In-Person event

The Optimisation Community Auckland: Powered by Gurobi

Thursday, 20 November 2025

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

University of Auckland, City Centre Campus: Fale Pasifika

In-Person event

The Optimisation Community Auckland: Powered by Gurobi

Thursday, 20 November 2025

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

University of Auckland, City Centre Campus: Fale Pasifika

In-Person event

The Optimisation Community Auckland: Powered by Gurobi

Thursday, 20 November 2025

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

University of Auckland, City Centre Campus: Fale Pasifika

Empowering Better Decisions with Mathematical Optimisation

As the final stop in the 2025 ANZ Optimisation Community roadshow, this Auckland edition, delivered in collaboration with ORSNZ, brings together researchers, practitioners, and business leaders shaping the future of data science and optimisation in New Zealand.

2025 brings new challenges – rapid AI advancements, supply chain volatility, net-zero commitments, and labour constraints – demanding faster, smarter decisions. This event explores how mathematical optimisation can help industries adapt and thrive amid these shifts.

Empowering Better Decisions with Mathematical Optimisation

As the final stop in the 2025 ANZ Optimisation Community roadshow, this Auckland edition, delivered in collaboration with ORSNZ, brings together researchers, practitioners, and business leaders shaping the future of data science and optimisation in New Zealand.

2025 brings new challenges – rapid AI advancements, supply chain volatility, net-zero commitments, and labour constraints – demanding faster, smarter decisions. This event explores how mathematical optimisation can help industries adapt and thrive amid these shifts.

Empowering Better Decisions with Mathematical Optimisation

As the final stop in the 2025 ANZ Optimisation Community roadshow, this Auckland edition, delivered in collaboration with ORSNZ, brings together researchers, practitioners, and business leaders shaping the future of data science and optimisation in New Zealand.

2025 brings new challenges – rapid AI advancements, supply chain volatility, net-zero commitments, and labour constraints – demanding faster, smarter decisions. This event explores how mathematical optimisation can help industries adapt and thrive amid these shifts.

Join us for an afternoon of:

Gain actionable insights and practical strategies to elevate your customer engagement with AI-powered personalization.

Real-world case studies and academic insights from across Aotearoa

Practical discussions on optimisation’s role in business and research

Networking with peers across data science, operations research, and industry

Join us for an afternoon of:

Gain actionable insights and practical strategies to elevate your customer engagement with AI-powered personalization.

Real-world case studies and academic insights from across Aotearoa

Practical discussions on optimisation’s role in business and research

Networking with peers across data science, operations research, and industry

Join us for an afternoon of:

Gain actionable insights and practical strategies to elevate your customer engagement with AI-powered personalization.

Real-world case studies and academic insights from across Aotearoa

Practical discussions on optimisation’s role in business and research

Networking with peers across data science, operations research, and industry

Agenda

3:30 PM: Arrival & Registrations

4:00 PM: Welcome Remarks by Gurobi

4:05 PM: Fonterra: Factory Digital Twin Optimisation at Fonterra

This session explores how Fonterra applies optimisation to its production planning process across large-scale dairy manufacturing sites. Scheduling in this environment involves managing complex flows of raw materials, transportation, and interdependent processes, while continuously adapting to variable milk arrivals and a network of interconnected factories.

By integrating optimisation into its digital twin for production planning, Fonterra is enhancing agility and operational efficiency — ensuring that plans can evolve in real time to meet changing conditions and supply demands.

Presented by:

Kim Essenberg | Data Scientist | Fonterra

Ted Lo | Software Engineer | Fonterra

4:35 PM: Whats New in Gurobi 13.0

This session will focus on the new enhancements in version 13.0. We’ll cover performance improvements, including faster solutions for MIP and MINLP models, and a new nonlinear barrier method for quicker locally optimal solutions in continuous nonlinear problems.

We’ll also discuss Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) with CPU and GPU support for extremely large LPs, and Kubernetes autoscaling for better scalability.

Presented by: Steven Edwards | Product Manager | Gurobi

5:05 PM: Fireside Chat: Beyond the Model – How Organisations Are Navigating Optimisation in 2025 and Beyond

Panellists include:

5:30 PM: Event Concludes, Networking Reception

6:30 PM: Social Dinner

Agenda

3:30 PM: Arrival & Registrations

4:00 PM: Welcome Remarks by Gurobi

4:05 PM: Fonterra: Factory Digital Twin Optimisation at Fonterra

This session explores how Fonterra applies optimisation to its production planning process across large-scale dairy manufacturing sites. Scheduling in this environment involves managing complex flows of raw materials, transportation, and interdependent processes, while continuously adapting to variable milk arrivals and a network of interconnected factories.

