45th International Symposium on Forecasting | Beijing, China

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Valentina Corradi

Professor of Econometrics, University of Surrey

The Clive Granger Memorial Keynote Address: Testing Predictive Accuracy with Penalized Regression

Azul Garza

CTO and Co-Founder, Nixtla

Presentation: The Scaling Laws of Time (or The Unexpected Virtue of Diversity)

Yan Liu

Professor and the Director of the Machine Learning Center, University of Southern California

IJF Editor’s Invited Speaker presentation: Frontiers of Foundation Models for Time Series

Anastasios Panagiotelis

Professor, Department of Economics and Business Statistics, Monash Business School

Presentation: Forecast reconciliation: Geometry, optimisation, and insights beyond hierarchical time series

Pierre Pinson

Professor, Imperial College London and Chief Scientist, Halfspace

Presentation: Let’s learn to share – Better forecasts through data sharing

Shouyang Wang

Director of AMSS Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Presentation: TEI@I Methodology for Economic Forecasting: Insights from Over Two Decades of Practice

PRACTITIONER SPEAKERS

Sven Crone

Assistant Professor, Lancaster University; CEO & Founder, iQast

Presentation: What Has AI Ever Done for Supply Chain Forecasting? Anecdotes and Case Studies from 2004 to 2024

Chris Fry

Director of Data Science, Google Cloud

Presentation: Forecasting Advances and Lessons Learned in Google Infrastructure Planning

Mohsen Hamoudia

CEO and Founder, PREDICONSULT

Presentation: Enhancing New Product Predictions Through AI and Advanced Analytics

Boyi Hou

Huawei Cloud BU Algorithm Innovation Lab

Presentation: Challenges and technologies in cloud resource operation in Huawei Public Cloud

Yijie Peng

Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Presentation: TBD

Shiyu Wang

Senior Staff Researcher and Director of the Supply Chain Algorithm Team, ByteDance Inc.

Zhou Ye

Principal Researcher and Managing Director of the Supply Chain Algorithm Team, ByteDance Inc.

Presentation: Time Series Large Models: Industrial Frontier Research and Global Supply Chain Applications

Qingsong Wen

Head of AI & Chief Scientist, Squirrel Ai Learning

Presentation: LLM and Foundation Models for Time Series Forecasting