Free Trial

Webinar Summary

In this special Fireside Chat with the NFL’s VP of Broadcast Planning & Scheduling Mike North, and Gurobi’s VP of Engineering Greg Glockner, will discuss the process that goes into creating the NFL schedule – one of the hardest problems in existence – the special challenges faced this year, and much more.

 

Presented Materials

You can download the slides presented in this webinar here.

Meet the Experts

View Bio

Michael North

Vice President of NFL Broadcast Planning & Scheduling.
NFL - National Football League

Michael North

Vice President of NFL Broadcast Planning & Scheduling.
NFL - National Football League

Michael North is in his 25th season with the NFL and his 22nd in the Broadcasting Department where he is part of the team that creates the playing schedule each season. North works closely with the 32 Clubs, network television partners, stadium operators, and the NFL’s International team while managing the relationships with software and hardware vendors, as well as mixed integer programming, combinatorial optimization, and predictive analytics experts, in an effort to help search through millions of permutations in pursuit of the one magical, mythical, “perfect” NFL schedule each season that satisfies all the teams and television networks. A 1992 graduate from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in computer science, Mike lives with his artist wife, three teenage sons, two dogs, and a turtle in Westchester County, NY, tantalizingly close to Hudson National Golf Club.

View Bio

Dr. Gregory Glockner

Vice President and Technical Fellow
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Gregory Glockner

Vice President and Technical Fellow
Gurobi Optimization

Dr. Gregory Glockner has a B.S. magna cum laude from Yale University in Applied Mathematics and Music, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the 1997 Transportation Science Dissertation Prize from INFORMS. Dr. Glockner has trained users of optimization software in Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and throughout the USA and Canada. He is an expert in optimization modeling and software development: his professional experience in software development includes all major platforms and 9 of the top 10 programming languages in the TIOBE Programming Community Index. Prior to joining Gurobi Optimization in 2009, Dr. Glockner was partner and Chief Operating Officer for Dwaffler, a provider of decision analysis tools. From 1998-2007, he worked at ILOG in two different positions: as a Senior Technical Account Manager and a Product Manager. As an ILOG Senior Technical Account Manager, he introduced advanced optimization and rules software to customers across North America. As an ILOG Product Manager, he was responsible for product management of CPLEX, ODM, OPL and Solver. From 1997-1998, he worked at Pacific Gas & Electric, where he developed stochastic programming software for hydroelectric power scheduling, and he built statistical tools for energy trading in the deregulated energy market. He has also worked as an operations research analyst for the Federal Aviation Administration and for Northwest Airlines.

GUROBI NEWSLETTER

Latest news and releases

Subscribe
Linkedin Youtube Rss
Legal Notices:
Language:

Try Gurobi for Free

Choose the evaluation license that fits you best, and start working with our Expert Team for technical guidance and support.

Evaluation License
Get a free, full-featured license of the Gurobi Optimizer to experience the performance, support, benchmarking and tuning services we provide as part of our product offering.
Get Free Trial!
Cloud Trial

Request free trial hours, so you can see how quickly and easily a model can be solved on the cloud.

Get Free Trial!
Academic License
Gurobi provides free, full-featured licenses for coursework, teaching, and research at degree-granting academic institutions. Academics can receive guidance and support through our Community Forum.
Get Free License!

Search

Looking for documentation?

Gurobi Optimization

RSS Feeds

News
Copy to Clipboard
Events
Copy to Clipboard
Resources
Copy to Clipboard
Jupyter Models
Copy to Clipboard
Case Studies
Copy to Clipboard
FAQs
Copy to Clipboard
Industries
Copy to Clipboard
Features
Copy to Clipboard