additional discount off each company registration.
- Remember, after you successfully register for the PlugFest Interoperability Workshop, you should receive an event confirmation email. If you do not receive confirmation, it means we did not receive your registration and will not be expecting you in New Hampshire.
- If you have any questions, please email Kelsey List at kelsey@bacnetinternational.org
Cost for Corporate Members:
Member Rate: $750.00 USD
Member Rate with Volunteer Discount: $700.00 USD
Member Rate with Early Bird Discount: $700.00 USD
Member Rate with Volunteer and Early Bird Discount:
$650.00 USD
Cost for Non-Members:
Non-Member Rate: $1,200.00 USD
Non-Member Rate with Volunteer Discount: $1,150.00 USD
Non-Member Rate with Early Bird Discount: $1,150.00 USD
Non-Member Rate with Volunteer and Early Bird Discounts:
$1,100.00 USD
Available Discounts:
$450.00 USD for Corporate Members, $50.00 USD for 2023 Volunteers, $50.00 USD for Early Bird Registrants
What past attendees have said about PlugFest:
“PlugFest has been beneficial to our team. It’s good experience to just work with other vendors to get a sense about how they do their BACnet implementations. We do find issues and see that there are different ways of doing things. It’s pretty definitive to find issues in this type of environment, rather than finding them in the field. Normally, we would never see these other products in our test lab, but integrators in the field do put these products together. This is an opportunity for us to find those types of interoperability issues.”
“The cordiality is one of my favorite aspects about PlugFest. People are more than willing to sit down and talk to you and help one another with very highly technical questions. It’s a chance to interact with our peers that we do not get in the office.”
“PlugFest gives us a great opportunity to find bugs that you can’t find with a desktop tool. You get to test in quasi real-world environments, and it allows you to test your product before you get into the field with it.”