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Geoffrey De Smet
Location
Region
flanders
Role
co-founder, cto
Company
LinkedIn
Expertise
ai, planning, operations-research, open-source
TLDR
Geoffrey De Smet is Co-founder and CTO of Timefold, a Ghent-based AI planning optimization company, and the original creator of the OptaPlanner open-source solver.
See also
Recent mentions
- Failures teach more than successes. But people don’t generally talk about their failures. That is no different for Operations Research applications. In IT, it's well documented one third of projects fLinkedIn · 28 Apr 2026
- Timefold Solver 2.0 is out! The open source solver comes with a streamlined API, faster solving, and the new Neighborhoods API to escape local optima. We've also restructured our editions to separate LinkedIn · 22 Apr 2026
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