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National Manufacturing Day at Northwestern University

Friday, October 2, 2026 | 8:15 AM - 5:00 PM CT
2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Manufacturing with Embodied AI

Celebrating manufacturing-related R&D achievements and their business impacts on National Manufacturing Day!

Leadership Remarks
-Northwestern University President Mung Chiang
-National Center for Manufacturing Sciences President and CEO Lisa Strama
-Northwestern University Provost Erik Luijten

Corporate Panel, Stan Rendon, 3M VP of R&D, Yu Cao, Applied Materials Chief AI Officer  and Amey Deosthali, AMD Head of Robotics, Industrial & Healthcare (Physical AI) 

NU Faculty Panel, Prof. Jian Cao, Prof. Ed Colgate, Prof. Mark Hersam, Prof. John Rogers

Founders/SME Panel, Jason Sebastian, Executive VP QuesTek Innovation, Demeng Che, co-Founder & CEO Converge Lab, Gino Domel, CEO HiDeNN-AI, Joe Mullenbach, co-founder Fluid Reality

Ecosystems Panel, Tom Kurfess, CTO, NCMS & Executive Director of Mfg Institute at Georgia Tech, Berardino Baratta, CEO MxD, Allison Fisher, Chief of Staff mHUB

Cost: Free Event

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Maegen Gregory
(847) 491-3048
Email

Interest

  • Data Science & AI
  • Academic (general)
  • Business/Economy
  • Technology/Innovation

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