Call for Abstracts
We're looking for abstracts from industry professionals tackling complex real-world problems, academics developing or applying optimisation methodologies, government decision-makers, and students at every stage of their careers.
Whether you've solved a challenging problem, encountered an unexpected obstacle, developed a new approach, or built something that is being used in practice, we'd like to hear about it.
OPTIMA-CON 27 is a forum for sharing ideas, lessons learned, successes, failures, and practical experiences across optimisation research and applications. We welcome contributions from all disciplines and sectors, including industry, government, and academia.
This is your opportunity to showcase your work, exchange ideas with a diverse community, and contribute to the future of optimisation in Australia and beyond.
Formats
Presentation — 15 minutes, plus 5 for questions.
Poster — presented during the poster session.
Presentation preferred — you'd rather give a talk, but you'll take a poster slot if the program fills up. Choosing this doesn't make a talk any less likely; it just means we can offer you a poster, instead of turning you down.
Writing your abstract
500 words or fewer.
We'll also ask for a title, your institution or company, and which theme(s) your work fits.
One thing worth knowing before you start: our audience is deliberately mixed — industry people, academics and students in the same room. Please keep talks largely non-technical, with no more than a slide or two of heavy detail. The work that lands best at OPTIMA-CON is the work explained in terms of the problem it solves.
Themes
We're not running to a single theme. Tag your submission with whichever apply:
Arts;
Infrastructure, Logistics and Transport; Defence and Cybersecurity;
Energy, Water and Resource Management;
Advanced Manufacturing;
Climate and Environment;
Health and Wellbeing;
Social Good; Education, Finance and the Service Economy;
Food Security and Agriculture;
Optimisation Technologies;
Other
If none of them fit, say so — we'd still like to see it.
Questions about submitting go to info@optima.org.au.
Registration, venue and travel details are on the conference website.
Submissions open on 2026-08-08 00:01 (Australia/Melbourne).
