To celebrate the 20th edition of the conference, CFE and CMStatistics are delighted to present five Special Invited Sessions, together with a rich selection of Organized Sessions representing the diversity our scientific networks.

These sessions bring together distinguished researchers from across the international statistical, econometric, and data science communities.

We are especially pleased and grateful that the following scholars have agreed to participate in these sessions:

Luca Aiello, Alessandra Amendola, Serena Arima, Yuko Araki, Alexander Aue, Veronica Ballerini, Elena Ballante, Sandor Baran, Brenda Betancourt, Eric Beutner, Jayeeta Bhattacharya, Graciela Boente, Yu Cheng, Jeng-Min Chiou, Marzia Cremona, Claudia Czado, Michael Daniels, Abdelaati Daouia, Emre Demirkaya, Vanja Dukic, Fabrizio Durante, Davide Ferrari, Beatrice Foroni, Pedro Galeano, Liudas Giraitis, Jesus Gonzalo, Christian Gourieroux, Armelle Guillou, Alessandra Guglielmi, Markus Haas, Roxana Halbleib, Sarah Elizabeth Heaps, David Hendry, Fei Jiang, Joann Jasiak, Lynda Khalaf, Keith Knight, Thomas Kneib, Nadja Klein, Leone Leonida, Cai Li, Zeng Li, Linxi Liu, Sara Lopez Pintado, Etienne Marceau, Paolo Maranzano, Geoffrey McLachlan, Ramses Mena, Michelle Miranda, Domingo Morales, Bernardo Nipoti, Widemberg da Silva Nobre, Zelalem Negeri, Yasuhiro Omori, Agnese Panzera, Sandra Paterlini, Laurent Pauwels, Alessia Pini, Tommaso Proietti, Anuradha Roy, Maximilian Ruecker, Pierre Siklos, Romeo Tedongap, Mattias Villani, Martin Wagner, Claudia Wellenreuther, Hyemin Yeon, Po Yang.

Their participation reflects the collaborative spirit that has shaped the conference over the past twenty editions, and we warmly welcome all contributors and attendees to this special milestone event.