2025 Utah Winter Operations Conference Agenda
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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)