What concrete steps is your organization taking to broaden access to AI skills training for your staff? How are you making sure your training programs are equitable?

Concrete steps organizations can take to broaden access to AI skills training and ensure equity include:

Offer Flexible Learning Options: Provide a mix of online, in-person, self-paced, and live sessions to accommodate different learning styles and schedules.

Remove Barriers to Entry: Make training free or low-cost and provide necessary resources like devices or internet access to those who need them.

Create Inclusive Content: Design materials that reflect diverse backgrounds, use clear language, and avoid jargon to make AI concepts accessible to all skill levels.

Target Underrepresented Groups: Actively encourage participation from women, minorities, and other underrepresented groups through outreach, mentorship, and support programs.

There are various platforms and resources available to train staff, the programs are great as well in terms of content. The major aspect lies on staff / employees to make use of it effectively.

It depends on level to level. The foundation course could be common for everyone, and then the training and materials should be specific to the roles and responsibilities, including pricing or commercial strategies, business capabilities, use case development, business case and proposition development, compliance, legal or regulatory risks, research and innovation or coding skills that someone needs to demonstrate to be aligned with the broader vision and goal of the organisation. I shall be happy to help in a commercial engagement.

First, you have to thoroughly understand the space and its changing landscape itself. Secondly, you have to work with either your vendors to understand how they are evolving their platforms or work with an academic partner if a more fundamental understand is needed.

As far as making programs more equitable, broad training access to things like LinkedIn Learning and Udemy allows employees of all backgrounds to find a program suitable for them and their level of knowledge, experience, etc.