AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2026 Istanbul, Turkey

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Marion Technical Writer September 8, 2026

Hexaly is proud to participate as a Platinum Sponsor of the 66th AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2026, the leading international conference for analytics, operations research, and decision support in the airline industry.

The symposium will take place October 25–29, 2026, in Istanbul, Türkiye. Hosted by Turkish Airlines, the event will bring together airline professionals, researchers, academics, software providers, and industry experts from around the world to exchange ideas and share the latest advances in airline optimization, analytics, scheduling, revenue management, and operational decision-making.

AGIFORS (Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) has long served as a premier forum for the airline analytics community, fostering collaboration between airlines, academia, and technology providers. The Annual Symposium provides a unique opportunity to discuss emerging challenges, innovative methodologies, and practical applications of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence in aviation.

As a Platinum Sponsor, Hexaly looks forward to connecting with aviation professionals and demonstrating how Hexaly Optimizer helps organizations solve large-scale, real-world optimization problems in scheduling, routing, planning, resource allocation, and decision support.

Meet Hexaly at AGIFORS Annual Symposium 2026

Visit the Hexaly booth and meet Giacomo Da Col, Ph.D., Optimization Scientist at Hexaly.

Whether you work in airline operations, network planning, crew management, fleet optimization, revenue management, or academic research, stop by our booth to discuss your optimization challenges and discover how Hexaly Optimizer can help you model and solve complex optimization problems efficiently.

You’ll also have the opportunity to discover what’s new in Hexaly 15.0, including major performance improvements in routing, scheduling, and packing, as well as advances in nonlinear optimization.

Giacomo Da Col, Ph.D., Optimization Scientist at Hexaly, will also give a presentation during the symposium.

Hexaly, The Next-Generation MIP Solver
Giacomo Da Col, Ph.D., Optimization Scientist, Hexaly
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 13:05–13:35

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MIP) has been the dominant optimization framework for decades. While highly successful, many real-world problems remain difficult to express naturally within a purely linear paradigm. Large-scale routing, scheduling, packing, simulation-based optimization, and machine-learning-driven decision problems often require extensive reformulations that can obscure problem structure and limit performance.

Hexaly extends the traditional MIP approach with a richer modeling framework designed to capture optimization problems closer to their original form. In addition to classical algebraic modeling, it introduces native combinatorial constructs such as sets, lists, and intervals, together with nonlinear and black-box optimization capabilities. This allows practitioners to model complex systems, simulations, and predictive models directly, without relying on large reformulations.

At the algorithmic level, Hexaly automatically exploits advanced optimization techniques, including decomposition methods, column generation, branch-price-and-cut, and decision diagrams, making sophisticated solution approaches available out of the box.

In this talk, we will present the principles behind this next-generation MIP approach, illustrate its modeling capabilities on routing, scheduling, and packing applications, and provide an overview of the solver’s current performance on selected benchmarks.

We look forward to meeting the AGIFORS community in Istanbul!

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