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 [...]
The Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasting has appointed Prof. Pierre Pinson as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting starting October 2019. Pierre is Professor of Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and has research interests in [...]
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 [...]