ACE Program Overview
Students will immersed in an engaging and challenging virtual learning environment, together with elite, globally recognized Canadian entrepreneurs and first-class instructors, to explore future career development opportunities, cultivate innovative 21st-century skills and competencies and fine-tune entrepreneurial and critical thinking skills. Students will participate in authentic and real-world project research and analysis currently underway in corporate institutions, understand the needs and skills required to be successful in future society, begin the important stage of career development planning all the while networking with mentors and instructors that will help refine skills and experiences to make these participants eligible candidate as critical and reflective university students and competitive future employees or entrepreneurs in any elite company.
Official
Certificate
Learn cutting edge and real world skills, receive globally recognized certificates.
Reference
Letter
Learn from top level expert leaders in the industry, build a rapport with IBM mentors.
Background
Check
Directly apply education and learning in-motion projects within a corporate environment
Real Project
Experience
Engage in real work experience, partcipate in current real projects effecting the industry.
Advanced Corporate Enterprise Program with IBM
Start Date:
2021.08.02 --- 2021.08.27
Project Area:
Business intelligence, Artificial intelligence, and Data analytics
Participants:
High School Students
Project Overview:
Business intelligence (BI) and data analytics is in the midst of a revolution due to the democratization of data, the rise of big data, real-time predictive analytics, AI and machine learning techniques. This new era of augmented analytics empowers people of all skills and experience to focus on critical business needs, minimizing the need for heavy-lifting in terms of visualizations, finding insights, and managing volumes of data in spreadsheets and databases. Cleaning, transforming, and modeling data to discover useful information for business decision-making is the basis of this program. The purpose of data analysis within this project is to extract useful information from data and taking the decision based upon the data analysis.
IBM Cognos Analytics is an advanced analytics and BI solution that uses augmented intelligence to streamline workflows, minimize errors and bias, and uncover compelling insights through pattern detection and other advanced techniques. Cognos Analytics helps small and large organizations maximize the value of their data, unearth insights, tell stories, and respond in real time to customer demands and business needs. Like an AI co-pilot, Cognos Analytics can alert and guide you through not just what is happening, but why it’s happening and what to do next. With results you can trust to help make better business decisions and to plan with confidence no matter what tomorrow brings.
In a post-pandemic world, businesses now more than ever need to find resilience and adapt to the new reality. We know businesses need to investigate trends, challenges, and disruptions facing their organizations today in order to plan for the future. With a deep understanding of the market for augmented analytics, help us define key use cases that leverage the capabilities of Cognos Analytics to meet the needs of businesses today, and create a compelling go-to-market strategy to engage prospective users and conquests.
Learn More About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in Endicott, New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM is incorporated in New York. IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a major research organization, holding the record for most U.S. patents generated by a business (as of 2020) for 28 consecutive years. Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360, was the dominant computing platform during the 1960s and 1970s.
Past ACE Programs
Corporate Enterprise Program with focus on
Financial Analysis
in collaboration with CIBC and ABMP
Main achievement in the program:
• Research and categorize different COVID-19 impacts by industry and segment.
• Research government support programs that were introduced to help businesses survive COVID-19 and reverse its impacts.
Program of Completion: Oct 31, 2020
Corporate Enterprise Program with focus on
Market Analysis
in collaboration with Samsung and ABMP
Main achievement in the program:
• Perform a consumer analysis from varying demographics, the needs and requirements with technology uses for educational purposes- students, teachers, parents
• Investigate data sets on different Samsung products and services to identify trends, gaps, deficiencies, and needs based on past, present and projected future numbers
• Create a business plan to best execute Samsung technology initiatives from a school, district, provincial and federal level
• Redefine past marketing strategies and frameworks and develop and innovate new marketing strategies and frameworks based on quantitative and qualitative data analysis and research
Program of Completion: Nov 21, 2020
Corporate Enterprise Program with focus on
Retail Industry Consulting
in collaboration with Accenture and ABMP
Main achievement in the program:
• Learn and practice 21st century competencies and skills within the context of real world problems and solutions in the consulting industry
• Identify the impact COVID 19 has had on the retail market for the purpose of innovating customer experiences and leveraging previous financial investments
• Build a customer journey map keeping in mind a business outcome and customer experience
• Provide a detailed analysis of how retailers can utilize an eCommerce framework or contactless approach to address the needs and changes required to be successful within the COVID pandemic
Program of Completion: Nov 28, 2020
Corporate Enterprise Program with focus on
Data Analytics
in collaboration with IBM and ABMP
Main achievement in the program:
• Get first-hand experience using an AI-infused BI tool to explore, analyze, and visualize data
• Compare the IBM experience with that of key competitors
• Investigate the need for businesses to embrace advanced analytics and AI to respond to Covid-19 challenges and prepare for the future
• Ideate, identify, and design new go-to-market strategies, bundling opportunities, and ways to engage prospective customers with new use cases and messaging
• Research and develop a comprehensive business plan with recommendation for positioning, target market, and go-to-market messaging including social media and marketing strategy
Program of Completion: Dec 7, 2020
Corporate Enterprise Program with focus on
Digital Marketing
in collaboration with Shopify and ABMP
Main achievement in the program:
• Focuses on content marketing, paid advertising, email marketing and partnerships to grow the customer base
• Engaging and growing the partner community