[DMANET] 3rd EWG-POR meeting in Berlin

Call for contributions:
3rd meeting of the EURO Working Group on the Practice of Operations Research
19 and 20 March, 2020
Zuse Institute Berlin

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to contribute to our discussions at the 3rd
meeting of the EURO Working Group on the Practice of Operations Research.

Our focus will be OR projects that have met with difficulties during their
implementation, including
- particularly tricky or unusual technical requirements that had to be
addressed during the development phase; or
- issues related to the use or acceptance by non-OR expert end-users.

Contributions that discuss experiences with the management of change in
operations due to the introduction of an optimization or analytics
application in an organization are of particular interest.
Please send your (maximum of) 1 page abstract in MS Word or PDF format to
ewgporberlin@zib.de .
Submission deadline: 10 December, 2019

Confirmed Keynote Presentations:
- Optimization in Finance Practice and Challenges by Adrian Zymolka,
Managing Director at Axioma, Germany
- Delivering OR Solutions for Everyday Operations in Energy Trading by
Colin Silvester, Senior Modelling Specialist at Uniper, UK
- Successful Value Chain Optimization at a Chemical Company by Steffen
Klosterhalfen, Operations Research Expert at BASF SE, Germany
- Operations Research Supporting Germany's Energy Transition by Ralf
Werner, Head of IT Management and Digital transformation at Open Grid
Europe GmbH, Germany

Preliminary programme, information and registration (free):
https://ewg_por_berlin_2020.eventbrite.co.uk

Sincerely,
Timo Berthold, on behalf of the programme committee

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