2010-2019

2019

2018

November 2018, Phoenix, AZ
Theme: Manager-less Organizations

• Chris Peake, Zappos: Evolution of Zappos
• Experiencing Holacracy
• Michael DeAngelo, Washington State: Remaining relevant: he need and challenge of this evolution in leadership
• Gijs Dullaert, AIMMS: The Holacracy journey of AIMMS
• Andy Fleming, Way to Grow, Inc.: Building a 21st Century Growth Culture
• Mauricio Moncada, Consultorias SAS: How Crucial is Coherence between A Company's Purpose and Fulfilled Humans for Optimal Productivity and Sustainability?
• What do Roundtable members do 'manager-less?
• Jennifer Kurkoski & Brian Eck, Google:  Managers: Coach, not Control
• Shrikant Jarugumilli, Bayer: Necessary & Sufficient Conditions for Innovations
• Gay Reginelli, FedEx Express: Creating and growing an environment of empowerment and independence
• Roundtable Business Meeting

July 2018, Monterey, CA (Photos)
Theme: Gamification

• Nicole Lazzaro, XEODesign: The 4 Keys to Fun:  Unlock Human Potential through the Emotions of Play
• Ross Smith, Microsoft Corp.: The Future of Work is Play
• Shane Gallagher, Institute for Defense Analyses: Games: the solution to build the cyber operations workforce?
• Anthony Zabiegalski, Simcoach Games: Video Games and Workforce Development
• William Le Voir-Barry, IBM Corporation:  Imagine What You Could Do with Cloud, Cognitive and Blockchain in Games and Gamification

April 2018, Baltimore, MD
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Shrikant Jarugumill and Anu Raman, Monsanto
• Special Session:  Elevator Speeches
• Markus Drouven, EQT
• Roundtable Discussion - Artificial Intelligence
• Janine Kamath, Mayo Clinic
• Jon Owen GM

2017

October 2017, Houston, TX
Theme: Academic-Industry Partnerships

• Ravi Ahuja and Martin Savelsberg:  Examples of Industry Working Relationships
• Jeffrey D. Camm and Melissa R. Bowers:  What are academic departments doing to address shortage of Data Scientists?  Introduction to MAPD program.  Do we need an equivalent program at Doctoral level?
• Special Session:  What Does the Roundtable Think?
• Sushil Raj Podel, Nathaniel Richmond, Hadi Panahi:  What are candidates looking for?  What do companies offer beyond money?

July 2017, Charlottesville, VA
Theme: Leading and Training Technical Teams

• Roundtable Panel:  Pooja Dewan, BNSF; David Hunter, Institute for Defense Analyses; Jonathan Owen, General Motors; Stephen Sashihara, Princeton Consultants; Jeffrey Winters, UPS
• Dr. Steve Spear, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and HVE, LLC: Discovering Your Way to Greatness:  Creating the Learning Dynamics Necessary for Competing in a Fast-Paced Hyper-Connected World
• Rear Admiral Arnold Lotring, USN (ret): Technical Training Concepts for the 21st Century Work Force
• Nelson C. Baker, Ph.D., Dean of Professional Education and Associate Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology:  Higher Education Roles and Relationships - Things Must Change
• Adam Hall, Senior Vice President of SS&C Learning Solutions and Chairman at Nervanix, LLC: The 'So What?' Factor:  exploring the nexus of attention, metacognition and machine Learning

 
April 2017, Las Vegas, NV
Theme:  Roundtable Companies

• Jeff Arbogast, Air Liquide
• Stefan Karisch, Boeing
• Jim Williams, FICO
• Brian Eck, Google
• Special Session:  "What does the Roundtable Think?" 