By integrating optimisation into its digital twin for production planning, Fonterra is enhancing agility and operational efficiency — ensuring that plans can evolve in real time to meet changing conditions and supply demands.

Presented by:

Kim Essenberg | Data Scientist | Fonterra

Ted Lo | Software Engineer | Fonterra

4:35 PM: Whats New in Gurobi 13.0

This session will focus on the new enhancements in version 13.0. We’ll cover performance improvements, including faster solutions for MIP and MINLP models, and a new nonlinear barrier method for quicker locally optimal solutions in continuous nonlinear problems.

We’ll also discuss Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) with CPU and GPU support for extremely large LPs, and Kubernetes autoscaling for better scalability.

Presented by: Steven Edwards | Product Manager | Gurobi

5:05 PM: Fireside Chat: Beyond the Model – How Organisations Are Navigating Optimisation in 2025 and Beyond

Panellists include:

5:30 PM: Event Concludes, Networking Reception

6:30 PM: Social Dinner

Agenda

3:30 PM: Arrival & Registrations

4:00 PM: Welcome Remarks by Gurobi

4:05 PM: Fonterra: Factory Digital Twin Optimisation at Fonterra

This session explores how Fonterra applies optimisation to its production planning process across large-scale dairy manufacturing sites. Scheduling in this environment involves managing complex flows of raw materials, transportation, and interdependent processes, while continuously adapting to variable milk arrivals and a network of interconnected factories.

By integrating optimisation into its digital twin for production planning, Fonterra is enhancing agility and operational efficiency — ensuring that plans can evolve in real time to meet changing conditions and supply demands.

Presented by:

Kim Essenberg | Data Scientist | Fonterra

Ted Lo | Software Engineer | Fonterra

4:35 PM: Whats New in Gurobi 13.0

This session will focus on the new enhancements in version 13.0. We’ll cover performance improvements, including faster solutions for MIP and MINLP models, and a new nonlinear barrier method for quicker locally optimal solutions in continuous nonlinear problems.

We’ll also discuss Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) with CPU and GPU support for extremely large LPs, and Kubernetes autoscaling for better scalability.

Presented by: Steven Edwards | Product Manager | Gurobi

5:05 PM: Fireside Chat: Beyond the Model – How Organisations Are Navigating Optimisation in 2025 and Beyond

Panellists include:

5:30 PM: Event Concludes, Networking Reception

6:30 PM: Social Dinner

To conclude the day, attendees are invited to a joint social dinner hosted by Gurobi and ORSNZ, offering a relaxed setting to continue conversations and strengthen connections across the optimisation and operations research community.

Speakers

Meet the Experts

Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.

Iain Jardin
Regional Sales Director - APJ
Iain Jardin has been working with customers and partners in APAC, EMEA and North America for the last 30 years. Prior to joining Gurobi Iain worked at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Amdahl where he ran numerous business development, product management, sales and technical-sales organisations.
The biggest learning from his extensive involvement in the global IT market has been that the common denominator of successful and sustainable business is healthy (human) relationships that embrace diversity and celebrate inclusion.
Outside of work Iain loves Australian Football, is a keen cyclist, a developing apiarist, an aspiring artist and holds a BA Soc.Sci. in Information Management from Melbourne University. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two daughters and two dogs.
Connect with Iain on Twitter @IainJardin or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/iainjardin/
Steven Edwards
Product Manager
Dr. Steven Edwards completed his PhD at Monash University in the field of discrete optimization. His thesis was motivated by the scheduling of automated pathology testing systems used for the diagnosis of cancers and infectious diseases. As part of his research, he developed a modeling framework for efficiently solving large-scale optimization problems using constraint programming inspired by existing techniques in boolean satisfiability and mixed-integer programming. After completing his thesis, Steven worked briefly at the Australian Bureau of Statistics on optimization problems in data security before commencing as a Research Fellow in Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.
Peter Wu
Field Marketing Manager
Peter holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from Curtin University. With a diverse career spanning industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing, Peter has built a rich and varied career across industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing. He's had the opportunity to work with global companies like Dassault Systèmes, Cognizant, and JAGGAER, focusing on impactful marketing approaches in the tech space.
Beyond his professional achievements, Peter is passionate about mentorship and giving back to the community. He actively contributes to a local startup organization in Australia as a marketing mentor, sharing his knowledge and guiding high school students in exploring marketing as a career path after university.
In his downtime, Peter indulges his love for sports and gaming. A devoted NBA and UFC fan, as well as an avid video gamer, Peter balances his professional life with his personal passions.

Speakers

Meet the Experts

Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.

