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November 6-7, 2023 | Harvard Club, New York, New York The conference will cover many critical and emerging aspects of forecasting, including the role of AI and large language models, forecasting for the new era and the changing role of the [...]
The IIF Board of Directors is pleased to announce Stephan Kolassa, Data Science Expert, SAP Switzerland, with the title of IIF Fellow, as a distinguished researcher in the field of forecasting. Please join us in congratulating Stephan! Stephan Kolassa has spent most [...]
With his retirement on September 30, 2022, Len Tashman ended a 17- year reign as Foresight’s Founding Editor and over 20 years serving on the IIF’s Board of Directors. Len’s reputation as an exacting editor is well deserved (as evidenced by the [...]
Does forecast accuracy even matter? It has long been assumed that increased accuracy leads to better decisions and improved financial outcomes, but recent thinking (e.g. Johann ROBETTE ) now questions this assumption. Do you have a viewpoint on this matter? We invite [...]
Free article from Foresight: Beyond Error Measures to the Utility and Cost of the Forecasts | download
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 [...]
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 [...]
Authors: Spyros Makridakis, Ellen Bonnell, Simon Clarke, Robert Fildes, Mike Gilliland, Jim Hoover, and Len Tashman Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, Fall 2020 issue The purpose of this paper is to provide a realistic assessment of the potential benefits [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]