Sim Talk

"Ben reviews the 2019 AnyLogic conference in Austin. He cover the main themes, the future developments planned and hands out his private awards for best talk and best insight. You can find a video version of this on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/benjaminIschumann/ "

This week, Ruud van der Ham joins Ben and introduces his Python library "Salabim". It is an open-source discrete-event library that allows not only flexible DES models but even animation. Ruud coded it from scratch over the course of several months and shares the advantages and differences from other packages and commercial tools.

Ruud van der Ham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruudvanderham/

Salabim: https://www.salabim.org/

Host: Benjamin Schumann (https://www.benjamin-schumann.com/ )

Benjamin Schumann Consulting

Learn about expert simulation modelling consultant Benjamin Schumann, PhD. Or visit his blog Simulation101 on all things simulation.

SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

We are back after a long Christmas break with Frédérick Faucher from Direxyon, a Canadian software development firm that primarily creates tools for asset management decisions. Benjamin and Frédérick talk about their propriatary agent-based simulation tool for asset management that focuses on radical ease of use so any engineer can go create insights.

http://direxyon.com/

Benjamin Schumann: https://www.benjamin-schumann.com/

SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

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In this episode, Ben interviews Thomas French, CTO of Sandtable. They deliver agent-based models for human behavior but with a different twist: in order to allow massive data inputs, they deviated from traditional object-oriented agents to a new tensor-based approach that is much faster and esier to scale to entire populations.

Sandtable: https://www.sandtable.com/

Thomas French: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-french-4927a961/

Benjamin Schumann: https://www.benjamin-schumann.com/

Sandman: https://sandman.ai/

SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

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Host: Jacob Ingalls
Guest: CEO of Gold Sim Rick Kossik
Guest Website: www.goldsim.com

Summary: I sit down with the CEO of Gold Sim, Rick Kossik, to talk about simulation modeling and what the most important tool for a modeler is

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Host: Jacob Ingalls
Guest: CEO of Gold Sim Rick Kossik
Guest Website: www.goldsim.com

Summary: I sit down with the CEO of Gold Sim, Rick Kossik, to talk about simulation modeling and what the most important tool for a modeler is

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Host: Jacob Ingalls

Episode 9: Interview with Andrei Borshchev

I sit down with the CEO of Anylogic for a wonderful discussion about the software
Guest Website: https://www.anylogic.com

 SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

In this episode, Ben conducts his first interview and hosts Felipe Haro, one of the rare freelance simulation consultants. Felipe shares how he got into simulation and how he ended up in his sweetspot of working from various beaches around the globe while building models for his clients.

SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

Ben's Website: https://www.benjamin-schumann.com/

Artem’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemparakhine/

Episode 8: Interview with Artem Parakhine

In this episode, Ben sits down with Artem Parakhine, a Senior Manager from PWC in London. Artem has worked with simulation for over ten years and shares his journey. At the same time, they discuss how automated model building might look like in the future, what special problems arise for simulation consultants and how to figure out what to simulate and what to leave out.

SimTalk: http://brokenjars.xyz/simtalk/

Ben's Website: https://www.benjamin-schumann.com/

Artem’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemparakhine/

Host: Benjamin Schumann

Description: We all know that data scientists are in high demand and even labelled as the "sexiest job of the 21st century". In this episode, Ben argues that much of their skills might soon be eaten by machines whereas simulation-modelling skills will become ever more important (and no machine will eat them too soon). Also, it just more fun so we declare it the second sexiest job of our century.

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