GOR AG in-person meeting on "Time Series Machine Learning vs Forecasting"

The next meeting of the working group on Forecasting Methods of the German OR Society (GOR) will be held on Thu & Fri 26th - 27th 2026 in Hamburg, Germany.

We inivite Researchers, Industry Practitioners, Consultants, and Software Vendors interrested in TIME SERIES MACHINE LEARNING MEETS FORECASTING to register and attend!

Agenda (subject to change)

Thursday Time Session / Speakers

09:00–12:30 Tutorial Forecasting with Statistics, Machine Learning and AI — Anthony Bagnall, Antoine Guillaume, Hadi Ismail Fawaz
12:30–13:30 Lunch (self-paid), Osteria, Stephansplatz [venue TBC]
13:30–13:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks — Dr. Sven F. Crone, Lancaster University & iqast
13:45–14:30 Opening Keynote: Forecasting in the Age of AI — Christoph Bergmeir (sponsored by Nixtla); special announcement: Dave Mead
14:30–15:00 From Open-Source Models to Production Forecasting — Olivier Sprangers & Jan Rarthfelder, Nixtla
15:00–15:30 Coffee & Networking Break
15:30–16:00 Tackling Promotions in One Click, Leo Jaschik
16:00–16:30 Regularization of Forecast Combination Weights through Synthetic Error Data Generation, Thomas Setzer & André Konersmann
16:30–17:30 Panel: Hacking GIFT-Eval — Anthony Bagnall, Stephan Kolassa, Sven F. Crone, Nixtla representative [TBC]
17:30–18:30 Forecasting Reception - Forecasting, Wine, Mix & Mingle
19:00 Forecasting Workshop Dinner
Location tba (self-paid)

Friday — Time Session / Speakers

09:00–09:30 wetterdienst: Open, Unified Access to Weather and Climate Data, Benjamin Gutzmann
09:30–10:00 Tabular Foundation Models for Credit Risk, Stefan Lessmann
10:00–10:45 Keynote: Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation with aeon, Anthony Bagnall
10:45–11:15 Coffee & Networking Break
11:15–11:35 PhD: Short-Term Load Forecasting on SME Data, Claudia Lehner
11:35–11:55 PhD: Neural Architecture Search for Energy Production, Georg Velev
11:55–12:15 PhD: Retraining Frequency of Local versus Global Models, Marco Zanotti
12:15–12:45 Industry Talk: Forecasting Improvement with AI at TESA, Stephan Kuron & Sven F. Crone
12:45–13:20 Panel Discussion: What Can Forecasting Learn from Time Series Machine Learning (and vice versa) - Anthony Bagnall, Christoph Bergmeir, Sven F. Crone & all attendees
13:20:13:30 Closing Remarks
13:45 Informal Lunch, Location tbd (self-paid)

Our events are informal and pleasant meetings to present ongoing research, exchange views and network with peers in the topical area of forecasting and time series , with a social event on the evening of the 26th.

Registration:
The event will be free-of-charge to all GOR members and speakers, and charge only a small fee for non-members (refundable up to 3 weeks befre the event)
- PhDs/students €20 (limited funding available - pls equire)
- Academics €100
- Industry €200, industry group €340)

To register, you must register here on Meetup AND ALSO send an eMail to s.crone@lancaster.ac.uk. Seats are limited, and allocated in the order of entry. Only the email confirmation counts as final confirmation!

Hotel
We have blocked a small number of dicounted rooms at the Hotel St. Annen · Annenstraße 5 · 20359 Hamburg. Prices are Single Room EUR 124,- Double Room EUR 164,- /night and room incl. breakfast.

Reserve directly by phone (+49 40 317 713 0) or email (info@hotelstannen.de), quoting “GOR” to request the workshop room allocation. Subject to availability. Hotel website and directions: Hotel St. Annen

We look forward to seeing many of you there!
GOR AG Leitung
Sven F. Crone
Anna-Lena Sachs
Hans-Georg Zimmermann