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April 16-18, 2023
Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, Aurora, Colorado

As the premier association for data science, AI, ML, and analytics professionals, INFORMS unites expert speakers, leading technology companies, and real-world competitions in the perfect setting for attendees to learn, network, and take home cutting-edge applications that immediately impact your business and decision-making.  

By maintaining a vibrant, international community of members, publishing trusted research across a diverse variety of subjects, and providing career-long education, INFORMS ensures its members can do their finest work and, in turn, solve the world’s most inscrutable challenges.  

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2023 Analytics Conference and INFORMS! 

2022 Edelman Laureates

“It’s the best way to connect with other practitioners in our field. And the energy gained from brainstorming in person with them is unbeatable.”

Data Science Lead
Shopify

“You won’t find another conference with as many analytical professionals across industries.”

CEO & Co-founder
BlockScience Labs, Inc.

Pricing

$1,960

This price covers access to all presentations and events including breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks each day, Sunday evening reception, and the Edelman Awards Ceremony and Gala.
Click through to see what discounts are available!

Tracks include:

2023 Edelman Competition

Finalists will compete for the top prize in this “Super Bowl” of O.R. and business analytics practice, showcasing analytics projects that had major impacts on their client organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Edelman finalist teams have improved organizational efficiency, increased profits, brought better products to consumers, helped foster peace negotiations, and saved lives.

Accounting & Financial Services

The accounting and financial services sector has used financial modeling and traditional auditing approaches to monitor company performance and make business decisions. Industry leaders talk about the new age of data in which organizations are making data-driven decisions using analytical modeling and decision science approaches to accompany traditional accounting and financial models.

Behavioral Analytics

Behavioral analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data from actions performed by users of a digital product, such as an app or website. With this data, companies can see exactly how users interact with the digital experience, and make decisions about how to improve digital products in the future.

Cyber Analytics

Featuring leaders and innovators from industry, hear perspectives on applying advanced analytics in the cyber domain. This track brings together practitioners, researchers, scientists, engineers, and leaders who are working to enable cyber decision-making with analytics, sharing new tools, techniques, and technologies.

Defense

Managing data as a strategic resource, highlighting the criticality of data to build and maintain battlefield advantage, and the need to treat information systems on par with the priority given to weapon systems. 

Government

Just as business leaders have used analytics to make smart business decisions, policymakers in government are increasingly turning to these same tools to analyze important policy issues. See how the latest analytics applications are addressing public policy issues and driving advancements across all government levels that affect nearly every part of our lives.

INFORMS Prizes & Special Sessions

INFORMS grants several prestigious Institute-wide prizes and awards for meritorious achievement each year. This track will feature presentations on the Wagner Prize, INFORMS Prize, and UPS George D. Smith Prize winners. Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA) finalists will also present. Special sessions may include presentations hosted by our Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) Program and Women in OR/MS.

Industry & Academia Integration

Industry leaders and academic experts discuss the importance of a strong collaboration between the industrial sector and academia in terms of advanced analytics. A goal of academia is to educate the workforce with multiple levels of expertise (from technicians to Ph.D.s), and the role of industry is to leverage the workforce (while providing continued on-the-job training) to generate value using analytics and ensuring its sustainability in the long-run.

Life Science & Healthcare

The life science and healthcare sector is ripe for disrupters with the innovations powered by artificial intelligence and analytics. How best to translate data into insights and effective decisions is a core differentiator that sets organizations apart and benefits millions of people. 

Manufacturing

Experts in manufacturing share ideas transforming the industry in the face of unprecedented challenges including supply chain disruption, worker safety, and emerging technologies. By leveraging the latest innovations in decision analytics, machine learning, IoT, etc., manufacturers will be able to develop modern systems to quickly churn out better products. 

Marketing

The latest lessons in applied machine learning for cutting-edge marketing tactics and strategy. In this track, you will discover practical, applied, highly structured best practices for using analytics to improve the marketing ecosystem. It is our objective that every session attendee will walk away with at least one “aha!” moment, practical tool/solution/idea that they can take back to their job, and at least one concept that they want to learn more about.

Platform & SaaS

Leaders from organizations that operate as Platform or SaaS solutions will share how they navigate the challenges of this unique industry particularly focused on the difficulties of leveraging internal and external customer data, and how it allows them to grow their business.

Retail

With the enormous amount of customer data and support of innovative decision science and AI technologies, retailers are in a unique position to further enhance their competitive advantages. Industry leaders will discuss their first-hand experience in applying emerging technologies to fulfill customer demand, improve efficiency, and grow businesses.

Revenue Management

Discover how to use artificial intelligence, machine learning, advanced analytics, data science, and operations research to better understand and target your customers, improve your pricing practices and demand forecasts, and drive revenue, gross margin, and market share growth.

Supply Chain

The AI revolution and machine learning technologies are disrupting business and driving new policies, products, services, and channels to increase revenue. Industry leaders will share how they are delivering practical AI solutions to maximize efficiency and minimize business disruption.

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Day 1 Keynote Speaker

Hilary Mason

Co-founder and CEO, Hidden Door
Optimistic Technologist & Business Innovator

Hilary Mason is the co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, where they use generative AI to imagine the future of entertainment. She is a former data scientist in residence at Accel Part­ners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

Hilary is on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Busi­ness 2013 and Most Creative People in Business 1000 in 2014. Other honors include the TechFellows Engineering Leadership Award, Fortune’s “40 under 40 Ones to Watch” list and Crain’s New York Business 40 under 40.

INFORMS Roundtable Sponsored Speaker

The INFORMS Roundtable addresses the needs of practitioners of OR/MS and analytics.

2023 Edelman Competition

The purpose of the Franz Edelman Competition is to recognize and reward outstanding examples of operations research, management science, and advanced analytics in practice in the world. Finalists will compete for the top prize in this “Super Bowl” of O.R. and business analytics practice, showcasing analytics projects that had major impacts on their client organizations.
Learn more about the Edelman Competition

Career Fair

Are you looking for a new career in data science, analytics, machine learning, or another related field? Open the door to new prospects at the in-person 2023 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference Career Fair! Participants can take advantage of dozens of opportunities to interview for positions with top organizations in both the public and private sector.
Learn more about the Career Fair