Sponsorship for the CIFEr Conference is being provided by the IAFE (International Association of Financial Engineers), the IEEE Neural Networks Council, and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is the world's largest engineering and computer science professional non-profit association and sponsors hundreds of technical conferences and publications annually.

The IAFE is a professional non-profit financial association with members worldwide specializing in new financial product design, derivative structures, risk management strategies, arbitrage techniques, and application of computational techniques to finance.

INFORMS was formed as the merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of OR/MS investigators, scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as the institutions they serve, by publishing a variety of journals that describe the latest OR/MS methods and applications and by organizing professional conferences.