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<DIV>Dear opt-net friends,</DIV>
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<DIV>The UK OR practitioner community and the Making An Impact committee
cordially invite you to join in with the practitioner oriented activities at
this year’s EURO conference and spread the word to other practitioners in your
personal networks.</DIV>
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<DIV>Making An Impact activities will run throughout the conference.
Activities planned include:</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">Workshops, seminars and
tutorials: </FONT></SPAN></B></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">tasters and master classes to help
expand your technical repertoire and competence, in areas such as data
visualisation, analytics, optimisation; </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">workshops and discussions on skills
and issues such as career development, better communications, managing your
digital footprint, marketing your team, quality assuring your models;
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</FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">vendor-led sessions (also known as
'The Vendor Stream') on specific software. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">Academic-practitioner
bazaars: </FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">posters and 60-second presentations highlighting the
latest developments across the academic-practitioner
interface.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">Case studies in O.R. and
analytics: </FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">presentations of case studies, providing learning and
inspiration for your own practice. In addition, streams such as Health,
Defence and Security, Civil Government, Strategy, Finance and many more will
include practical case studies within particular practice areas or
methodologies. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">Speed networking:
</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">a
fun and focused session to help you make new contacts across the O.R.
spectrum. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt">Clinics:
</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">one-to-one mentoring sessions with experienced
practitioners. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></UL>
<DIV>The Making An Impact web page is here: <A
title=http://www.euro2015.org/making-an-impact---euro2015-for-practitioners
style='href: "http://www.euro2015.org/making-an-impact---euro2015-for-practitioners"'
href="http://www.euro2015.org/making-an-impact---euro2015-for-practitioners">http://www.euro2015.org/making-an-impact---euro2015-for-practitioners</A>
. </DIV>
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<DIV>The Practice of OR area is running streams on Case studies in OR/
Analytics, OR in Civil Government, Defence and Security Applications. Of
course, there are many other streams which will be of interest. The full
list of streams are here: <A
title=http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/streams
style='href: "http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/streams"'
href="http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/streams">http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/streams</A></DIV>
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<DIV>The closing date for submitting abstracts is 16th March. We are
therefore working hard to generate OR practitioner interest early, so that they
may present at the conference. Registration on the Euro Online system is
required to submit an abstract. The registration page is here: <A
href="http://www.euro-online.org/web/accounts/register/">http://www.euro-online.org/web/accounts/register/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Conference registration can be done from the EURO 27 front page: <A
title=http://www.euro2015.org/ style='href: "http://www.euro2015.org/"'
href="http://www.euro2015.org/">http://www.euro2015.org/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Kind regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Phil Jones [Practice in OR Area Organiser]</DIV>
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