Employees have less than 24 hours to sift through reams of
data to help the United Way, Art Gallery of Ontario & Engineers Without Borders
improve the impact of their programs
MONTREAL,
Oct. 29, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Aimia's
data scientists and consultants are coming together this weekend in
Toronto to work with three
prominent not-for-profit organizations to analyze trends and
patterns in their data and make recommendations to meaningfully
improve their programs. With the help of some students from
the Rotman School of Management, Aimia employees will have less
than 24 hours to provide actionable insights to Engineers Without
Borders Canada, United Way Toronto, United Way Centraide Canada and
the education programs at the Art Gallery of Ontario's Weston Family Learning Centre.
Overview of itinerary:
Friday, November 1,
2013
6:00pm - 7:00pm
7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Kick-off / Opening remarks
Vince Timpano, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada,
Aimia
Susan Doniz, Global Chief Information Officer, Aimia
Susan McIsaac, President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way
Toronto
Dan Clement, Senior Vice President, United Way Centraide Canada
Matthew Teitelbaum, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and Chief
Executive Officer, Art Gallery of Ontario
Alexandra Conliffe, Vice President Operations, Engineers Without
Borders Canada
Breakout sessions with 4 core teams to support each charity -
huddle and strategize for the next day, as well as socialize to get
to know each other |
Saturday, November 2
| 9:00am |
Teams assemble and start diving into
data - analyzing and problem solving |
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| 11:30am |
Teams break for words of
encouragement from a colleague in the UK who led a similar data
analysis volunteer event last year |
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| 12:00pm |
Lunch and a check-in with the
teams |
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| 10:00pm |
Teams wrap up for the night |
Sunday - November 3
| 9:00am |
Teams reconvene to finalize their presentations of their
results |
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| 10:00am |
Each team presents their findings and recommendations for each
of the charities for approx. 20 minutes each |
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Closing remarks by Kevin O'Brien, Chief Commercial Officer,
Aeroplan |
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| 12:00pm |
Event wraps up |
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| Location: |
MaRS Collaboration Centre, The MaRS Centre, South Tower,
ROOM CR2 & CR3, 101 College Street, Toronto. |
Various executives from Aimia and each of the charitable
organizations will be dropping in throughout the weekend. Members
of the media interested in visiting the event can contact
JoAnne Hayes at
joanne.hayes@aimia.com.
For live updates be sure to follow us on Twitter
at @AimiaInc, hashtag #AimiaEvents.
About Aimia in Canada
Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management, has unique
capabilities and proven expertise in delivering proprietary loyalty
services, launching and managing coalition loyalty programs,
creating value through loyalty analytics and driving innovation in
the emerging digital and mobile spaces. In Canada, Aimia owns and operates Aeroplan,
Canada's premier coalition loyalty
program, as well as a proprietary loyalty division that designs,
launches and operates new client programs. Aimia also offers
world-class data analytics through its Intelligent Shoppers
Solutions suite of tools and has a minority position in Cardlytics,
a pioneer of transaction-driven marketing in banking.
For more information, please visit: www.aimia.com.
SOURCE AIMIA