44th International Symposium on Forecasting | Dijon, France

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Frank X. Diebold

University of Pennsylvania

The Arnold Zellner Memorial Keynote Address: TBA

Hilde C. Bjørnland

Professor of Economics and Director Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and Commodity Prices (CAMP)
BI Norwegian Business School

Presentation: Commodity currencies: Productivity shifts and equilibrium real exchange rates

Sergei Guriev

Provost, Sciences Po, Paris

Presentation: Impact of politics and geopolitics on the global economy

Melanie Schienle

Professor of Statistical Methods and Econometrics, Institute of Statistics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and
Scientist, Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies (HITS)

IJF Editor’s Invited Speaker: Collaborative Now- and Forecasting of Respiratory Diseases in Real Time

Mike West

The Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics & Decision Sciences, Department of Statistical Science
Duke University

Presentation: Bayesian Forecasting and Predictive Decision Synthesis

Tommaso Proietti

Professor of Economic Statistics, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Presentation: Measuring and Predicting Cyclical Turning Points, Gaps, and Drawdowns

PRACTITIONER SPEAKERS

Paul Goodwin

Professor, University of Bath

Robert Fildes

Distinguished Professor, Centre for Marketing Analytics and Forecasting, Lancaster University

Antonio Garcia Ferrer

Emeritus Professor of Econometrics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Presentation: The dangers of using Seasonal Adjustment and other filters in Econometrics: Some economic and environmental examples

Stephan Kolassa

Data Science Expert, SAP Switzerland AG

Presentation: Beyond accuracy: what makes for a good forecast?

Dilek Önkal

Professor of Business Information Systems and Analytics, Northumbria University

Presentation: Behavioral Dynamics in Forecasting: Judgmental Forecasts and Scenarios

Johann Robette

Customer Success Manager, Vekia

Presentation: The Probabilistic Shift: Proving Added-Value, Overcoming Resistance, Igniting Will 

Nicolas Vandeput

Supply Chain Data Scientist, SupChains

Presentation: Using Machine Learning to Forecast Supply Chain Demand

Jethro Browell

Senior Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow

Presentation: Results of the Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024

Evan Pardo

Senior Manager, Business Data Science, Google

Presentation: Forecasting Google’s Consumer Hardware Demand Using Vertex AI

Douglas Kent

Executive VP, Corporate and Strategic Alliances, Association for Supply Chain Management

Presentation: Navigating Uncertainty: Forecasting Amidst Growing Disruption and Turbulence