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UiPath partners with ITIDA to
accelerate automation skills
development in Egypt
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ITIDA will introduce
the UiPath Academic
Alliance Program to
develop and empower a
skilled talent pool.
U
iPath, a leading enterprise Robotic
Process Automation (RPA) software
company, has announced that
it has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with
Egypt’s Information Technology Industry
Development Agency (ITIDA) to help build
the country’s national capabilities in RPA.
Dr Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications
and Information Technology, witnessed the
signing of the partnership between Maha
Rashad, Acting CEO of ITIDA, and Karan
Dixit, Vice President of Sales, UiPath Middle
East and Africa.
Egypt has a highly educated, multilingual
and digital-Savvy workforce. The government
is investing heavily in developing and
certifying talent where capacity building is
the backbone of MCIT overall strategy and
the guarantor of sustainable development of
the Egyptian ICT sector.
In light of this, the strategic collaboration
introduces the UiPath Academic Alliance
program to the Egyptian ICT industry to
help bridge the skills gap and build a skilled
workforce in emerging and disruptive
technologies. The program will be supervised
by an executive team appointed by UiPath
and calibrated to meet the growing
demands of the economy.
of this training, UiPath will provide the
programme graduates with job placements
with either local or international partners,
based on the demand. In subsequent stages,
the program will be made accessible across
the ICT industry in Egypt through workshops
facilitated by ITIDA. the right skills and knowledge required to
realise their full potential and overcome the
challenges of tomorrow. This collaboration
with ITIDA affirms our commitment to help
the next generation workforce enable this
change and support the country as it moves
closer to achieving their digital agenda.
With an aim to promoting RPA as a critical
STEM skill, the UiPath Academic Alliance
Program empowers young students and
experienced professionals to accelerate
and thrive in the workplace of the future
by accessing the company’s unparalleled
RPA knowledge ecosystem. The UiPath
Academic Alliance represents UiPath’s
purpose to serve more than one million
students and 1,000 schools globally in the
next three years. “It is also reaffirms our great confidence in the
wealth of skills and talent that is available in
Egypt, to accelerate the Digital Transformation
that companies globally are in the midst of.”
At the signing, Karan Dixit said: “The world
is undergoing its biggest transformation
ever. As industries and organisations keep
pace with the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
the future workplace will mandate the
coexistence of humans and digital workers. “This means collaborating with the private
and public sector alike to harness Egypt’s
competitive edge and its unique selling
proposition of having a qualified, sustainable
and deployable talent pool. We are excited
about this strategic collaboration with UiPath
as we truly believe that the success of our
industry and economy is dependent upon
filling the need for skilled professionals.” n
“Our Academic Alliance Program reflects
our vision to empower young talent with
Maha Rashad, Acting CEO of ITIDA,
said: “Digitisation is rapidly transforming
industries and business. Careers of tomorrow
demand that technology plays an integral
role in enabling students to become future-
ready today.
UiPath has signed a Letter of Intent with
Egypt’s ITIDA to help build the country’s
national capabilities in RPA
At the launch, the collaborative project will
include 20 trainees, gradually increasing to
80 or more as the programme advances, on
a quarterly basis. Following the completion
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