The plenary speakers are Peter Cochrane, Co-founder, ConceptLabs (former chief technologist, British Telecommunications); James Q. Crowe, President and CEO, Level 3 Communications; and Thomas Cook, Chairman and CEO, Replane.
- EVENT
Optimizing the Extended Enterprise in the New Economy
- DATE
May 20-22, 2001
- PLACE
Hyatt Regency La Jolla, San Diego, California
- REGISTRATION & INFORMATION
http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Practice2001 ; [email protected] , 800-343-0062, 401-274-2525
The educational program offers real-world applications of analytical solutions across the enterprise; best practices in supply-chain integration, e-commerce, customer service, and revenue management; strategies for helping companies position and manage an operations research competency; professional development in quantitative techniques; and software.
The sessions are geared to analysts who apply quantitative methods in their work, managers who select and lead technical staff, and executives who need to understand how and when analytical methods are useful.
Featured speakers represent Hewlett Packard, SAP, General Motors, UPS, Merrill Lynch, IBM, Sabre, MasterCard, Ford, NBC, Intel, Samsung Electronics, Price Waterhouse Cooper, Oracle, GE, i2 Technologies, the US Army, EDS, Expedia, and ILOG. Additional speakers are from MIT, University of Michigan, UCLA, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Universite de Montreal, Brown University, and University of California-Davis.
The conference chair is Brenda Dietrich, Manager of Mathematical Sciences, IBM TJ Watson Research Center.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with over 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, the stock market, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is at http://www.informs.org