The opening speech of the workshop organized to discuss the latest developments in artificial intelligence optimisation algorithms used in foresight and predictive problems and fuzzy time series approaches and probabilistic models,was delivered by Head of Regulatory Authority  Assoc.Deniz İNAN PhD. Giresun University Statistics Department Prof.Erol EĞRİOĞLU PhD, Ankara University Department of Statistics Assoc. Özlem TÜRKŞEN PhD, Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Assist. Assoc. Ozan KOCADAĞLI and Istanbul Medeniyet University Ufuk Beyaztaş PhD attended as speakers.