2012

October 2012, Phoenix, AZ ( Phoenix )Theme: Healthcare Analytics

• Robert K. Smoldt:  "Roadmap to High Value Healthcare"
• Janine R. Kamath and Dr. Tom Rohleder:  "Operations Research at Mayo Clinic"
• Dr. Haiyan Wang:  "An Integrated Operating Room Scheduling System"
• Dr. Wei-Nchih Lee:  "Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Record Data with a Framework of Knowledge-Based Temporal Analytic Methods"
• Dr. Juergen A. Klenk:  "Framework for Detection of Clinical States and Disease Onset Using Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data"
• Dr. Eva K. Lee:  "Advancing Healthcare on Multiple Fronts"
• Amy Cohn:  "Challenges and Opportunities in Applying OR/MS Tools to Improve Healthcare Delivery"
• Bill Browning:  Roundtable Business Meeting
• Roundtable Meeting with the INFORMS Board

April 2012, Huntington Beach, CA [ Huntington Beach ]
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Marlize Meyer and Michele Fisher: "Operations Research at Sasol" (2011 INFORMS Prize Winner)
• Gertjan de Lange: "Winning the Franz Edelman Award" (2011)
• John Gunckel: "Advanced Analytics at FedEx - Structure, Tools, and Applications"
• Bill Thoet: "Decision Analytics at Booz Allen Hamilton"
• Stefan Karisch and Jeff Winters: "Special Session: What does the Roundtable Think?"
• Doug Meiser: "The Kroger Co."
• Thomas Olavson and James Miller: "O.R. at Google"
• Jonathan Owen: Roundtable Business Meeting

 February 2012, Tampa, FL [ Tampa ]
Theme: Mobile Computing

• Dr. John B. Kenney: "The Connected Vehicle: The Next Frontier in Wireless Communication"
• Ted Gifford: "Mobile Computing in Truckload Freight Operations"
• Kate Brass: "The Architectures for Business-Critical Mobile Applications"
• Tico Ballagas: "New Designs for Long Distance Family Interaction"
• 2011 INFORMS President's Award
• David Becerra: "Mobile Business Intelligence"
• Fabrice Hoerner: "The Next Frontiers of Mobile Applications and Services"
• Anand Ranganathan: "Stream Processing for Scalable, Real-Time, Smarter Planet Applications"

2011

November 2011, Charlotte, NC [ Charlotte ]
Theme: The Practice of Risk Analysis and Management

• Aaron Brown: "The Politics of Large Numbers"
• David Robinson: "A New Framework for Complex System Risk Analysis"
• Robert Lampert: "Managing Deep Uncertainty with New Methods for Quantitative Policy Analysis"
• Kete Long: "Advanced Analytical Methods for Risk Management in Financial Institutions"
• Henry Petroski: "Engineering Risk Management"
• David Simchi-Levi: "Flexibility and Risk Management"

April 2011, Chicago, IL [ Chicago ]
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Steve Sashihara: "The Optimization Edge: Some Practical Lessons Learned for Getting the Most Out of Industry/Consulting/Academia Collaboration"
• Jim Williams: "Advanced Analytics Helps Drive Sustainable, Continuous Improvement"
• Arnie Greenland: "Advanced Analytics and Optimization at IBM"
• Manoj Chari: "Analytical Solutions at SAS Institute: an OR Perspective"
• Stefan Karisch: "Operations Research at Jeppesen"
• Margery Connor: "Operations Research at Chevron"
• Terry P. Harrison: "The INFORMS Analytics Initiative: Current Status and Expected Developments"
• Ebru Demirkol: "Overview of Business Analystics and Optimization at UNITED"
• Srinivas Bollapragada: "Interfaces Journal and the INFOMRS Roundtable"
• Kathy Lange: "Pulse-Taking Survey"

February 2011, Napa CA [ Napa ]
Theme: Managing an OR Team

• Barbara Insel: "The Business of Wine in the Strange World of 2011"
• Brian Lewis and Colin Kessinger: "Managing an OR Team Survey Results"
• Dan Reaume: "Protecting Analytics - An Overview of Intellectual Property and Contract Law for Operations Research Organizations"
• Lance Solomon: "Analytics in the Supply Chain - Creating a Competetive Advantage"
• Michael Bauman: "U.S. Army Analysis - The World's Largest OR Program"
• Steve Soules: "Obtaining More without Spending More - Developing and Managing a Capabilities Based Analysis Team with OR/Analytics Capabilities that can Implement the Secretary of Defense's Efficiency Initiatives"
• Paritosh Desai: "Perspectives on Growing an Analytics Team and IP Strategies"

2010

November 2010, Austin, TX [ Austin ]
Theme: OR in the Cloud

• Michael Crandell: "Realizing the Benefits of Cloud Computing"
• Gunther Lenz: "Cloud Computing for Application Development, Business Intelligence, and Collaboration"
• David Jensen: "Experience Using IBM's Cloud Computing Offerings for OR Applications"
• Robert Fourer: "Cloud Pioneers: Experience with NEOS and Optimization Services"
• Edward Rothberg: "The Gurobi Optimizer and Amazon Web Services"
• Daniel Fylstra: "Frontline's Solvers and Windows Azure"

April 2010, Orlando, FL [ Orlando ]
Theme: Roundtable Companies

• Brian Lewis: "Vanguard Software: From Math to Process"
• Bill Browning: "Some Applications of Mathematics"
• Sean Devine: "Overview of OR at Con-way Freight"
• Colin Kessinger: "Thank Goodness the Math Isn't Enough"
• Karl Kempf: "Why Math Isn't Enough"
• Randy Robinson: "CPMS: Past, Present, and Future"
• INFORMS President-Elect, Rina Schneur
• Mitchell Burman: "Overview of Analytics"
• Gary Bennett, Analytics Magazine Overview

February 2010, Kiawah Island, SC [ Kiawah Island ]
Theme: Business Use of Social Networks

• How Social Media is Impacting your Company
• Social Networking for Knowledge Management (Internal to an Organization)
• Joe Schueller: "Flipping the Script - Bringing the consumer experience in to the enterprise at P&G"
• John Brocklebank: "Social Network Analysis for Fraud Detection"
• Social Media (Primarily External to an Organization)
  • Adam Selig: "The Social Web"
  • Debbie Curtis-Magley: "Brand Management at UPS"
  • Larry Proctor: "IBM's COBRA - Corporate Brand and Reputation Analysis"