Decision Intelligence Summit 2026
September 22-23, 2026
8:30 AM
ARIA Hotel & Resort, Las Vegas
Decision Intelligence Summit 2026
September 22-23, 2026
8:30 AM
ARIA Hotel & Resort, Las Vegas
Decision Intelligence Summit 2026
September 22-23, 2026
8:30 AM
ARIA Hotel & Resort, Las Vegas
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Where Mathematical Optimizaton Comes to Life
Driving Trusted Decisions
We’re living in the age of AI, where insight is everywhere—but true impact is rare. While generative AI and machine learning can accelerate exploration by surfacing patterns, scenarios, and possibilities, turning those insights into defensible, high-value decisions requires a different kind of AI: mathematical optimization.
As everyday business decisions become increasingly tangled with complexity, optimization determines the best course of action within real-world limits to ensure not just better, but optimal outcomes for airlines, healthcare, finance, and beyond.
At the 2026 Gurobi Decision Intelligence Summit, we’ll showcase the real-world impact of optimization through innovative use cases, in-depth trainings, and expert-led panels, while also exploring how GenAI can break down barriers to entry and help more users leverage optimization’s powerful potential.
Join us to discover why 7 out of the top 10 leading enterprises trust their most complex business decisions to Gurobi, and learn how your organization can start achieving optimal outcomes, too.
Where Mathematical Optimizaton Comes to Life
Driving Trusted Decisions
We’re living in the age of AI, where insight is everywhere—but true impact is rare. While generative AI and machine learning can accelerate exploration by surfacing patterns, scenarios, and possibilities, turning those insights into defensible, high-value decisions requires a different kind of AI: mathematical optimization.
As everyday business decisions become increasingly tangled with complexity, optimization determines the best course of action within real-world limits to ensure not just better, but optimal outcomes for airlines, healthcare, finance, and beyond.
At the 2026 Gurobi Decision Intelligence Summit, we’ll showcase the real-world impact of optimization through innovative use cases, in-depth trainings, and expert-led panels, while also exploring how GenAI can break down barriers to entry and help more users leverage optimization’s powerful potential.
Join us to discover why 7 out of the top 10 leading enterprises trust their most complex business decisions to Gurobi, and learn how your organization can start achieving optimal outcomes, too.
Where Mathematical Optimizaton Comes to Life
Driving Trusted Decisions
We’re living in the age of AI, where insight is everywhere—but true impact is rare. While generative AI and machine learning can accelerate exploration by surfacing patterns, scenarios, and possibilities, turning those insights into defensible, high-value decisions requires a different kind of AI: mathematical optimization.
As everyday business decisions become increasingly tangled with complexity, optimization determines the best course of action within real-world limits to ensure not just better, but optimal outcomes for airlines, healthcare, finance, and beyond.
At the 2026 Gurobi Decision Intelligence Summit, we’ll showcase the real-world impact of optimization through innovative use cases, in-depth trainings, and expert-led panels, while also exploring how GenAI can break down barriers to entry and help more users leverage optimization’s powerful potential.
Join us to discover why 7 out of the top 10 leading enterprises trust their most complex business decisions to Gurobi, and learn how your organization can start achieving optimal outcomes, too.
Speakers from Leading Companies
Trusted by top organizations worldwide
See how organizations use Gurobi to solve complex problems, improve performance, and drive measurable results.
Speakers from Leading Companies
Trusted by top organizations worldwide
See how organizations use Gurobi to solve complex problems, improve performance, and drive measurable results.
Speakers from Leading Companies
Trusted by top organizations worldwide
See how organizations use Gurobi to solve complex problems, improve performance, and drive measurable results.
Why Attend
Optimization is transforming industries—enabling researchers to push boundaries, data scientists to drive smarter analytics, and business leaders to make faster, more effective decisions. But how can you fully harness its power to create real impact?
At the 2026 Gurobi Summit, you’ll explore The Power of Optimization through expert insights, hands-on learning, and real-world applications. Whether you’re advancing research, building AI-driven decision models, or optimizing complex business operations, this event will provide the knowledge, tools, and connections to help you succeed.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
Why Attend
Optimization is transforming industries—enabling researchers to push boundaries, data scientists to drive smarter analytics, and business leaders to make faster, more effective decisions. But how can you fully harness its power to create real impact?
