Snowflake Goal: Improve the AI and Data Skills of 1 Million People by 2029

Snowflake wants to improve the artificial intelligence (AI) and data skills of 1 million students and business professionals by 2029. And, thus, launch the next generation of industry experts.

The company has announced the ‘One Million Minds + One Platform’ programme, backed by a $20 million investment, which will provide training and certification in the use of Snowflake AI Data Cloud. By 2027 it expects to have reached more than 100,000 users.

This programme has two focuses. On the one hand, it focuses on academia; on the other, it offers training for emerging and high-growth markets.

Snowflake will make everything from software to training materials and data curricula available to students.

At the same time, it will help broaden the knowledge of educators themselves, preparing them for teaching and providing training courses for Snowflake certification.

Once certified, teachers will receive curricular materials such as courses and tutorials that they can follow at their own pace. In addition, they will be able to use the Academic Lab during the semester.

For those who have limited experience with their technology but want to embark on the transformation of their organisations, Snowflake will offer training by certified instructors.

Those who complete the proposed programme will earn the SnowPro Platform Associate certification, which covers skills such as database creation, access management and Snowflake Cortex LLM functions.

Instructors will guide participants through the AI Data Cloud, whose architecture consists of storage, data lakes and data engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, applications and data exchange.

‘To succeed in the digital age, all employees must have the skills needed to contribute in a data and AI-centric world,’ notes Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake.

‘This means that AI must not only be accessible to users at any level, but they must also understand how these applications work throughout the data lifecycle and how to interact with them optimally,’ he says.

‘Through our investment, Snowflake provides academic institutions and workers in different regions of the world with the tools and training they need to forge successful careers as the technologists and entrepreneurs of the future,’ he concludes.

The trainings will be available in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Korea, India, Canada and Latin America free of charge, live and step-by-step.