DJ World Conference - Teaching Note

Tokyo Music School (TOMS) has prepared some of the best DJs in the world for almost two decades. At the beginning of 2019, the school decided to organize an event that would bring together recent alumni with some of the best DJs in the world. The long-term vision was to make this event grow into a global convention for DJs. A number of world-renown disc jockeys have been invited to discuss and share their personal experiences regarding what it takes to become a top DJ. The case, designed to introduce integer programming (IP), illustrates how to deal with assignment problems. Other applications of the methodology discussed in the case are the assignment of doctors to operating rooms, scheduling of concerts or festivals, creating working teams for large conferences, etc.