Next week’s Presidential Lecture featuring Wabash CEO moved to Convergence Center in Discovery Park District

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Presidential Lecture Series event next week, featuring a conversation between Wabash CEO Brent Yeagy and Purdue President Mung Chiang, is being moved to the Convergence Center in Discovery Park District at Purdue.

Yeagy, a Purdue alum who has been Wabash CEO since 2018, will join Chiang for the PLS event at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration, 101 Foundry Drive.

The Presidential Lecture Series event, titled “From Lab to Market: Unlocking Innovation Through Partnership,” is free and open to the public but a ticket is required. Parking in the nearby gated lot also will be free. Existing Yeagy tickets for Loeb Playhouse will be honored for Convergence, so there’s no need to reregister. For tickets and more information, go here.

Yeagy is a manufacturing leader with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive and commercial transportation industries. As president and CEO of Wabash, a publicly traded company and leading provider of transportation and logistics solutions, he is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction and overseeing its operations across North America.

Yeagy holds a bachelor’s degree (1995) and master’s degree (1999) from Purdue’s College of Health and Human Sciences with an industry focus on environmental engineering science and safety engineering, and an MBA in business management from Anderson University. He has also attended executive programs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Previous news release announcing Yeagy’s PLS appearance.

About the Presidential Lecture Series

Launched in 2014 by then-Purdue President Mitch Daniels and continued by President Mung Chiang, the Presidential Lecture Series exposes Purdue students and the broader community to inspiring ideas, courageous leadership, and models of civic engagement and civil discourse. The Presidential Lecture Series has had over 40 guests of many viewpoints and perspectives and hosted some of the great intellectual, business and civic leaders of our time. As one of the world’s premier centers of scholarly leadership, Purdue is — appropriately and necessarily — a regular venue for great thinkers across a wide variety of disciplines.

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 106,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 57,000 at our main campus locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its integrated, comprehensive Indianapolis urban expansion; the Mitch Daniels School of Business; Purdue Computes; and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.