Three keynote speakers at the conference who confirmed their participation are Prof. Ivana Ljubić, Prof. Yurii Nesterov, and Deputy Business Director Andrej Bregar, PhD.
Plenary lectures
Keynote speaker
Title of plenary lecture
Ivana Ljubić, PhD
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Yurii Nesterov, PhD
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Andrej Bregar, PhD
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Ivana Ljubić is a Professor of Analytics and Operations Research at the Department for Information Systems at ESSEC Business School in Paris, France, where she leads the Operations Research and Decision Analytics Group. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology and her Habilitation in Operations Research from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include combinatorial and bilevel optimization, and optimization under uncertainty, with a variety of applications in network design, telecommunications, and logistics. She is widely recognized for her work on the Steiner tree problem, for which she received the Glover-Klingman Prize (2021).
Yurii Nesterov is a globally recognized expert in convex optimization and numerical mathematics. Since February 2024, he has joined Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary as a Research Professor. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and since 1993 was affiliated with UCLouvain (Belgium) and its Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). Prof. Nesterov is best known as the inventor of the “Nesterov accelerated gradient” method and one of the founding fathers of modern convex optimization. His outstanding contributions have been recognized by prestigious international awards: Dantzig Prize (2000), the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2009), the EURO Gold Medal (2016), and the WLA Prize (2023).
Andrej Bregar, PhD is the Deputy CEO of Informatika d.o.o., with more than two decades of experience in IT, R&D, and the energy sector. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maribor and has worked extensively on decision support systems, multicriteria decision-making, robustness analysis, and cybersecurity in energy-related infrastructures. Andrej Bregar has authored several scientific papers in these fields and regularly participates in international conferences. In his managerial role, he leads complex digitalization, interoperability, and cybersecurity projects, focusing on the integration of advanced IT solutions in the energy industry.
