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INFORMS Annual Meeting

The largest gathering of operations research and analytics professionals, with practitioners from industry, government and academia and a strong job-market and networking program.

Dates
Nov 1 to Nov 4, 2026
Where
San Francisco, CA
Cost
Ticket $750 to $1,250. 2026 rates: member $750 early / $900 regular; nonmember $1,080 early / $1,250 regular (includes one year of membership). Early pricing ended Sept 2, 2026.
Type
Conference · Paid ticket
Organizer
INFORMS
Suits
Exploring a move, Changing careers, Student or new grad, Growing in role, Between jobs
Last checked
October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site

Official site and registration

Cheaper ways in: Student member $325-$425, student nonmember $400-$510, retired $325-$510; groups of 10+ get $675 member / $945 nonmember per person.

Speaking opportunities

Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen

Session proposals and speaker registration for 2026 are closed; INFORMS runs a yearly call for session clusters (terms for the next meeting not confirmed).

Who goes

Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.

Segments: Data engineering and analytics

Roles: operations research analyst, data scientist, statistician, optimization engineer

The field it serves: Technology & Software

Verified open jobs
about 89,532

Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.

Typical posted salary
$184,000 a year (middle half $131,000 to $234,000)

Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 2,228 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Entry or early-career level
24% of openings

Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.

Employment, year over year
−4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector

Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.

Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences

Employers at this conference

Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.

Read from the event’s own pages: meetings.informs.org, meetings.informs.org, meetings.informs.org.

Speakers and sessions

Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.

Keynotes

  • Benjamin Van Roy

    Stanford University

    Aligning Superintelligence

  • Cynthia Dwork

    Harvard University

    Indistinguishability: The Stuff of Magic

  • Dolores Romero Morales

    Copenhagen Business School

    Optimization Models for Group-Level Explainability in Machine Learning

  • Elena Fernandez

    University of Cádiz

    Location Science, Once More: New Challenges for a Mature Area

  • Ishai Menache

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain: Democratizing Hyperscale Optimization for Cloud Fulfillment

  • Jeevan Pathuri

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain: Democratizing Hyperscale Optimization for Cloud Fulfillment

  • Joel Sokol

    Georgia Tech

    Georgia Institute of Technology Team

  • Kayla Kummerlowe

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain: Democratizing Hyperscale Optimization for Cloud Fulfillment

  • Konstantina Mellou

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Cloud Supply Chain: Democratizing Hyperscale Optimization for Cloud Fulfillment

  • Mengdi Wang

    Princeton University

    LabOS: The AI-XR Co-Scientist That Sees and Works with Humans

  • Tueng Shen

    University of Washington

    Engineering Medicine: Technology, Convergence, and the Transformation of Human Health

  • Yinyu Ye

    Stanford University

    Mathematical Optimization in the Era of AI

Speakers

  • Andrea Lodi

    Cornell Tech

    Three Ideas Toward GPU-Enhanced Mixed-Integer Optimization

  • Karen Smilowitz

    Northwestern University

    The Use of Optimization Models in Public Sector Decision-making

  • Michael Jordan

    Inria Paris and University of California, Berkeley

    A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI

  • Russell Allgor

    Auger.com

    From Manual Integration to Autonomous Decisions

Read from the event’s own pages: meetings.informs.org

Industries and functions

Where it is and who it is for

Held in San Francisco, CA. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.

Past and planned editions

  • 2026: November 1, 2026 to November 4, 2026, San Francisco, CA

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