The 2026 INFORMS Analytics+ Conference brings together a wide range of analytics, data science, AI, and ML professionals.
Attendees of all experience levels, from professionals just starting their careers to seasoned members of the C-Suite, will be looking for innovative and informational inspiration to take back to their teams. If you have worked on a project that fits this, let us help you share your expertise.
Benefits of Presenting
- Discounted conference registration rate (for member and non-member rates only, not applicable to student/retired rate)
- Presenter registration covers the conference program, Edelman Gala, Welcome Reception, lunch, and coffee breaks for two days.
- The prestige of being selected to present at a high-quality INFORMS conference.
- An opportunity to participate fully in the conference and network with professionals, academics, students, and vendors from across analytics, data science, operations research, mathematics and statistics, machine learning, AI, and more.
Selection Criteria and Guidelines
The review and acceptance process is highly selective, with two primary criteria: topic content that will be interesting and useful to our audience, and high-quality presentation skills.
Presentation Content
- Real-world business topics, with technical content included.
- High-quality academic work geared to real situations.
- Applications reports, case studies, best practices examples, emerging topics, and tutorials with a practice orientation.
- Presentations directed to a “listener” audience (most members of the audience attend the conference to listen to high quality presentations, not to present), of which approximately 80% are practitioners.
- See last year’s website for sample talks.
Presentations must address one of the following topics:
- Business Intelligence
- Cloud
- Clustering
- Data For Good
- Defense
- Education
- Finance
- Gen AI
- General Analytics
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Optimization
- Prediction
- Retail
- Simulation
- Supply Chain
To Submit a Proposal
The submission process will request:
- Presentation title
- Key Message (1–2 sentences): What is the important idea/takeaway the speaker will deliver?
- A 100-150-word summary of your presentation.
- Brief biography and a high-resolution, color headshot photo (JPG/JPEG at least 200px by 200px).
- A 500-word extended summary written with the listener’s perspective in mind. Your summary should answer the listener’s basic questions: “What will I learn from this session? What information/knowledge/ideas will I come away with?” It’s important that you describe in as much detail as possible what you will cover in your presentation. A bulleted list of topics, points, examples, and issues can be an effective technique for doing this.
- Demonstrated speaking experience and speaking references. Please include this in your extended summary upload.
- Potential speakers could be interviewed by phone.
Important Dates
All deadlines are as of 11:59pm EST.
Presentation Submission Deadline:
January 12, 2026
Editing Deadline:
February 2, 2026
Slide Submission Deadline:
March 10, 2026
If your presentation is accepted…
We are going to provide attendees with the tools they need to plan which sessions they attend through the lens of the INFORMS Analytics Framework™ (IAF™).
The INFORMS Analytics Framework details specific analytics roles, responsibilities, and tasks essential for successfully applying analytics to problems, questions, and opportunities enabling impactful business, research, medical, and other decisions. Developed by INFORMS with input from the analytics community, the framework establishes best practices for analytics success. The IAF also serves as the basis for all three Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) exam blueprints. CAP certification validates an individual’s knowledge of the entire analytics process.
Be prepared to tell us how your presentation relates to the 7 Domains of the INFORMS Analytics Framework:
In addition, we’d like to know if the content you are presenting is most relevant to:
- Essential (Early Career)
- Professional (Mid-Career)
- Executive (Senior Level)
