<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The INFORMS Data Mining Society (DMS) is
delighted to invite you to organize a session at the INFORMS 2023 Annual
Meeting! The meeting will be held October 15-18, 2023 at the Phoenix Convention
Center and Hyatt Regency in Phoenix, AZ, USA. You can check out the </span><a href="https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/phoenix2023/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">INFORMS 2023 website</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for more information.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you are interested to organize a
session in the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, please send an email to </span><a href="mailto:informs.dms@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">informs.dms@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> with the following information by March
13, 2023.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Tentative
title of your planned session</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A
short abstract to describe the session topic briefly (within 100 words)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Four
tentative speakers (if you have difficulty to confirm 4 speakers, the DM
Society may work with you to fill the session with related talks that match
your session topic).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We will review your session proposal and
create a session for you in the system. You will then receive an email with
detailed instructions to invite and enter presenters in your session. Technical
sessions will last 75 minutes (as opposed to 90 minutes as before), which is
intented for 4 talks of 15 minutes + Q&A. Note that INFORMS limits speakers
to ONE PRESENTATION at the Annual meeting. Each presenter may present only one
talk in the Annual Meeting, but can be listed as co-author on multiple talks.
As a session chair, you can organize or co-chair more than one session. We look
for your active participation and hope you can organize a session at the 2022
INFORMS Annual Meeting. Below are the important deadlines:</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">March
13: Deadline to indicate interest of being a Session Chair (with
title/abstract)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">May
2: Deadline for Session Chairs to submit Presenters</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">May
16: Deadline for Presenters to submit abstracts</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Aug
1: Deadline for Presenter’s to register for INFORMS</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If you have any questions regarding the
session organization, just let me know. We also welcome your referrals of
anyone who may be interested to organize a session in the DM cluster in INFORMS
2023.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We really appreciate your consideration
and look forward to hearing from you soon!</span></p>
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