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Date	Speaker	Title
2013	4/17 - 5/22 -6/19
June 19	Susan Garavaglia Express-Scripts	Trends in Prescription Drug Utilization Using Time Series Methods
May 22	Leonardo Auslender Independent Statistical Research Consultant	Comparative Review of Classification Trees presentation slides paper: Alacart: Poor Man's Classification Trees by Leonardo Auslander
April 17	Ken Fordyce, IBM	The Illusion of Capacity in Supply Chain Models for the Semiconductor Industry presentation slides
March 13	Nicholas Kersting, Ph. D. Princeton Consultants, Inc.	Using Data Visualization to empower "Human in the Loop presentation slides 2-D Prezi presentation used at lunch meeting (to view, click full screen icon and then use right arrow key)
Feb. 13	Alkis Vazacopoulos, Ph.D. CEO Industrial Algorithms	Next Generation of Mathematical Programming Modeling & Solving Tools presentation slides
Jan. 16	Cary S. Shaw Cary S. Shaw & Associates, LLC	How to Recognize and Fix Data Faults That Can Make or Break Analytics presentation slides
2012
Dec. 12	Jeff Day, Ph.D. SAS Senior Operations Research Specialist	No Crystal Ball Required - Predictive Analytics for Business presentation slides SAS Case Slides - Solving Business Problems with Analytics
Nov. 14	Damon Ragusa Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, ThinkVine	Bringing the Consumer into the Mix: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Power Marketing Mix Optimization presentation slides
Oct. 24	Leonardo Auslender Independent Statistical Consultant	Variable Selection in the linear Regression model presentation slides
Sept. 12	Dov Chelst Director of Quantitative Analysis ICMA's Center for Public Safety Management	Data-driven Decisions for Police and Fire Departments
June 13	Bruce Ratner President of DM STAT-1 CONSULTING	Statistical and Machine-Learning Data Mining: Techniques for Better Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Big Data presentation slides
May 16	Mitch Krieger Financial Services Specialist Vertica An HP Company	Real Time Big Data Analytics in Large Enterprises
April 25	Michael O'Connell, PhD Sr. Director, Analytics TIBCO	Data Discovery and Analytics for Financial Services presentation slides
March 22	speaker bios	Fifth Student-Practitioner Evening Forum
March 14	Dan Grady Technology Director Information Builders	Mobile Business Intelligence
Feb. 15	Scott Tayor Global Account Manager, QlikTech Nik Boman Senior Solution Architect, QlikTech	Business Discovery Using Next Generation Business Intelligence presentation slides QlikView demos QlikView free download
Jan. 18	Steve Sashihara CEO of Princeton Consultants Inc.	5 Steps to a Successful Optimization Project presentation slides
2011
Dec. 14	Jack Levis Director of Process Management UPS	Turning data into a business advantage through optimization: What any business can learn from UPS presentation slides
Nov. 9	Panel Discussion	Future Directions for our NY Metro chapter. This lunch meeting is for those who want to participate in planning chapter activities this year
Oct. 5	Dr. Ira J. Haimowitz Executive Vice President Intelligence and Analytics The CementBloc	Analytics for the New Healthcare Relationship Marketing presentation slides
Sept. 14	Igor Ofenbakh President of WizData Systems	Overdraft decisions and probability of charge off assessment presentation slides
June 15	Moshe Kravitz Career coach specializing in Analytics and Financial professionals IDT Corporation	ADVANCE-YOUR-CAREER TOOLKIT Effective Methods for Job Seekers and People Who Want to Maintain or Improve their Position Career Coach Brochure
May 18	Russ Labe Director Decision Support Modeling Group Bank of America Merrill Lynch	Developing Econometric Models to Forecast Brokerage Revenue
April 13	Steve Vail Director, Advanced Analytics Wunderman	Social Media Listening Platforms Quantification of social media to drive marketing insights
March 16	Claudia Perlich Chief Scientist at Media6Degrees	Machine learning for privacy friendly online brand advertisement Presentation Slides
Feb. 16	Chris Piedmonte Co-Founder, Director and CTO Algebraix Data Corporation (ADC)	Superior Business Intelligence through Algebraic Optimization Presentation Slides Algebraix Technology Overview Doing the Math Podcast: Talking With Algebraix
Jan. 19	Igor Mandel Vice President, Director of Econometrics & Statistics Telmar Group Inc.	Sociosystemics and Statistics Presentation Slides (11 MB)
2010
Dec. 15	Doug Samuelson President and Chief Scientist of InfoLogix, Inc.	Why Did Risk Analyses Fail? presentation slides
Nov. 17	Kevin Lyons Vice President, Analytics & Business Intelligence, [x+1] Xplusone	Using statistical analysis to dynamically generate web site pages and digital media to increase response rates to marketing campaigns presentation slides
Oct. 13	Kaiser Fung Senior Director of Analytics Sirius XM Radio	What Happens After the Math is Done? Numbers Rule Your World: blog & book description presentation slides
Sept. 15	Peter Kolesar Professor Emeritus Columbia University	Breaking the Deadlock: Improving Water-Release Policies on the Delaware River through Operations Research presentation slides - Intro Video
June 16	Horia Tipi Principal Consultant within FICO's Solutions Management group.	Solving extremely large scale optimization problems using FICO's Xpress Optimization Suite presentation slides
May 12	Steve Gallant Director of Data Mining Services for KXEN	Incremental Response Modeling: Uses, Algorithms and Comparisons presentation slides
April 14	Lee Russo Senior Vice President - IXI Corporation Diversified Financial Services	The Power of Data Consortiums for Better Predictive Modeling presentation slides
March 17	Tom Donnelly Principal Customer Advocate Systems Engineer, JMP SAS Institute Inc.	Using Modern Design of Experiments Methods to Optimize Processes presentation slides paper on efficient modeling and simulation using DOE methods Tutorial on “Real-World DOE Problems” guide to the complex 10-factor experimental design that was shown at the end of the talk The link to the JMP website where there are on-demand webcasts related to talk
Feb. 17	Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D. Professor of Health Policy Department of Health Evidence and Policy Mount Sinai School of Medicine	Evidence, Politics, and Technological Change in Medicine.
Jan. 13	Michael Gilman, PhD Data Mining Technologies Inc.	Use of Machine Learning to Personalize Website Interactions and Marketing email Messages presentation slides
2009
Dec. 16	Rich Solomon Director in the New York offices of Novantas LLC, a management consultancy	Analytical Deposit Pricing. Introduction on Novantas. Core Concepts of elasticity based pricing Demonstration of our deposit pricing application.
Nov. 18	Doug Brooks Senior Vice President and General Manager of Modeling & Analytic Solutions at Information Resources (IRI)	Successes and Failures in Marketing Mix Modeling. presentation slides
Oct. 21	Rob Ende Vice President, Supply Chain Leviton Mfg. Co.	Walk Before You Run: Starting the Climb up the Analytics Ladder presentation slides
Sept. 23	Leonardo Auslender SAS Institute Enterprise Miner Department Research and Development group	The riddle of redundancy, suppression, enhancement and co-linearity in a linear regression model presentation slides
June 17	Russell Baris President of eLumindata, Inc	Filling a Gap in Analytic Software Capabilities presentation slides
May 20	Adam Selig President of Strategic Alliances for Visible Technologies	Leveraging Online Communities Across the Enterprise presentation slides
April 22	Dan Steinberg Founder and President of Salford Systems	Interaction Detection With TreeNet Boosted Tree Ensembles presentation slides
March 18	Peg Trench Senior Director of Portfolio Analytics and Capital for Barclays in Wilmington, Delaware.	Basel II and Implications for Capital Requirements in the Current Economy presentation slides
Feb. 18	Rick Lawrence manages the Predictive Modeling Group within the Business Analytics and Mathematical Science organization at IBM Research.	Analytics-Driven Solutions for Increased Sales Force Productivity
Jan. 21	Panel of Industry Experts: Michael Eichorst – Formerly:VP Market and Business Intelligence at TIAA-CREF, VP JPMorgan Chase Bank Manny Nadelman – VP and Senior Scoring Specialist at Citigroup Sebastian Brandimarte – President of The Brandimarte Group Inc. Igor Ofenbakh - President of WizData Systems, Inc. Moderator: G. Jack Theurer – President at G. Theurer Associates Inc	Perspectives on the Current Economic Environment and the Practice of Operations Research / Analytics
2008
Dec. 17	Cancelled Len Dubois SVP of Marketing and Sales Support Harte Hanks Trillium Software	Why Data Quality is important in today's economy
Nov. 19	Ken Bloom CEO INTTRA	Operations Research: A CEO’s Toolkit for Optimizing Growth presentation slides
Oct. 29	Igor Ofenbakh President of WizData Systems.	Estimation of the lost sales revenue opportunity due to out of stock inventory presentation slides
Sept. 17	Don N. Kleinmuntz President-Elect of INFORMS Executive VP, Co-founder at Strata Decision Technology Research Professor at University of Southern California	Optimizing Enterprise-Wide Capital Resource Allocation in Hospitals and Health Systems presentation slides

