ODS 2026 Galzignano Terme, Italy

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Marion Technical Writer August 10, 2026

Hexaly is proud to participate as a Platinum Sponsor of ODS 2026, the International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science organized by AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society. ODS 2026 will take place September 7–10, 2026, at Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf in Galzignano Terme (Padua), Italy. The conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to explore the latest advances in operations research, optimization, decision science, and their real-world applications.

ODS 2026 is organized by AIRO and is dedicated to the theme, “Shaping Tomorrow: Optimization and Decision Science for Sustainability.” The event provides a forum for academics and industry experts to exchange ideas, present innovative research, and discuss how optimization and decision science can address today’s most complex industrial, environmental, and societal challenges.

As a Platinum Sponsor, Hexaly looks forward to connecting with the Italian and international operations research community and demonstrating how Hexaly Optimizer extends traditional Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) to solve large-scale, real-world optimization problems.

Meet Hexaly at ODS 2026

Visit the Hexaly booth and meet Giacomo Da Col, Ph.D., Optimization Scientist at Hexaly. Whether you work in academia or industry, stop by our booth to discuss your optimization challenges and discover how Hexaly helps organizations solve complex planning, scheduling, routing, and resource allocation problems more efficiently.

Don’t miss Giacomo’s technical presentation at the conference. He will present the latest innovations in Hexaly 15.0 and discuss the technologies behind Hexaly’s next-generation optimization solver, illustrating how modern optimization techniques can tackle increasingly complex business and industrial challenges.

Hexaly, The next-generation MIP solver
Giacomo Da Col, Ph.D., Optimization Scientist, Hexaly
Monday, September 7, 17:10 – 18:10, Room Pedrocchi

Hexaly Optimizer is the next-generation MIP solver. Its modeling interface is nonlinear and set-oriented. In a sense, Hexaly APIs unify and extend modeling concepts from mixed-linear programming, nonlinear programming, constraint programming, and black-box optimization.

Under the hood, Hexaly combines exact and heuristic optimization methods, such as branch-and-bound, automatic Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, column and row generation, propagation, local search, direct search, and surrogate modeling techniques. Regarding performance benchmarks, Hexaly distinguishes itself from leading solvers such as Gurobi, IBM Cplex, and Google OR Tools by delivering scalable solutions for Routing, Scheduling, Packing, Clustering, and Location problems.

This talk introduces our set-based modeling formalism and highlights its scalability for large instances, while explaining how the solver automatically leverages state-of-the-art exact and heuristic techniques.

Explore our upcoming conferences, events, and webinars to see where the Hexaly team will appear next!