GUVI ‘s (Grab Ur Vernacular Imprint) SriGeeks Initiatives offered more than 30,000 women opportunities to upskill their tech skills for free under a special campaign called ‘AI-for-Women’. The campaign was launched by Thiru. Mahesh Kumar, Deputy Mayor of Chennai on the occasion of International Women’s Week 2023.
Primarily, ‘AI-for-Women’ aims to provide its registered users with free access to learning a course in Artificial Intelligence (AI) which equips them to participate in the grand ‘AI-for-Women’ virtual event. This virtual event includes a training session that equips participants to build an AI app with Machine Learning (ML) model. On successful completion of the event, certificates will be given to those with a demonstration of AI skills as well as to those who participated.
In order to participate in the ongoing AI-for-Women virtual event, click this link – https://bit.ly/3J49gP7
Speaking about the need to mobilize women in AI, Mr Arun Prakash, Founder & CEO of GUVI said, “GUVI team always encourages the progressive thoughts of Sridevi Arunprakash, & one such thought is “ Now is never too late to Upgrade”. Our team is all set to launch an empowering initiative, named, the SriGeek initiative, to greatly mobilize women with tech skills.”
Besides ‘AI-for-Women’, about eight virtual and in-real-life events were launched under the SriGeek initiative from February 2023 to March 2023, to provide free upskilling as well as career opportunities for women. The most prominent events among these include ‘AI-for-women’, Tech-talks with successful women entrepreneurs, distribution of tech skill resources to economically challenged women, and #Sheisback program for women to return back to the workforce after a career break.
#Sheisback program provides comprehensive tech training, placement support, and extensive career guidance. It also grants skill certifications for specializations in trending tech career domains like Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Front end development with Angular, and Frontend development with ReactJs. Paid internships are an exclusive part of the #Sheisback program.
To know more about the #Sheisback program, call: +919736097320
‘AI-for-women’ is derived from its successful precedent called ‘AI-for-India’ for which the virtual event garnered a global success attracting large volumes of responses from numerous aspirants, especially from remote skills had found tech-skills accessible and understandable. Their active participation in the ‘AI-for-India’ has made GUVI create the Guinness World Record for the ‘Most number of users to take a programming lesson in 24 Hours,’ by beating the previous record by 50 times.
India’s first vernacular EdTech – GUVI is a prestigious part of HCL Group, & shares brand partnerships as well as collaborations with eminent partners like ‘Google for Education’, IITM Pravartak, AICTE, AWS, and Google cloud. GUVI focuses on offering self-paced courses & career programs that are accredited by renowned institutions like IIT Madras, UiPath & NASSCOM.
To know more about GUVI, visit the official website – www.guvi.in/
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About GUVI:
GUVI, an IIT Madras and IIT Ahmedabad incubated company, is an online technical learning platform that has been started as YouTube Channel by Ex-Paypalians to share their technical learning. It is working to make engineers employable by making difference in the way they are learning. It is an integrated Edu-Tech Platform for learning, through technical video courses, technology Skills like Python, Machine Learning and Java in vernacular languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Bengali, among others. Other courses include Android, Python, Java, C, C++, Machine Learning, Big Data, MongoDB in vernacular languages through content created by working professionals.
GUVI videos have been watched by 1 Million people across the globe which motivated founders to start this as a company. Now, it is changing the way the world learns and bridging the gap between Industry and Academia. It provides personalized learning and Interactive experience for learning through gamified platforms and bite-sized videos.
Companies partner with GUVI to fulfill their resource requirements. A company from Jammu and Kashmir can screen the learning profile of a student from Kanyakumari because of the strong networking of GUVI with colleges. A learning profile of the student will be generated by GUVI platform by tracking the user activities and interactions in platform.
