Members of the FICO Xpress team had an extraordinary time meeting and learning from Analytics and Optimization professionals and academics at the 2025 INFORMS Analytics+ conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. This year, our on-site team included someone at every point of the Xpress Optimization solver value chain, from developers to marketers to product managers and even sales. We ensured our team was diverse in background and function to allow conference attendees to ask any questions about our suite of FICO Xpress optimization products.
The three-day event began with a pre-conference exhibitor’s workshop on Sunday, where consulting and software companies presented their successful use cases and latest developments in their software. The FICO team presented the latest innovations in our flagship optimization products which include 1) optimization solvers for LP, QP, NLP, MIP, MIQP and MINLPs problems, 2) a platform that streamlines the development and deployment of end-to-end optimization applications from data processing to UI/UX, and 3) an algebraic modelling language that doubles as an orchestrator for fast development and deployment of optimization models.
After getting technical, the team hosted our first FICO Xpress mixer where we treated conference attendees to delicious food and drinks, including our trademark drink, the “FICO FIZZ”. The room was abuzz with talks about Optimization, GenAI, cuOpt, and of course AI in general, and the team was more than happy to share our perspective on these. It was incredible to have these enlightening discussions with current and future customers and others innovating in this space. We ended the pre-conference day meeting with conference attendees at our exhibitor’s booth and our sponsored professional headshot.
Monday’s activities began with a keynote by Cassie Kozyrkov, Ph.D., on AI enabling automation that was previously thought impossible for businesses. The rest of the day was focused on meeting attendees at the booth and hearing what problems they had been working on to understand how our FICO Xpress optimization suite can help them achieve their professional and academic goals. In addition to these discussions, our booth hosted a spin the wheel giveaway game with prizes including baseball hats, tech bags, koozies, socks, polo shirts, and the crowd-favourite airtags.
Monday evening was the Edelman gala, where six finalists, including a long-time FICO Xpress enterprise user, briefly described how they used analytics and optimization to solve impactful business problems. The wide range of applications for which the finalists leveraged advanced analytics and optimization is a testament to the field’s broad applicability across verticals like supply chain, travel, logistics, finance, and even athletics. At the end of the night, the USA Cycling Team took the award for their novel application of analytics and optimization to give coaches and riders the edge that brought them their first Gold Medal at the Paris Olympics.
The final day’s activities began with a keynote by Professor Dick den Hertog on the use of Analytics and Optimization to make a more significant impact on Sustainable Development followed by the FICO team’s tech spotlight presentation on combining Optimization with GenAI to streamline better decision-making. As the conference wound down, we remained in the booth to continue discussions and put a few more smiles on the last attendees with our giveaways.
From April 6th- 9th, the FICO team attended the Annual INFORMS Analytics conference. We greatly appreciate INFORMS for organizing this successful conference and applaud its efforts as an institution to maintain this vibrant community of professionals helping the world make better decisions.
The three-day event began with a pre-conference exhibitor’s workshop on Sunday, where consulting and software companies presented their successful use cases and latest developments in their software. The FICO team presented the latest innovations in our flagship optimization products which include 1) optimization solvers for LP, QP, NLP, MIP, MIQP and MINLPs problems, 2) a platform that streamlines the development and deployment of end-to-end optimization applications from data processing to UI/UX, and 3) an algebraic modelling language that doubles as an orchestrator for fast development and deployment of optimization models.
After getting technical, the team hosted our first FICO Xpress mixer where we treated conference attendees to delicious food and drinks, including our trademark drink, the “FICO FIZZ”. The room was abuzz with talks about Optimization, GenAI, cuOpt, and of course AI in general, and the team was more than happy to share our perspective on these. It was incredible to have these enlightening discussions with current and future customers and others innovating in this space. We ended the pre-conference day meeting with conference attendees at our exhibitor’s booth and our sponsored professional headshot.
Monday’s activities began with a keynote by Cassie Kozyrkov, Ph.D., on AI enabling automation that was previously thought impossible for businesses. The rest of the day was focused on meeting attendees at the booth and hearing what problems they had been working on to understand how our FICO Xpress optimization suite can help them achieve their professional and academic goals. In addition to these discussions, our booth hosted a spin the wheel giveaway game with prizes including baseball hats, tech bags, koozies, socks, polo shirts, and the crowd-favourite airtags.
Monday evening was the Edelman gala, where six finalists, including a long-time FICO Xpress enterprise user, briefly described how they used analytics and optimization to solve impactful business problems. The wide range of applications for which the finalists leveraged advanced analytics and optimization is a testament to the field’s broad applicability across verticals like supply chain, travel, logistics, finance, and even athletics. At the end of the night, the USA Cycling Team took the award for their novel application of analytics and optimization to give coaches and riders the edge that brought them their first Gold Medal at the Paris Olympics.
The final day’s activities began with a keynote by Professor Dick den Hertog on the use of Analytics and Optimization to make a more significant impact on Sustainable Development followed by the FICO team’s tech spotlight presentation on combining Optimization with GenAI to streamline better decision-making. As the conference wound down, we remained in the booth to continue discussions and put a few more smiles on the last attendees with our giveaways.
From April 6th- 9th, the FICO team attended the Annual INFORMS Analytics conference. We greatly appreciate INFORMS for organizing this successful conference and applaud its efforts as an institution to maintain this vibrant community of professionals helping the world make better decisions.
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