Make More Money by Modeling and Optimizing Your Business Processes with Kotlin

In this talk, Holger Brandl introduces kalasim, an open-source discrete event simulation engine written in Kotlin. The presentation covers how to model complex business processes, optimize them for profit and efficiency, and leverage Kotlin's capabilities for this purpose. Examples include modeling a semiconductor wafer production process and an elevator system, demonstrating the use of coroutines, dependency injection, and integration with visualization and data science libraries. The talk also touches upon using simulation for predictive analytics and testing, and explores the potential of Kotlin notebooks for interactive simulation development.