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EURO Practitioners’ Forum 6th Annual Conference. Monday 27 April – Tuesday 28 April 2026 Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. 10 December, 2025: Submission deadline.
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EURO Practitioners’ Forum 6th Annual Conference
Unlocking OR for all: from Models to Business Impact
Monday 27 April – Tuesday 28 April 2026
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Conference programme
The theme of this year’s conference is the end-to-end process of designing, developing, and deploying optimization projects. We will discuss not only models and algorithms, but how Operations Researchers can engage with end users, stakeholders and work with other specialists to deliver impact in their work. The core focus of the conference is this intersection of research, expertise and practical applications and how it affects OR projects in all stages, from conceptualization to practical use.
The conference will explore how to make OR solutions more easily accessible to a wider, non-expert audience, and discussions and presentations will help us as practitioners better understand how we can bring our solutions into use. The goal is to increase the impact and usage of OR across industries and application domains.
Important dates:
- 10 December, 2025: Submission deadline
- 15 January, 2026: Notification of acceptance
- 20 February, 2026: Final version of submissions
- 5 March, 2026: Author registration deadline
- 20 March, 2026: Early bird registration deadline (registration for the conference dinner no longer possible after this date)
Call for contributions
This year’s conference explores the end-to-end journey of designing, developing, and deploying projects in Operations Research (OR). We want to delve into questions such as: How can OR specialists effectively collaborate with end users? How can complex models be translated into clear, business-friendly terms? And how can OR solutions be made more accessible to a broader, non-expert audience to amplify their impact and adoption across industries? The focus is on bridging the gap between technical expertise and practical application, unlocking the full potential of OR for real-world business success.
We invite contributions which address successes and failures in (parts of) the end-to-end lifecycle of OR project delivery and product development from initial specification to end-user delivery. We are interested to learn about challenges in the communication or engagement with end users, and any experiences with innovative approaches to project design and delivery. Of particular interest are also the questions of reproducibility and explainability: what can we do as a community to make OR accessible to a wider audience? Presenters are encouraged to share insights on how to generalize their work or a particular methodology via roadmaps, templates or blueprints.
Organisation committee:
Vladimir Fux, Zalando (Germany), Michele Quattrone, AirLiquide (France), Sander van Aken, Flix SE (Germany), Torkel Haufman, Sintef (Norway), Waldemar Kocjan, Boeing (Sweden), Izabela Żółtowska, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Mariusz Kaleta, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Susanne Heipcke, FICO (France) chair
Posted on 2025-11-19 by Sarah Fores