Online Learners

Snowflake collaborates with Nasscom to equip 100,000 learners in India

Through this collaboration, Snowflake and Nasscom are addressing the critical skills gap by providing access to training and resources

Snowflake, Nasscom to train 100,000 Indians in data, AI over two years

Artificial Intelligence (AI) data cloud company Snowflake on Friday announced a collaboration with FutureSkills Prime, a digital skilling initiative by Nasscom and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), to drive data and AI skills. With this, Snowflake and Nasscom expect to enrol over one lakh professional and student learners onto Snowflake's free, on-demand, entry-level data and AI skills courses over the next two years. This initiative is supported by Snowflake's global program 'One Million Minds + One Platform' aimed towards global AI upskilling. As per Nasscom, India leads in the AI skills penetration and holds first and fifth ranks globally in AI talent concentration and AI scientific publications, respectively. The current gap, however, between demand and supply is about 51 per cent, and, by 2026, the estimated demand for professionals in India is expected to exceed one million. "As companies across industries increasingly rely on data to drive AI,

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