In 2020 the IIF Board approved the Foresight Hall of Fame, a new award recognizing the best papers published in its practitioner journal, Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. 2021’s initial set of inductions covers the first 13 years of the [...]
For the eighteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be (2) $10,000 grants. The deadline date for applications is [...]
The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) invites you to participate in a survey about the Use of Systematic Forecasting in Organizations. The purpose of the survey is to collect information about how organizations develop and use forecasts. The entire survey should [...]
How did you become a forecaster? After completing my undergraduate degree in physics, I found econometrics to be an interesting field to apply my model building, math, and computer skills toward solving real world problems. My experience with forecasting started with my [...]
June 27-30, 2021 | Virtual and local Hubs The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) is the premier forecasting conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students. Through a combination of keynote speaker presentations, academic sessions, workshops, and social programs, [...]
We are pleased to announce the 41st International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF 2021) with LIVE keynote lectures, practitioner talks, panel-discussion, workshops, contributed sessions, forecasting summer school. In addition to the virtual conference, there will be four global, in-person locations in Beijing, Lancaster, [...]
Professor Spyros Makridakis is one of the world's leading experts on forecasting, and also the creator of the world's preeminent forecast competition, the M Competition. He is hosting an Applied Forecasting Course at his forecasting center, the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC). [...]
(MEDFORD, Mass., April 12, 2021) – The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) announced today the appointment of two returning and two new members to their board of directors. This brings the number of board members to fourteen. The elected board members are [...]
Evan L. Ray*,1, Logan C. Brooks*,2, Jacob Bien3, Johannes Bracher4, Aaron Gerding1, Aaron Rumack2, Matthew Biggerstaff5, Michael A. Johansson5, Ryan J. Tibshirani2, Nicholas G. Reich1 1 School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst 2 Machine Learning [...]
How did you become a forecaster? Early in my career, I was responsible for commercializing a new product from the laboratory to small scale production. As the product demand took off, I needed to forecast demand to drive capacity increases. In my [...]
