Presentations

I routinely speak at research and practitioner conferences. If you are interested in a tutorial or keynote speech on organisational forecasting, demand planning for supply chain management, or employing forecasting methods from statistics or computational intelligence such as artificial neural networks, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Academic Keynote Speeches

	04/2009	Keynote speech on “Classifying Imbalanced Datasets - Evidence from case-studies in Business Data Mining” at the 2009 UK Annual Symposium on Data Mining (UK KDD’09) by the British Computer Society (BCS), Manchester, UK
	09/2008	Keynote speech on “Empirical Evidence on Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting” at the 2008 European Symposium on Time Series Prediction, Provo, Finland
	06/2008	Keynote commentary on “Mining the past to determine the future: Problems and possibilities” by David Hand, at the 2008 International Symposium on Forecasting, ISF’08, Nice, France

Practitioner Keynote Speeches

	forthcoming	Keynote speech on “Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks – Science Fiction or the Future of Time Series Prediction?” at A2010, the 2nd SAS Annual Analytics Conference, Kopenhagen, Denmark
	forthcoming	Keynote speech on “Artificial Neural Networks - the Science Fiction of Forecasting?” at F2010, the 4th SAS Conference on Business Forecasting, Cary, USA
	12/2008	Keynote speech on “The myth of the ‘best’ algorithm - lessons learned from innovations in data sampling and data pre-processing for marketing analytics” at the 2008 Belgian Association for Quantitative Direct Marketing Research, Annual Conference (BAQMAR’08), Ghent, Belgium
	11/2006	Keynote speech on “Increasing the accuracy of demand forecasting by using Neural Forecasting”, 2006 Baltic Annual Logistics Conference on Demand Management, Pärnu, Estonia
	06/2006	Keynote speech on “Forecasting Events” at the 1st SAS F2006 Business Forecasting Conference,SAS Headquaters, Cary, USA
	06/2006	Conference track keynote speech on “A Roadmap to Supply Chain Forecasting using calendar of Marketing Promotions, Weather”, Demand Planning Track, APICS’06 conference of the Association for Operations Management, Orlando, Florida

Academic invited (non-keynote) Speeches

	10/2008	Invited session speech on “A Bag of Tricks for Your Balancing Act: How to Increase Predictive Accuracy on Imbalanced Datasets”, Business Data Mining Track, at the 2008 SAS International Data Mining Conference, M2008, Las Vegas, USA
	04/2007	Invited speech on “Model Specification with Neural Networks and Support Vector Regression – a Meta Experiment” at the 2007 Oxford Forecasting Workshop, Prof. David Hendry, Oxford, UK
GOR 2007	03/2007	Invited talk on “Forecasting Retail Sales with Calendar Events, Promotions and Weather – a Neural network Approach” at the 2007 GOR German OR Society, Workgroup Meeting on Forecasting, U. Küsters, Hamburg, Germany
	12/2005	Invited talk on “Predicting Customer Online Shopping Adoption -  an Evaluation of Data Mining and Market Modelling Approaches”, Chilean NSF “Millenio” Project, by Prof. Andrés Weintraub, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Practitioner invited Speeches

	02/2010	Invited speech on “Managing Demand Planning Processes with ABC-XYZ-Analysis - A case study of a fast moving consumer goods manufacturer, Beiersdorf AG” at the 2010 IBF Institute of Business Forecasting conference on Supply Chain Forecasting, London, UK
	09/2008	Invited session speech on “Structuring Forecasting Processes with ABC-XYZ Analysis”, with Stefan Pushmann Beiersdorf AG, Institute of Business Forecasting, IBF, European Supply Chain Forecasting Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
	05/2006	Invited talk on “Forecasting Events – Problems and Remedies” at the 2006 IBF Institute of Business Forecasting conference on Supply Chain Forecasting, London, UK

