UiPath to collaborate with 500 institutions
New York’s UiPath aims to collaborate with 500 Indian institutions to train 500,000 students by 2022 by conducting courses free in its globally deployed Robotics Process Automation (RPA) solutions.
UiPath officials have underlined the importance of cover the skill gap.
“We need to prepare and train our youth for a more automated future, one where the ability to work alongside robots will be as important as the skills they bring to bear,” said Tom Clancy, Senior Vice President at UiPath in Singapore on 29 May 2019.
“That is why UiPath is committed to training more than one million students globally in the next three years as we understand that education and re-skilling are vital if we are to thrive in a digital future,” he underlined.
UiPath is working to collaborate with 500 Indian institutes by 2020, up from the current 60 such as the Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University.
The training process is conducted by UiPath Academic Alliance program, which has already linked up with leading Indian institutions including the Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University and IIT Kanpur.
Through the Academic Alliance, UiPath will work with educational institutions to equip students with critical automation skills, teach them how to leverage RPA in the workplace and prepare them to work alongside software robots.
“We believe India can become automation capital of the world,” added Rajesh R. Nambiar, Director of UiPath Academic Alliance Programme based in Bengaluru.
“The target is to train half a million students in India by 2022,” he said during interaction with media.
UiPath, which has just raised US$568 million through Series D as end of April 2019, is also training teachers and master for multiplying the scope of training in India.
To date, the RPA program has trained 10,000 Indians. The program also trains teachers and masters as “train the trainers”.
UiPath is also in the process of doubling its workforce in India to 1,000 by end of this year from current 500, said Nambiar.
India remains the centre of its operations with Development Centre in Bengaluru for R&D work and offices being expanded in main Indian cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Pune.
UiPath’s the other two centres are in Bucharest and Seattle.
The company is building manpower to increase RPA market share in India as well as globally, said the officials.
Since its announcement in October 2018, more than 100 colleges and universities have adopted RPA as part of their curriculums, allowing students to develop skills needed for the “Jobs of the Future”.
UiPath has announced on 28 May 2019 its Academic Alliance program’s partnerships with leading institutes of higher learning such as Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Asia Pacific College (APC) in the Philippines and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) in Thailand.
UiPath aims to train over 50,000 students and professionals in ASEAN over the next three years for the automated workforce of the future.
As the world’s fastest growing company which had a humble beginning in Bucharest in 2005, UiPath is valued over US$7 billion with 37 offices across 20 countries, stressed Clancy. fiinews.com