2016

November 2016, Nashville, TN (Agenda)
Theme: Open Source/Internet of Things

• Nickolas Guertin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation: Open Architecture
• Dr. Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University: Open Architecture
• Tim Meyer IBM Global Business Services, IoT Center of Competency: What is an IoT Platform? From M2M to Cognitive IoT Systems
• Kirk Borne, Booz Allen Hamilton: Edge Analytics in the IoT for Dynamic Data-Driven Application Systems
• Special Session: What the Roundtable Thinks  

July 2016, Traverse City, MI (Agenda)
Theme: Machine Learning

• Professor Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University:  Worried about Intelligent Machines? Just follow the data.
• Alex Cosmas, Booz Allen Hamilton:  Monetizing Bayesian Networks… and the promise of machine-learning causality
• Ted Gifford, Schneider National: A Machine Learning Approach to Capacity Forecasting
• Dr. Bryan Goodman, Ford Motor Company: Deep Learning at Ford Motor Company
• Kathy Lange, SAS:  Machine Learning

April 2016, Orlando, FL (Agenda)
Theme:  Roundtable Companies

• Jennifer Rausch, Jeppesen
• Larry Stone and Van Gurley, Metron, Inc.
• Tim Merkle, Steelcase
• Margery Connor, Chevron
• Roundtable Business Meeting
• Future Meeting Planning

2015

October 2015, Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (Agenda)
Theme:  Personal Health

• Dr. Dick Weinshilboum: Individualized Medicine
• Dr. Deb Rhodes: Healthy Living Pillars
• Dr. Phil Hagen: Lifestyle and Behavior Change Outcomes
• Dr. Kalyan Pasupathy: How Data/Analytics is Changing Healthcare
• Dr. Phil Hagen:  Sleep - The Data May Surprise You
• Dr. Don Hensrud: Mayo Healthy Living Take-Aways

July 2015, Grand Teton National Park, Moran, WY (Agenda / Photos)
Theme:  Uncertainty Quantification

• Ralph C. Smith, North Carolina State University:  The Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Predictive Models
• Shane Reese, Brigham Young University:  Quantifying Uncertainty: A Primer
• Alyson Wilson, North Carolina State University:  Combining Information for Uncertainty Quantification
• Roger Ghanem, University of Southern California:  Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Systems
• Dongbin Xiu, University of Utah: The State-of-the-Art in Uncertainty Quantification Algorithms

April 2015, Huntington Beach, CA (Agenda)
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Dayana Cope, Disney
• David Hunter, IDA
• Special Session:  What does the Roundtable think?
• Larry Megan, Praxair
• Doug Mohr, UPS
• Roundtable Strategic Planning Overview

2014

November 2014, San Francisco, CA
Theme:  Real Time Analytics

• Brad Klenz, SAS:  Event Stream Processing for Power Grid Analysis
• Deepak S. Turaga, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center:  Stream Processing Systems and Analytics for Real-time Insight Extraction
• Rohit Tandon, HP:  Real Time Analytics at HP
• Srinivas Bollapragada, GE Global Research Center:  Real Time Algorithms for Dispatching Trains and Routing Airplanes
• David Steier, Deloitte Consulting LLP: Right-time analytics:  Architectures for delivering enterprise value from real-time data
• Rainer Dronzek, McDonalds Corporation:  Real Time Video Analytics at McDonalds
• Rob Benson, Spinnaker Management Group and Jim Williams, FICO:  INFORMS Analytics Maturity Model Launch

July 2014, Kennebunkport, ME (Agenda)
Theme:  Running an OR/Analytics Group

• Greta Roberts, Talent Analytics:  Using a Quantitative Approach to Build a Strong Analytic Bench
• John Gunckel, FedEx and John Ginder, Ford Motor Company:  Organizing and Leveraging OR/Analytics
• David Dittman, P&G:  Why Doesn't Management Listen to Us?  Breaking through the C-Suite
• Data, Tools, and Working with IT
• Cenk Tunasar, Booz Allen:  Closing the IT-Analytics Gap
• Building Relationships
• Brendt Reif, Con-way Freight:  Working with the Business
• John Ginder, Ford Motor Company:  Building Cohesion in Distributed Analytics Teams

April 2014, Boston, MA 
Theme:  Roundtable Member Companies

• Pooja Dewan, BNSF and Brendt Reif, Con-Way Freight:  Transportation
• John Gunckel, FedEx and Jeff Winters, UPS:  Package Delivery & Logistics
• Russell Labe, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Srinivas Bollapragada, GE Global Research Center:  Financial Services
• Mark Grabau, Accenture and David Kletter, Booz Allen Hamilton:  Consulting
• Kathy Lange, SAS, Mitchell Burman, Analytics Operations Engineering, Inc., Christopher Fry, Stategic Management Solutions, Mark Hayward, Mayo Clinic, Karl Kempf, Intel, and Colin Kessinger, End-to-End Analytics:  Panel Discussion on real-world analytics issues, solutions, and best practices for running a highly effective OR/MS organization

