Making an Impact: EURO2015 for Practitioners
If your day-job is to help make organisations more effective, whatever your job title, ‘Making an Impact’ is for you. ‘Making an Impact’ is a series of participative activities aimed at helping practitioners to become more effective. At EURO2015 Making an Impact sessions have been integrated with all the other activities of relevance to practice and practitioners.
Five reasons to come to EURO2015:
• Find solutions to typical practical challenges
• Gain understanding of tools that you’ve not tried before
• Learn from inspiring plenary and keynote speakers, practitioner presenters, and mentors
• Build a network that will last
• Re-invigorate your practice
At EURO2015 you can:
• Explore issues of immediate relevance to practice
• Try out new techniques – are they any good for you?
• See case studies showcasing important applications
• Exchange ideas and expertise with people in similar fields
• Meet leading academics and discover what they can do for you – and what you can do for them
• Build your network amongst like-minded professionals
| What’s on for Practitioners
Workshops, designed to add real value:
• tasters and master classes to expand your technical repertoire and competence, in areas such as analytics, optimisation and soft O.R.
• expert-led discussions on personal and practice issues such as what works in practice, design thinking and writing a better CV.
• reviews of developments such as Open Data, the Internet of Things, O.R. in Schools.
• Grand Challenges; a debate on how O.R. can help.
• vendor-led sessions (also known as ‘The Vendor Stream’) on specific software. For full details of the workshops currently planned, click here.
Academic-practitioner bazaar and discussion
Academic-practitioner bazaar and discussion - a unique opportunity for all members of the O.R. community to pool skills and knowledge. - Bazaar: posters and presentations flagging up issues, developments and case-studies across the academic-practitioner interface. For more information click here.
- Round table discussions: If you have a burning issue on academic-practitioner collaboration that you would like to discuss or you would like to learn the opinions and experience of others, then please join our Round Table discussions. For more information click here.
Case studies: The ‘Case studies in O.R. and analytics’ stream will focus entirely on practical case studies with lessons for practice of O.R. In addition, streams such as Health, Analytics, Civil Government, Strategy, Finance and many more will include practical case studies within particular practice areas or methodologies. Eminent keynote speakers: Michael Trick on key trends affecting the world of O.R., Tony O’Connor on O.R. in Government, Raimo P. Hämäläinen on Behavioural O.R. For more information on the plenary and keynote speakers, click here. Speed networking: a fun and focused session to help you make new contacts across the O.R. spectrum. For more details of how this works and why you should have a go, click here.
Mentoring: Have you ever thought of talking to someone outside your normal circle of work colleagues and friends for help with solving a problem? The mentoring session will be the perfect opportunity to do just that. Or are you someone who likes helping your O.R. colleagues? Do you enjoy sharing your experiences and offering advice? You could be one of the mentors we’re looking for! For more information about mentoring at the O.R. conference, click here if you’d like some mentoring and click here if you think you’d make a good mentor.
OR Careers Exposition: an opportunity for informal conversations with a variety of potential employers Plus social events, plenary talks, exhibits, and much more. |
For more information on any of the Making An Impact activities, contact Ruth Kaufman; and look out for the 'Making an Impact' desk in the TIC 2nd floor exhibition area.