Agentic AI x Pharma Manufacturing: Interview with Matt Lowe, Chief Strategy Officer, MasterControl

About this episode

Matt Lowe discusses the challenges and journey of digital transformation in pharma manufacturing.

"If I have one more person talk to me about agentic AI and then realize they're still using paper batch records, I'm going to scream." That frustration captures the central tension in CDMO digital transformation today says Matt Lowe , Chief Strategy Officer at MasterControl. Matt has spent nearly two decades at MasterControl, rising to CSO with responsibility spanning competitive intelligence, strategic partnerships, pricing, and product direction, making him one of the industry's sharpest observers of where life sciences manufacturing technology stands and the distance it still needs to travel. In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Matt maps the digital manufacturing journey contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) must take, from eliminating paper on the shop floor to achieving the industry's most coveted goal: golden batch and real-time release. Read more

People in this episode

Guest: Matt Lowe

Topics covered

• agentic AI
• pharma manufacturing
• digital transformation
• CDMO
• real-time release
• batch records

Keywords

• agentic AI
• pharma manufacturing
• digital transformation
• CDMO
• real-time release
• golden batch
• paper batch records

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Organizations: MasterControl, PharmaSource Podcast, Life Science Networks

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