DecisionCAMP-2023 goes down in history. As the Chair of this popular annual decision-management event, I will try to write down my fresh impressions after 3 days of interesting presentations and discussions. This was our 15^th event which from the very beginning was positioned as a not-for-profit gathering of practitioners discussing real-world issues, their solutions, and used and upcoming technologies. So, as usual, we did not have thousands of attendees, but most of our attendees are people who actually do it. This time we again had a few hundred registrations and ~50 people attending live sessions. Our attendees know that they may quietly watch recordings of all sessions, interactive panels, and major discussions afterward by clicking on the proper links in the Program.

This year was dominated by the “huge elephant in our decision modeling kitchen”: Generative AI. Contrary to many other conferences that discuss this explosive technology in general, the Decision Management Community deals with very specific real-world problems and has a well-established standardized infrastructure for their practical solutions. So, we have good ideas where exactly to apply constantly advancing ChatGPT, LLMs, and other GenAI tools and techniques while we certainly need time and knowledge to learn how to do it better.

There were so many interesting sessions and discussions. I did a brief summary at the end of the Camp, but I cannot describe all of them in one post. So, I decided to split my notes into 3 parts:

• From Knowledge Sources to Executable Decision Models
• Novel Decision Modeling Techniques
• Practical Applications, Use Cases, and Testing of Decision Services.

P.S. If you watched all presentations, please vote for the best 3 from this Poll which will run on Sep 21-26.

P.S.S. Here are my notes from previous events:

• DecisionCAMP-2020, online
• DecisionCAMP-2019 in Bolzano, Italy
• DecisionCAMP-2018 in Luxemburg
• DecisionCAMP-2017 in London
• DecisionCAMP-2016 in New York.