Technology Showcases

Join conference exhibitors as they discuss innovations and best practices in their fields. Technology Showcase presentations are educational (not commercial) and feature case studies which may include use of exhibitor products and services.

Professional Development Units (PDUs) are available to those who attend these sessions. All full conference registrants are welcome to join during the scheduled time.

Additional details coming soon!

Sunday, November 1

11-11:35AM
Room 101

11:40AM-12:15PM
Room 101

Teaching Business Students to Build AI Applications

Speaker: Tingting “Rachel” Chung

Presentation

Rachel Chung will provide an extended presentation of various labs, teaching aids, and challenges in teaching business students to develop AI applications. Learning objectives regarding advancing critical thinking and responsible behavior are covered. This presentation is drawn from her new textbook, “AI for Business: Building Applications using Python” from Prospect Press.

1:15-1:50pm
Room 101

Your Optimization Copilot: Accelerating Better Decisions with Gurobi Intelligence Hub

Speakers: Caroline Weinberg & Nicholas Parham

Presentation

Imagine giving every stakeholder the ability to interact with optimization through natural language and AI-guided assistance. This session showcases Gurobi Intelligence Hub and the intelligent capabilities designed to simplify model development, improve collaboration, and help organizations turn optimization expertise into business impact at scale. See how AI can help bridge the gap between complex models and confident decision-making.

2:45-3:20pm
Room 101

GAMS in Production: Tools, Trade-offs, and
Real-World Results

Speakers: Atharv Bhosekar, Adam Christensen, & Steve Dirkse

Presentation

This session explores how the GAMS ecosystem supports modern optimization workflows across Python integration, cloud deployment, and
data exchange. Presenters will highlight key tools — GAMSPy for Python-
based modeling, GAMS Connect for moving data between systems, GAMS Engine for scaling computationally demanding models, and MIRO for delivering results through web-based interfaces — illustrated through real-world case studies drawn from production deployments. The session also touches on emerging AI integrations where they complement existing workflows. Attendees will come away with a clear picture of how these tools fit together and the trade-offs involved in solver selection, performance tuning, and long-term model maintainability.

3:25-4pm
Room 101

Monday, November 2

8:40-9:15am
Room 101

11-11:35am
Room 101

11:40am-12:15pm
Room 101

1:15-1:50pm
Room 101

ProbabilityManagement.org

1:55-2:30pm
Room 101

2:45-3:20pm
Room 101

A Fun, Interactive Tool for Exploring Unstructured Text Data

Speaker: Kevin Potcner

Presentation

Asking students what data they are most familiar with will inevitably result in the answer: “Text Data.” From social media posts, texting, reading reviews on products and shows, among so many others, this generation of students live in a world of interpreting text data. JMP Statistical software has made analyzing this type of data at scale simple and fun. In this presentation, multiple text data sets will be analyzing in an interactive software to extract meaning, sentiment, and insights with the focus on illustrating how these tools can be incorporated into analytics courses.

3:25-4pm
Room 101

Building and Solving Optimization Models with SAS

Speaker: Rob Pratt

Presentation

SAS offers extensive analytics capabilities, including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, statistical analysis, optimization, and simulation. The OPTMODEL procedure provides a powerful and intuitive algebraic optimization modeling language and unified support for building and solving LP, MILP, QP, conic, NLP, MINLP, constraint programming, network-oriented, and black-box models. This showcase will include an elementary introduction to the outer approximation algorithm for MINLP and demonstrate its usage to solve optimization problems that contain both discrete variables and nonlinear functions.

Technology Showcases

Additional details coming soon!

Sunday, November 1

11-11:35AMRoom 101

11:40AM-12:15PMRoom 101

Teaching Business Students to Build AI Applications

1:15-1:50pmRoom 101

Your Optimization Copilot: Accelerating Better Decisions with Gurobi Intelligence Hub

2:45-3:20pmRoom 101

GAMS in Production: Tools, Trade-offs, and Real-World Results

3:25-4pmRoom 101

Monday, November 2

8:40-9:15amRoom 101

11-11:35amRoom 101

11:40am-12:15pmRoom 101

1:15-1:50pmRoom 101

1:55-2:30pmRoom 101

2:45-3:20pmRoom 101

A Fun, Interactive Tool for Exploring Unstructured Text Data

3:25-4pmRoom 101

Building and Solving Optimization Models with SAS

Tuesday, November 3

11-11:35amRoom 101

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11-11:35AM
Room 101

11:40AM-12:15PM
Room 101

1:15-1:50pm
Room 101

2:45-3:20pm
Room 101

GAMS in Production: Tools, Trade-offs, and
Real-World Results

3:25-4pm
Room 101

8:40-9:15am
Room 101

11-11:35am
Room 101

11:40am-12:15pm
Room 101

1:15-1:50pm
Room 101

1:55-2:30pm
Room 101

2:45-3:20pm
Room 101

3:25-4pm
Room 101

11-11:35am
Room 101