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!
Upcoming events
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Tech Talk: GenAI and OR in Production
·OnlineOnlineThe event will explore the practical applications and challenges of integrating GenAI models with OR methodologies in real-world production environments. Key topics include using GenAI to generate constraints and objective functions for OR problems, leveraging OR to optimize GenAI model deployment and resource allocation, and case studies demonstrating successful synergy between these two fields in supply chain, manufacturing, and other complex systems. The discussion will focus on moving from theoretical models to scalable, production-ready solutions.
The event will feature two speakers:
Dr. David Simchi-Levi
William Barton Rogers Chair Professor at MIT (Retired)| Director, MIT Data Science Lab| Distinguished Professor, Purdue University| Member, National Academy of EngineeringAnastasia Moskovchenko
Head of Product RepRally | Ex Product Trends, Phillips,Event Agenda:
2:00 - 2:05 - Welcome
2:05 - 2:35 - Dr. Levi
2:35 - 3:05 - Anastasia
3:05 - 3:30 - Discussion Q&A closeoutHear from them on the innovative ways in which GenAI and OR work together!
34 attendees
Past events
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