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CO N FERE N C E P R E V I E W S INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & O.R. Davenport, Kilmer to keynote March 30-April 1 event in Boston. Tom Davenport For the past several years the INFORMS Analytics Conference has been setting records for attendance and presentation submissions. Now is your chance to see what all the buzz is about. The 14th Annual INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and O.R., set for March 30-April 1 in Boston, will feature presentations by more than 100 speakers representing a broad range of industries and application areas. INFORMS expects more than 900 attendees this year, making it the largest analytics-focused event in the world. With special events ranging from career-building programs to world-class prize presentations, this conference is sure to offer valuable content for practitioners and academics alike. KEYNOTES: ANALYTICS PIONEER, DISNEY SENIOR EXECUTIVE Kathy Kilmer 66 | Keynote speakers Tom Davenport and Kathy Kilmer will headline this year’s conference. Davenport will speak on Monday, March 31, while Kilmer will speak on Tuesday, April 1. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College, a Fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics and senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. A N A LY T I C S - M A G A Z I N E . O R G W W W. I N F O R M S . O R G