At the 2026 Gurobi Summit, you’ll explore The Power of Optimization through expert insights, hands-on learning, and real-world applications. Whether you’re advancing research, building AI-driven decision models, or optimizing complex business operations, this event will provide the knowledge, tools, and connections to help you succeed.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
Why Attend
Optimization is transforming industries—enabling researchers to push boundaries, data scientists to drive smarter analytics, and business leaders to make faster, more effective decisions. But how can you fully harness its power to create real impact?
At the 2026 Gurobi Summit, you’ll explore The Power of Optimization through expert insights, hands-on learning, and real-world applications. Whether you’re advancing research, building AI-driven decision models, or optimizing complex business operations, this event will provide the knowledge, tools, and connections to help you succeed.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from industry leaders, exchange ideas, and discover what’s next in optimization.
Why Attend
Benefits for You
Why Attend
Benefits for You
Why Attend
Benefits for You
Agenda
Gurobi Summit Agenda
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
Keynote
Gurobi CEO Keynote
Hear the latest Gurobi Optimization news and updates from CEO Duke Perrucci.
Keynote
Gurobi Product & AI Roadmap
Join us as Gurobi leadership shares a sneak peek of the Gurobi Product Roadmap.
Session
Leveraging Emerging Technologies with Gurobi
An Update on GPUs, LLMs, and Quantum Computing
Agenda
Gurobi Summit Agenda
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
Keynote
Gurobi CEO Keynote
Hear the latest Gurobi Optimization news and updates from CEO Duke Perrucci.
Keynote
Gurobi Product & AI Roadmap
Join us as Gurobi leadership shares a sneak peek of the Gurobi Product Roadmap.
Session
Leveraging Emerging Technologies with Gurobi
An Update on GPUs, LLMs, and Quantum Computing
Agenda
Gurobi Summit Agenda
Sessions are designed to encourage discussion, comparison of approaches, and candid conversation—both on stage and off.
Keynote
Gurobi CEO Keynote
Hear the latest Gurobi Optimization news and updates from CEO Duke Perrucci.
Keynote
Gurobi Product & AI Roadmap
Join us as Gurobi leadership shares a sneak peek of the Gurobi Product Roadmap.
Session
Leveraging Emerging Technologies with Gurobi
An Update on GPUs, LLMs, and Quantum Computing
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Duke Perrucci
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Perrucci has more than 30 years of experience in roles spanning sales, marketing and analytics. He joined Gurobi in 2018 as the CRO, heading both sales and marketing. He then moved into the COO role and ultimately the CEO position in 2023. Prior to Gurobi, he held the position of CRO at Cambridge Analytica – a predictive analytics firm. Here he built the commercial practice in North America by helping companies drive better advertising through the use of artificial intelligence. Before Cambridge he spent 8 years in the MarTech space with FocusVision. Here he built a global sales organization across 6 continents and 10 offices. Prior to FocusVision, Mr. Perrucci spent a total of 9 years at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) working in various analytic consulting roles across the entire PepsiCo enterprise. After the first 4 years at IRI, he decided to gain experience on the brand side and moved into analytics at Unilever. Before long he secured a position in brand management working on the Bertolli business – a $400 million brand in the United States. When IRI came calling again, it was an offer too good to pass up – running the Pepsi Cola and Quaker businesses out of PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. Before this journey, Duke earned a BA in Classical Civilization from Fordham University. While en route, he earned his MBA from Cornell University.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Ed Klotz
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Dr. Ed Klotz has over 30 years of experience in the mathematical optimization software industry. He is a technical expert who, over the course of his career, has worked with a wide array of customers to help them solve some of world’s most challenging mathematical optimization problems. In his role as a Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist on the Gurobi R&D team, Dr. Klotz works closely with our customers to support them in implementing and utilizing mathematical optimization in their organizations. He also interacts heavily with the R&D team based on his experiences with the customers.
Prior to joining Gurobi, Dr. Klotz was a member of the CPLEX development team of IBM. He was involved in product development, customer training, product documentation, and numerous other tasks, with a primary focus on delivering CPLEX customer support and leveraging his experiences with customers to help inform the R&D team about customer needs and product improvements. Dr. Klotz has extensive knowledge in linear programming, integer programming, and numerical linear algebra for finite precision computing. Using this knowledge, he was able to investigate customer support issues at the source code level and identify potential improvements in CPLEX, both in terms of performance and accuracy of computation.
