Disclaimer: agenda is still subject of change
All times are in Helsinki local time.
| Start time | Details |
|---|---|
| 18:30 |
Delegate registration |
| 18:30 | Welcome reception at Clarion Living Room |
| Start time | Details |
|---|---|
| 08:30 |
Delegate registration |
| 09:00 |
Study group chairs' welcome addressVirginie Lurkin and Dennis Buitendijk (AGIFORS RM co-chairs) |
| 09:10 |
President's welcome addressLaurie Garrow (AGIFORS president) |
| 09:15 |
Keynote Finnair: Retailing transformation in practice - expectations and challengesAntti Tolvanen (Senior Vice President Network and Revenue Management) |
| 10:00 |
How to upset your customers: a revenue management story Daniel Hopman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) |
| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 |
Recommending bundles Kalyan Talluri (Imperial College Business School) |
| 11:30 |
How should we measure forecast accuracy? Jonas Rauch (PROS) |
| 12:00 |
The Ups and Downs of City-Based Seasonality for Revenue Management Gizem Burr and Qingleng Tan (United) |
| 12:30 |
Clarion conference lunch at Kitchen & Table restaurant |
| 14:00 |
Combining Analytical and Machine Learning Models to build Interpretable Demand Forecasts with Superior Accuracy Thomas Fiig, Simon Nanty, Ludovic Zannier, Michael Defoin-Platel (Amadeus) |
| 14:30 |
Who Needs a Good Forecast Anyways? Ross Winegar and Tom Gorin (PROS) |
| 14:50 | Coffee break |
| 15:10 |
Fare proration versus bid price subtraction in dynamic programming Bertalan Juhasz (Finnair) |
| 15:40 |
A Peak Inside the Black Box: Deep Learning Model Explainability with Integrated Gradients Jon S. Ham and Zoey Zheng (FLYR) |
| 16:10 | Closure day 1 |
| 17:30 | Social activity |
| 19:00 | Networking dinner at Ravintola Suomenlinnan Panimo |
| Start time | Details |
|---|---|
| 09:00 |
Study group chairs' welcome addressVirginie Lurkin and Dennis Buitendijk (AGIFORS RM co-chairs) |
| 09:10 |
Exploring Deep-Q-Learning in the context of Airline pricing Sharath Nataraj, Jeswin Varghese, Adarsh R, Aparna Muralidhar, Ebin Joseph, Jeswin Varghese, Ranjith Menon (IBS) |
| 09:40 |
Challenges of Pricing in Air Cargo Rudolf Zivcic (RMSP) |
| 10:10 |
Coffee break
|
| 10:40 |
Aumann-Shapley Pricing for Passenger Baggage Prabhupad Bharadwaj and R.K. Amit (IIT Madras) |
| 11:10 |
Balancing Displacement Cost and Willingness to Pay: A Dual Optimization Framework for Airline RM Cole Wrightson and Grzegorz Goryl (FLYR) |
| 11:40 |
Application of quantum computing in the field of airline Revenue Management Thomas Fiig, Antoine Boulanger, Alexander Papen (Amadeus) Mogens Dalgaard, Janus Halleløv Wesenberg, Rune Thinggaard Hansen (Kvantify) |
| 12:15 |
Clarion conference lunch at Kitchen & Table restaurant |
| 13:45 |
Revenue optimization for airline branded fares with machine learning Aldair Alvarez; Adam Bockelie; Teodora Dan; Tianjiao Liu; Carl Perreault-Lafleur; Alan Regis; Yury Sambale; Sajad Aliakbari Sani; Cindy Yao; Emma Frejinger; Andrea Lodi; Guillaume Rabusseau (Air Canada and IVADO Labs) |
| 14:15 |
Recursions for Excursions Darius Walczak (PROS) |
| 14:45 |
Optimizing Airline Revenue with Dynamic Bundle Pricing: A Collaborative Solution by Airnguru and Piano Javier Jimenez (Airnguru) |
| 15:15 | Coffee break |
| 15:35 |
Airfare asymmetry in African countries: evidence from the European destinations Soheil Sibdari, Professor of Operations Management (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) |
| 16:00 |
Overview of AirSim, a Competitive RM Simulation Tool Laurie Garrow (Georgia Tech, AGIFORS President) |
| 16:30 | Vendor presentations |
| 17:30 |
Closure conference |