On the afternoon and evening of Thursday 8 August 2013, the Isaac Newton Institute hosted an Open for Business meeting, in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics. The purpose of the meeting was to give businesses and other organisations an opportunity to interact with international research leaders who have expertise in the modelling and solution of hard discrete and/or non-linear optimisation problems. It consisted of surveys from academics on the state-of-the-art in optimisation, presentations from non-academic delegates, and a panel discussion.

This event is associated with the programme Polynomial Optimisation, which took place between 15 July - 9 August 2013.