Before joining IBM, Dr. Klotz was a principal technical support engineer at ILOG, Inc., and a mathematical programming specialist at CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
Dr. Klotz has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and web seminars and published numerous papers on mathematical optimization. His interests are in all aspects of mathematical programming, with a primary interest in research that can impact mathematical programming software. He obtained a BA in Math and Economics from Oberlin College and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dr. Steffy received his PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published many papers in scientific journals, including work on computing numerically exact solutions to linear and integer programming problems.
Prior to joining Gurobi in 2022 he was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Oakland University. He also spent time working as a researcher at the Zuse Institute Berlin. In his free time he loves being outdoors, playing board games and spending time with his wife and two daughters.
Jue Xue
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Dr. Xue is an accomplished professional with diverse and extensive experience. He received a PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduation, he started teaching and research career as a professor at universities across continents. Later on, he moved into industry with IBM Global Services and IBM Software Group. He has spent 20 years at IBM as a consultant, senior solution architect, and managing data scientist. Before joining Gurobi, as a director of data science at AstraZeneca, he introduced and productionized decision optimization in clinical trial practice. His real world experience consists of numerous projects across various industries and government agencies, ranging from new business opportunity identification; vision, strategy and road map creation; innovative solution design and architect; team creation and building; solution delivery, and user enablement. He enjoys collaborating with clients and helping them to success. He is passionate in identifying and bridging decision problems with innovative solutions. He enjoys traveling, hiking, gardening, learning, and spending time with family and friends.
Rodrigo Fuentes
Senior Technical Account Manager
Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes joined Gurobi in 2020 as a technical account manager. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where his research work was focused on using different optimization techniques applied to the optimal use of hydro and thermal units. Prior to joining Gurobi he worked as a software engineer in various technical roles for Open Systems International, Open Access Technology International and Siemens, which serve electric, gas and oil utility businesses, exposing him to different and interesting optimization problems.
Rodrigo enjoys spending his free time with his wife, cooking, biking and playing soccer.
Jennifer Locke
Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Jerry Yurchisin
Senior Data Science Strategist
Mr. Yurchisin has over ten years’ experience applying operations research, machine learning, statistics, and data visualization to improve decision making. Before joining Gurobi, Jerry (who also goes by Jerome) was a Senior Consultant at OnLocation, Inc. where he customized several linear programming models within the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) to analyze implementing specific energy policies and utilizing new technologies.
Prior to OnLocation, Jerry was an Operations Research Analyst & Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton for over seven years. There he formulated scheduling and staffing integer programming models for the US Coast Guard, as well as led a project to quantify the maritime risks of offshore energy installations with the Research & Development Center. Further, Jerry was the technical lead on several Coast Guard studies including Living Marine Resources and Maritime Domain Awareness, providing statistical analysis and building supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. He also performed statistical analyses, machine learning modeling, and data visualization for cyberspace directorates at DoD and DHS.
Jerry has several years of experience teaching a wide variety of college-level mathematics and statistics courses and has a passion for education. He also enjoys golfing, biking, and writing about sports from an analytics point of view. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, son, and two dogs.
Jerry holds B.S., Ed. and M.S., Mathematics degrees from Ohio University and an M.S. in Operations Research and Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Juan Antonio Carrasco Ruiz
Software Quality Engineer
Juan is a Senior QA Automation Engineer. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has over 9 years of experience in software quality assurance and development. He specializes in test automation frameworks. Throughout his career, he has built a solid track record in international environments, specifically within critical sectors such as Banking/Fintech, Healthcare, and Automotive. Juan Antonio is an expert in designing automation frameworks from scratch, managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, and working under Agile methodologies. His technical stack includes tools like Selenium, Cypress, and Postman, alongside programming languages such as Java, Python, and JavaScript/NodeJS.Recently, he worked as a QA Engineer on Banco Santander's PagoNXT project, executing test plans for critical banking transactions and validating financial APIs. Prior to this, he served as a QA Lead at SII Group, where he managed a team of QA engineers for an automotive client and defined the testing strategy and automation framework architecture.
