The International Institute of Forecasters sponsors workshops, each of which focuses on a specific forecasting theme. The purpose of these workshops is to hold smaller, informal meetings where experts in a particular field of forecasting can discuss forecasting problems, research, and solutions. There is generally a nominal registration fee associated with attendance. Following the usual refereeing process, papers from the workshops can be included in a special issue of the International Journal of Forecasting. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, contact Tim Januschowski, IIF Director, or click here for workshop guidelines.

Forecast Reconciliation | Monash University Prato Centre, Italy | September 6-8, 2023

The workshop aims to draw together about 30 participants (both academics and practitioners) from around the world, to foster research collaboration on forecast reconciliation. We have already produced an IJF special issue on “Innovations in Hierarchical Forecasting”, due to appear in early 2023. It was intended to have an IIF workshop to encourage papers for this special issue, but the pandemic made that impossible. Instead, we propose a follow-up workshop to foster ongoing research in the area, with workshop presenters encouraged to submit their papers to regular IJF issues.

For more information, visit the workshop website

Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and Forecasting in a Changing Environment | Padova, Italy | September 21-22, 2023

Following the success of the first four conferences, the University of Padova, Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, International Institute of Forecasters, American University, and International Monetary Fund will jointly organize the 5th biennial conference on “Uncertainty, Economic Activity, and Forecasting in a Changing Environment”. Our in-person, two-day conference will bring together researchers and policymakers to present and discuss novel approaches to understand how to effectively model the uncertainty-business cycle relationship and forecast key macroeconomic indicators in the context of a changing environment.

For more information, visit the workshop website or contact Xuguang Simon Sheng, American University.

Democratising Forecasting

This is a series of ongoing workshops on forecasting using R in developing countries. The aim of the project is to ‘train the trainers’ in the form of university students, academics and professionals on the principles of forecasting using R software to support decision making. The ultimate goal of this project is to train 400 individuals, over 5 years in 20 developing countries in the world. The first series of workshops have already been offered in 2017-18. To date, the workshops have been offered in Tunisia, Iraq, Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda, Turkey, Georgia, and Indonesia

The workshops are given by Dr. Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Assistant Professor in Management Science at Cardiff Business School. To organise a workshop in your country, contact [email protected]

Past Workshops

2022 Oxford, England Forecasting for Social Good Workshop
2022 Virtual Revisiting and Improving Prediction Tools for Central Banks
2021 Paris, France New Directions for Inflation Forecasting
2021 Madrid, Spain Forecasting in a changing environment
2021 Nigeria Economic and Social Good Forecasting During Covid-19: Data Analytics & Forecasting Methods
2021 Virtual Forecasting for Social Good
2020 Virtual Economic Forecasting in Times of Covid-19
2019 Cambridge, England Predictive Analytics: Theory, Applications and Algorithms
2018 Cardiff, Wales Forecasting for Social Good
2017 Munich, Germany Predictive Analytics and Forecasting Research and Applications
2017 Cairns, Australia Predictive Energy Analytics in the Big Data World
2017 Washington DC, USA Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies
2017 New York, USA Forecasting with Massive Data in Real Time
2016 Lancaster, UK Supply Chain Forecasting for Operations
2016 Milan, Italy Forecasting New Products and Services
2015 Paris, France Advances in Time Series and Forecasting
2015 Santander, Spain Summer Forecasting Course
2015 Hong Kong Tourism Forecasting
2015 Paris, France ICT and Innovation Forecasting
2014 Bournemouth, UK Singular Spectrum Analysis
2014 London, United Kingdom Theory and Practice in ICT Forecasting
2014 Frankfurt, Germany Using big data for forecasting and statistics
2013 Melbourne, Australia Multivariate Time Series Modelling and Forecasting
2012 San Francisco, USA Predicting Rare Events: Evaluating Systemic and Idiosyncratic Risk
2011 Paris, France Forecasting the Business Cycle
2011 Verbier, Switzerland Flash Indicators
2009 Washington, DC Transportation Forecasters: Tools, Techniques and Information to Improve your Forecasts
2009 Lisbon, Portugal Predictability of Financial Markets
2007 Rio de Janiero, Brazil Risk, Volatility, and Forecasting in Energy and Financial Markets
2006 Leipzig, Germany Future of Forecasting
2005 Salamanca, Spain Stochastic Demographic Forecasting
2003 Madrid, Spain Nonlinearities, Business Cycles and Forecasting