analytics and O.R. Each
IBM, Chevron, Amtrak, SAS,
finalist for the 2014 Franz
Chevron and UPS, as well
Edelman Award, the highas leading universities and
est international award for
government agencies. The
achievement in operations recommittee develops the topic
search, will present their work
tracks, selects speakers and
on March 31, with the winner
organizes the presentations
announced at the Awards
that comprise the heart of the
Gala and Banquet that eveconference.
Thomas Davenport’s
ning. The 2014 champion
“Our goal is to bring tokeynote address is
will join a prestigious lineup
gether the best analytics
titled, “Analytics 3.0:
of past Edelman Award winwork being done today that
Where Big Data
ners, including the Dutch Delhelps organizations make
and Traditional
ta Program Commissioner,
smarter, fact-based busiAnalytics Meet.”
HP, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
ness decisions,” says MarCancer Center, General Motors and Nethvin. “The conference emphasis will be
erlands Railways. Other high-impact work
on real-world analytics across industries
will be showcased throughout the meetand applications, along with skill-building
ing in talks by finalists and winners of the
tutorials, software training, and excepINFORMS Prize, Daniel H. Wagner Prize,
tional networking.”
UPS George D. Smith Prize, Innovative
The conference committee has desApplications in Analytics Award, Gary L.
ignated eight topical tracks for the 2014
Lilien Marketing Science Practice Prize
invited speaker program: The Analytand the coveted Spreadsheet “Guru” Prize.
ics Revolution, Healthcare Applications,
HAND-PICKED TOPICS AND
SPEAKERS
The key to the conference’s ongoing
success is its program committee, chaired
this year by Freeman Marvin, vice president
and executive principal analyst at Innova
tive Decisions, Inc. The 36 members of the
committee include analysts and managers
from companies such as Google, Target,
A NA L Y T I C S
Big Data, Marketing Analytics, Decision
Analysis, Soft Skills and Supply Chain
Management. New this year is a track
organized by the INFORMS Roundtable
that will feature world-class O.R. projects in established and mature analytics
companies. The program will be rounded
out by six tracks of member-contributed
talks plus additional tracks on software
solutions.
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