Kurt Mueller
Vice President of Sales
Mr. Mueller brings more than 25 years of sales and sales leadership experience with a proven track record of leading PE backed, Mid-sized, and Fortune 500 sales organizations to record growth. Prior to joining Gurobi, Kurt served as VP of sales with responsibility for Sales, Customer Success, and Account Management teams for several high-growth PE backed companies focused on solutions across multiple industries for global clients. Mr. Mueller has a successful history of building global high-growth revenue organizations that provide strategic AI, MarTech, ERP/CRM/CX, and financial content solutions to clients with mission critical requirements and applications. Additionally, Kurt worked at Bloomberg to lead the Enterprise Software organization to historic growth over 4 years in providing integrated ERP solutions that mitigated financial risk for Fortune 500 companies. After Bloomberg, he led the Enterprise team at Oracle for the East Region to provide CX solutions to global companies and Higher Education institutions based in the US. Kurt works diligently to collaborate with cross functional leaders, partners, and customers to support new product initiatives, implement scalable go-to-market strategies, while providing world class customer success to all his clients and partners. Mr. Mueller received a degree in Business Administration from Marshall University with additional focus on Marketing and Psychology, while on athletic scholarship.
Summer Purschke
Technical Account Manager
Summer Purschke is a Technical Account Manager at Gurobi Optimization, where she partners with organizations to develop mathematical optimization solutions for complex decision-making challenges. With a background in industrial engineering and applied data science, she works at the intersection of operations research and data science and thrives in collaborative, customer-facing environments. Prior to joining Gurobi, Summer worked as a Data Scientist at a financial technology company supporting the alternative investment industry, where she developed machine learning and optimization models to enhance capital introduction events and improve investor–fund matching. Outside of her work in optimization, Summer enjoys baking, gardening, ceramics, and sailing.
Zed Dean
Senior Technical Account Manager
Zed has twenty years of multi-disciplinary career experience; including IT support, data science, operational research and analytics sales. An engineer who started his career as an ICT officer at the United Nations, he was awarded outstanding contribution during the Iraq humanitarian response for his participation in building the system architecture of a rapid deployment ICT solution. He then built a predictive modeling analytical framework for promotional campaigns in the publishing industry. His inputs provided confidence in the company's strategic decisions regarding revenue management and pricing. While teaching operational research, Zed was voted the most dedicated lecturer at the university. Teaching several types of audiences; including business, engineering and informatics, exposed him to a wide range of OR applications. He most recently worked as a project manager, corporate trainer, account manager and salesperson in a highly competitive marketing analytics industry.
Based in Canada, Zed enjoys kayaking and canoeing in his free time; he has great interest in the history of math and algorithms.
Abigail Freeman
Technical Account Manager
Abby holds a Master of Business Analytics from the Operations Research Center at MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi. Prior to joining Gurobi, she worked at Pfizer, where she led a team of data scientists and developers in creating web applications that empowered business partners to leverage traditional machine learning and custom optimization models to improve supply chain operations. After a brief career hiatus for travel, she served as a data scientist for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, where she pioneered the application of optimization to improve member outreach initiatives. Outside of her professional endeavors, Abby enjoys any kind of competition, travel, puzzles, and cooking.
Nicholas Parham
Technical Account Manager
Nicholas Parham holds a B.S. in Operations Research from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Colorado School of Mines. His background includes formal study in computer science, economics, business, and applied mathematics, complemented by practical experience in data science, software engineering, web development, and cybersecurity. Throughout his career, he has worked with cloud, academic, government, and high-performance computing environments. A Miami native, Nicholas is proficient in Spanish and eager to support optimization initiatives across Latin America.
Caroline Weinberg
Manager of Optimization Support
Caroline holds a Master of Business Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management's Operations Research Center and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Kenyon College. Prior to joining Gurobi, she worked at Pfizer, where she managed cross-functional teams of data scientists and developers to create and deploy custom mathematical optimization solutions for manufacturing operations. Her work involved building optimization models to automate scheduling, improve production planning, manage inventory levels, and reduce material waste. Caroline is passionate about leveraging data science and optimization techniques to solve challenging business problems that drive real impact and value. Outside of her professional work, Caroline enjoys staying active through running, cycling, and hiking. She also has a passion for puzzles, both the jigsaw variety and the New York Times daily games.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speaker
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Chief Executive Officer
Duke Perrucci
Mr. Perrucci has more than 30 years of experience in roles spanning sales, marketing and analytics. He joined Gurobi in 2018 as the CRO, heading both sales and marketing. He then moved into the COO role and ultimately the CEO position in 2023. Prior to Gurobi, he held the position of CRO at Cambridge Analytica – a predictive analytics firm. Here he built the commercial practice in North America by helping companies drive better advertising through the use of artificial intelligence. Before Cambridge he spent 8 years in the MarTech space with FocusVision. Here he built a global sales organization across 6 continents and 10 offices. Prior to FocusVision, Mr. Perrucci spent a total of 9 years at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) working in various analytic consulting roles across the entire PepsiCo enterprise. After the first 4 years at IRI, he decided to gain experience on the brand side and moved into analytics at Unilever. Before long he secured a position in brand management working on the Bertolli business – a $400 million brand in the United States. When IRI came calling again, it was an offer too good to pass up – running the Pepsi Cola and Quaker businesses out of PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. Before this journey, Duke earned a BA in Classical Civilization from Fordham University. While en route, he earned his MBA from Cornell University.
