The 27th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting

The 27th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting – Financial Forecasting in a Global Economy @ Marriott Marquis, Times Square, New York City, NY, U.S.A. – 2007-06-24~27

Keynote Speakers
Robert Engle = Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics
Charles F. Manski = Board of Trustees Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
M. Hashem Pesaran = Professor of Economics; Director, Center for International Macroeconomics and Finance, Cambridge University
Kevin E. Trenberth = Head, Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Featured Speakers
J. Scott Armstrong = Professor of Marketing, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Robert Fildes = Professor, Dept of Management Science, Lancaster University
Paul Goodwin = Professor of Management Science, University of Bath
David Hendry = Professor of Economics, Oxford University
Stephen Penman = George O. May Professor of Accounting; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Research Scholar, Columbia Business School
Allan Timmermann = Professor of Economics, Dept of Economics, UC San Diego
Victor Zarnowitz = Senior Fellow and Economic Counselor, The Conference Board
Arnold Zellner = Distinguished Prof Emeritus, Economics and Statistics, University of Chicago; Adjunct Prof, Dept of Agriculture & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Workshop #1
Title: A Bottoms-Up Approach to Time Series Analysis
Instructor: David P. Reilly, Automatic Forecasting Systems
Workshop #2
Title: Neural Networks: From Theory to Practice
Instructor: Dr. Hans Georg Zimmermann, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology
Workshop #3
Title: Implementing the Demand Review as Part of Sales and Operations Planning
Instructor: Colleen “Coco” Crum, Managing Principal, Oliver Wight

Past ISF attendance has ranged from 300-400.