43rd International Symposium on Forecasting
Charlottesville, Virginia USA | June 25-28
Kathy Ensor
Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems
Rice University
Presentation: Multivariate Non-Linear Time Series Nowcasting with Spatial Considerations
Dan Goldstein
Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft Research
Distinguished Scholar, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: The role of judgment in forecasting
M. Ayhan Kose
Chief Economist and Director of Prospects Group Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions
World Bank Group
Clive Granger Memorial Speaker: Forecasting Global Growth Next Decade
Michael Lewis-Beck
Michael S. Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science
University of Iowa
IJF Editor’s Invited Speaker: Citizen Forecasting: The Optimal Strategy for Election Prediction?
Dolores Romero Morales
Professor in Operations Research
Copenhagen Business School
Presentation: On Mathematical Modelling and Optimization for Explainable and Fair Machine Learning
Keith Wiebe
Senior Research Fellow
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Presentation: Projecting future food systems under alternative climate and socioeconomic scenarios
Amir Bagherpour
Managing Director
Accenture Federal Services
Presentation: Simulations for Geopolitical Forecasting and Decision-Making
Charles Chase
Executive Industry Consultant
SAS Retail/CPG Global Practice
Presentation: Accelerate Demand Forecasting and Planning Insights: The art of the Possible
Elaine Deschamps
Deputy Director
Washington State Caseload Forecast Council
Foresight Speaker:The Organizational Politics of Forecasting Revisited: Collaborative Budget Forecasting meets COVID-19
Tim Januschowski
Director Pricing Platform
Zalando SE
Keynote Practitioner Speaker
Spyros Makridakis, Director, Institute for the Future
Fotios Petropoulos, Professor, University of Bath, University of Nicosia
Evangelos Spiliotis, Research Fellow, National Technical University of Athens
Presentation: The M6 competition: Key findings and lessons learned
Nick Powell
Director of Strategic Planning & Analysis, Georgia Department of Community Supervision
Professor, Criminal Justice, Georgia State University
Presentation: Strategic Collaboration: Transforming Theory into Reality when Making Forecasting Decisions in Criminal Justice
Heidi J. Rico
Director, Analytics & Insights
B2C Marketing, Michelin North America
Presentation:
Christoph Bergmeir
Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Slawek Smyl
Distinguished Data Scientist, Walmart