Blending hydrogen in the German gas network with unprecedented flow patterns

Speaker: Jaap Pedersen, Zuse Institute Berlin The European gas infrastructure is being disruptively transformed into a future decarbonized energy system, a process that needs to be accelerated, given the current political and economic situation. On the one hand, there is a growing hydrogen market; thus, pipeline-based transport using the existing natural gas infrastructure becomes economically […]

Applying Systems Thinking to Analyse Complex Social-Ecological Issues for UK Government

Speaker Dr. Gary Preece is Head of the Systems Research Programme in the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). He is also an analyst in the Government Operational Research Service with experience working for a range of government departments in the UK and abroad. Prior to working in government, Gary worked […]

4th Annual Conference – OR as a resilient technology: How OR reacts and adapts to disruptive changes and future challenges

Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) Takustraße 7, Berlin, Germany

EURO Practitioners' Forum 4th Annual Conference 20 April, 2023 (1:30pm) – 21 April, 2023 (4pm), Zuse Institute Berlin   Conference programme During this event we want to explore the use of OR techniques in unpredictable situations that cause disruptive changes to established processes. Crisis situations might be a result of political or economic events, natural disasters […]

Optimizing Manufacturing Scheduling for Injection and Paint Lines in Automotive Production: Insights from a Top Supplier

Speaker: Issam Mazhoud, PhD, Solution Architect, DecisionBrain In this talk, we draw lessons from a leading automotive supplier who adapted its manufacturing scheduling approaches to leverage optimization to effectively schedule and synchronize its injection and paint lines. The supplier’s production model involves a combination of make-to-order and just-in-time to fulfill the needs of its automotive […]

Bandits for Online Calibration: Application to Content Moderation at Meta

Speaker: Deeksha Sinha, Research Scientist at Meta What tech lies behind the social media giants' attempts to keep content ''within the rules''? At Meta, we have both hand-crafted and learned risk models to flag questionable content, for humans to review. To operationalize these, we aggregate the different models to give a single ranking score, calibrating […]

What if we could turn our AI/OR algorithms into full web apps in no time

About this event In the Python open-source eco-system, many packages are available that cater to: - the building of great algorithms - the visualization of data - back-end functions Despite this, over 85% of Data Science Pilots remain pilots and do not make it to the production stage. In this tutorial talk, we will demonstrate […]

Analytics Transformation in a year – mission possible

About this event Telia, as many large organisations faced continuous struggle with keeping up to date analytics infrastructure through mergers and acquisitions, as well as adopting data structures in line with ever increasing speed of changes in business. Having joined Telia Lithuania to lead the transformation, I will talk through the timeline, inputs used to […]

Autumn Workshop: Practice of OR – sharing experiences, building networks

About this event EURO Practitioners’ Forum (EPF) Autumn Workshop is an inspiring opportunity for meeting with OR and analytics practitioners from across Europe and beyond. Join us on gather.town during this unique event and make connections, learn, collaborate and share experiences of what works and what doesn't when OR meets practice. Programme includes: Plenary keynote, […]

Smart Truck Drayage Dispatching: From port-IO to driveMybox

About this event Truck drayage is essential to link locations and logistics nodes in the port and hinterland. In the Port of Hamburg, for example, about 90% of inter-terminal transports are handled by truck and severely contribute to the road traffic volumes, carbon emissions and situation at gates. An intelligent and automated optimization of truck […]

Libra: EMC Platform for Exchange of Electricity Reserves

About this event Libra is the European platform for the activation and exchange of electricity reserves. The platform is used to select reserve offers for activation on replacement reserve (RR) and manual frequency restoration reserve markets (mFRR). At the center of the platform, an optimization algorithm is used to optimize the set of bids to […]