INFORMS Open Forum

Dear colleagues,

If you are attending AAAI 2021 in the next days, I would like to invite you to join the IAAI-21 series of panels on AI in Practice:
https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-21/ai-in-practice/

You will notice some familiar names from the INFORMS community, such as Alison Cozad, Ruben Lobel, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Ryan J. O'Neil, Carolyn Mooney.

Forecasting in Unprecedented Times
Thursday, February 4, 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM PST
Moderator: Thiago Serra (Assistant Professor, Bucknell University)
Panelists

• Alison Cozad (Optimization Engineer, Gurobi Optimization)
• Ruben Lobel (Data Science Lead, Airbnb)
• Polly Mitchell-Guthrie (VP of Industry Outreach and Thought Leadership, Kinaxis)
• Jagannath Putrevu (Engineering Lead for Market Place Optimization, Instacart)
• Chi Zhang (Senior Data Scientist, Doordash)

Emerging Uses of AI in Real-Time Automation
Friday, February 5, 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM PST
Moderator: Ryan J. O'Neil (CTO, nextmv)
Panelists:

• Apeksha Kumavat (Chief Engineer, Gatik)
• Ethan McCreadie (Engineering Lead, goPuff)
• Brandon Minor (CEO, Tangram Vision)
• Carolyn Mooney (CEO, nextmv)
• Sebastian Quintero Rojas (Project Lead, Mercado Libre)
• Rebecca Taft (Software Engineer, Cockroach Labs)

AI Applications in Finance: Risks and Challenges in Deploying Real-World Businesses Solutions
Saturday, February 6, 10:30 AM PST / 1:30 PM PST
Moderator: Tharsis Souza (VP, Two Sigma Investments)
Panelists:

• Alexander Denev (Head of AI Financial Services, Deloitte)
• Rajesh T. Krishnamachari (Global Head of Data Science, Bank of America)
• Petter Kolm (Clinical Professor, NYU Courant)
• Adriano Koshiyama (Research Fellow, UCL)

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Thiago Serra
IAAI-21 Outreach Chair
Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, Bucknell University
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