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EURO Practitioners’ Forum 6th Annual Conference

April 27 - April 28

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.

More details can be found at https://www.euro-online.org/websites/or-in-practice/euro-practitioners-forum-6th-annual-conference/

Important dates:

  • 11 January, 2026: Submission deadline
  • 31 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)

 

Contact

For any inquiries, please contact the conference organisers on this address: epf2026@pw.edu.pl

 

Sponsors

       

 

  • Sylwester Ciodyk (Ortec Poland): Practical Optimization: Real-World Success Stories
  • Paweł Lichocki (Google): An engineering perspective on mixed integer programming in computer systems
  • Michał Kłos (PSE S.A. (the Polish Transmission System Operator)): Framing Fairness: A Practical Approach to Beyond-Cost Optimization for TSOs’ Mathematical Programming Problems
  • Geoffrey De Smet (Timefold): How to build an open source solver and a company around it
  • Tomasz Stopa (IBM): Quantum computer – from holy grail to your favorite toy

 

 

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

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Organizer

  • EURO Practitioners’ Forum