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver Bastert
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Speakers
Meet Your Expert Speakers
Learn from the best in the industry, bringing years of experience and groundbreaking insights to the forefront of AI personalization.
Duke Perrucci
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Perrucci has more than 30 years of experience in roles spanning sales, marketing and analytics. He joined Gurobi in 2018 as the CRO, heading both sales and marketing. He then moved into the COO role and ultimately the CEO position in 2023. Prior to Gurobi, he held the position of CRO at Cambridge Analytica – a predictive analytics firm. Here he built the commercial practice in North America by helping companies drive better advertising through the use of artificial intelligence. Before Cambridge he spent 8 years in the MarTech space with FocusVision. Here he built a global sales organization across 6 continents and 10 offices. Prior to FocusVision, Mr. Perrucci spent a total of 9 years at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) working in various analytic consulting roles across the entire PepsiCo enterprise. After the first 4 years at IRI, he decided to gain experience on the brand side and moved into analytics at Unilever. Before long he secured a position in brand management working on the Bertolli business – a $400 million brand in the United States. When IRI came calling again, it was an offer too good to pass up – running the Pepsi Cola and Quaker businesses out of PepsiCo’s world headquarters in Purchase, NY. Before this journey, Duke earned a BA in Classical Civilization from Fordham University. While en route, he earned his MBA from Cornell University.
Oliver Bastert
Chief Technology Officer
Oliver brings a wealth of experience as an innovative and results-driven product leader with over two decades of expertise in B2B software, SaaS, and AI technologies. Prior to joining Gurobi, Oliver served as Vice President of Product Management at FICO, where he led product management for Analytics/ML, GenAI, and Optimization. His leadership was instrumental in delivering cutting-edge SaaS capabilities, including high-throughput, low-latency execution of fraud models, predictive modeling software for scores, social network analysis, and mathematical optimization solvers. Before his tenure at FICO, Oliver was a member of the R&D team at Dash Optimization, where he contributed to the development of advanced mixed-integer programming algorithms. Oliver’s passion for mathematical optimization and its practical applications has been a cornerstone of his career. He has consulted on optimization projects across diverse industries and he brings experience in technical sales and teaching. He holds a doctorate in applied mathematics from the Technical University of Munich and a diploma in mathematics and computer science from the University of Cologne.
Ed Klotz
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Dr. Ed Klotz has over 30 years of experience in the mathematical optimization software industry. He is a technical expert who, over the course of his career, has worked with a wide array of customers to help them solve some of world’s most challenging mathematical optimization problems. In his role as a Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist on the Gurobi R&D team, Dr. Klotz works closely with our customers to support them in implementing and utilizing mathematical optimization in their organizations. He also interacts heavily with the R&D team based on his experiences with the customers.
Prior to joining Gurobi, Dr. Klotz was a member of the CPLEX development team of IBM. He was involved in product development, customer training, product documentation, and numerous other tasks, with a primary focus on delivering CPLEX customer support and leveraging his experiences with customers to help inform the R&D team about customer needs and product improvements. Dr. Klotz has extensive knowledge in linear programming, integer programming, and numerical linear algebra for finite precision computing. Using this knowledge, he was able to investigate customer support issues at the source code level and identify potential improvements in CPLEX, both in terms of performance and accuracy of computation.
Before joining IBM, Dr. Klotz was a principal technical support engineer at ILOG, Inc., and a mathematical programming specialist at CPLEX Optimization, Inc.
