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QUARTERLY ALL STAFF MEETING

During the first quarterly all staff meeting of fiscal year 2021, VP
of Finance Doug Roth provided a financial performance recap of a
record-setting year. Then, VP of Marketing Rich Lynch emphasized the important
opportunity we have to drive sales during our reformatted fall market. He was
joined by Meeting and Expo Manager Vince Slack who gave staff their first look
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at the fall market website and walked through a few of the key features and
navigational elements of the website. President & CEO Dan Starr concluded with
a recap of the recent board meetings and a message of gratitude. You can watch
the quarterly all staff meeting anytime on Workbench.

IT MAKES STRIDES SERVING AS A VIGILANT

WITH MACHINE LEARNING EXAMPLE DURING COVID-19

We operate in a world Throughout the
where we have access to pandemic, our
more instant and accurate Do it Best staff
data than ever before. have learned to
The use of data helps our adjust to the new
company make informed norms of social
business decisions for our distancing and
members and our team. sanitization to
Senior Data Scientist Jon help flatten the
West and others on our curve. Our strong
IT team are working on a company culture
machine learning project that will have long-term implications on of serving others
how we approach decisions using data. as we want to be
served has helped
Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence that shape every decision regarding COVID-19 to ensure the safety of
provides our systems the ability to automatically learn and improve our team from the very beginning of the outbreak.
from experience without being programmed. Machine learning
focuses on the development of computer programs that can access During a special update from the City of Fort Wayne, Vice President
data and use it to learn for themselves. “We can use machine of Marketing Rich Lynch joined Mayor Tom Henry and other
learning to help automate time consuming tasks for our team business leaders to reinforce the importance of vigilance against
and to assist members in making profitable decisions,” says Jon. coronavirus as we all work to contain the spread. You can catch
“Machine learning will look at patterns in the data we already have Rich's comments at the 10:18 mark or on the City of Fort Wayne
and learn from them to make predictions for new or future data. Government Facebook page.
And, it can do it on a scale that a team of people never could.”

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