On behalf of Professor Spyros Makridakis, Director of the Institute For the Future (IFF) at University of Nicosia (UNIC) it is a pleasure to introduce you to the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC) and its activities. Professor Makridakis is renowned as [...]
International Journal of Forecasting: Special Section on Forecasting for Social Good The 2nd international workshop on Forecasting for Social Good (FSG), co-sponsored by the IIF, took place on 24-25 June 2021, virtually. The aim of this workshop is aligned with the IIF [...]
1st ECR webinar -- Career opportunities after graduation Presenter: Tim Januschowski, Manager, AWS Location: Online Time: 28 Jan 2020, 5 PM CET / 4 PM GMT / 11 AM EST / 10 AM CST / 8 AM PST Organizers: ECR, IIF group [...]
2nd International workshop on Forecasting for Social Good Call for Abstracts11-12 June 2020 Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France Sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), the workshop on Forecasting for Social Good is now accepting abstracts, both oral and poster presentations. [...]
This Winter 2020 issue of Foresight—number 56 since the journal began in 2005—formally introduces a new section: Integrated Business Planning (IBP), the meaning of which is evolving from a term virtually synonymous with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to something far more [...]
The Democratising Forecasting workshop initiative, with support from the IIF, is expanding and will deliver four forecasting workshops per year for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom, in collaboration with NHS-R community. Why forecasting for NHS Ensuring life-saving services are [...]
Professor Spyros Makridakis is renowned as one of the world’s leading forecasting experts and organizer of the Makridakis Competitions. On behalf of Professor Makridakis, Director of the Institute For the Future (IFF), University of Nicosia (UNIC) it is an honor and a pleasure [...]
The newest Foresight guidebook, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is now available. AI is the name commonly given to the capacity of machines for mimicking the human aptitude to reason, solve problems, and learn from experience. The impact of exponential advances in AI and [...]
MacroFor : the Macroeconomic Forecasting section of the IIF This new section, in line with the IIF's newly created sections, focusses on macroeconomic forecasting, comprising of GDP forecasting, inflation forecasting, macroeconomic nowcasting with large data sets, business cycles analysis, survey expectations, density forecasting, [...]
This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern Retail Forecasting System. The challenge of scale at Target [...]