Your Digital Roadmap Won’t Release a Batch.
Making digital investments deliver in life sciences manufacturing
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- Wednesday, December 9, 2026
- 11:00 AM ET | 8:00 AM PT
- 4:00 PM GMT | 5:00 PM CET
- 45 minutes, including live Q&A
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5:00 PM CET (Basel, Munich)
The cause is rarely the technology.
A technology plan alone doesn’t resolve a difficult tech transfer, eliminate a manual handoff, or give Quality the evidence needed to release a batch. Those outcomes depend on decisions that Manufacturing, Technical Operations, Quality, and IT need to make together.
Biopharma manufacturers have invested steadily in automation, MES, data, analytics, and connected systems. Yet many programs still struggle to deliver measurable gains in throughput, uptime, quality, compliance, or time to value. The cause is rarely the technology. More often, transformation is designed as a series of disconnected projects rather than as a deliberate change to how the operation performs.
Join Samantha Szatek and Michael Cody for a different starting point: begin with the outcomes the business must deliver, then connect the physical process, operating baseline, and digital architecture needed to achieve them, with operations and quality at the table before design decisions are made.
For leaders across technical operations, IT, and OT, the aim is to make every major investment more accountable to the operation it is meant to improve.
Save Your SeatMeet the speakers
Samantha Szatek
Samantha Szatek is Vice President, Strategic Sales at Stellix, where she leads the commercial side of OpsCore. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside life science manufacturers to turn operational challenges into funded plans and results they can measure. Sam brings the executive view of the investment question: what will this spend deliver, and when? She helps leaders build a business case grounded in their own operation, then stays with them as the work moves from plan to outcome.
Michael Cody
Michael Cody is Director, Digital Life Science at Stellix, where he leads consulting delivery for OpsCore. He has spent more than 20 years in the life sciences industry, working with digital leaders and executives at global manufacturers to connect process, systems, and data. Mike holds a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell, an M.S. in Engineering Management from Tufts, and a TOGAF 9.1 certification.
What you will take away
Establish a practical baseline
How to establish a practical baseline across objectives, physical processes, and digital architecture.
Reserve your spotSequence initiatives by impact
How to sequence initiatives based on operational impact, dependencies, and time-to-value.
Reserve your spotBuild a case that holds up
How to build a business case that holds up from the plant floor to the executive committee.
Reserve your spotBuilt for the leaders who weigh the investment
Leaders in technical operations, automation, manufacturing, and IT/OT at pharma and biotech manufacturers who weigh multi-million-dollar digital investments.
Let’s talk about what’s next for your operations
Want to improve performance, strengthen operations, and update your systems to adapt as fast as your environment changes?