Conference Website: http://ieomsociety.org/toronto2019/   

Registration: http://ieomsociety.org/toronto2019/registration/ 

Program:

October 22, 2019 (Tuesday)

13:00 – 20:00 Registration
20:00 – 22:00 IEOM Meetings

October 23, 2013 (Wednesday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
09:30 – 9:40 Welcome Address

09:40 – 10:20 Opening Keynote I: Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environment, Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

10:20 – 11:00 Opening Keynote II: Shalabh Bakshi, Director, Digital Enterprise and MindSphere, Digital Factory Division, Siemens Canada Limited, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

“Digital Enterprise “Industry 4.0” and Mindsphere “Open Cloud based IoT Operating system”

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall

11:30 – 12:00 Tuesday Keynote III: Ahmad K. Elshennawy, Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of The UCF Quality Institute, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, USA

12:00 – 12:30 Tuesday Keynote IV: Jeffrey Jones, Plant Manager, Etobicoke Casting Plant, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ontario, Canada

12:30 – 1:00 Tuesday Keynote V: 

13:00 – 14:30 Buffet Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Wednesday Lunch Keynote: Dr. Gursel Suer, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
18:00 – 20:00 Poster Session and Student Chapter Mixer

October 24, 2019 (Thursday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions

09:40 – 10:20 Thursday Morning Keynote I: Dr. Andrew K.S. Jardine, Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical and industrial Engineering, Founding Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE), University of Toronto, Canada

10:20 – 11:00 Thursday Morning Keynote II: Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc., Canada

Knowledge and Skills for Industry 4.0

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:30 – 14:00 Thursday Lunch Keynote: Eric Ayanegui, CPMM, CRL, Director Operations Engineering, Cintas Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions

18:00 – 22:00 Tours

October 25, 2019 (Friday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 18:00 Lean Six Sigma Workshop
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions

09:40 – 10:20 Friday Morning Keynote I: Todd Deaville, Director of Engineering and R&D, Magna International Inc., Toronto, Canada

10:20 – 11:00: Friday Morning Keynote II: Dr. Samir Elhedhli, Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
8:00 – 11:30 High School and Middle School STEM Poster Competition
11:30 – 12:00: Friday Morning Keynote III: Dr. Birsen Donmez, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation, University of Toronto, Canada

12:00 – 12:30: Friday Morning Keynote IV:

12:30 – 13:00: Friday Morning Keynote V:

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:40 – 14:00 Friday Lunch Keynote: Mr. Lee Childers, Chief Executive Officer, Tooling Tech Group, Macomb, Michigan, USA

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions

19:00 – 22:00 CONFERENCE AWARD DINNER
Awards Keynote: 

Other Activities

Dedicated IEOM Global Engineering Education Sessions
Dedicated IEOM Industry Solutions Sessions
Dedicated IEOM Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Sessions
Poster Sessions
Undergraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by SIEMENS
Graduate/Postgraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by EATON Corporation
Capstone Senior Design Project Poster Competition
Undergraduate STEM Research Competition
Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Masters Thesis Competition
Simulation and PLM Competition
High School and Middle School STEM Project Competition

Exhibitors and Sponsors Opportunities