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Practice Sessions in Seattle - lots of opportunities to play!

  • 1.  Practice Sessions in Seattle - lots of opportunities to play!

    Posted 04-21-2019 23:09

    Hello INFORMS members!  We are lining up all sorts of fun for the Practice Track for our Annual Meeting in Seattle in the Fall of 2019.  Are you interested in volunteering to sit on any of these panels? If so, please let me know by email (cmbeam@uark.edu) as soon as you can.   I need who you are, where you work, and which of the following items you can help with.  Feel very free to forward these gems to anybody missing a little sparkle in their day.


    1. Panel discussion – a day in the life of various career professionals.  Got an industry job? Are you willing to tell us about your day? Early and late career folks welcome.

    1. Panel discussion - Skills we are hiring now (industry recruiting).  Are you a company hiring OR folks? Tell us what you want. Companies large and small welcome.

    1. Escape from the Ivory Tower - Have you moved successfully from an academic job to an industry jobs?  Be our panelist!

    1. The Wisdom Bank - Have you moved successfully from a lifetime of industry and practice into a part time teaching position (even online)?  We want you.

    1. Talking to the Top - Are you a V or C level person who consumes executive summaries and data visualization?  Would you share with us how you want people to write an executive summary, use data visualization, and other communication tools to get complicated mathematical information across to everybody, even the Veeps and C-level folks in our lives?  

    1. Freestyle OR Supreme Game Show:  This fall at the Annual Meeting in Seattle we are offering the next go-round of Freestyle O.R. Supreme, our very own "Frame That Problem" game show.  We will have a client who will present an OR/analytics-type consulting engagement problem to our competition teams. We are accepting applications to be a competition team lead (some experience required) and a team member (grad students and early career professionals encouraged to apply; no experience required).  Each team will have one hour to frame that problem and present the solution. Recruiters have been invited to sit in the audience, and all conference attendees are invited to apply to participate. Let the games begin, and may the odds be ever in your favor.


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    Carrie Beam
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    University of Arkansas
    Walnut Creek CA
    cmbeam@uark.edu
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