PROGRAM

PROGRAM MENU: Topic Areas/Tracks Each track offers 5-6 presentations. Plus methodology and software tutorials Conference Schedule Day-by-day time schedule Program Matrix at a Glance Abbreviated matrix showing presentations/speakers and when they’re scheduled. Plenary Presentations Talks by Francoise LeGoues, IBM; Hau Lee, Stanford; and Russ Allgor and Nader Kabbani, Amazon.com Edelman Award Competition The “super bowl” of applied OR Pre-conference Technology Workshops In-depth workshops by leading solution providers, held on Sunday.

Each track offers 5-6 presentations on real-world analytic practice. Plus tutorials on analytic methodologies and software solutions.

Business Optimization
OR Applications Potpourri
Deploying Analytics
Health Care
Supply Chain Management
Decision Analysis
Marketing
Operations & Logistics
Methodology Tutorials
Software Tutorials

Business Optimization
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• Bayer Corporate & Business Services  Dimitrios Sagias, Supply Chain Analyst, on a decision support application for product management.
• General Motors  Stephan Biller, Manager of Plant Floor Systems & Controls, on developing the business case for manufacturing flexibility.
• Cambridge University  Stefan Scholtes, Chair and Professor, on models for valuing contracts with optionality.
• PA Consulting  Jonathan Jacobs, Managing Consultant, on optimizing the full business portfolio of an energy utility.
• RAND Corp.  John Hollywood, Operations Researcher, on designing and managing complex policies and strategies
• University of Groningen  Gerard Sierksma, Professor of Quantitative Logistics, on OR and sports.
• SmartCrane  Joseph Discenza, President & CEO, on OR applied to automated container handling.
• Texas A&M University J. Eric Bickel, Assistant Professor, on value of information.
• Cisco  Anne Robinson, Manager, Manufacturing Demand Planning Organization, and Preethi Kumaresan, Forecast Practitioner, on using data mining for competitive advantage.
• Hewlett-Packard  Michael Menke, Business Strategist, on designing a best-in-class value creation organization.
• InfoLogix  Douglas Samuelson, President, on inflicting and managing uncertainty in Business Leadership.

OR Applications Potpourri
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• Olin Corp.  David Cawlfield, Principal Engineering, on the flaw of averages at work at organizational boundaries.
• Intel Corp.  Karl Kempf, Director of Decision Technologies, on collaborating with IT—oxymoron or key to success?
• University of Missouri-St. Louis  L. Douglas Smith, Professor, on modeling alternative operating procedures and infrastructural improvements in the upper Mississippi River navigation system.
• Innovative Scheduling  Larry Shughart, VP of Business Development, on the role of MS in evaluating the proposed Alaska-Canada rail link.
• University of Utah  Glen Schmidt, Associate Professor, on five strategies for opening new markets and encroaching on existing markets.

Theories of Practice: Deploying Analytics
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• Booz Allen Hamilton  Jeffrey Bloom, Principal, on how to create real value with large IT transformations.
• UPS  Jack Levis, Director of Package Process Management, on “the last 5%” of successful project completion.
• Columbia University  Peter Kolesar, Professor Emeritus, on 30 years working toward a theory of OR practice.
• Chesapeake Decision Sciences  Thomas Baker, founder and former President, on moving from technique-orientation to problem-orientation.
• Hewlett-Packard  Trace White, Senior Operations Consultant, Inkjet Supplies Business, on enabling a superior concept-to-cash cycle. 
• Boston University  Sean Willems, Assistant Professor and Co-Founder of Optiant, Inc., on driving model adoption from experts to business users.

• Univ. of Toronto Michael Carter, Professor, on a review of OR applications in health care.
• Univ. of British Columbia  Mats Gerschman, Managing Director, Centre for Operations Excellence, and Martin Puterman, Research Director, UBC Centre for Health Care Management, on challenges and outcomes of OR projects in healthcare.
• Mass. General Hospital-Institute for Technology Assessment  James Stahl, MD, Senior Scientist & Assistant Professor, on linking simulation and practice in health care.
• Cornell University  Shane Henderson, Associate Professor, on relocating ambulances in real time.
• British Columbia Children’s Hospital  Geoff Blair, MD, Chief General Surgeon & Clinical Professor, on real-time priority waitlist scheduling.

• Wharton Morris Cohen, Professor, on customer value delivery in the service supply chain.
• Intel  Matthew Manary, Server Marketing Statistician, on when marketing won’t change a biased forecast.
• Genentech  Darren Johnson, Senior Supply Chain Strategic Planner, on a case study in applied probability management and interactive simulation. 
• Optiant  John Neale, VP of Research & Development, on the demand termination effect in supply chains.
• Logitech  Dennis Arnow, Director of Worldwide Supply Chain, on quantifying stock-out costs to determine optimal service levels.
• Arrow Electronics  Robert Ende, Director of Supply Chain Optimization, on simulation modeling to improve inventory performance and customer service.
• University of Missouri-St. Louis  David Ronen, Professor of Logistics & Operations Management, on tactical store delivery planning.
• Grand Valley State University  Charles Standridge, Professor & Graduate Program Director, on a team-based process for simulation for chemical plant logistics system expansion.
• Texas A&M University  Halit Üster, Assistant Professor, on an integrated outbound logistics model for Frito-Lay.
• Booz Allen Hamilton  Gregory Jennings, Associate, on visualizing data in long-range, open-ended planning and scheduling problems.
• IBM  Jakka Sairamesh, Manager, IBM TJ Watson Research, and Candan Erenguc, Technical Staff, IBM Global Business Services, on dynamics of services in heterogeneous supply chains and cognitive supplier sourcing.

