Informs Business Analytics Conference 2023 | INFORMS | 16 April 2023 | Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, 6700 N Gaylord Rockies Blvd, Aurora, CO 80019, USA

Join over 600 leading analytics professionals and industry experts in discovering new mathematical solutions to problems, networking strategies for advancing your career, and recognizing individual and team efforts within your field with most prestigious awards in analytics and operations research.

Why Attend:
Join us, to connect with hundreds of leading analytics professionals and industry leaders. We will explore the best practices and leading insights into groundbreaking applications, including healthcare, robotics and AI, data ethics, and the role of data science in the media and workplace.

The conference features content from leading analytics professionals that share and showcase the top analytics applications that are saving lives, saving money, and solving problems. The Conference will be structured with tailored content for professionals at any stage of their career.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Hilary Mason
Co-Founder and CEO, Hidden Door

Chris Tonas
Chief Technology Officer of Pluralsight

SPEAKERS:

Zohreh Asgharzadeh
Director, Advanced Analytics R&D, SAS Institute

Young Bang
Chief Data Scientist and Senior Research Scientist Army Cyber Institute

Nathaniel Bastian
Chief Data Scientist and Senior Research Scientist, Army Cyber Institute

Matthew Baucum
Asst. Prof. of Business Analytics, Florida State University

Eric Bibelnieks
Former VP Marketing Analytics & Data Sciences, Ascena Retail Group, Inc.

Montgomery Blair
Chief Analytics Officer, Go Subscription

Andrew Blake
Managing Director, Opening Bell Ventures

Kirk Borne
Founder and Owner, Data Leadership Group LLC

Max Brozynski
Senior Consultant, FTI Consulting, Inc.

Giulia Burchi
Sr. Business Analyst, DecisionBrain

Aaron Burciaga, CAP
Sr. Practice Manager, AWS

Andy Burrow
Corporate Operations Research Analyst, LinQuest

Jeffrey Camm
Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics, Wake Forest University School of Business

Joseph Cazier
Clinical Professor, Arizona State University

Ritu Chadha
Senior Research Director, Peraton Labs

Ran Chen
Postdoc Associate, MIT

Sooho Choi
Managing Director & Sector Leader, Alvarez & Marsal

Jeff Cohen
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, INFORMS

Walt DeGrange, CAP
Director of Analytics Capabilities, CANA

Matt Denesuk
Senior VP, Data Analytics & AI, Royal Caribbean Group

Vinayak Deshpande
Professor of Operations, University of North Carolina

Pooja Dewan
VP & Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Otis Elevator Company

Achille Ettorre
Master of Management Analytics & AI, Ettorre & Associates Ltd.

Grant Fleming
Senior Data Scientist, Elder Research

Maurice Garfinkel
Data Scientist, Allstate

Scott Green
Founder & Principal, Profit Drivers

Luis Guimarães
Assistant Professor, University of Porto

Ankit Gupta
Sr. Data Scientist, Nike

Heidi Gurung
Data Modeler, IEM

David Hampton
Senior Data Engineer, DCI Solutions

Max Hill
Data Scientist, Intel

Andrea Hupman
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri – St. Louis

Taher Jamshidi
Senior Manager, EY

Susmit Jha
Director, Neuro-symbolic Computing and Intelligence, SRI International

Olamide Jolaoso
Head, Data and Analytics, Wema Bank Plc

David B. Keever
VP, Data Science Strategist, Leidos

Stephen Koellner
Tech Advisor & Cost Estimator, Augur Consulting

Malika Korganbekova
PhD Student, Kellogg, Northwestern University

Radhika Kulkarni
2022 INFORMS President, SAS, Retired

Sadan Kulturel-Konak
Professor of Management Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University

Eva Lee
Director and Chief Scientist, The Data and Analytics Innovation Institute

Frank Lee
Clinical Associate Professor, Georgia State University

Janice Lichenwaldt
Executive Leadership Coach, Virago Coaching

Heping Liu
Senior Machine Learning Principal, Workday, Inc.

Pantelis Loupos
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis

Bart Maciszewski
Optimization and Data Scientist, Imperial Oil

Sanjeev Maddila
WW Head of Supply Chain Solutions, AWS

Matthias Mozer
Senior Tech Lead: Data Science, Wayfair

Ash Omidvar
Decision Science & Analytics Leader, Delta Air Lines, Inc.

Jim Pang
VP, Services Expansion, Trinity Industries

Divya Pathak
Vice Chair of AI/ML & Analytics, Mayo Clinic

Daniel Pereira
Senior Manager, LTPlabs

Diana Pfeil
Chief Technology Officer, Pex

Madhushini Narayana Prasad
Lead Data Scientist, Cargill R&D

Zhiwei (Tony) Qin
Principal Scientist, Lyft Rideshare Labs

Sreekanth Rajagopalan
Associate Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company

Danny Recktenwald
Strategy, Transaction, and Corporate Finance Consulting, MCM CPAs & Advisors LLP

Amelia Regan
Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics, University of Washington

Daniel Rice
Associate Professor of Practice, Babson College

Katherine Rosback
President, Katherine Rosback Enterprises

Eduardo Salcedo
Instructor, Engineering, Technology and Design, Miami Dade College

Molli Sanocki
Head of Healthcare Analytics, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Rajiv Saxena
Senior VP, Supply Chain Solutions, Kenco Logistics

Gaurav Shekhar
Program Director, University of Texas at Dallas

Thomas Siems
Chief Economist, Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Emmy Smith
Senior Manager Partner Intelligence, AWS

Brett Talbot
Co-founder, Videra

Maxim Terekhov
Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Florida

Shayla Treadwell
VP, Governance, Risk, & Compliance, ECS

Nick Ulmer, CAP
Student Capstone Project, Naval Postgraduate School

Kathryn Walter, CAP
Senior Operations Research Analyst, Avista Corp.

Segev Wasserkrug
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research – Israel

Michael Watson
Independent, Northwestern Unviersity

Rodney Williams
President & CEO, JASINT Consulting and Technologies, LLC

Beverly Wright, CAP
Executive – Analytics Thought Leader and Recruiter, Burtch Works

Michael Wu
Chief AI Strategist, PROS

Drew Yao
Director of Data Science, DataPrime

Yong Zheng
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Scott Zoldi
Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSORS:
• AMPL
• FICO
• Roundtable

GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS:
• Gurobi
• Syngenta

SILVER LEVEL SPONSORS:
• Dwave
• Gams
• Kennesaw State University

EDELMAN EXECUTIVE SPONSORS:
• AMPL
• Dataprime
• FICO
• Gurobi Optimization
• Kinaxis
• Kleinmuntz Associates
• Metron
• UPS
• University of Cincinnati
• Wake Forest University