OR61: Annual Conference

3-5 September 2019

University of Kent
Sibson Building, Park Wood Rd, Canterbury CT2 7FS

Our OR61 conference in 2019 picked up momentum from the 2018 diamond anniversary and proved to be a fun, memorable and fascinating conference.

Hosted at the University of Kent, OR61 promoted debate and future-thinking to focus the OR profession on how it needs to evolve to deliver benefits to business, the economy and wider society.

OR61 was co-chaired by Professor Said Salhi and Dr Kathy Kotiadis from the University of Kent and featured three prominent plenary speakers:

• Professor Erhan Erkut, Vice Rector, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Professor Grazia Speranza, IFORS President and former EURO president. Professor of OR, University of Brescia, Italy
• Professor Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, USA