Agentic Engineering & ToolingLunch Talk40min
"You May Now Optimize the Wedding": Optimizing the Seating, Bachelor Party, and Honeymoon with Constraint AI
This talk shows how to automate complex planning problems using constraint optimization. Using wedding scenarios like seating charts, pub crawls, and honeymoon itineraries, it demonstrates how Timefold solves scheduling, routing, and planning challenges with real code and constraints, turning “could I automate this?” into working optimization solutions.
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Geoffrey De SmetTimefold
Tom CoolsTimefold
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Thursday, October 8, 12:55-13:35
TBA 3
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Every developer has been there: sitting at a life event, thinking "could I automate this?" The answer is yes. And this talk will show you how.
There is a whole class of problems that AI alone cannot solve: scheduling, routing, and planning challenges where every decision affects every other decision. Timefold tackles these in production every day, across logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and yes, apparently also weddings.
We will use the most important weekend of your life as our excuse to explore constraint optimization in practice, from seating charts to pub crawls to honeymoon itineraries, with real code, real constraints, and real solver magic.
You will leave knowing how to turn any "could I automate this?" moment into a working optimization solution.
There is a whole class of problems that AI alone cannot solve: scheduling, routing, and planning challenges where every decision affects every other decision. Timefold tackles these in production every day, across logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, and yes, apparently also weddings.
We will use the most important weekend of your life as our excuse to explore constraint optimization in practice, from seating charts to pub crawls to honeymoon itineraries, with real code, real constraints, and real solver magic.
You will leave knowing how to turn any "could I automate this?" moment into a working optimization solution.
Geoffrey De Smet
Geoffrey De Smet is founder/CTO of Timefold and the creator of OptaPlanner, its predecessor. He’s an expert in planning optimization, an active open source contributor and an international speaker.
His technology is in use across the globe, to automate complex scheduling and routing of hundreds of thousands of employees, vehicles and machinery every day.
His technology is in use across the globe, to automate complex scheduling and routing of hundreds of thousands of employees, vehicles and machinery every day.
Tom Cools
Developer Relations Engineer for Timefold, Java Champion and co-organizer of the Belgian Java User Group. Tom has a decade worth of experience delivering systems and loves to share not only knowledge but also passion for our craft.
You can read more at his blog (http://www.tomcools.be) or follow him on Bluesky (@tomcools.be).
You can read more at his blog (http://www.tomcools.be) or follow him on Bluesky (@tomcools.be).