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Forecasting Impact is a bimonthly podcast which aims to disseminate the science and practice of forecasting by introducing prominent academics and practitioners in the forecasting domain. Our vision is to help and grow the forecasting community, foster collaboration between academia, industry and governments, and promote scientific forecasting and good practices.

We will discuss a wide range of forecasting topics in economics, supply chain, energy, social goods, AI, machine learning, data analytics, education, healthcare, and more.

Forecasting Impact episodes are now also available on the IIF YouTube Channel @IIForecasters.

Podcast Team
Chair and Co-host: Dr. Mahdi Abolghasemi, Lecturer in Data Science, The University of Queensland
Co-hosts: Dr. Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi, Michał Chojnowski, Dr Laila Akhlaghi, George Boretos, Mariana Menchero, Dr. Faranak Golestaneh, and Arian Sultan Khan.

We welcome your feedback, questions and suggestions forecastingimpact@forecasters.org

PODCASTS

New Episode MLOps and Dockerisation in Forecasting with Rami Krispin

In this episode, we sit down with Rami Krispin, a data scientist at Apple and active producer in forecasting, to explore his journey into forecasting and data science. He shares what first sparked his interest in the field and how that passion led him to develop key contributions, including the Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R book and the TSstudio package. We discuss his motivation for writing the book, who it’s for, and how TSstudio and other R packages he has developed have helped practitioners in the forecasting space. He also gives us a sneak peek into his upcoming book, Applied Time Series Analysis and Forecasting with R, and the new topics it will cover.

We then dive into the challenges of deploying forecasting models at scale and the role of MLOps in making machine learning projects production-ready. As a Docker Captain, our guest explains how Docker has changed his approach to time series forecasting and MLOps. We also discuss best practices for forecasting, common mistakes practitioners make, and strategies for improving reproducibility. Looking ahead, we talk about where time series forecasting is heading, the differences between R, Julia, and Python in this space, and how each ecosystem serves different needs.

You can follow his work on LinkedIn, subscribe to his newsletter, and stay updated on his latest projects.

Website: https://linktr.ee/ramikrispin
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rami-krispin/

2025

Harrison Mariki, founder of Afya Intelligence, and Danielson Kennedy Onyango, inSupply Health

2024

Jan Kleissl, University of California, San Diego
Hema Srinivasan, Senior Advisor at MedAccess
Azul Garza Ramírez, Cofounder of Nixtla, and Mononito Goswami, Developer of MOMENT
Kai Markus Mueller, Professor of Consumer Behavior at Furtwangen University
Mitchell O’Hara-Wild, Data Scientist
Joannes Vermorel, Founder and CEO at Lokad
Laurent Ferrara, Professor of International Economics at SKEMA Business School
Eric Siegel, Consultant

2023

Michele Trovero, leader of the Forecasting R&D group at SAS, and Spiros Potamitis, Data Scientist and Product Marketing Manager at SAS
Martie-Louise Verreynne, University of Queensland
David Schmitt, Insight Transportation Consulting, Inc.
Stephan Kolassa (SAP), Bahman Rostami-Tabar (Cardiff Univ), and Enno Siemsen (Univ of Wisconsin)
Priyanga Dilini Talagala, University of Moratuwa, and Thiyanga Talagala, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
George Athanasopoulos, Monash University
Forecasting Software Panel (Rob Hyndman, Federico Garaz, and Eric Stellwagen)
Eric Siegel, Consultant
Scott Cunningham, University of Strathclyde
Tao Hong, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2022

Galit Shmueli, National Tsing Hua University
Ataman Ozyildirim, The Conference Board
Nikolaos Kourentzes, University of Skövde
Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, Kinaxis
Trevor Sidery, Tesco PLC
Jim Hoover, University of Florida
Len Tashman, Founding editor of Foresight
Jennifer Castle, Oxford University
Evangelos Spiliotis, National Technical University of Athens
Paul Goodwin, University of Bath
Elaine Deschamps, Washington State Caseload Forecast Council
John Boylan, Lancaster University and Aris Syntetos, Cardiff University

2021

Anne Robinson, Kinaxis
Feng Li, Central University of Finance and Economics
Nada Sanders, Northeastern University
Pierre Pinson, Technical University of Denmark
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Cardiff University
Michael Gilliland, SAS
George Athanasopoulos and Pam Stroud, Monash University & IIF
Spyros Makridakis, University of Nicosia
Stephan Kolassa, SAP AG
Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera, University of California
Robert Fildes, Lancaster University
Rob Hyndman, Monash University