Dr. Klotz has presented at numerous conferences, workshops, and web seminars and published numerous papers on mathematical optimization. His interests are in all aspects of mathematical programming, with a primary interest in research that can impact mathematical programming software. He obtained a BA in Math and Economics from Oberlin College and a PhD in Operations Research from Stanford University.
Dan Steffy
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dr. Steffy received his PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published many papers in scientific journals, including work on computing numerically exact solutions to linear and integer programming problems.
Prior to joining Gurobi in 2022 he was an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Oakland University. He also spent time working as a researcher at the Zuse Institute Berlin. In his free time he loves being outdoors, playing board games and spending time with his wife and two daughters.
Jue Xue
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Dr. Xue is an accomplished professional with diverse and extensive experience. He received a PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduation, he started teaching and research career as a professor at universities across continents. Later on, he moved into industry with IBM Global Services and IBM Software Group. He has spent 20 years at IBM as a consultant, senior solution architect, and managing data scientist. Before joining Gurobi, as a director of data science at AstraZeneca, he introduced and productionized decision optimization in clinical trial practice. His real world experience consists of numerous projects across various industries and government agencies, ranging from new business opportunity identification; vision, strategy and road map creation; innovative solution design and architect; team creation and building; solution delivery, and user enablement. He enjoys collaborating with clients and helping them to success. He is passionate in identifying and bridging decision problems with innovative solutions. He enjoys traveling, hiking, gardening, learning, and spending time with family and friends.
Rodrigo Fuentes
Senior Technical Account Manager
Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes joined Gurobi in 2020 as a technical account manager. He completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where his research work was focused on using different optimization techniques applied to the optimal use of hydro and thermal units. Prior to joining Gurobi he worked as a software engineer in various technical roles for Open Systems International, Open Access Technology International and Siemens, which serve electric, gas and oil utility businesses, exposing him to different and interesting optimization problems.
Rodrigo enjoys spending his free time with his wife, cooking, biking and playing soccer.
Jennifer Locke
Manager of Technical Account Management-Americas
Jennifer Locke has over 20 years of professional experience with mathematical, statistical and data analysis software as a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales engineer and product management. She has programming expertise with all major computer programming languages. Prior to joining Gurobi, she was a lead developer on the IMSL (International Mathematical and Statistical Library) engineering team and later serving as IMSL Product Manager. Holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from College of the Ozarks and completed master’s courses in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Tennessee Space Institute.
Jerry Yurchisin
Senior Data Science Strategist
Mr. Yurchisin has over ten years’ experience applying operations research, machine learning, statistics, and data visualization to improve decision making. Before joining Gurobi, Jerry (who also goes by Jerome) was a Senior Consultant at OnLocation, Inc. where he customized several linear programming models within the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) to analyze implementing specific energy policies and utilizing new technologies.
Prior to OnLocation, Jerry was an Operations Research Analyst & Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton for over seven years. There he formulated scheduling and staffing integer programming models for the US Coast Guard, as well as led a project to quantify the maritime risks of offshore energy installations with the Research & Development Center. Further, Jerry was the technical lead on several Coast Guard studies including Living Marine Resources and Maritime Domain Awareness, providing statistical analysis and building supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. He also performed statistical analyses, machine learning modeling, and data visualization for cyberspace directorates at DoD and DHS.
Jerry has several years of experience teaching a wide variety of college-level mathematics and statistics courses and has a passion for education. He also enjoys golfing, biking, and writing about sports from an analytics point of view. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, son, and two dogs.
Jerry holds B.S., Ed. and M.S., Mathematics degrees from Ohio University and an M.S. in Operations Research and Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Juan Antonio Carrasco Ruiz
Software Quality Engineer
Juan is a Senior QA Automation Engineer. He holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and has over 9 years of experience in software quality assurance and development. He specializes in test automation frameworks. Throughout his career, he has built a solid track record in international environments, specifically within critical sectors such as Banking/Fintech, Healthcare, and Automotive. Juan Antonio is an expert in designing automation frameworks from scratch, managing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure DevOps, and working under Agile methodologies. His technical stack includes tools like Selenium, Cypress, and Postman, alongside programming languages such as Java, Python, and JavaScript/NodeJS.Recently, he worked as a QA Engineer on Banco Santander's PagoNXT project, executing test plans for critical banking transactions and validating financial APIs. Prior to this, he served as a QA Lead at SII Group, where he managed a team of QA engineers for an automotive client and defined the testing strategy and automation framework architecture.
