Are you ready to scale your mission with data science and AI? Join us for the ABW Impact Accelerator Launch Q&A — your chance to explore how this 14-week program can help your organization tackle big challenges, build internal capacity, and drive lasting impact. Get the inside scoop on program structure, eligibility, sponsorships, and more — plus connect directly with the ABW team to get your questions answered. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover if the Impact Accelerator is the right fit for your organization. Together, let’s harness data for good.

The last 3 years of intensive work turned the mission of “unlocking the potential of analytics for people who make the world a better place” into a reality. As we continue to work toward the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, we recognize that time is of the essence, and the need to work together has never […]

The Talk Maternity waiting homes (MWH) constitute an effective intervention for reducing infant and mother mortality in settings where timely access by pregnant women to a skilled birth attendant is difficult. Effective MWH operations are therefore important but also challenging due to limited accommodation capacity, uncertainty of delivery dates and limited communications with patients. In […]

The Talk Case study on data strategy – creating a roadmap to enhance data maturity in fundraising In this ABW Café session, Stijn will demonstrate how fundraising organizations can establish a comprehensive data strategy and roadmap to enhance their data maturity. This case study highlights how Cmotions assisted multiple international sections of Médecins Sans Frontières […]

The Talk Optimization with Social Impact Analytics focuses on transforming data into insights by applying advanced analytical methods, based on mathematics, statistics, operations research and artificial intelligent models and algorithms, with the objective to improve the performance of an organization. One of the main tools in Analytics is Optimization. In this talk, Helena discusses the […]

For the April ABW Café, Senior Epidemiologist Victor del Rio Vilas will provide examples of approaches to processes and systems mapping in public health settings to aid decision making.

In honor of International Women's day happening this month, in this edition of the ABW Café we will hear about the presence of gender bias into the data pipeline from the founders of

The ABW annual conference is back!  After the success of last year's edition, we are happy to announce that the ABW annual conference will happen again this year on May 14th, 2024! 

For the second event of the ABW Café Series, we will hear more about the power of optimization from Prof. Joaquim Gromicho! The event will be held online on Zoom. 

In our inaugural addition on the 31st of January, we will hear from our managing director, Robert Monné, as he shares the ABW 2024 Strategic Plan and Outlook. This will be an opportunity to learn more about ABW’s mission, strategic plan, and outlook for 2024. Come see how you can get involved in 2024!

This talk with Prof. Maria Paola Scaparra from the University of Kent presents the findings of the GCRF-OSIRIS project, which aims at mitigating the social and economic impacts of floods in Vietnam cities through the identification of cost-efficient, long-term investments in structural flood protection measures.

Human donor milk is considered the ideal nutrition for millions of infants that are born preterm each year. The macronutrient content of donor milk is directly linked to infant brain development but can vary substantially across donations, which is why multiple donations are typically pooled together to create a final product. We propose a data-driven framework combining machine learning and optimization to predict macronutrient content of deposits and then optimally combine them in pools, respectively. In collaboration with our partner milk bank, we collect a data set of milk to train our predictive models. We rigorously simulate milk bank practices to fine-tune our optimization models. Finally, we conduct a yearlong trial implementation, where we observe the current nurse-led pooling practices followed by our intervention. Pools created by our approach meet clinical macronutrient targets approximately 31% more often than the baseline, while taking 60% less recipe creation time.