Schedule
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Schedule is subject to change without notice.
Palisade invites you to an intensive half day risk and decision analysis conference. This is a “must attend” event for professionals dealing with risk in any industry.
Industry experts will present a selection of real-world case studies about innovative approaches to managing risk and uncertainty in a wide range of business applications. The program will also include practical software training presented by Palisade. We’ll explore the features in @RISK and DecisionTools Suite software that make risk modeling and analysis accessible and powerful.
This event is free to attend and promises to be an invaluable opportunity for broadening one's knowledge of risk modeling, and networking with decision-making professionals.
“I came away from the conference very satisfied. The conference empowered me with future skill sets, allowed me to observe how other companies are using the tools, and I even made some very valuable contacts.”
Ron Webster, Senior Financial Risk Analyst, Eastman Chemical Company
“I enjoyed all of the hands-on sessions, and I gained new insights from the conference that I can use in my work.”
Ujjwal Bharadwaj, TWI Ltd
“As an introduction to the software, I thought this conference was eye-opening. As I get more familiar with the software, I can see future conferences being valuable in honing my skills and learning new tricks and different perspectives on using the software.”
Cory Forgrave, Economic Analyst in the DOI Division of Energy and Mineral Development
“Palisade is leading the way with tools and expertise to enable risk managers across all industries.”
Robert Lake, Cisco Systems
“Conference was very useful to improve our integrated quality management system. Statistical, stochastic and other quantitative methods are used, at the
organisational and project levels, to predict future quality and process performance.”
Dr Vladimir Savin, Chief EQ Engineer, EPAM Systems
“We saw and discussed methods that directly apply to our problems, and learned to build upon them to come up with solutions.”
Michael Watson, PMP, Senior Staff Integrated Planning, Lockheed Martin
Mingle and share ideas with other delegates, presenters, and Palisade staff. All networking events on the schedule are included with your complimentary registration.
The 2018 Palisade Risk Conference is part of a global, annual series of meetings where professionals share ideas and advance the practice of risk and decision analysis.
Schedule is subject to change without notice.
Fernando Hernández' areas of expertise are banking, finance, manufacturing, project evaluation, market forecasting and pricing. Fernando currently owns and operates InfoMasters, a company geared towards training, consulting and developing financial applications and decision making models for financial and manufacturing companies, using Microsoft Office and Palisade software. He has developed and taught courses including Intro to Corporate Finance, and Financial Simulation and Investment Decisions. Since 1992, he has created financial models, risk analyses and feasibility studies using @RISK. Fernando earned his licentiate degree in Finance Administration from the University of Costa Rica. As a Fulbright scholar, he completed his MBA at Indiana University majoring in Finance & MIS.
Lead advanced analytics consulting projects focused on quantitative management of uncertainty and risk, in analysis, design, and modeling. Responsibilities involve partnering with clients to formulate analytical approaches to business problems by using techniques such as decision and risk analysis, stochastic optimization, predictive modeling, and machine learning to analyze complex situations.
This presentation will use examples from different industries and applications to give an entry-level introduction to @RISK, as well as showing how the new features in the latest releases add additional capabilities to the analyst's toolbox. We'll also shine a light on some of the lesser-known corners of the software, to provide useful tips about how to make risk modelling even easier.
Presentation will provide actionable and immediate value by leveraging Palisade’s software to demonstrate how probabilistic financial analysis will transform the decision-making process. These applications have directly led to improved customer and business outcomes through better communication of analytic insights to help better balance performance and risk and inform decision making.
Inventory models for low demand parts pose several challenges to traditional optimization systems. Assumptions of normality cannot be imposed on any optimization objective of high-cost items with low demand probabilities. Several probabilistic approaches are evaluated and compared here in order to optimize such a system using different @RISK distributions.
Once the best distribution set has been chosen, optimization is run using genetic algorithms (with RISKOptimizer) in order to determine required parameters.
Finally, a proposal to implement multi-item optimization structures is suggested with the simple usage of macros.
Palisade's DecisionTools Suite package provides a number of different tools for risk and decision analysis. In addition to @RISK, popular tools in the set include TopRank, a powerful program which allows fast and easy sensitivity analysis on any Excel model, PrecisionTree which allows users to build decision trees for evaluating options, and Evolver/RISKOptimizer for building optimization models. In this presentation, we will look at some example models that demonstrate the capabilities of each of these tools.
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