At the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, attendees packed the plenary auditorium to hear Eric Phillips, Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Delta Air Lines, share how one of the world’s leading airlines is harnessing the power of operations research, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) to shape the next century of flight. As Delta celebrates its 100th anniversary, Phillips emphasized that the company’s success is built on both mathematical rigor and the human spirit that defines air travel.

• Jingjing Weng

INFORMS member Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman discusses how she's utilized INFORMS Connect throughout her INFORMS membership journey for communication, networking and even job search.

• Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman

The 2023 Franz Edelman Award was awarded to Walmart during the Edelman Gala at the 2023 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference in Aurora, Colorado, for its use of operations research (O.R.) to enhance retail truck routing and load planning.

• Kara Tucker

For decades, analytics has lived with an uncomfortable tradeoff. If you want state-of-the-art accuracy, you must accept complexity and opacity. If you want interpretability, you must settle for weaker performance. In her keynote at the 2026 INFORMS Analytics+ Conference, Cynthia Rudin argued that this tradeoff is not only unnecessary - it is often simply wrong.