2019 Edelman Finalist: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Tetra Tech

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Angela Akridge, Chief Engineer, Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District and Diana Tao, Project Director for Tetra Tech to learn how O.R. was used to maximize all aspects of Louisville’s water collection and treatment facilities to better protect the environment and realizes hundreds of millions in savings.

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2019 Edelman Finalist: Microsoft

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Jay Nanduri, Distinguished Engineer, and Anand Oka, Principal Group Program Manager with Microsoft to learn how Microsoft leveraged O.R. to create a fraud detection system that identifies and reduces online fraudulent activity, while protecting legitimate consumer purchases and saving tens of millions of dollars.

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2019 Edelman Finalist: AESA

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by David Rios, Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as Veronica Elvira, Deputy Director of Safety Analysis and Francisco Bernal, Head of Aerodromes and Air Navigation Risk Analysis Department with the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA) to learn how AESA used analytics to meet international aviation safety standards while realizing nearly $230…

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2019 Edelman Finalist: IBM

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by Aly Megahed, Research Group Lead with IBM Research and Mark Smith, Business Lead with IBM Services, to learn about IBM’s use of O.R. and analytics to manage the highly complex process of competing for and negotiating information technology (IT) service contracts around the world.

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2019 Franz Edelman Award Finalists: Boston Public Schools

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. We will be releasing these episodes in the countdown to the INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Austin, TX, April 14-16. In this episode, we are joined by John Hanlon, Boston Public Schools Chief Operations Officer, William Eger, Senior Strategic Project Manager, and Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor with MIT Sloan School of Management to learn about Boston Public School’s use of O.R. to create a new approach to school bus routing that has reduced the bus fleet and enabled millions of dollars to be…

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