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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 programme to
develop and empower
a skilled talent pool.
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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.
His Excellency 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,
this strategic collaboration introduces the
UiPath Academic Alliance programme to the
Egyptian ICT industry to help bridge the skills
gap and build a skilled workforce in emerging
and disruptive technologies. The programme
will be supervised by an executive team
appointed by UiPath and calibrated to meet
the growing demands of the economy.
At launch, this collaborative project will
include 20 trainees, gradually increasing to
80 or more as the programme advances, on
a quarterly basis. Following the completion
of this training, UiPath will provide the
programme graduates with job placements
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UiPath has signed a Letter of Intent with
Egypt’s ITIDA to help build the country’s
national capabilities in RPA
with either local or international partners,
based on the demand. In subsequent stages,
the programme will be made accessible
across the ICT industry in Egypt through
workshops facilitated by ITIDA. With an aim
to promoting RPA as a critical STEM skill,
the UiPath Academic Alliance programme
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 one thousand
schools globally in the next three years.
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 co-
existence of humans and digital workers.
“Our Academic Alliance programme reflects
our vision to empower young talent with
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.
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.”
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. 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
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