{"id":2784,"date":"2023-02-21T20:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T20:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/speakers\/rodney-williams-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T18:02:47","slug":"matt-denesuk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/speakers\/matt-denesuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Denesuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2784\" data-postid=\"2784\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2784 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row dropPadding-bottom tb_e0ec200 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_9nu7200 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_h5je007 image-top  track revenue tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/analytics2023\/files\/2023\/02\/Matt_Denesuk.jpg\" title=\"Matt Denesuk\" alt=\"Matt Denesuk headshot\">    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Matt Denesuk                            <\/h3>\n                    <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_zqew900 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_nc4o022   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1>Matt Denesuk<\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size: 23.04px;\">Senior Vice President, Data Analytics &amp; AI at Royal Caribbean Group<\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>Matt Denesuk has devoted his life to using math &amp; data to make the world work better.\u202f He is currently SVP of Data Analytics &amp; AI at Royal Caribbean Group, and leads the development and deployment of data- and data-science-driven capabilities across the company, in such areas as revenue management, industrial operations, customer experience, marketing, sales, hotel operations, and supply chain. He previously was Chief Data Science Officer, and a founder, of Noodle.ai, which provides AI-as-a-Service to enterprise and industrial firms. Prior to that, he was the Chief Data Science Officer of General Electric, leading the data, analytics, and Data Science functions across GE\u2019s industrial business units.\u202f He also led Smarter Planet Modeling &amp; Analytics at IBM Research, and was a Partner in IBM\u2019s Venture Capital Group. Matt has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees from MIT and the University of Arizona. <\/p>\n<\/div>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-css_id=\"613r020\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth_row_container tb_613r020 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_dv74000 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0z2h101 track revenue  \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h6>Track: Revenue Management<\/h6>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_kxhr000   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h2>The Science &amp; Engineering of Making Business Processes Work Better, Especially in the Cruise Industry<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal;\">Matt will speak about how to best apply data, analytics, and AI, using scientific and engineering approaches, to improve business processes, and then give specific examples from the Cruise Industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Denesuk Matt Denesuk Senior Vice President, Data Analytics &amp; AI at Royal Caribbean Group Matt Denesuk has devoted his life to using math &amp; data to make the world work better.\u202f He is currently SVP of Data Analytics &amp; AI at Royal Caribbean Group, and leads the development and deployment of data- and data-science-driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001094,"featured_media":2656,"parent":712,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2784","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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