Chennai: IIIT-Hyderabad Machine Learning Lab, India’s number one Artificial Intelligence research cluster and TalentSprint, have entered into an agreement with NASSCOM’s Centre of Excellence for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (CoE-DSAI) based in Bengaluru as an ecosystem knowledge partner.
The association will support NASSCOM’s initiative of creating AI/ML
expertise among Indian IT Professionals.
By 2021, approximately 75% of enterprise applications will use AI
according to a report by IDC. Currently only 1% of the IT workforce has AI
Expertise.
The Advanced Certification Program by IIIT-Hyderabad and TalentSprint has
an objective to build AI/ML expertise in 10,000 IT Professionals in India.
Over 1000 tech professionals from Hyderabad and Bengaluru have enrolled
into the Program in the first 8 months of the launch. 10% of these participants
are from top leadership roles, 35% are from startups and mid-sized companies,
and remaining from large companies. Average experience of participants is 7
years and they are currently working with 380+ global organizations.
Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIIT-H was established in
2015 to give a fillip to research, teaching and entrepreneurship in the Broad
Intelligent Systems Area.
TalentSprint is a new-age digital platform to transform the lives of young and experienced professionals.