co n fere n c e p r e v i e w
San Francisco conference
to bridge data, decisions
Special practice-oriented
tracks will offer a view
into how companies,
large and small, have
successfully implemented
various analytics
approaches to improve the
bottom line.
By Candace
“Candi” Yano
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The 2014 INFORMS Annual Meeting in San
Francisco, set for Nov. 9-12 and whose theme is
“Bridging Data and Decisions,” promises to be one
of the largest ever, with more than 5,000 technical
presentations. Whether you are interested in pressing societal needs, including healthcare, energy and
climate change, new developments in supply chain
management and logistics, cutting-edge methodologies for optimization, or advances in stochastic
processes and risk analysis, you will find hundreds
of presentations to match your interests. Special
practice-oriented tracks will offer a view into how
companies, large and small, have successfully implemented various analytics approaches to improve
the bottom line.
Also featured are diverse plenary and keynote
talks spanning a lecture by Nobel laureate Alvin
Roth to a presentation on the Google Driverless Car
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