Artificial Intelligence for Forecasting Can artificial intelligence augment and amplify our forecasting efforts? Will AI impact our forecasting roles and processes? Does AI deliver the automation and forecast accuracy we've been pursuing? These are the sorts of questions to be addressed [...]
ISF 2019 - General Chair Overview George Athanasopoulos, General Chair Aris Syntetos, Program Chair The 39th International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF2019) was a great success. ISF 2019 took place at Makedonia Palace Hotel in Thessaloniki, Greece, a truly five-star venue in a [...]
For the sixteenth 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 [...]
This 54th edition of Foresight features an important new take on the role of judgment in the forecasting process. Normally, we see judgment applied to adjust a statistical forecast or supply a forecast directly. But here Fotios Petropoulos proposes a major role for judgment in the [...]
The IIF Board of Directors presented the award of IIF Research Fellow to Antonio Garcia-Ferrer, Professor of Econometrics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. The award was presented at the International Symposium on Forecasting [...]
The ISF 2019 Organizing Committee would like to extend a thank you to all of our sponsors! Their support of the mission of the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) allows us to make the annual symposium possible. Please take a moment to [...]
2019 Foresight Practitioner Conference Is Coming! How will jobs and organizations be affected when machines of equal or superior intelligence amplify, supplement, and even substitute for forecaster and planner roles? Good question. That’s what the Foresight Practitioner Conference (FPC) aims to [...]
Yves Sagaert University of Ghent How did you get started in forecasting? In 2012, I got in touch with the field of forecasting through my master thesis. This inspired me to start a PhD the very next year. I did my research [...]
To assist everyone in their registration and travel planning, we have extended the International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) early registration deadline to 25th April. We encourage you to register soon to take advantage of the special rates. Do you have an accepted [...]
SAVE THE DATE: The 2019 Foresight Practitioner Conference Topic: Artificial Intelligence—The Hype and the Promise for Forecasting and Planning Dates: November 13-14, 2019 Venue: Rizzo Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina SPECIAL FEATURE SECTION Our special feature section in this 53rd issue of Foresight poses the [...]