2013

October 2013, Minneapolis, MN (Agenda)
Theme:  Big Data

• Claudia Perlich:  "The Challenge of Big Data"
• Juergen Klenk:  "Big Data in Healthcare"
• Rishi Narang:  "Microbursts:  Big Data in Finance"
• Mark Hayward and Charles Martel:  "Big Data in Health Care - Improving the Value of Care with Big Data Analytics"
• Brian Garrett:  "Hadoop and Big Data Analytics"
• Dakshi Agrawal:  "Streaming Data for Applications in the Telecom Industry"
• Speaker Panel on Big Data
• Bill Browning:  Roundtable Business Meeting
• Roundtable Meeting with the INFORMS Board

April 2013, San Antonio, TX (Agenda)
Theme:  Roundtable Member Companies

• Allen Butler: "Wagner Associates - Fifty Years of Excellence"
• Michael Grant:  "Operations Research at The Boeing Company"
• Brent Peterson:  "Operations Research and Advanced Analytics at Air Products and Chemicals"
• John Ginder:  "Analytics at Ford Motor Company"
• Special Session:  What does the Roundtable Think?
• Bill Browning:  Roundtable President's Remarks
• Analytics Maturity Model Discussion
• Session with INFORMS President-Elect, Stephen Robinson

 
February 2013, Lake Buena Vista, FL (Agenda)
Theme:  Customer-Centric Analytics

• Dan Soto: "Utilizing Technology to Revolutionize the Guest Experience"
• Bruce Miller: "Big Data, Analytics and Optimization in Workforce Management"
• Rainer Dronzek: "Innovative and Immersive Customer-Centric Analytics"
• Cameron Davies: "The Nature of Analytical Collaboration - Disney's Management Science and Integration Team"
• Stephan Chase: "Creating a Quantitatively-Driven Customer Engagement Strategy"
• Kathy Lange: "Text Analytics and the Design of Listening Posts"
• Bill Browning: Roundtable Business Meeting

2012

October 2012, Phoenix, AZ (Agenda)
Theme: Healthcare Analytics

• Robert K. Smoldt:  "Roadmap to High Value Healthcare"
• Janine R. Kamath and Dr. Tom Rohleder:  "Operations Research at Mayo Clinic"
• Dr. Haiyan Wang:  "An Integrated Operating Room Scheduling System"
• Dr. Wei-Nchih Lee:  "Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Record Data with a Framework of Knowledge-Based Temporal Analytic Methods"
• Dr. Juergen A. Klenk:  "Framework for Detection of Clinical States and Disease Onset Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data"
• Dr. Eva K. Lee:  "Advancing Healthcare on Multiple Fronts"
• Amy Cohn:  "Challenges and Opportunities in Applying OR/MS Tools to Improve Healthcare Delivery"
• Bill Browning:  Roundtable Business Meeting
• Roundtable Meeting with the INFORMS Board

April 2012, Huntington Beach, CA (Agenda) 
Theme:  Roundtable Companies

• Marlize Meyer and Michele Fisher: "Operations Research at Sasol" (2011 INFORMS Prize Winner)
• Gertjan de Lange: "Winning the Franz Edelman Award" (2011)
• John Gunckel: "Advanced Analytics at FedEx - Structure, Tools, and Applications"
• Bill Thoet: "Decision Analytics at Booz Allen Hamilton"
• Stefan Karisch and Jeff Winters: "Special Session: What does the Roundtable Think?"
• Doug Meiser: "The Kroger Co."
• Thomas Olavson and James Miller: "O.R. at Google"
• Jonathan Owen: Roundtable Business Meeting

 February 2012, Tampa, FL (Agenda)
Theme: Mobile Computing

• Dr. John B. Kenney: "The Connected Vehicle: The Next Frontier in Wireless Communication"
• Ted Gifford: "Mobile Computing in Truckload Freight Operations"
• Kate Brass: "The Architectures for Business-Critical Mobile Applications"
• Tico Ballagas: "New Designs for Long Distance Family Interaction"
• 2011 INFORMS President's Award
• David Becerra: "Mobile Business Intelligence"
• Fabrice Hoerner: "The Next Frontiers of Mobile Applications and Services"
• Anand Ranganathan: "Stream Processing for Scalable, Real-Time, Smarter Planet Applications"

