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We want your videos taken at the INFORMS Annual Meeting. All suitable videos will be posted on the Annual Meeting website and on the INFORMS YouTube channel. Best video will win an Apple iPad2!
Here are some video topic ideas: day in the life of the Annual Meeting, how to get the most out of the Annual Meeting, interview with an O.R. luminary on their career, O.R. at work in industry, Charlotte night life (or lack thereof), O.R. in my country, or why I'm an INFORMS member. For more information, all contest rules, and where to upload your video, click here.
All attendees are invited to share what you are seeing and doing in real time. Add hashtag #informs2011 to your tweets and they will be displayed on front page of Annual Meeting website and on video monitors. Be sure to pick up your "Tweeter" ribbon at the INFORMS Booth #121. Also, make sure to follow @INFORMS2011 to get the official meeting feed.
Be sure to check the Annual Meeting website frequently to read commentary from your peers about their experiences in Charlotte. Feel free to post your own comment! Confirmed guest bloggers for 2011: John Angelis, Robert Bordley, Ken Chelst, Jim Cochran, Mike Gorman, Robert Howley, Matt Liberatore, Barry List, Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Anna Nagurney, Ivan Oliveira, Jim Orlin, Paul Rubin, Matt Saltzman, Aurelie Thiele, Mike Trick, and Tallys Yunes. There's always room for more. If you would like to volunteer, contact gary.bennett@informs.org.
To see clear, concise examples of verifiable O.R. and analytics practice success, you won't want to miss the six Wagner Prize presentations on Monday, November 14, in Charlotte Hall, 3rd Floor, Hilton, beginning at 11am. The six 2011 finalists have been chosen to vie for the 2011 Wagner Prize.
Want to know what all the "analytics" fuss is about? Make some time to attend some or all of the analytics talks sponsored by CPMS and the new INFORMS Section on Analytics. Manoj Chari, Doug Samuelson, and Mike Gorman chair this cluster and invite you to such timely talks as assessing the analytical maturity and opportunity in an organization, selling the value of analytics within an organization, and the availability of undergraduate and graduate program in analytics. Select "analytics" from the sponsored cluster list under Search the Program on the Annual Meeting website to add to your itinerary. Most talks are in Mecklenburg Hall, 3rd Floor, Hilton.
You can stop by the concierge booth at the Convention Center, near the South College Street entrance, for brochures and advice on what to see and do in Charlotte.
Charlotte in November can be warm during the day and very cool in the evening. Click here to get the latest forecast. Be sure to bring a sweater or light jacket, since meeting rooms are often cool.
If you have been an ORSA-TIMS-INFORMS member for 25 or more years, stop by the INFORMS booth in the Exhibit Hall to pick up a ribbon designating your 25+ year membership. We salute our long-time members!
Your Charlotte registration badge must be worn to all meeting events. All attendees, including speakers and session chairs, must register and pay the registration fee. Lost badges can be replaced at the INFORMS Registration Desk ($5 fee).
Enter the exhibit hall raffle to have a chance at winning the new Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet that Amazon is releasing November 15. Watch for information in Charlotte.
