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Prof. Goos Kant is a leading global authority on the use of Big Data and advanced mathematical techniques in business. He is professor of “Logistics Optimization” at Tilburg University, and holds a position at the internationally acclaimed TiasNimbas / EMLog business school. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of ORTEC, a leading Dutch optimization software and consultancy company. He has worked extensively with organizations such as Coca Cola, TNT Express, Walmart, DHL, Tesco and FedEx to introduce optimization and Big Data techniques to improve the effectiveness of their business operations. He assisted TNT Express in setting up their “Global Optimization” programme which is credited with saving over €200M over seven years, and co-founded TNT’s “GO Academy” which is central to TNT’s efforts to embed optimization and advanced analytics into its day-to-day decision taking. From 2006 – 2010 Goos was editor-in-chief of the Stator magazine (applied Statistics and Operations Research) and is co-author of the book “The New World of Planning”. Prof. G. Kant leads the scientific R&D program on Urban Logistics at the Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics and in 2007 he was a finalist for the prestigious Franz Edelman 2007, for achieving the best world-wide application of Operations Research, by achieving annual $ 45 Million savings in distribution costs at Coca-Cola Enterprises of the US.