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The agenda below is subject to change without notice.

Unless otherwise specified, all events take place at the Ballroom at Hyatt at Olive 8, Seattle, WA.

Monday, September 14th, 2026
Time Presentation Title Affiliation and Authors Theme
6:30 - 9:30 EVENING NETWORKING EVENT -
Drinks and heavy hors d'oeurves
Hyatt at Olive 8		 AGIFORS Social Event


Tuesday, September 15th, 2026
Time Presentation Title Affiliation and Authors  Theme
7:45 - 8:30 Registration open    
8:30 - 8:45 Welcome from AGIFORS AGIFORS   
8:45 - 9:00

Welcome from Joe Carson, Interim MD Revenue Management, Alaska Airlines

 Alaska Airlines
J. Carson		 Keynote Address
9:00 - 9:25 Estimating Airline Price Sensitivity from Choice Set Data Using Multinomial Logit Models Georgia Tech
A. Ramirez		 Price Elasticity Estimation
9:25 - 9:50 Estimation using marginal competitor sales information Turkish Technology
M. Tekin		 Price Elasticity Estimation
9:50 - 10:15 Hybrid Framework for Price Sensitivity and Demand Estimation Georgia Tech
G. Cedraz Diniz		 Price Elasticity Estimation
10:15 - 10:25 Sponsor presentation - ATPCO
 ATPCO Sponsor Presentation
10:25 - 10:45 MORNING BREAK     
10:45 - 11:10

Willingness-to-pay: A modern causal inference approach

 ADC
M. Nientker		 Addressing Endogeneity in Price Elasticity Estimation
11:10 - 11:35 Enhancing Price Elasticity Estimation for Airline Dynamic Pricing via KDE-Based Sampling and Clustering PROS
L. Kardar		 Addressing Endogeneity in Price Elasticity Estimation
11:35 - 12:00 A Test-Set Paradigm for Elasticity Evaluation in Time-Series Revenue Management Models Wiremind
M. Lecuyer		 Addressing Endogeneity in Price Elasticity Estimation
12:00 - 12:20 Sponsor Presentation - TravelX TravelX Sponsor Presentation
12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH     
1:20 - 1:45 Leveraging Outbound-Sector Selection as a WTP Signal JSX
J. Morales		 Segmentation in Demand Forecasting
1:45 - 2:10 DNA of Demand: Unlocking Travel Intent for Better Demand Forecasts United Airlines
I. Chatterjee, A. Ganeriwal		 Segmentation in Demand Forecasting
2:10 - 2:35 Advantages of the Gamification of the Airline Shopping Experience SigmaZen
D. Post		 Segmentation in Demand Forecasting
2:35 - 2:55 Sponsor Presentation - Sabre Sabre Sponsor Presentation
2:55 - 3:05 Sponsor Presentation - McKinsey McKinsey & Company
 Sponsor Presentation
3:05 - 3:25 AFTERNOON BREAK     
3:25 - 3:50 A Machine Learning Alternative to Year-Over-Year Comparisons Southwest Airlines
A. Winston		 Assessing Steering of RM Systems
3:50 - 4:15 From Forecasting Demand to Managing Booking Pressure Ivado Labs
A. Alvarez Diaz		 Assessing Steering of RM Systems
4:15 - 4:40 The Human in the Loop: Thoughts on the Analyst/RMS System Telos
A. Matson		 Assessing Steering of RM Systems
4:40 - 5:00 Sponsor Presentation - Telos Telos Sponsor Presentation
5:00 END OF DAY 1    
6:00 - 9:00 Evening Social Event
Dinner Cruise on Lake Union		   Social Event


Wednesday, September 16th, 2026
Time Presentation Title Affiliation and Authors Theme
8:00 - 8:45 Morning coffee    
8:45 - 9:10

From Reactive to Proactive: Incorporating Schedule Change Impact into Airline Demand Forecasting

 Sabre
T. Lu		 Demand shocks and exogenous signals
9:10 - 9:35 Leveraging exogenous signals as leading indicators for unconstrained flight demand prediction ZYTLYN Technologies
H. Goudarzi		 Demand shocks and exogenous signals
9:35 - 10:00 Quantifying External Shocks in Airline Demand: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach to Automated Event Intelligence Fetcherr
J. Figura, M. Pawelczyk		 Demand shocks and exogenous signals
10:00 - 10:25 Learning Multi-Horizon Airline Booking Curves from Raw Search Signals Using End-to-End Deep Learning ATPCO
G. Jebran		 Demand shocks and exogenous signals
10:25 - 10:35 Sponsor Presentation - Fairlyne Fairlyne Sponsor Presentation
10:35 - 10:55 MORNING BREAK     
10:55 - 11:20

Airport Lounge Revenue Management Under Airline Demand Uncertainty

 Plaza Premium Group
S. Mohamed		 RM of Flight-Related Services
11:20 - 11:45 A scalable blueprint for airline revenue management experiments: switchback design for seat pricing tests ADC
R. Lit		 RM of Flight-Related Services
11:45 - 11:55

Sponsor Presentation - ADC

 ADC Sponsor Presentation
11:55 - 12:15

Sponsor Presentation - Amadeus

 Amadeus Sponsor Presentation
12:15 - 1:15 LUNCH     
1:15 - 1:40 Artificial Intelligence – What Will Be the Impact on RMS? Amadeus
T. Fiig		 Philosophy and Theory of RM
1:40 - 2:05 Revenue Management Potpourri - Learnings from past and present literature PROS
D. Walczak		 Philosophy and Theory of RM
2:05 - 2:30 Calibrating RM Systems: A framework and practical lessons BCG
J. Bruer		 Calibration of RM systems
2:30 - 2:40 Sponsor Presentation - SigmaZen SigmaZen Sponsor Presentation
2:40 - 3:00 AFTERNOON BREAK     
3:00 - 3:25 Calibrating Research Networks for RM Applications Georgia Tech
J. Newman		 Calibration of RM systems
3:25 - 3:50 Estimating Airline Price Sensitivity from Choice Set Data Using Multinomial Logit Models Sabre
B. Ozdaryal		 Advances in Optimization
3:50 - 4:15 Reducing seat spoilage through no-show prediction and risk-aware optimization Ivado Labs
A. Alvarez Diaz		 Advances in Optimization
4:15 - 4:30 Presentation award voting and conference end AGIFORS


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