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The interview with Michael Watson and Vijay Mehrotra for the Intelligence Decision Lab podcast was a lot of fun! We talked about Field…
Geoffrey De Smet
CTO Timefold - APIs for scheduling and routing optimization, powered by our open source solver.
The interview with Michael Watson and Vijay Mehrotra for the Intelligence Decision Lab podcast was a lot of fun!
We talked about Field Service Routing (compared to a Vehicle Routing Problem), non-disruptive replanning, what-if scenarios, ROI, customization, explainability and finally AI (of course).
And founding a company.
Watch it here:
https://lnkd.in/e7HJpBmV
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