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As organizations face increasing pressure to make faster, smarter decisions, optimization has become a critical technology for improving efficiency, allocating resources, managing risk, and driving business performance. Gurobi Connect Atlanta brings together professionals interested in learning how optimization and AI can work together to solve complex business challenges.

Whether you're exploring optimization for the first time or looking to better understand its business impact, this event provides an opportunity to learn from experts, hear real-world experiences, and connect with peers from across the Atlanta business community.goes here

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Arrival & check-in

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
From Theory to Results: How Organizations Create Business Value with Optimization
Jennifer Locke, Manager of Technical Account Manager- Americas, Gurobi

Discover how organizations are using mathematical optimization to solve complex business challenges and achieve measurable results. Explore practical examples of how optimization creates value across industries and business functions.

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Introduction to the Atlanta INFORMS Chapter
Kishen Jayanti, President, Atlanta INFORMS Chapter, The Home Depot

Get to know the Atlanta INFORMS Chapter and how it connects professionals interested in operations research, analytics, and optimization. Discover upcoming events, networking opportunities, and ways to get involved with the local community.

10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Accelerate Model Development with GenAI Tools from Gurobi
Jennifer Locke, Manager of Technical Account Manager- Americas, Gurobi

Explore Gurobi’s GenAI-powered modeling capabilities in action. Learn how these tools can help identify optimization opportunities, formulate problems, and generate models faster than ever. Follow along during the session to experiment with your own use cases.

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
AI for Real-Time and Interactive Optimization
Pascal Van Hentenryck, A. Russell Chandler Chair at Georgia Tech, Director of the NSF AI Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), Head of Gurobi’s AI Innovation Lab

In many industry settings, including the electrical power grid, supply chains, manufacturing, and transportation networks, the same optimization problem is solved repeatedly for instances taken from a distribution that can be learned or forecasted. The scale and complexity of these applications have grown significantly in recent years, challenging traditional optimization approaches.

This talk will showcase how to accelerate the solving of these parametric optimization problems to meet real-time constraints present in many applications. It introduces the concept of optimization proxies that learn the input/output mappings of parametric optimization problems, computing near-optimal feasible solutions and providing quality guarantees. It also covers how to "learn to optimize" highly complex optimization problems, fusing optimization methodologies with supervised learning and reinforcement learning.

These methodologies are highlighted on industrial problems in grid optimization, end-to-end supply chains, logistics, and transportation systems. They reveal beautiful connections between machine learning and optimization, leveraging fundamental theoretical results to push the practice of optimization.

12:15 - 2:30 PM
Lunch, networking, and golf

Continue the conversation over lunch while networking with Gurobi experts and fellow attendees in a relaxed environment. Finish the afternoon with Topgolf gameplay and plenty of opportunities to ask questions and connect with peers.