INFORMS San Francisco Chapter

Name: Oil and Chips: A Supply Chain Conundrum (Panel Discussion)
Start: 2026-05-08T00:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-05-08T02:30:00.000Z
Location: JJ Lake Business Center

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San Francisco, CA, US

About us

INFORMS is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to and promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making, and outcomes. INFORMS serves the analytics and O.R. community on international, national and regional levels to promote communication between each other, other professional societies and various clientele. The San Francisco Chapter will hold frequent meetings in the Bay Area to promote these interactions and conversations. These meetings will include speaker events, panel discussions and happy hours. If you are interested in hosting or speaking, please don't hesitate to reach out!

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Oil and Chips: A Supply Chain Conundrum (Panel Discussion)

Thu, May 7 · 5:30 PM PDT

JJ Lake Business Center, 340 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA, US

Oil and Chips: A Supply Chain Conundrum
📍 JJ Lake Business Center, 340 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA
🗓 Thursday, May 7, 2026
🕠 5:30 – 7:30 PM PT
💲 Free | In-person | Panel + Q&A

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Modern supply chains are highly optimized—but increasingly fragile.
Join the INFORMS SF Bay Area Chapter for a panel discussion examining how reliance on a small number of suppliers, regions, and chokepoints creates systemic risk. We’ll focus on oil and semiconductors as two critical examples shaping today’s global economy.

Topics will include:

Geopolitical and infrastructure risks (e.g., energy transit routes, concentrated chip manufacturing)
Single points of failure in global production networks
Tradeoffs between efficiency, cost, and resilience
How disruptions propagate across interconnected supply chains

The panel will also explore how Operations Research (OR) enables better decision-making—helping organizations model disruptions, identify bottlenecks, and design more resilient strategies for sourcing, inventory, and capacity planning.

Parking at the venue is free and plentiful!

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Agenda
5:30 – 6:00 PM: Check-in & Refreshments (Food & Drinks)
6:00 – 7:00 PM: Panel Discussion
7:00 – 7:30 PM: Q&A + Wrap-up

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Ideal for professionals and students in supply chain, operations, analytics, and related fields, as well as anyone interested in building more resilient systems in an uncertain world.