INFORMS 是全球最大的資料科學家、智慧分析的學會。在亞洲大學林蔚君副校長的爭取下，今年 6 月 17 日至20 日將首次台北舉辦 INFORMS 年度國際會議。已收到來 自 25 個國家、900 多篇論文投稿，約計 40 位國際知名講者，包括多位美國國家院士、 INFORMS 院士與國際智慧分析領域的領袖，參會人數達 1,000 人。

INFORMS 年度國際今年以「創新運籌 / 分析與人工智能 創造更美好的世界」為主題，研討內容包括研討內容:：智慧分析、人工智慧、機器學習、 工業4.0、智慧健康照護、智慧零售、智慧綠能、智慧城市、循環經濟、智慧教育、服務科學、金融科技與區塊鏈等。會議期間，舉辦有史以來第一次INFORMS的國際黑克松， 此次以未來金融與健康照護為題，首獎 10,000 美元的獎勵將頒發給最優秀團隊。機會難得，鼓勵大家報名參加會議及黑客松。

BNY Mellon特別在INFORMS年會期間於6/18晚上於君悅飯店舉辦Women in Tech Dinner讓我們Girls in Tech Taiwan社群成員與INFORMS的優秀女生講者交流。歡迎所有科技女生一同參與吃飯，交換經驗並慶祝，席位有限，報名請快喔。

講者介紹：

Frieda Granot: 

Frieda Granot has been with the University of British Columbia her entire career, spending more than a decade in the Sauder School of Business as the only female tenure-track member in a faculty of over 100. In 1996, Granot was appointed the first female dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and interdisciplinary research where she spearheaded a variety of think tanks, managing their development from a mere idea to successful, full-fledged entities. She was the co-chair of the annual Women in Leadership Forum and the Women's Leadership Council and serves on the advisory board of the Young Women in Business network. Granot is a champion of the under-represented, helping to raise millions of dollars to support students with disabilities, Aboriginal students and women in science, activities that earned her awards from YWCA Women of Distinction(for creating and championing new untraditional knowledge), Top 100-Canada's Most Powerful Women award(in the Trailblazers and Trendsetters category for promoting women in science and engineering). Granot has a PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration. In 2007, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. She is an INFORMS Fellow.

Radhika Kulkarni :

Dr. Radhika Kulkarni is Vice President of Advanced Analytics R&D at SAS Institute Inc. She oversees software development in many analytical areas including Statistics, Operations Research, Econometrics, Forecasting and Data Mining. Kulkarni is an active member in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and serves on the Advisory Council of the School of ORIE at Cornell University, the Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University, the Master of Science in Analytics Advisory Board at Georgia Tech and the Marketing Analytics and Data Mining Board at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kulkarni is a recipient of the Women in Operations Research and the Management Sciences (WORMS) Award and was recognized as an INFORMS Fellow in 2014.
 
Radhika Kulkarni has a Master’s in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and a Master’s (1979) and Ph.D. (1981) in Operations Research from Cornell University

Angel Chien:

Pin Hui Chien is now Executive Engineer and the Head of QA team for Wistron ITS in Taiwan and started her career as a System Analyst at Board of Public Utility in New Jersey, USA. After got Master degree in Computer Science in 2005, she got experience in customer support followed by software engineer in the USA for a year. Then, she went back to Taiwan and became only girl work as Research and Developer in memory team for Transcend. Because of her curiosity, she became QA, FAE, TPM, Technical Architecture, and Java developer afterward. She is an organizer, a helper, and having bilingual skill. From two minor misstep in her early career, she learned that her life should not be affected by others especially family even their original intention is good. She was just selected on the list of Girls in Tech Taiwan 40 under 40 2018.

Agenda:

6:00 Checkin and networking
6:45 Grace Lin(INFORMS) intro
6:50 Nadia Chen(BNY Mellon) intro
6:55 Jane Shih(Girls in Tech Taiwan) intro
7:00 1st speaker 
7:10 2nd speaker 
7:20 3rd speaker
7:30 All speakers on the stage (AMA-ask me anything) 

7:45-8:45 Dinner and Networking