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Samsung, India s largest consumer electronics brand, has won the CSR Initiative of the Year award for its futuretech skilling programme, Samsung Innovation Campus. This award is a part of the ESSCI National Skills Award for Eminence 2024. The award was conferred by the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India (ESSCI) in a ceremony held on 17th January 2024 at Bharat Mandapam in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Saudi Arabia s ambitious Vision 2030 plan is driving a rapid economic transformation, with a growing emphasis on diversifying away from oil dependence and fostering a dynamic knowledge-based economy. This surge in innovation and development necessitates a robust talent pool at all levels.

According to Krishna, for this to happen, skilling and digital infrastructure will play a huge role. Using digital infrastructure you can deliver skilling in small cities, he said. We can see 2040% productivity for a programmer who embraces AI as opposed to one who doesn’t, he said.

iMocha, the leading AI powered Skills Intelligence Cloud platform today announced the launch of its innovative AISkills Match Engine. This feature, part of its Talent Acquisition suite, aggregates and refines external talent, delivering a very accurate match of the candidates and the Job requisition, incorporating the organization s job architecture using AI.

Speaking about the collaboration with IBM, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister of Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship said, Driven by the Government of Gujarat s commitment to fostering opportunities and nurturing a dynamic workforce, Gujarat has emerged as a leader not only in business and entrepreneurship but also in the educational landscape.

The demand for semiconductors, aka chips, is on the rise, with countries pouring billions of dollars into incentives to bring the ecosystem inhouse. But the industry globally will be facing an acute talent challenge. While the US is working aggressively to develop talent locally, it will have to rely on engineers, computer scientists, and technicians from abroad.

I think the next decade is going to be the decade of data, and of disciplines coming together to cater to a learner as a whole, not as individual skills and subjects that need to be drummed into a child s mind. I think it’s going to be the decade of uncertainty and changes, and skilling our kids to be able to navigate those changes.