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  National Manufacturing Day at Northwestern University

  Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation

  8:15 AM 2001 Sheridan Road

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  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

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  TIME Friday, October 2, 2026 at 8:15 AM - 5:00 PM

  LOCATION 2001 Sheridan Road    map it

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  CONTACT Maegen Gregory    maegen.gregory@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation