Labshock at YNOW2026, New Orleans

September 1, 2026 — Yokogawa has named Labshock in its speaker spotlight for YNOW2026, its own users conference, held in New Orleans under the theme In Tune With Tomorrow — Harmonizing People and Progress.

The session introduces Labshock to the conference's own audience: people who run industrial automation for a living, at the company whose users conference this is. Yokogawa's own description of the session covers hands-on interaction with SCADA systems, PLC logic, industrial protocols and process simulations, aimed at strengthening cybersecurity readiness rather than presenting slides about it.

That framing matters more here than at a security conference. YNOW is an automation vendor's users conference — the room is engineers and operators who already run the systems Labshock simulates, which makes it a different kind of audience to stand in front of than a security-first crowd already primed to expect a platform like this.

Yokogawa's own copy for the spotlight goes further than an introduction, framing immersive OT training environments as a way to improve cybersecurity skills, validate detection systems, and understand the risks of modern industrial operations — the same test-and-validate argument this platform is built around.