Join us on gather.town for an afternoon hearing from and meeting with OR and analytics practitioners from across Europe and beyond:

make connections, learn, collaborate and share experiences of what works and what doesn’t when OR meets practice

Programme includes:

- plenary keynote : Analytics for a better world: using OR to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (Plenary speaker: Dick den Hertog, co-founder of ˇˇ"Analytics for a Better World")

- lightning talks:

• How mathematical optimization provides more effective coordination between air traffic controllers (Patrick Schittekat, SINTEF)
• Bringing advanced modelling methods together to solve OR problems: Simulation and reinforcement learning for 3D bin packing (Yi (Joy) Kuo, DecisionLab)
• Who should work on Christmas? (Emily Curry, Jeppesen)
• Managing disruptions in the supply chain with scenario-based optimization (Juan-Manuel Garcia-López, FICO)
• Using the 6 Capital Value Framework to incorporate environmental, customer and performance goals: business planning in the water industry (Cicely Striolo, Copperleaf )
• Building central OR expertise for Deutsche Post DHL (Baris Cem Sal, Deutsche Post DHL)

- speed networking

- discussion groups,

- informal mingling, and

- the official launch of the Practice of OR Forum.

Register for the workshop, to receive the link to the gather.town space, where you can drop in at any time pre-event: see the space taking shape, catch up on the programme details, and access resources and links to support OR practice.

The space will remain available to workshop participants to meet each other, after the official close, if you want to keep the conversation going.

Deadline for registration: 15 November 2021, 17:30 CET

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