Kurt Mueller
Vice President of Sales
Mr. Mueller brings more than 25 years of sales and sales leadership experience with a proven track record of leading PE backed, Mid-sized, and Fortune 500 sales organizations to record growth. Prior to joining Gurobi, Kurt served as VP of sales with responsibility for Sales, Customer Success, and Account Management teams for several high-growth PE backed companies focused on solutions across multiple industries for global clients. Mr. Mueller has a successful history of building global high-growth revenue organizations that provide strategic AI, MarTech, ERP/CRM/CX, and financial content solutions to clients with mission critical requirements and applications. Additionally, Kurt worked at Bloomberg to lead the Enterprise Software organization to historic growth over 4 years in providing integrated ERP solutions that mitigated financial risk for Fortune 500 companies. After Bloomberg, he led the Enterprise team at Oracle for the East Region to provide CX solutions to global companies and Higher Education institutions based in the US. Kurt works diligently to collaborate with cross functional leaders, partners, and customers to support new product initiatives, implement scalable go-to-market strategies, while providing world class customer success to all his clients and partners. Mr. Mueller received a degree in Business Administration from Marshall University with additional focus on Marketing and Psychology, while on athletic scholarship.
Summer Purschke
Technical Account Manager
Summer Purschke is a Technical Account Manager at Gurobi Optimization, where she partners with organizations to develop mathematical optimization solutions for complex decision-making challenges. With a background in industrial engineering and applied data science, she works at the intersection of operations research and data science and thrives in collaborative, customer-facing environments. Prior to joining Gurobi, Summer worked as a Data Scientist at a financial technology company supporting the alternative investment industry, where she developed machine learning and optimization models to enhance capital introduction events and improve investor–fund matching. Outside of her work in optimization, Summer enjoys baking, gardening, ceramics, and sailing.
Zed Dean
Senior Technical Account Manager
Zed has twenty years of multi-disciplinary career experience; including IT support, data science, operational research and analytics sales. An engineer who started his career as an ICT officer at the United Nations, he was awarded outstanding contribution during the Iraq humanitarian response for his participation in building the system architecture of a rapid deployment ICT solution. He then built a predictive modeling analytical framework for promotional campaigns in the publishing industry. His inputs provided confidence in the company's strategic decisions regarding revenue management and pricing. While teaching operational research, Zed was voted the most dedicated lecturer at the university. Teaching several types of audiences; including business, engineering and informatics, exposed him to a wide range of OR applications. He most recently worked as a project manager, corporate trainer, account manager and salesperson in a highly competitive marketing analytics industry.
Based in Canada, Zed enjoys kayaking and canoeing in his free time; he has great interest in the history of math and algorithms.
Abigail Freeman
Technical Account Manager
Abby holds a Master of Business Analytics from the Operations Research Center at MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi. Prior to joining Gurobi, she worked at Pfizer, where she led a team of data scientists and developers in creating web applications that empowered business partners to leverage traditional machine learning and custom optimization models to improve supply chain operations. After a brief career hiatus for travel, she served as a data scientist for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, where she pioneered the application of optimization to improve member outreach initiatives. Outside of her professional endeavors, Abby enjoys any kind of competition, travel, puzzles, and cooking.
Nicholas Parham
Technical Account Manager
Nicholas Parham holds a B.S. in Operations Research from the United States Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Operations Research from the Colorado School of Mines. His background includes formal study in computer science, economics, business, and applied mathematics, complemented by practical experience in data science, software engineering, web development, and cybersecurity. Throughout his career, he has worked with cloud, academic, government, and high-performance computing environments. A Miami native, Nicholas is proficient in Spanish and eager to support optimization initiatives across Latin America.
Caroline Weinberg
Manager of Optimization Support
Caroline holds a Master of Business Analytics from MIT Sloan School of Management's Operations Research Center and a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Kenyon College. Prior to joining Gurobi, she worked at Pfizer, where she managed cross-functional teams of data scientists and developers to create and deploy custom mathematical optimization solutions for manufacturing operations. Her work involved building optimization models to automate scheduling, improve production planning, manage inventory levels, and reduce material waste. Caroline is passionate about leveraging data science and optimization techniques to solve challenging business problems that drive real impact and value. Outside of her professional work, Caroline enjoys staying active through running, cycling, and hiking. She also has a passion for puzzles, both the jigsaw variety and the New York Times daily games.
