This Annual Workshop, on 16 November 2021, is designed in an inviting online setting on gather.town, where OR and analytics professionals from across Europe and beyond will have a chance to make connections, collaborate and share experience on what works and what doesn’t when OR meets practice.

Programme includes:

– plenary keynote : Analytics for a better world: using OR to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (Plenary speaker: Dick den Hertog, co-founder of “Analytics for a Better World”)

– lightning talks:

• How mathematical optimization provides more effective coordination between air traffic controllers (Patrick Schittekat, SINTEF)
• Bringing advanced modelling methods together to solve OR problems: Simulation and reinforcement learning for 3D bin packing (Yi (Joy) Kuo, DecisionLab)
• Who should work on Christmas? (Emily Curry, Jeppesen)
• Managing disruptions in the supply chain with scenario-based optimization (Juan-Manuel Garcia-López, FICO)
• Using the 6 Capital Value Framework to incorporate environmental, customer and performance goals: business planning in the water industry (Cicely Striolo, Copperleaf )
• Building central OR expertise for Deutsche Post DHL (Baris Cem Sal, Deutsche Post DHL)

– speed networking

– discussion groups,

– informal mingling, and

– the official launch of the Practice of OR Forum.

EWG-POR 2021 Working Group Meeting – EURO Working Group on Practice of OR (euro-online.org)