The oil and gas industry is rapidly exploring, developing, and deploying new autonomous drilling technologies; examples are the gains made on automated slide drilling and hole cleaning. Progress made on the interoperability of multiple systems will also be discussed, including new developments toward well integrity and equipment health monitoring. Last, real-time centers have become a significant part of the automation effort, and several papers in this session highlight the recent progress made in how to best use these resources. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." (Peter Drucker), please come help us do that.