Great discussion with Ricardo Leão, COO of HARUMI and host of ORPath Newsletter, on the current state and future of AI in production planning and Operations Research! In the midst of the LLM hype, it was a timely reminder that the true core of business success hasn't changed: the ability to connect with customers at a human level and solve their fundamental pain points. 🤝 We also explored the exciting outlook for stochastic optimization methods and cutting-edge AI in OR. Ricardo's insight was key: differentiating between an AI Expert and a Solution Expert is crucial in this field.

Hey everyone, how’s it going? I wanted to share how my conversation with Ricardo went. Basically, I reached out because he works at Harumi and has experience with Optimization — which is one of the most important topics in AI, even though it’s not discussed as fluently as it should be. During our chat, I realized how deeply he understands both optimization and business. He answered my questions, talked about the optimization market, the importance of academic degrees, and much more. It was a very smooth and easygoing conversation. In fact, that conversation gave me a huge boost to pursue Industrial Engineering. Even though I’m already employed, I feel that optimization is going to be a crucial part of my professional life.

Hey Ricardo, how’s it going? That’s awesome — I’ll definitely take a look! I was actually going to message you these days to thank you again for the advice you gave me a few months ago and to tell you that I got accepted into the selection process at Enacom to work with optimization!