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In this episode, I am joined by Harrison Schramm, U.S. Navy veteran and Senior Fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments to discuss his journey from military service to O.R., his work with CSBA, and how O.R. and analytics are being applied to protect national security.

In this episode, part of a series recorded during the 2019 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference, Karl Kempf, Senior Fellow and Director of Decision Engineering at Intel Corporation, discusses his conference presentation, "Intuition is Unreliable, Analytics is Incomplete," looks at the relationship between analytics and intuition and how this can impact complex decision-making.

In this episode, part of a series recorded at the 2019 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference, Janine Kamath, Chair of the Department of Management Engineering and Internal Consulting (ME&IC) and Assistant Professor, Health Care Systems Engineering with the Mayo Clinic, as well as INFORMS Roundtable member, discusses her presentation "Analytics in Healthcare - A Dose of Reality," which explores the role that analytics plays in addressing many of the challenges facing healthcare today.

In this episode, Ted Allen, Associate Professor in the Integrated Systems Engineering Department at The Ohio State University and President of the Social Media Analytics Section of INFORMS, discusses , “Analyzing Social Media Data to Identify Cybersecurity Threats: Decision-Making with Real-time Data,” which explores the role of social media in identifying and addressing emerging cybersecurity breaches, something that is experienced by nearly 30 percent of businesses in the U.S.

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. In this episode, we are joined by Martina Fischetti, Lead Engineer in Operational Research and Thomas Hjort, Head of System Design, from Vattenfall BA Wind to learn how Vattenfall leveraged O.R. to expand its offshore wind energy operations in the pursuit of fossil fuel-free living, while realizing more than $170 million in savings.

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. In this episode, we are joined by David Rios with the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as Veronica Elvira and Francisco Bernal 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 million in savings.

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. 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.

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 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.

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. 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 how 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.

This podcast is part of a series highlighting the finalist teams of the 2019 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award. In this episode, we will 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 reinvested in the school system.