Invited Tutorials

	02/2010	Tutorial on “Statistical Forecasting”, Institute of Business Forecasting, IBF’10 International Conference on Supply Chain Forecasting, London, UK
	06/2009	Tutorial on “Neural Networks for Forecasting” at the 2009 Operational Research Society of South Africa ORSSA, Stellenbosch, South Africa
	06/2009	Invited tutorial on “Neural Networks for Forecasting” at the 2009 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Netwowrks, IJCNN’09, Atlanta, GA, USA
	12/2008	Invited tutorial on “Financial Time Series Prediction with Artificial Neural Networks” on behalf of the German OR-Society (GOR), Morgan Stanley, Frankfurt, Germany
	07/2008	Invited tutorial on “Time Series Prediction with Artificial Neural Networks”, at the 2008 Summer School for Computational Intelligence, European Institiute of Soft Computing, Industrial Engineering, University of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
	12/2007	Invited tutorial on “Neural Networks for Forecasting” at the 2007 IEEE Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, EVIC’07, Santiago, Chile
	11/2006	Tutorial on “Statistical Forecasting”, Institute of Business Forecasting, IBF’06 International Conference on Supply Chain Forecasting, Amsterdam, Netherlands
	12/2005	Invited tutorial on “Neural Networks for Forecasting”, EVIC'05 - IEEE Second Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, Santiago, Chile
	08/2005	IBF’05 Tutorial on “Neural Networks for Business Forecasting”, International Institute of Business Forecasting, Chicago, USA
	06/2005	BF’05 Tutorial on “Neural Networks for Business Forecasting”, International Institute of Business Forecasting, Boston, USA
	08/2004	IBF’04 Tutorial on “Neural Networks for Business Forecasting”, International Institute of Business Forecasting, Boston, USA

Conference Research Presentations

In addition I have given various conference presentations, of which some are provided here for download:

	08/2007	IJCNN’07, IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, USA (forthcoming)
	06/2007	ISF’07, International Symposium on Forecasting, Annual Conference of the International Institute of Forecasting, New York, USA (forthcoming)
ESTSP 2007	01/2007	ESTSP’07, European Symposium on Time Series Prediction, Helsinki, Finland
	07/2006	IJCNN’06, IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, part of the 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI’06, Vancouver, Canada
	06/2006	DMIN'06, International Conference on Data Mining, Part of the World Congress of Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA
	06/2005	ISF’06, International Symposium on Forecasting, Annual Conference of the International Institute of Forecasting, Santander, Spain
	02/2006	AIA’06, IASTED International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Part of the 24th International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria
	08/2005	ACM KDD’05, International Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Workshop on Utility based Data Mining UBDM'05, Chicago, USA
	07/2005	IJCNN’05, IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Montreal, Canada
	06/2005	ISF’05, International Symposium on Forecasting, Annual Conference of the International Institute of Forecasting, San Antonio, USA
IC-AI 2005	06/2005	ICAI'05, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Part of the Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, USA
	06/2005	DMIN'05, International Conference on Data Mining, Part of the World Congress of Applied Computing, Las Vegas, USA
	07/2004	IJCNN’04, IEEE & INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Budapest, Hungary
	06/2004	ISF’04, International Symposium on Forecasting, Annual Conference of the International Institute of Forecasting, Sydney, Australia
IC-AI 2004	06/2004	ICAI'04, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Part of the Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, USA
	09/2003	ORSSA’03, Operations Research Society of South Africa’s Annual Conference, Pretoria, South Africa
	07/2003	IJCNN’03, IEEE & INNS Inter-national Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Portland, USA
IC-AI 2003	06/2003	IC-AI’03, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Multiconference in Information Science, Las Vegas, USA
GOR 2003	03/2003	GOR’03, German Operations Research Association - Fuzzy Logik, Neuronale Netze & Künstliche Intelligenz, Karlsruhe, Germany
ICONIP 2002	11/2002	ICONIP’02, Asian Pacific Neural Network Society’s International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Singapore