June 18	Cary Shaw Pitney Bowes	When Fuzzy Modeling Gives the Most Precise Answer presentation slides
May 14	Bruce Ratner, Ph.D. President of DM STAT-1 Consulting	Analysis and Modeling of Today's Data with Machine Learning
Apr. 16	Cancelled due to family emergency John G. Napoli CA (nee Computer Associates)	Transforming America's Most Dysfunctional Company
March 12	Dr. Marco Zaider Memorial Sloan-Kettering	2007 Franz Edelman Award Winner: Operations Research Answers to Cancer Therapeutics
Feb. 21	Fourth Student-Practitioner Evening Forum	Pace Directions Pace Campus Map
Feb. 13	Dr. Aaron Shenhar Stevens Institute	The Myth and Reality of Project Management
Jan. 16	Dr. Kattamuri S. Sarma Ecostat Research Corp	Variable Selection and Transformation in SAS Enterprise Miner presentation slides

2007
Jan. 24	Andrew Kalotay	Playing the mortgage game like a professional
Feb. 21	Charles Stryker	Anatomy of Successful Ideas: From OR Analyst to Entrepreneur
Mar. 21	Paul Savage	The Modeling of Hospital Closures in NY State
Apr. 16	Gary Lillien	Why Managers Don't Use Good Decision Models and What We Can Do About It
May 16	Russ Kehoe	Segmentation techniques on the application of non-Scalar methodologies for ranking purposes
June 13	Leonardo Auslender	Issues in Classification and Data Mining
Sept. 19	Pat Socci	Does corporate culture influence financial performance?
Oct. 17	Dr. Samuel Kohn	Strategic Pricing of Innovative Technology
Nov. 14	Ginger Conlon 1to1 Media	Emerging trends in Customer Relationship Marketing
Dec. 12	Dr. Lewis Coopersmith Rider University	Advanced Tools for Retirement Planning

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