Keynote Speakers
Roy Batchelor
Professor of Banking and Finance
Cass Business School, London, United Kingdom
IJF Editor’s Invited Paper: Forecasting Financial Markets: Some Light from the Dark Side
James D. Hamilton 
Professor of Economics
University of California, San Diego, USA
Clive Granger Memorial Lecture: Effects of index-fund investing on commodity futures prices
Philip Hans Franses
Professor of Applied Econometrics and Professor of Marketing Research
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Presentation: Forecasting Sales: Models, Managers and their Interactions
Rob Hyndman
Professor of Statistics, Monash University, Australia
Director, Monash University Business and Economic Forecasting Unit
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Forecasting
Presentation: Forecasting without forecasters
Featured Speakers
Makoto Abe
Professor of Marketing
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Presentation: Not Enough Data? A Paradox of a Large Customer Database
Inseong Song
Associate Professor of Marketing
Seoul National University, Korea
Presentation: Optimal Sampling Network for New Product Test Marketing