Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from York University to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. Students will work on one main project over the course of the semester, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students in this course will work in groups to complete a full data analysis from start to finish. They will be assigned a dataset from a given company and research questions. Students will also complete exploratory data analysis, propose and execute a modelling strategy to draw insights from the given data.

The Live Client Learning (LCL) Marketing course is a 13-week long experiential learning program from YorkU offered once a year, that is an opportunity for companies to share their marketing challenge with top marketing students. Students who apply into the program are screened and interviewed for their skill, will and interest to withstand the rigor of this program. Ten top students (divided into 2 competing teams) dive into the marketing challenge and present a go-to-market strategy to the companies' business/marketing leaders, who judge their presentations. Due to time limitations and criteria of the program, a maximum of only 5 companies can participate in this program. Key marketing leaders of each company are invited to engage at least twice with students: 1st to brief the teams and then to judge their presentations. The students are engaged to work on a live marketing challenge and companies walk away with a go-to-market strategy and creative marketing solutions.

In the final course of the Advanced Data Science and Predictive Analytics Certificate, students spend 8 weeks creating an analytics solution/model for your organization. This capstone project includes analysis of a real-life scenario, including business problem framing, translating to an analytical problem statement, data collection, preparation, integrating, modelling and analyzing and will result in a final report/ presentation that outlines recommendations and a solution deployment plan.

In-class project Opportunity in Cyber Security Operations: Bring on students from York University from the Cybersecurity Operations program to assist you with a potential real-life challenge in Cybersecurity, in a project-based experience. Students will design a comprehensive Cyber Security Operation Center (CSOC) with a unified design that will be customized according to the client’s needs. The project will comprise three main stages; requirements elicitation and analysis, design and architecture, and presentation and recommendations. Students will work on cybersecurity projects over the course period, connecting with you as needed with virtual communication tools. Students are available for 39 hours of placement from Feb 27 to April 12.