Your Optimization Model Works. Now What? Shipping Sequential Decision Policies with FICO Xpress and DecisionOps
October 7, 2026 @ 11am – 11:30am ETConfidently deploy, test, and manage a sequential decision model solved using a Cost Function Approximation (CFA) policy. Join for a live DecisionOps demo and Q&A.
Most optimization models never reach production. The ones that do are often hard to test, update, and trust. Most business decisions aren't one-shot; they are sequential, but many models don’t treat them that way. The policy has to adapt as new information arrives, and every change must be proven before it goes live.
In this 30-minute webinar, we'll start from a concrete example: a soccer camp location problem solved with a Cost Function Approximation (CFA) policy from Prof. Warren Powell's framework for sequential decision-making. The policy blends optimization, simulation, and machine learning: FICO Xpress solves the optimization at every simulated step as the policy is tuned across demand scenarios. We'll then show how the FICO Platform DecisionOps capability turns that model into a reliable production service.
You'll see how to tune and compare policy variants with side-by-side experiments, catch regressions automatically before they reach the business, and keep a system of record for every model version, run, and decision.
This session is for data scientists, operations research practitioners, and analytics leaders. You'll leave with a practical playbook for shipping decision models faster and showing their impact to stakeholders.
- Deploy a sequential decision model as a service, with every run and version recorded for review.
- Expose policy settings so the team can adjust how the policy is tuned without changing code.
- Run side-by-side comparisons and experiments to see how configuration changes affect cost and missed demand across scenarios.
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