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The Intelligent Factory: Driving the Next Revolution of Life Sciences Manufacturing Through AI, Automation and Regulatory Innovation

Thursday, March 5, 2026

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2026 Summit Steering Committee

Garth Simpson, Chair
Kaethe Beck
Paul Collins
Katerina Grigoriou
Gintaras Reklaitis
Cheryl Drake Smith

speakers

Grace McArdle, Executive Vice President Manufacturing and Quality at Elanco
Todd Young, United States Senator (Video Address)
Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University
Zhenqi (Pete) Shi, Senior Principal Scientist at Genentech
Ning Liu, Executive Director – Process Translation & Execution, Clinical API & DS MFG, Lilly Medicine Foundry
Eric Crick, Senior Director – Analytical Operations, Lilly Medicine Foundry
Ted Kelleher, Project Head of Isotope Manufacturing, Novartis
Kevin Haehl, Chief Product Officer, Nusano
David Trump, Chief Radiochemist, SpectronRx
Kelley Rogers, Deputy Director – Office of Advanced Manufacturing at NIST, NIIMBL Federal Program Officer
Doug Kiehl, President, InnovEmerge, LLC; Chair, Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI); Adj. Asst. Prof., Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Purdue University
Dan Peterson: Vice President Industry & Government Affairs, Cook Medical
Celia Cruz: Vice President – PRD Medicine Innovation, Eli Lilly and Company
Eric Munson, Dane O. Kildsig Chair in Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Department Head, Purdue University; Co-Director, William D. and Sherry L. Young Institute for the Advanced Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals

Video Links

Welcome and Opening Keynote: https://youtu.be/c5zqOT4s0WI

Senator Todd Young Welcome Video: https://youtu.be/aFv2FNgfEPs

Prelude to Panels: https://youtu.be/ZV83Mcvo2pk

Panel Session 1: https://youtu.be/0HUG24s19_I

Sponsor Talk: https://youtu.be/F7-dd8KRsVI

Panel Session 2: https://youtu.be/stfC7PkzbI0

Fireside Chat: https://youtu.be/XC1FiHZZ_HA

Panel Session 3: https://youtu.be/NfY6jCsL8MM

Synthesis and Next Steps: https://youtu.be/2DpLjwsWhtw

Complete Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWq76iCMr87xqYTQr5CEdW4ShwmyjkubR

Contact Us

Registration & Summit Inquiries
younginstitute@purdue.edu

Information on the Young Institute
younginstitute.research.purdue.edu