Below is the detailed agenda for the 64th Annual Symposium. Note that some details may still change, so please check this page again closer to the Symposium. For more details on the Technical presentations, browse the Technical Abstracts webpage.
| Sunday | |
| 17:00 | |
| 17:15 | |
| 17:30 | |
| 17:45 | |
| 18:00 | |
| 18:15 | |
| 18:30 | Welcome reception |
| 18:45 | including Remarks from Cayman Airways Leadership |
| 19:00 | |
| 19:15 | |
| 19:30 | |
| 19:45 | |
| 20:00 | |
| 20:15 | |
| 20:30 | |
| 20:45 | |
| 21:00 | |
| Monday | |
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:15 | |
| 8:30 | |
| 8:45 | Welcome |
| 9:00 | |
| 9:15 | Airlines in Small Island States - Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities for OR |
| 9:30 | Keynote Address by Prof. John-Paul Clarke |
| 9:45 | Chairman of the Board - Cayman Airways |
| 10:00 | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | |
| 10:45 | Classless Revenue Management |
| 11:00 | |
| 11:15 | Integrating Macroeconomic Forecasts into Airline Demand and Cost Estimation |
| 11:30 | |
| 11:45 | Reinforcement Learning for Advance Seat Reservation Pricing: Insights from Real-World Deployment |
| 12:00 | |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | Sponsored by Gurobi |
| 12:45 | |
| 13:00 | |
| 13:15 | |
| 13:30 | |
| 13:45 | AI-driven pricing with RSP: Evidence from a large-scale online field experiment |
| 14:00 | |
| 14:15 | Unlocking revenue with customer search behaviour modelling |
| 14:30 | |
| 14:45 | Ken Wang scholars introduction |
| 15:00 | |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | |
| 15:45 | Endogeneity of Seats and Fares in Airport O-D Demand Forecasting: Insights from a Large Airline Network |
| 16:00 | |
| 16:15 | |
| 16:30 | Vendor presentation: Cirium |
| 16:45 | Close |
| 17:00 | |
| 17:15 | |
| 17:30 | Transportation to Rum Point |
| 17:45 | |
| 18:00 | Dinner (Rum Point) |
| 18:15 | Sponsored by Cirium |
| 18:30 | |
| 18:45 | |
| 19:00 | |
| 19:15 | |
| 19:30 | |
| 19:45 | |
| 20:00 | |
| 20:15 | |
| 20:30 | |
| 20:45 | |
| 21:00 | |
| Tuesday | |
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:15 | |
| 8:30 | |
| 8:45 | Anna Valicek Finalist 1: Condition-Based Maintenance scheduling of an aircraft fleet under partial observability: A Deep Reinforcement Learning approach |
| 9:00 | |
| 9:15 | |
| 9:30 | |
| 9:45 | Anna Valicek Finalist 2: Aircraft maintenance scheduling under uncertain task processing time |
| 10:00 | |
| 10:15 | |
| 10:30 | |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Sponsored by NLEC |
| 11:15 | Digging into On Time Performance with Generative AI |
| 11:30 | |
| 11:45 | Optimizing Cost and Enhancing Consistency in GenAI Chatbots with Semantic Caching |
| 12:00 | |
| 12:15 | |
| 12:30 | Picnic lunch |
| 12:45 | |
| 13:00 | Networking event (Turtle Centre) |
| 13:15 | |
| 13:30 | |
| 13:45 | |
| 14:00 | |
| 14:15 | |
| 14:30 | |
| 14:45 | |
| 15:00 | |
| 15:15 | |
| 15:30 | |
| 15:45 | |
| 16:00 | |
| 16:15 | |
| 16:30 | |
| 16:45 | |
| 17:00 | Free evening |
| 17:15 | |
| 17:30 | |
| 17:45 | |
| 18:00 | |
| Wednesday | |
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:15 | |
| 8:30 | |
| 8:45 | |
| 9:00 | |
| 9:15 | Vendor presentation: Gurobi (10 min), NLEC (5 min) |
| 9:30 | Transforming Measurement with LATAM’s Advanced Experimentation Platform |
| 9:45 | |
| 10:00 | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | |
| 10:45 | AI enabled innovations in workforce excellence |
| 11:00 | |
| 11:15 | Efficient Warm Start Strategies for the Aircraft Routing Problem |
| 11:30 | |
| 11:45 | Enhancing airport mobility through machine learning solutions |
| 12:00 | |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | |
| 12:45 | |
| 13:00 | |
| 13:15 | |
| 13:30 | |
| 13:45 | Vendor presentation: Cayman Tourism |
| 14:00 | |
| 14:15 | Applications of Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) In Tactical Decision-making |
| 14:30 | |
| 14:45 | Predicting a Schedule's OTP and How that Impacts Schedule Build |
| 15:00 | |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | |
| 15:45 | Enhancing Flight Cancellation Decisions with AI-Powered Passenger Rebooking Estimates |
| 16:00 | |
| 16:15 | A New Era of ML-based Aircraft Performance Monitoring |
| 16:30 | |
| 16:45 | Close |
| 17:00 | |
| 17:15 | |
| 17:30 | |
| 17:45 | |
| 18:00 | |
| 18:15 | |
| 18:30 | Gala Dinner (Marriott Resort) |
| 18:45 | Sponsored by Cayman Islands Department of Tourism |
| 19:00 | |
| 19:15 | |
| 19:30 | |
| 19:45 | |
| 20:00 | |
| 20:15 | |
| 20:30 | |
| 20:45 | |
| 21:00 | |
| Thursday | |
| 8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:15 | |
| 8:30 | |
| 8:45 | |
| 9:00 | |
| 9:15 | Unlocking Revenue Potential: The Impact of Modern RMS on Airlines |
| 9:30 | |
| 9:45 | Flight Timetabling under Context-Dependent Choice Model |
| 10:00 | |
| 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | |
| 10:45 | A Survey of Air Cargo Problems |
| 11:00 | |
| 11:15 | Elevating Cities: The rise of regional and urban air mobility |
| 11:30 | |
| 11:45 | AGIFORS Business Meeting |
| 12:00 | |
| 12:15 | |
| 12:30 | |
| 12:45 | Conference close |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | |
| 13:30 | |
| 13:45 |