Applications of Decision Analysis Tools
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• Boeing  David Leonhardi, Decision Consultant, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, on DA as a framework for deploying OR.
• J&J Pharmaceuticals  Jack Kloeber Jr., Director of Portfolio Management, on evolving decision analysis approaches for R&D Management in the pharmaceuticals industry.
• Decision Strategies  David Skinner, CEO, on lessons learned from DA applications in the oil and gas industry. 
• US Military Academy  Michael Kwinn Jr., Associate Professor and Director, Systems Engineering & OR Programs, on DA and OR in support of combat operations.
• Inspire Pharmaceuticals  Ward Peterson, Vice President of Discovery, on managing a growing bio-pharmaceutical R&D portfolio.
• Motorola  Gary DeGregorio, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, on enterprise strategic decision management.
• Avaya  Ravi Ramanathan, Director of Strategic Pricing, and Madhukirana Reddy-Timiri, Team Member, on applying more scientific approaches to key price bundling decisions.
• Strategic Decisions Group  Eric Chung, Senior Consultant, on integrating real options and decision analysis—case study from the energy sector.
• London School of Economics  Lawrence Phillips, Visiting Professor, on enabling effective decisions through the use of decision conferencing.
• International Planning & Research Corp.  Michael Li, Senior Consultant, on an optimization approach to product design and pricing strategy.
• Strategic Management Solutions  Chris Fry, President & CEO, on value-driven product variety management.

• IBM and Univ. of Connecticut  Timothy Bohling, Director of Worldwide Market Intelligence, IBM, and V. Kumar, Professor, Univ. of Connecticut, on managing customers for profits.
• Wharton  Peter Fader, Professor, on the systematic inefficiencies of grocery paths.
• JD Power & Associates  Gina Pingitore, Chief Research Officer, on data fusion best practices and evaluating success.
• Ford Motor Co.  Gint Puskorius, Senior Technical Leader, Business Systems Research, on optimization of product variety offerings for automotive retail sales.
• Univ. of British Columbia  Charles Weinberg, Professor & Chair of the Marketing Division, Sauder School of Business, on marketing decision models for scheduling  multiplex theaters.

Operations & Logistics Solutions
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• SAS Institute  Gül Ege, Director of R&D, Merchandise Intelligence Solutions, on size profiling and pack optimization at Kohl’s.
• Univ. of Auckland  David Ryan, Professor and Deputy Dean of Engineering, on optimized production in an aluminum smelter.
• PepsiCo  Michael Swihart, Strategic Supply Chain Modeler, on issues in strategic modeling at PepsiCo.
• Schneider National Ted Gifford, VP of Engineering & Research, on the OR competitive edge at Schneider. Reprise of the 2006 winning INFORMS Prize.
• LogicTools  Daniel Vanden Brink, Vice President of Consulting, on inventory strategies for managing overseas production.
• US Department of Energy  Susan Holte, Technical Assistant to the Administrator, Energy Information Administration, DOE, on energy policy.

• Princeton Univ.  Warren Powell, Director, CASTLE Laboratory, on approximate dynamic programming.
• Penn State  Gary Lilien, Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science, on marketing decision models for the digital, networked economy.
• Stanford Univ.  Sam Savage, Consulting Professor, Management Science & Engineering, on a cure for the flaw of averages.
• ILOG  Ed Klotz, Principal Technical Support Engineer, on practical guidelines for solving difficult mixed integer programs.
• Dartmouth College  Stephen Powell, Professor, Tuck School of Business, on avoiding errors and maximizing insight by engineering your spreadsheets.
• Intel, IBM, D-Wave, ILOG  Panel discussion moderated by Karl Kempf, Director of Decision Technologies, Intel, on the impact of next generation hardware and software on OR practice. Panelists from DWave Systems, Intel, ILOG, IBM and other developers.
• Lehigh Univ.  Jeff Linderoth, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, on a survey of cyberinfrastructure tools for OR.
• Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  Nikolaos Sahinidis, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, on recent developments and successful applications of global optimization.
• Schneider National  Michael Zeimer, Senior Engineer,  on building an OR toolbox using Microsoft Access add-ins.
• Procter & Gamble Oscar Rosen on inventory and capacity management.

• AdapChain
• AIMMS
• AMPL Optimization
• Dash Optimization
• Decisioneering
• Frontline Systems
• ILOG
• Innovative Scheduling
• LINDO Systems
• Maximal Software
• SAS
• Salford Systems
• Vanguard Software
• Ziena Optimization