More specifically, Professor Makridakis' proposal on "Clustered Ensemble of Specialist Amazon GluonTS Models for Time Series Forecasting" was chosen to be funded by the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards program, through which Professor Makridakis will be conducting research into improving Amazon's forecasting software and, ultimately, forecasting accuracy, using Machine/Deep Learning (a form of AI). Amazon has been an invaluable partner to Professor Makridakis and to UNIC, sponsoring the M4 Forecasting Competition in 2018. The M (or Makridakis) Competitions are the brainchild of Professor Makridakis, an initiative spanning almost four decades, with iterations taking place in 1982 (M1), 1993 (M2), 2000 (M3) and 2018 (M4). The current M5 Competition, launched in partnership with Walmart and Kaggle, is well underway (running till 30 June 2020) with 25,000 thousand participants to date. Commenting on the award, Professor Makridakis, the Director of the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center (MOFC) at UNIC, thanked Amazon for their trust and support.