




Bio
Moderator:
Lisa Masciantonio | Chief Workforce Officer | ARM Institute’s
Lisa Masciantonio is the Chief Workforce Officer for the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute. She joined the ARM Institute in May 2017 as the Director of Membership and Outreach. She moved to the position of Chief Workforce Officer in 2019 and she is responsible for driving the Education & Workforce Development vision for ARM in conjunction with the ARM membership, the federal and state government partners, and other expert stakeholders.
Chris is part of AstraZeneca’s Operations IT Leadership Team. He leads the team who are responsible for building and delivering the integrated roadmap to digitally transform AstraZeneca’s Biologics organization worldwide and support its ever-increasing portfolio growth. As part of his role, Chris is also accountable for the IT delivery to support vaccines, biologics partnering activities and the operational scale–up of cell therapy. Originally from the UK, Chris is now based at the Gaithersburg, Maryland campus, which is one of AstraZeneca’s global R&D centres.
Curtis Richardson | Technical Fellow | Spirit Aerosystems
Curtis is a Technical Fellow at Spirit AeroSystems and leads the Smart Manufacturing segment of Spirit’s Distinctive Capability global corporate strategy encompassing research, technology, and capital investments as well as mergers and acquisitions. With a MSc in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering and 25 years of experience with automating aerospace manufacturing, Curtis has been an active voice for robotics and advanced manufacturing including his role as co-chair of the Stakeholder Executive Council for the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute.
Mahi Duggirala | Digital Manufacturing, Technology Strategy| Toyota North America
Mahi is a passionate Technologist and an accomplished executive with 20+ yrs. His experience lies in leading technical & operational teams, developing multi-disciplinary products & systems, and managing complex & challenging projects from ideation to successful delivery.
He has worked in both large global enterprise and start-up companies with deep technical, architectural, and product management knowledge and broad business exposure to cross-functional areas like strategy, technology partnerships & co-innovation alliances development. Mahi has a proven track record in driving engineering & operational excellence and customer success with a focus on agility and outcome-driven execution.
Kevin Kumpf | OT Technical Lead | Cyolo
Kevin brings more than 20 years of overall IT Security and compliance experience and over 10 years of cybersecurity, governance and critical infrastructure experience working in the energy, medical, manufacturing, transportation and FedRAMP realms, (to name just a few). Kevin is also a member of the FBI InfraGard program and have started security training programs at the local college level for up and coming students in the IT and IT Security fields.
Panelists:
Chris Murthwaite | Operations IT Lead | AstraZeneca
Abstract
The Future of Manufacturing
Today’s manufactures face a digital transformation of their organization, business and operations. This panel session will feature experts across industry and academia and discuss the future of manufacturing from topics including;
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How AI is changing the manufacturing landscape. The good, the bad and the ugly
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Technologies & best practices enabling production & supply chain efficiencies
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Challenges facing todays manufacturers, from production to supply chain
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Advanced manufacturing & Industry 4.0
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Cyber security and ransomware attacks