Salzberg Memorial Lecture
HARRY E. SALZBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE PROGRAM
Established in 1949, the Harry E. Salzberg Memorial Lecture Program enriches the student learning experience by fostering a close community of students, faculty, staff, and practitioners of the supply chain who collaborate to advance the state of knowledge, engage the mind, and stimulate the best effort of all.
The Salzberg Medallion has come to be recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the field of transportation and supply chain management — in part because of the caliber of past honorees, as well as the program's rigorous selection process.
Each year, former Salzberg Medallion recipients and other distinguished practitioners active in the transportation and supply chain management fields are invited to nominate individuals and companies for consideration for the award. A screening committee of Syracuse University faculty and active professionals then deliberates and selects the honorees.
The annual Salzberg Program is made possible by the continued support of our Franklin Supply Chain Management Advisory Board.
76th Annual Salzberg Memorial Lecture
The 2025 program will be held on Thursday, November 13 with an academic day on Friday, November 14, 2025
Winner of the Salzberg Academic Medallion: Georgia Perakis, William F. Pounds Professor and a Professor of Operations Management, Operations Research & Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor and a Professor of Operations Management, Operations Research & Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also serving as co-director of the Operations Research Center. On July 1 she started her sabbatical at Harvard Business School where she is spending the year as a Visiting Scholar. Among other leadership roles, for the past year and a half, Perakis served as the John C Head III Dean (Interim) at MIT Sloan and before that, she served as an Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibility in Computing (SERC) in the Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Sloan. Her research has received many awards and focuses on analytics/AI, in particular, in the intersection of optimization and machine learning with applications in pricing, revenue management, supply chain, sustainability and healthcare among others. She received the CAREER Award from NSF and the PECASE Award from the Office of the President on Science and Technology. In 2016, she was elected as an INFORMS Fellow, and in 2021 as Distinguished MSOM Fellow.
Perakis has a passion for supervising Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate students, having graduated 34 Ph.D. and 63 master’s students. She has also received numerous awards for teaching including the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award (2002), the Samuel M. Seegal Award (2012), the Jamieson Prize for excellence in Teaching (2014), the Teacher of the Year Award (2017) and the Outstanding Teaching Award (2024) at MIT Sloan.
Perakis is currently the Editor in Chief of the M&SOM journal and has served on the editorial board at a number of other journals. She holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Athens as well as an MS in applied mathematics and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University.
Winner of the Salzberg Corporation Medallion is: Schneider Electric SE
Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On. Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.
We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.
We are a people company with an ecosystem of 160,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders.
Schneider Electric is being recognized for its rapid development and implementation of artificial intelligence within their supply chain providing a global transparency in operations. As a leader in the adoption of machine learning, Schneider is re-shape supply chain strategies, shifting from the long-held practice of just-in-time concepts to agility, speed and real-time planning. This implementation of AI is also helping Schneider’s global sustainability initiatives as well as assisting customers with their sustainability goals. In the era of AI, power management is becoming a critical player. Schneider Electric is at the forefront of using AI to predict power demand and optimize power distribution. This technology is essential for efficient operations for the rapidly expanding global demand for data centers that will drive the ever-increasing use of AI.
Hotel rooms are blocked off at the Hotel Sklyer. See "Hotel Information" below to reserve a room today.
