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May 4th

UTC

Title

Speakers

13:00

Study Group Chairs’ welcome address

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)

13:05

President’s welcome address

Laurie Garrow (AGIFORS President)

13:10

Crystal Ball 2.0 for passenger demand: Leveraging AI to power the calibration workflow

Caroline Dietrich (Air Canada), Neda Etabarialamdari (Ivado Labs), Peter Wilson (Air Canada)

13:40

Crystal Ball 2.0 for passenger demand: Evaluating the impact of the new end-to-end AI-driven analytics solution 

Greta Laage (Ivado Labs), Peter Wilson (Air Canada)

14:10

Scenario-driven RM using simulation-based reinforcement learning

Jonas Rauch (PROS)

14:40

Break

14:55

Dynamic pricing & Personalized ancillaries – Machine Learning engine

Bala Srinivasan (Sabre), Goutham Komirishetty (Etihad)

15:25

Dynamic pricing of Ancillaries using Reinforcement Learning

Ravi Kumar (PROS)

15:55

Baggage pricing model: An ancillary revenue opportunity

Prabhupad Bharadwaj, R K Amit, Atul Malik (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Shao Hung Goh (Singapore Management University)

      16:30    

 Closure Day 1

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)


May 5th

UTC

Title

Speakers

13:00

Participants log in and welcome

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)

13:05

Airline offer optimization with the Markov chain choice model

Kevin Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

13:30

An approach to airline offer management: Dynamic bundling and pricing

Richard Ratliff (Sabre Labs)

14:00

Revenue management forecasting in times of change: Lessons learned from a year into the pandemic

Thomas Fiig and Mike Wittman (Amadeus)

14:25

Vendor presentation from our sponsor FLYR

Alex Mans, Jon Ham, Matt Brown, Rob Haun (FLYR)

14:45

Break

15:15

Panel Discussion:

Airline RM & Covid-19: road to recovery

Lucio Bustillo (Air Canada), Joseph Mathews (United Airlines), Alex Matson (Alaska Airlines), Goutham Komirishetty (Etihad Airways), Bertalan Juhasz (Finnair)

      17:00    

 Closure Day 2

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)


May 6th

UTC

Title

Speakers

13:00

Participants log in and welcome

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)

13:05

Conditional sell-up rate estimation and demand forecasting in unrestricted fare structures

Tim Yuxuan Lu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

13:30

Fare level optimization with continuous demand revenue curves and bid prices

Bertalan Juhasz (Finnair)

14:00

Continuous pricing with multiple fare quotes

Bazyli Szymański (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:30

Break

14:45

How Much to Tell Your Customer? An Overview of Selling Strategies with Incompletely Specified Products

Prof. Dr. Jochen Gönsch (Universität Duisburg Essen)

15:15

What can airlines learn from retailers about demand forecasting

Ross Winegar and Michael Wu (PROS)

15:45

Practical applications of fare search shopping data

Evrim Dener (Sabre Travel Solutions), Goutham Komirishetty (Etihad), Richard Ratliff (Sabre Labs)

      16:15    

Closure of the conference session

V. Lurkin and D. Buitendijk (SG Chairs)


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