OPTIMA-CON 24

The inaugural OPTIMA-CON 2024 is hosted by the ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA). The conference will run from 08:30–17:30 daily.

OPTIMA-CON 2024 brings together industry professionals, researchers, and students from various national and international institutions. There will be a strong career and industry focus in this conference to build work readiness and connect industry with future leaders in optimisation. A diverse range of workshops, presentations and discussion groups will be held during the conference designed to foster meaningful collaborations and knowledge transfer between academia and the private sector. Optimisation challenge workshops based on real industry problems will bring students and industry together in a common goal.

The conference will provide a conducive environment for networking, allowing attendees to establish connections with potential research collaborators. Informal interactions, such as coffee breaks and social events, create opportunities for participants to initiate discussions, exchange ideas, and explore possibilities for future joint research projects such collaborations can contribute to the national economy by driving innovation and addressing industry challenges.

There will be no one theme at the inaugural OPTIMA conference as we aim to bring together optimisation professionals from across disciplines.

Highlights

  • Over thirty industry and research presentations delivered in a non-technical format
  • Industry breakfast panel briefing with Gurobi
  • Industry case study sessions
  • Brainstorming sessions
  • Networking opportunities for academics, students and industry
  • Industry and careers meet and greet
  • Poster session

Keynote speakers

  • Juergen Branke, Warwick University
    Professor of Operational Research & Systems at Warwick University, UK.
    Juergen’s research interests are in nature-inspired optimisation; logistics and scheduling; multiobjective optimisation and decision-making; optimisation in the presence of uncertainty; simulation-based optimisation; and Bayesian optimisation.
  • Cori Stewart, ARM Hub
    Cori founded the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub to improve industry’s productivity levels, its sovereign capability, and its access to high-value global supply chains.
    As ARM Hub CEO, Cori has nurtured hundreds of businesses to validate, commercialise and modernise using cutting-edge technologies, design thinking, new IP and workforce development strategies. She has worked in defence, energy, medical, resources, the agriculture sector and more.

  • Daniel Guimarans, Amazon
    is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon, with combined experience in academic research and consultancy projects for government and industry on transportation and logistics, aviation, and software solutions.
    Daniel’s research is mainly focussed on the hybridisation of optimisation methods, and its combination with simulation techniques to solve stochastic problems and complex systems. Data analytics also play a major role in my research. His work is aimed at solving transportation, logistics, aviation, and manufacturing problems.
    Areas of expertise: Optimisation, Constraint Programming, Heuristics and Metaheuristics, Simulation, Data Analysis, Logistics, Transportation, Routing, Scheduling, Aviation.

Important dates

  • 30 November 2023 Abstract submission opens
  • 18 March 2024 Abstract submission closes
  • 30 April 2024 Abstract decisions
  • 30 April 2024 Ticket sales (early bird until 16th June)
  • 10–12 July 2024 Conference