2011

November 2011, Charlotte, NC (Agenda)
Theme: The Practice of Risk Analysis and Management

• Aaron Brown: "The Politics of Large Numbers"
• David Robinson: "A New Framework for Complex System Risk Analysis"
• Robert Lampert: "Managing Deep Uncertainty with New Methods for Quantitative Policy Analysis"
• Kete Long: "Advanced Analytical Methods for Risk Management in Financial Institutions"
• Henry Petroski: "Engineering Risk Management"
• David Simchi-Levi: "Flexibility and Risk Management"

April 2011, Chicago, IL (Agenda)
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Steve Sashihara: "The Optimization Edge: Some Practical Lessons Learned for Getting the Most Out of Industry/Consulting/Academia Collaboration"
• Jim Williams: "Advanced Analytics Helps Drive Sustainable, Continuous Improvement"
• Arnie Greenland: "Advanced Analytics and Optimization at IBM"
• Manoj Chari: "Analytical Solutions at SAS Institute: an OR Perspective"
• Stefan Karisch: "Operations Research at Jeppesen"
• Margery Connor: "Operations Research at Chevron"
• Terry P. Harrison: "The INFORMS Analytics Initiative: Current Status and Expected Developments"
• Ebru Demirkol: "Overview of Business Analystics and Optimization at UNITED"
• Srinivas Bollapragada: "Interfaces Journal and the INFOMRS Roundtable"
• Kathy Lange: "Pulse-Taking Survey"

February 2011, Napa CA (Agenda)
Theme: Managing an OR Team

• Barbara Insel: "The Business of Wine in the Strange World of 2011"
• Brian Lewis and Colin Kessinger: "Managing an OR Team Survey Results"
• Dan Reaume: "Protecting Analytics - An Overview of Intellectual Property and Contract Law for Operations Research Organizations"
• Lance Solomon: "Analytics in the Supply Chain - Creating a Competetive Advantage"
• Michael Bauman: "U.S. Army Analysis - The World's Largest OR Program"
• Steve Soules: "Obtaining More without Spending More - Developing and Managing a Capabilities Based Analysis Team with OR/Analytics Capabilities that can Implement the Secretary of Defense's Efficiency Initiatives"
• Paritosh Desai: "Perspectives on Growing an Analytics Team and IP Strategies"

2010

November 2010, Austin, TX (Agenda)

• Michael Crandell: "Realizing the Benefits of Cloud Computing"
• Gunther Lenz: "Cloud Computing for Application Development, Business Intelligence, and Collaboration"
• David Jensen: "Experience Using IBM's Cloud Computing Offerings for OR Applications"
• Robert Fourer: "Cloud Pioneers: Experience with NEOS and Optimization Services"
• Edward Rothberg: "The Gurobi Optimizer and Amazon Web Services"
• Daniel Fylstra: "Frontline's Solvers and Windows Azure"

April 2010, Orlando, FL (Agenda)
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Brian Lewis: "Vanguard Software: From Math to Process"
• Bill Browning: "Some Applications of Mathematics"
• Sean Devine: "Overview of OR at Con-way Freight"
• Colin Kessinger: "Thank Goodness the Math Isn't Enough"
• Karl Kempf: "Why Math Isn't Enough"
• Randy Robinson: "CPMS: Past, Present, and Future"
• INFORMS President-Elect, Rina Schneur
• Mitchell Burman: "Overview of Analytics"
• Gary Bennett, Analytics Magazine Overview

February 2010, Kiawah Island, SC (Agenda)
Theme: Business Use of Social Networks

• How Social Media is Impacting your Company
• Social Networking for Knowledge Management (Internal to an Organization)
• Joe Schueller: "Flipping the Script - Bringing the consumer experience in to the enterprise at P&G"
• John Brocklebank: "Social Network Analysis for Fraud Detection"
• Social Media (Primarily External to an Organization)
  
  • Adam Selig: "The Social Web"
  • Debbie Curtis-Magley: "Brand Management at UPS"
  • Larry Proctor: "IBM's COBRA - Corporate Brand and Reputation Analysis"

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