On March 8, 2021, International Women’s Day, Women in Data Science will host the inaugural 24-hour online Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference. Registration is now open and early bird pricing is in effect through February 19, 2021. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
For more details see the official announcement here:
https://www.widsconference.org/blog_archive/registration-now-open-for-wids-worldwide-conference
ORSNZ is looking to review and refresh our WordPress web environment. The scope of work is as follows:
1) Engage with a representative group of our stakeholders to:
a. review previous planning docs;
b. review the current site; and
c. investigate other relevant sites;
and, consequently, produce a refresh plan including, but not limited to, suggested functionality, third-party plugins, and information architecture;
2) Work with the ORSNZ webmaster and other members to create a template, i.e., functionality but not content, for the new site;
3) Provide easy-to-understand, tested documentation for ORSNZ members to add content and manage the site.
Interested parties should contact Mike O’Sullivan (President, ORSNZ, at president AT orsnz.org.nz) with any questions and to provide a plan and estimated cost for the work.
The Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM, within the Business School at the University of Auckland) invites you to hear from Vaughan Grant, Chief Operating Officer – T&G Fresh, at our next After 5’s event on Monday 8 March.
Vaughan will present a methodology for designing supply chain networks based on his experience with a variety of companies in Australasia. His approach addresses the needs many organisations have, to simultaneously increase availability and decrease working capital, and to optimise capacity and improve network resilience, and supply chain visibility, transparency, and traceability.
Biography
Prior to his appointment as COO of T&G Fresh, Vaughan held senior executive roles (CEO and COO) in firms including Halls Group, Foodstuffs North Island, Fletcher Building, and Woolworths. He is a Chartered Accountant, and has a BMS degree from the University of Waikato.
Event details
Date: Monday 8 March 2021
Time: 5.15pm – 7.15pm
5.15pm registration
5:30pm presentation
6:30pm networking with light refreshments
Location: The University of Auckland Business School
OGGB 4, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland
Cost: $20 for non-University staff and students
Click here to register
If you are not already a regular visitor to the Centre for Supply Chain Management and would like to check out our website and LinkedIn page, please click here: CSCM website and LinkedIn page.
If you would like to be added to our Invitation list, please email Alisha at: a.castelino AT auckland.ac.nz
Kia ora koutou,
Happy New Year! I hope you and your whanau are staying well and I wish you all a good 2021.
IFORS have asked me to invite you to the fourth IFORS Global Webinar. Below is the relevant part of the email.
“It is to invite you to the 4th IFORS webinar organizing by North America OR Society (NORAM includes USA and Canada) with following
information on the IFORS website https://www.ifors.org/
or register here for free:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QBGZKDTaR9G8wOE7XJy4xw“
Noho ora mai, Mike
Kia ora koutou,
Wishing you a fun, relaxing, safe holiday season on behalf of ORSNZ. Just in case you need some holiday reading here is the most recent newsletter from IFORS.
Noho ora mai, Mike (President of ORSNZ)
Kia ora koutou,
The ORSNZ AGM for 2020 will be held online next week (week starting 30 November). The meeting will run from 2-4pm on Thursday 3 December on Zoom – https://auckland.zoom.us/j/91644407507?pwd=bG5JTXg2eFBUcFpnSlhWU0Y0LzBCQT09. Apologies if you can’t make that time, but it was the most popular option on the Doodle poll.
The current agenda for the meeting is:
Please send through additional agenda items to secretary@orsnz.org.nz by 5pm Tuesday 1 December.
If you cannot attend the meeting, you can assign a proxy to vote on your behalf using the 2nd page of this form. (So long as the form is emailed to secretary@orsnz.org.nz by the morning of Wednesday December 2, that is fine.)
The ORSNZ Council Meeting will be held immediately after the AGM or, if needed, another time will be scheduled.
Ngā mihi, Mike O’Sullivan (ORSNZ President)
Kia ora koutou,
I hope you and your whanau are staying well.
The IFORS president, Grazia Speranza, has asked me to let you know about the third IFORS Global Webinar. Below is the relevant part of her email.
“This webinar is being hosted by the EURO regional grouping on November 30 at 3:00 pm Rome time (9:00 am Washington DC time) and will focused on “Topics That Matter”.
Please visit the IFORS website to register for the webinar.
Noho ora mai, Mike
Kia ora koutou,
I hope you are staying well and have not been too disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I certainly feel lucky to be in New Zealand as I watch news from overseas about rising cases and new lockdowns. I hope everyone’s whanau and colleagues overseas are also staying safe.
The disrupted year has meant that planning for the ORSNZ conference has not really been possible. The decision from Council was to support smaller locally organised events, e.g., half- or full-day workshops, instead of trying to hold a national conference either physically or online. Anyone interested in organising local events can access Regional Interest Group (RIG) funding and/or Special Interest Group (SIG) funding to support the events (see ORSNZ_SIG_Processes.pdf, particularly footnote 7). Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information.
Although we are not holding our annual conference in 2020, we would like to hold our AGM online via Zoom. If you are interested in attending please use the link below to select one or more times you can make.
https://doodle.com/poll/y6zxpegsps9zes4z?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions or concerns.
Noho ora mai, Mike
Kia ora koutou,
I hope you and your whanau are staying well.
The IFORS president, Grazia Speranza, has asked me to let you know about the second IFORS Global Webinar. Below is the relevant part of her email.
“The second Global Webinar is organized by APORS and will take place on September 30th at 1:00 p.m. GMT. Anyone interested can find information about the webinar on the IFORS website
or register here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Kaf1H9VSjqFjmomCZunpw“
Ngā mihi, Mike
Kia ora koutou,
I hope you are well under Level 2. Fingers crossed the situation improves and these restrictions will be relaxed again soon!
I’ve recently become involved with the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). The work has been progressing quite fast and two projects are now up for tender. I wanted to forward details as I thought they may be of interest:
1) Responsible AI Working Group: there is a request for proposals by September 20th. Please find the Terms of Reference here and further details on the Working Group in the Co-Chairs blog post.
2) AI and Pandemic Response Subgroup: there is a request for proposals by September 29th. Please find the Terms of Reference here and further details in the Co-Chairs blog post.
If you have any further questions, please contact jacques.rajotte@gmail.com or maroussia.levesque@gmail.com at the newly created International Centre of Expertise in Montréal for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (ICEMAI).
Ngā mihi nui, Mike
