The Quality and Productivity (Q&P) Section will offer two invited sessions at JSM 2016. The first session—The Extraordinary Power of Designed Experiments—features presenters from industry, government, and academia and will cover different aspects of designed experimentation. In the second session—Powerful Experimental Designs for Non-Gaussian Responses—attendees will hear more about different strategies for designs, followed by a discussion.

Q&P is also sponsoring the following three roundtable discussions at JSM this year:

• From Statistician to Data Scientist: How to Prepare? – led by Ming Li, REANCON.
• Break the Chicken and Egg Cycle: Increasing an Organization’s Analytic Maturity – led by Sarah Kalicin, Intel Corporation.
• Postdocs in Statistics: No Longer the Unicorn – led by Karl Pazdernik, North Carolina State University