Award-Successful MENA Entrepreneur Melda Akin Launches AI-driven Coaching Platform To Advance Feminine Careers In Tech
Melda Akin, an award-winning laptop scientist and the founding father of D14.AI , the true AI firm fixing companies’ sophisticated optimization challenges has launched Sirius Labs, an AI-driven coaching app that goals to enhance girls’s tech abilities and set them up for promising profession paths.
Impressed by her personal journey as a feminine forging a profitable profession in laptop science and the challenges confronted, Melda is launching Sirius Labs to interrupt down boundaries for ladies in tech and to help improved profession pathways for future feminine expertise.
Melda Akin, CEO and Founding father of Sirius Labs, mentioned:“I imagine within the energy of tech to unravel the world’s greatest challenges. Sirius Labs brings curated, personalised studying paths to allow girls the most effective probability potential to reach the expertise sector. By our AI engine, we constantly observe, study, and enhance content material suggestions for our college students to create essentially the most environment friendly studying journey.
Sirius Labs, goals to make use of the facility of tech to show tech, whereas addressing the shortage of feminine illustration in tech roles. In 2022, the variety of girls in massive tech fell by 2.1% and solely 19% of the worldwide expertise sector workforce are girls.
The Sirius Labs platform evaluates every scholar when first enrolled onto this system and makes use of AI to dynamically create a personalised studying pathway tailor-made to their particular person wants. The scholars are mentored in expertise and taught key abilities to land tech-based jobs via workshops, bootcamps and women-empowerment occasions with high expertise firms.
Within the subsequent six months, Sirius Labs plans to coach 100 MENA and Turkey-based girls to land their dream tech job and signal 20 hiring contracts for expertise roles.
With the variety of girls pursuing STEM topics in greater schooling on the decline and solely 18% of ladies reaching new laptop science levels, it is crucial that we collaborate with key gamers inside the house and supply help and mentoring to females who wish to pursue a profession in expertise. I sit up for demonstrating the transformative potential of Sirius Labs, and AI-driven coaching, for ladies in tech and serving to them safe their dream jobs,”Melda added.
The Sirius Labs program will cowl a wide range of technology-focused topics together with product administration, mission administration, IOS improvement, Android improvement, introduction to AI, knowledge science and software program improvement. It additionally provides recommendation on necessary comfortable abilities wanted to reach the expertise sector, in addition to interview preparation, negotiation and communication abilities, battle decision, public talking and storytelling.
The initiative will collaborate with main expertise firms throughout MENA. Sirius Labs will assist them supply and retain the most effective expertise while additionally empowering the longer term feminine tech workforce via managing Bootcamp classes and sponsorship alternatives. Sirius Labs is open to partnering with firms from throughout completely different industries seeking to recruit tech expertise or perform tech coaching for his or her workers.
Sirius Labs’ founder Melda Akin is ranked one of many Prime 20 Girls in Tech MENA 2022 and 2021, and Prime 10 Girls Behind Center Japanese Tech Manufacturers 2021 by Forbes. Melda was additionally chosen as ‘Girls Entrepreneur of the 12 months’ in 2022 on the Center East Womens Chief Summit and is a mentor within the United Nations and NAMA Girls Empowerment group. Melda was the primary girl on the planet to prepare and conduct AI and machine studying coaching for ladies within the area – in collaboration with the Cyber Defence and Ministry of Communications and Data Expertise of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia.
Melda can also be the Founder and CEO of D14.Ai – an AI-startup delivering optimization-as-a-service options to companies globally. D14 helps firms develop through efficiency-enhancing AI options that take away the complexity of automation, scheduling and workforce administration. Its proprietary core AI expertise, backed by leading edge tutorial analysis, clear up exponentially arduous optimization issues, able to evaluating thousands and thousands of combos in minutes, as much as 3,000x sooner than competing options.
Earlier than launching D14.AI , Akin arrange her first firm to serve digital transformation consultancy to assist firms develop income via digital options.
In 2022, Melda was on the Forbes record of 20 Girls Behind Center Japanese Tech Manufacturers .
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