Past Conferences

# Year Date and Location Conference Chairs # Participants (Papers Presented) Theme
1 1994 June 27-29,1994 Cambridge University Cambridge, UK Ken Platts Mike Gregory Andy Neely Huw Richards Clare Price 140 (100) Operations Strategy and Performance
 2 1995 May 28-31, 1995 University of Twente Enschede, Netherlands Koos Krabbendam Domien Draaijer Harry Boer Jeannette Visser – Groeneveld  112 (61) Management and New Production Systems
3 1996 June 3-4, 1996 London Business School London, UK Chris Voss Terry Hill 120 Manufacturing Strategy: Operation Strategy in a Global Context
4 1997  June 15-18, 1997 IESE, University of Navarra Barcelona, Spain Jaume Ribera Luis Huete (98) Managing Service Operations Strategy in a Global Context
5 1998 June 14-17,1998 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Paul Coughlan Tony Dromgoole 170 (96) Operations Management: Future Issues and Competitive Responses
6 1999 June 7-8, 1999 Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Padova Venice, Italy Emilio Bartezzaghi Roberto Filippini 220 (118) Managing Operations Network
7 2000 June 4-7, 2000 University of Ghent Ghent, Belgium Roland Van Dierdonck Ann Vereecke 190 (82) Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Changing Role of Operations
8 2001 June 3-5, 2001 University of Bath Bath, UK Harvey Maylor Kate Blackmon 220 (135) What Really Matters in Operations Management
9 2002 June 2-4, 2002 Aalborg University, Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen, Denmark Harry Boer John K. Christiansen 213 (124) Operations Management and The New Economy
10 2003 June 16-18,2003 Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di PadovaCernobbio, Italy 1st Joint EurOMA & POMS Conference Gianluca Spina Andrea Vinelli  447 (319) One World? One view of OM? The Challenges of Integrating Research & Practice
11 2004 June 27-30, 2004 INSEAD Fontainebleau, France Luk Van Wassenhove 316 (258) Operations Management as a Change Agent
12 2005 June 19-22, 2005 Corvinus University of BudapestBudapest, Hungary Attila Chikán Kristzina Demeter 313 (229) Operations and Global Competitiveness
13 2006 June 18-21, 2006 University of Strathclyde Glasgow, UK Umit S. Bititci 318 (243) Moving Up the Value Chain
14 2007 June 17-20, 2007 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey Erhan Erkut Nuran Acur Nesim K.Erkip 307 (341) Managing Operations in an Expanding Europe
15 2008 June 15-18, 2008 University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands Jacob Wijngaard Taco van der Vaart Dirk Pieter van Donk 330 (240) Tradition and Innovation in Operations Management: Connecting Past and Future
16 2009 June 14-17, 2009 Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden Mats Johansson Patrick Jonsson 408 (285) Implementation – Realizing Operations Management Knowledge
17 2010 June 6-9, 2010 Catholic University of Portugal Porto, Portugal Rui Sousa 453 (323) Managing Operations in Service Economies
18 2011 July 3-6, 2011 University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK Matthias Holweg Jag Srai 481 (330) Exploring Interfaces
19 2012 July 1-5, 2012 University of Groningen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, VU University Amsterdam, Eindhoven University of Technology, Nyenrode Business UniversityAmsterdam, The Netherlands 4th POMS World Conference (EurOMA,POMS and JOMSA) Jan Fransoo René de Koster Sander de Leeuw Jack van der Veen Dirk Pieter van Donk 682 (520) Serving the World
20 2013 June 9-12,2013 University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland Brian Fynes Paul Coughlan  510 Operations Management at the Heart of the Recovery
21 2014 June 20-25, 2014 University of Palermo Palermo, Italy Giovanni Perrone Operations Management in an Innovation Economy
22 2015 June 28 – 1 July,2015 University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland Gerald Reiner Operations Management for Sustainable Competitiveness
23 2016 June 17-22, 2016 University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway Heidi Dreyer Torbjørn Netland Interactions
24 2017 July 1-5,2017 Heriot Watt University Edinburgh, UK Nigel Caldwell Amos Haniff Inspiring Operations Management
25 2018 June 24-26, 2018 Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBudapest, Hungary Gyula Vastag Tamás Koltai László Monostori To Serve, to Produce and to Servitize in the Era of Networks, Big Data, and Analytics
26 2019 June 17-19 June, 2019 Hanken School of Economics and Aalto UniversityHelsinki, Finland Gyöngyi Kovacs Markku Kuula  578 Operations adding value to Society
27 2020 June 29-30, 2020 Warwick UniversityWarwick, UK (online) Janet Godsell Mark Johnson Pietro Micheli Managing Operations for Impact
28 2021 July 5-7, 2021 University of Sussex Business SchoolBerlin, Germany (online) Constantin Blome Co-chairs: Samuel Roscoe, Martin Schleper, Anthony Alexander, Nachiappan Subramanian, Maria Holgado Managing the “new normal”: The future of Operations and Supply Chain Management in unprecedented times
29 2022 July 3-6, 2022 University of Sussex Business SchoolBerlin, Germany Constantin Blome Co-chairs: Samuel Roscoe, Martin Schleper, Anthony Alexander, Nachiappan Subramanian, Maria Holgado Brilliance in resilience: operations and supply chain management’s role in achieving a sustainable future
30 2023 3-5 July 3-5, 2023 KU Leuven & Vlerick Business SchoolLeuven, Belgium Ann Vereecke Nico Vandaele “A Systems Lens on Operations.”