Regional Sales Director - APJ
Iain Jardin
Iain Jardin has been working with customers and partners in APAC, EMEA and North America for the last 30 years. Prior to joining Gurobi Iain worked at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Amdahl where he ran numerous business development, product management, sales and technical-sales organisations.
The biggest learning from his extensive involvement in the global IT market has been that the common denominator of successful and sustainable business is healthy (human) relationships that embrace diversity and celebrate inclusion.
Outside of work Iain loves Australian Football, is a keen cyclist, a developing apiarist, an aspiring artist and holds a BA Soc.Sci. in Information Management from Melbourne University. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two daughters and two dogs.
Connect with Iain on Twitter @IainJardin or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/iainjardin/
Product Manager
Steven Edwards
Dr. Steven Edwards completed his PhD at Monash University in the field of discrete optimization. His thesis was motivated by the scheduling of automated pathology testing systems used for the diagnosis of cancers and infectious diseases. As part of his research, he developed a modeling framework for efficiently solving large-scale optimization problems using constraint programming inspired by existing techniques in boolean satisfiability and mixed-integer programming. After completing his thesis, Steven worked briefly at the Australian Bureau of Statistics on optimization problems in data security before commencing as a Research Fellow in Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.
Field Marketing Manager
Peter Wu
Peter holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from Curtin University. With a diverse career spanning industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing, Peter has built a rich and varied career across industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing. He's had the opportunity to work with global companies like Dassault Systèmes, Cognizant, and JAGGAER, focusing on impactful marketing approaches in the tech space.
Beyond his professional achievements, Peter is passionate about mentorship and giving back to the community. He actively contributes to a local startup organization in Australia as a marketing mentor, sharing his knowledge and guiding high school students in exploring marketing as a career path after university.
In his downtime, Peter indulges his love for sports and gaming. A devoted NBA and UFC fan, as well as an avid video gamer, Peter balances his professional life with his personal passions.

Speakers

Meet the Experts

Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.

Iain Jardin
Regional Sales Director - APJ
Iain Jardin has been working with customers and partners in APAC, EMEA and North America for the last 30 years. Prior to joining Gurobi Iain worked at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Amdahl where he ran numerous business development, product management, sales and technical-sales organisations.
The biggest learning from his extensive involvement in the global IT market has been that the common denominator of successful and sustainable business is healthy (human) relationships that embrace diversity and celebrate inclusion.
Outside of work Iain loves Australian Football, is a keen cyclist, a developing apiarist, an aspiring artist and holds a BA Soc.Sci. in Information Management from Melbourne University. Iain currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife, two daughters and two dogs.
Connect with Iain on Twitter @IainJardin or on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/iainjardin/
Steven Edwards
Product Manager
Dr. Steven Edwards completed his PhD at Monash University in the field of discrete optimization. His thesis was motivated by the scheduling of automated pathology testing systems used for the diagnosis of cancers and infectious diseases. As part of his research, he developed a modeling framework for efficiently solving large-scale optimization problems using constraint programming inspired by existing techniques in boolean satisfiability and mixed-integer programming. After completing his thesis, Steven worked briefly at the Australian Bureau of Statistics on optimization problems in data security before commencing as a Research Fellow in Operations Research at the University of Melbourne.
Peter Wu
Field Marketing Manager
Peter holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing from Curtin University. With a diverse career spanning industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing, Peter has built a rich and varied career across industries such as hospitality, automotive, consulting, and technology marketing. He's had the opportunity to work with global companies like Dassault Systèmes, Cognizant, and JAGGAER, focusing on impactful marketing approaches in the tech space.
Beyond his professional achievements, Peter is passionate about mentorship and giving back to the community. He actively contributes to a local startup organization in Australia as a marketing mentor, sharing his knowledge and guiding high school students in exploring marketing as a career path after university.
In his downtime, Peter indulges his love for sports and gaming. A devoted NBA and UFC fan, as well as an avid video gamer, Peter balances his professional life with his personal passions.

🌏 Other Cities on the Roadshow

Melbourne | Thursday, 17 July 2025

Perth | Thursday, 7 August 2025

Sydney | Thursday, 14 August 2025

Brisbane| Thursday, 25 September 2025

🌏 Other Cities on the Roadshow

Melbourne | Thursday, 17 July 2025

Perth | Thursday, 7 August 2025

Sydney | Thursday, 14 August 2025

Brisbane| Thursday, 25 September 2025

🌏 Other Cities on the Roadshow

Melbourne | Thursday, 17 July 2025

Perth | Thursday, 7 August 2025

Sydney | Thursday, 14 August 2025

Brisbane| Thursday, 25 September 2025

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