The Distinguished Lecture Series is IIF’s premier seminar series, offering members access to learn from and interact with eminent scholars from all across the forecasting discipline. It primarily aims at an academic audience and typically comprises four thematically related seminars showcasing the latest cutting-edge research of the Distinguished Lectures. While live sessions are only accessible to IIF members, all Distinguished Lecture Series are recorded, irrespective of whether they take place in person or in the form of a webinar. They are later published on the IIF’s YouTube channel @IIForecasters, thereby serving the wider forecasting community.
Lecture Series 2027
IIF Distinguished Lecture Series continues! Join us as we welcome Professor Haiyan Song from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Professor Jennifer Castle from Magdalen College, to continue in January and September 2027 during the fourth year of this initiative. More details of the lecture topics will be announced soon.
Past Series (on IIF YouTube Channel)
| March 2026 | Christiane Baumeister | Recent Advances in Forecasting Energy Prices: Data, Models, and Risk Analysis |
| March 2025 | Rafał Weron | Electricity Price Forecasting |
| November 2003 | Rob Hyndman | Forecast Reconciliation |