We are offering TWO workshops this year! Learn more below.
Our amazing community has put together workshops that will bookend the conference. Both workshops are available as add-ons with your ticket purchases or as separate tickets. Separate tickets will be available after Early Bird Ticketing ends.
DQMH DAY (N.A. 2025)
For LabVIEW developers already in love with DQMH, and for those not yet familiar with but interested in DQMH, this one-day event caters to all levels of proficiency by offering a broad palette of content revolving around our favorite template/framework.
Members of the DQMH Consortium, DQMH Trusted Advisors and DQMH aficionados will share their experience with the audience through presentations, hands-on sessions and discussions. The day starts with an introductory presentation into DQMH.
Attendees will learn about the basics of DQMH as well as advanced use cases, hear about other products of the DQMH Consortium that augment the template itself, and discover 3rd party add-ons and templates that are maintained by the very active DQMH community.
The Details
When: July 21, 2025 - the day before the Conference!
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm including a lunch break
Where: OLC Center
Cost: $90. DQMH Trusted Advisors and DQMH Enthusiasts can receive complimentary tickets by contacting the DQMH Consortium.
About the DQMH Consortium:
The DQMH® Consortium is an organization founded by Fabiola De la Cueva to further the mission of the DQMH® Toolkit: To enable teams with different levels of proficiency to develop LabVIEW™ applications that are readable, maintainable, and scalable.
The mission of the organization is to ensure access to the DQMH® software project and its derivatives. People and businesses may come and go, so it is important to ensure that the source code for these projects will survive beyond the current contributor base, so that we may create a stable framework for LabVIEW™ development for generations to come.
Fabiola invited other esteemed members of the community to start this journey. The founders are Matthias Baudot, Joerg Hampel, Olivier Jourdan and Luis Orozco. This group, together with the DQMH® Trusted Advisors, will ensure that DQMH® is maintained and continues to evolve.
As the DQMH® Consortium is not meant as a money-making enterprise, any income will be fully invested in the development of DQMH® and other tools that benefit the LabVIEW™ community.
LabVIEW + Microcontroller Hands-On with Pi Pico W
Bringing LabVIEW and economical hardware together for personal projects and more
With the workshop you'll get a Pi Pico W, Grove starter kit, breadboard, and a handful of other components that you get to keep! Similar to the Linx/Hobbyist toolkit, the CTI project has created firmware and LabVIEW drivers that make it easy to interact with the physical world using Raspberry Pi's Pico microcontroller board. If you're unfamiliar with the Pico, it is like an Arduino on steroids. Learn all about the Pico's capabilities, digital communication buses to external devices, and more direct I/O such as analog inputs and digital I/O for using switches, LEDs, and other components. Paired with LabVIEW Community edition you can open up the LabVIEW world to all of your personal electronics projects and the CTI resources are all licensed to be used for commercial projects as well. Expect about an hour of presentation material with the rest of the workshop time available for hands-on exploration of the projects and the hardware that comes with the workshop.
The Details
When: July 25, 2025 - the day after the Conference!
Session #1: 9:00am-12:00pm (this session is meant for conference attendees)
Lunch: Provided for all participants, courtesy of Beckhoff
Session #2: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (this session is meant for Chicago locals)
Requirements: All participants are expected to have a laptop with LabVIEW installed. Community edition works perfectly well (and is free!) Ubuntu compatible OS is also supported.
Where: Beckhoff Chicago - Training Facility (a few minutes walking away from the OLC)
Cost: $100
This workshop is made possible by :
About the facilitator: Derrick Bommarito
Derrick Bommarito enjoys experimenting with all the LabVIEW features that DNatt advises against, which he hopes characterizes him as chaotic good. He particularly enjoys creating tooling for developers, exploring the more obscure aspects of LabVIEW such as Channels, XNodes, and VIMs, and generating bug reports as a result of his investigations. Derrick also finds pleasure in experimenting with architecture and API design within the LabVIEW environment. His many hobbies include breaking LabVIEW and tinkering with too many side projects; from the web, to robotics, to gardening, to baking.