The biggest OR conference in Europe takes place in July in Valencia. There will be a series of activities under the 'Making an Impact' banner, aimed at practitioners. Further information to follow.

Invited speakers and 'how-to' workshops showcasing the importance of decision analytics for better decision-making in virtually any area of business. Jointly organised by the UK's OR Society and Royal Statistical Society. 2 June 2018, London. Watch this space for further info.

19th - 21st March 2018 sees the return of the OR Society’s biennial simulation workshop (SW18). The conference always boasts an excellent mix of delegates from the fields of simulation practice and research. The conference covers application and theoretical developments across all simulation methods, for example agent based simulation, system dynamics, discrete-event simulation and monte-carlo […]

This conference series serves as a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling. The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research.

The UK OR conference, 12-14 September ( is usually a friendly and buzzing affair with a variety of academic and practical streams. This year Jane Parkin and Ian Seath are organising a consultancy stream described in the attached, and they are particularly keen to have contributors from outside the UK.

The 130th European Study Groups with Industry will be held 4-8 September 2017 at the University of Warwick (http://warwick.ac.uk/esgi130). The aim of the week is for companies and other bodies to present mathematical problems to mathematical scientists and for the mathematical scientists to team up in groups to make progress towards solutions of the problems. […]

International Conference of Optimization and Decision Science This conference will have a special session dedicated to spin-off companies created out of academic OR-research. Matteo Pozzi will be there and are happy to talk to you.

21st Conference for the International Federation Of Operational Research Socieities Björn Thalén, Ines Marques and Tomas Nordlander will attend this conference and are happy to meet up with any members that wants to talk.