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Discover our industry-leading partners and make a connection. Trusted experts, at your service. Learn more about how Gurobi Alliance Partners can help.
Accommodations
We can't wait to see you in Las Vegas!
To help you plan your stay, details of the venue and accommodations are below.
ARIA Las Vegas Resort
3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
A discounted room block has been secured at the ARIA Resort & Casino. The group rate varies from $129-$219 per night, plus applicable taxes, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
To receive the discounted rate, reservations must be made by Friday, August 14. Rooms booked after this date will be subject to availability and prevailing hotel rates.
Accommodations
We can't wait to see you in Las Vegas!
To help you plan your stay, details of the venue and accommodations are below.
ARIA Las Vegas Resort
3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
A discounted room block has been secured at the ARIA Resort & Casino. The group rate varies from $129-$219 per night, plus applicable taxes, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
To receive the discounted rate, reservations must be made by Friday, August 14. Rooms booked after this date will be subject to availability and prevailing hotel rates.
Accommodations
We can't wait to see you in Las Vegas!
To help you plan your stay, details of the venue and accommodations are below.
ARIA Las Vegas Resort
3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV
A discounted room block has been secured at the ARIA Resort & Casino. The group rate varies from $129-$219 per night, plus applicable taxes, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
To receive the discounted rate, reservations must be made by Friday, August 14. Rooms booked after this date will be subject to availability and prevailing hotel rates.
FAQs
Are there 1:1 Meetings at the Gurobi Summit?
Yes! Most of the 1:1 Meetings will take place on Monday afternoon, with some taking place during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 1:1 Meetings offer attendees the opportunity to meet with directly with a Gurobi expert during the Summit. These personalized discussions are designed to address your specific challenges, projects, or optimization questions in a focused and confidential setting.
Whether you are exploring new optimization use cases, scaling existing models, facing performance challenges, or evaluating strategic next steps, our experts will provide tailored insights based on your current situation. The goal is to help you better understand how mathematical optimization can support your objectives and where Gurobi can add measurable value.
We encourage participants to come prepared with context about their models, constraints, or decision processes to make the most of the session. Please work directly with your Gurobi sales leader to request a 1:1 Meeting.
What can I expect from the Summit?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
Is there a registration fee?
FAQs
Are there 1:1 Meetings at the Gurobi Summit?
Yes! Most of the 1:1 Meetings will take place on Monday afternoon, with some taking place during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 1:1 Meetings offer attendees the opportunity to meet with directly with a Gurobi expert during the Summit. These personalized discussions are designed to address your specific challenges, projects, or optimization questions in a focused and confidential setting.
Whether you are exploring new optimization use cases, scaling existing models, facing performance challenges, or evaluating strategic next steps, our experts will provide tailored insights based on your current situation. The goal is to help you better understand how mathematical optimization can support your objectives and where Gurobi can add measurable value.
We encourage participants to come prepared with context about their models, constraints, or decision processes to make the most of the session. Please work directly with your Gurobi sales leader to request a 1:1 Meeting.
What can I expect from the Summit?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
Is there a registration fee?
FAQs
Are there 1:1 Meetings at the Gurobi Summit?
Yes! Most of the 1:1 Meetings will take place on Monday afternoon, with some taking place during the day on Tuesday and Wednesday. The 1:1 Meetings offer attendees the opportunity to meet with directly with a Gurobi expert during the Summit. These personalized discussions are designed to address your specific challenges, projects, or optimization questions in a focused and confidential setting.
Whether you are exploring new optimization use cases, scaling existing models, facing performance challenges, or evaluating strategic next steps, our experts will provide tailored insights based on your current situation. The goal is to help you better understand how mathematical optimization can support your objectives and where Gurobi can add measurable value.
We encourage participants to come prepared with context about their models, constraints, or decision processes to make the most of the session. Please work directly with your Gurobi sales leader to request a 1:1 Meeting.
What can I expect from the Summit?
How do I choose between the Business and Technical tracks?
Do I have to attend sessions within one track?
Is there a registration fee?
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Don’t miss out on these invaluable insights. Register now to revolutionize your customer engagement strategy.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
Secure Your Spot Today!
Don’t miss out on these invaluable insights. Register now to revolutionize your customer engagement strategy.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our team at marketing-ops@gurobi.com
