2025 Utah Winter Operations Conference Agenda

Thursday, February 6

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception (The Aerie)

Friday, February 7

7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)

7:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Session I (Primrose): Socially Responsible Operations

Session Chairs: Nitin Bakshi and Manu Goyal

  • Bin Hu (UT Dallas): Scope 3 Emission Disclosure in Supply Chains: Equity and Efficiency
  • Ioannis Stamatopoulos (UT Austin): Of the First Five US States with Food Waste Bans, Massachusetts Alone Has Reduced Landfill Waste
  • Manu Goyal (Utah): Ethics and Trust in Outsourcing

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Outdoor activities

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Light snacks (Primrose)

4:30 – 6:45 p.m. | Session II (Primrose): Artificial Intelligence

Session Chair: Gad Allon and Terry Taylor

  • Robert Shumsky (Dartmouth): Chatbots and Data Analytics: GenAI Changes How and What We Teach
  • Terry Taylor (Berkeley): What is the Impact of Labor Productivity on the Optimal Staffing Level?
  • Gad Allon (Penn): Moats in the Era of AI

7:00 pm | Dinner (Primrose)

Saturday, February 8

7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)

7:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Session III: Education Technology

Session Chair: Nicos Savva

  • Anjali Adukia (Chicago): Separation of Church and State Curricula?
  • Vanitha Virudachalam (UIUC): Coproduction in the Classroom: Optimally Allocating Incentives Between Teachers and Students
  • Andrew Wu (Michigan): Stopping the Revolving Door: An Empirical and Textual Study of Crowdfunding and Teacher Turnover
  • Jun Li (Michigan): Measuring the Effect of GenAI in Higher Education [short talk]

10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Outdoor activities

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Light snacks (Primrose)

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Session IV: Keynote (Primrose)

Session Chairs: Nicole DeHoratius and Terry Taylor

  • Robert Phillips (Nomis Solutions): Dynamic Pricing from Revenue Management to Reinforcement Learning and Beyond

6:15 p.m. | Dinner (Primrose)