For your career & your company
The following special events will be held in conjunction with
the INFORMS Conference on Analytics & O.R. in Boston:
INFORMS Continuing Education
Analytics Certification
These two-day, in-person courses
Analytics certification is offered
presented by INFORMS provide real-
by INFORMS to provide analytics
world value in skills, tools and methods
professionals with a means to distinguish
that can be implemented in your work.
themselv es and demonstrate to
Two courses will be offered just before
employers, colleagues and the public
the INFORMS Analytics Conference,
that they are competent analytics
both held on March 28-29 in Boston:
professionals. Those attaining certification
• Essential Practice Skills for Analytics
will be able to list “CAP®” after their
Professionals: Participants will learn
practical tools for integrating their
analytical skills into real-world problemsolving for businesses and other
organizations. The course provides
approaches that can be applied
immediately to a wide variety of settings,
names. INFORMS is pleased to offer the
CAP certification exam at this conference.
The exam is offered on Saturday, March
29, at the conference hotel. Attendees of
this conference qualify for a discounted,
bundled rate of Conference + Certification.
Also, don’t miss a special session
whether within a participant’s own
on March 31 providing information
organization or for an external client.
and guidance on the benefits and
• Data Exploration & Visualization:
requirements of the CAP certification.
Participants can expect to be
re-introduced to approaching data in
a powerful, yet playful manner.
They will see and experience how
exploration and visualization can be
used to answer existing questions,
thereby corroborating or invalidating
hunches and preconceptions.
For more information and to register,
click here.
A NA L Y T I C S
For more information, click here.
Analytics Maturity Model
How well does your organization use
analytics? What can you do to progress
from good to great? Attend this debut of the
new INFORMS analytics maturity model to
see how you can score your organization,
set target goals, and attain the enormous
advantage of analytics leadership. This
special session will be on Tuesday, April 1.
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