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Rapidly shifting market trends and global economic pressures have forced companies to constantly stay on their toes and push forward with new technology to ensure their survival. To foster a culture of innovation, ICT education and training have become crucial in helping employees hone their skills and knowledge base to achieve strategic objectives.
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CORPORATE TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION COMPANIES IN APAC - 2021 GICT Training & Certification Pioneers in Asia Pacific offering Open Source Technology based training in IOT, AI, Big Data & Cloud Computing Contributed by: Russel Thomas R and training have become crucial in helping employees hone their skills and knowledge base to achieve strategic objectives. And, in a dynamic work environment where professionals need to deal with multi-faceted issues, only the best of breed, uptodate and finest ICT training can equip them with the know- how to tackle complicated challenges. Singapore based, GICT Training & Certification—a pioneer in offering open source technology-based (and vendor-neutral) certification programs— trains and equips ICT professionals, corporations and graduate students from leading institutions in Singapore with the industry’s latest ICT technologies. GICT trains and transfers technical expertise to its clients in 4 leading areas of technology: AI/Machine Learning, Big Data/Data Science, Cloud Computing and IoT. “There is a growing and insatiable global demand for ICT professionals in four specific areas of technology. Our training and certification programs are offered through Authorized Training Providers (ATP) in the region,” says Dr. Anton Ravindran, Founder and CEO of GICT Training and Certification. Beginning with courses on cloud computing during the company’s formation ten years ago, its educational curricula now ventures deep into data science and—for the last five years— IoT, AI and ML. Dr. Anton leverages decades of experience in ICT, having worked for and with leading MNCs in early part of his career and now as technopreneur leads a team of highly skilled post graduate professionals in managing, curating and delivering these certification programs. In Singapore, GICT Training programs are mapped to the Skills Framework (SF) and funded by Info Comm and Media Development Authority (IMDA - CITREP+). GICT programs are offered in the region through its ATP networks in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Oman, India, Jordan, Uganda amongst others. “For employers, our digital badges make it easy to identify individuals with top-notch skills, and companies can verify whether those skills are compatible for their needs, relevant and up-to-date,” adds Dr. Anton. Staying abreast with technological developments, GICT’s team transfers knowledge and expertise to its clients by applying and implementing these skills in a real- life scenario. This is critical as ICT and technology has a very apidly shifting market trends and global economic pressures have forced companies to constantly stay on their toes and push forward with new technology to ensure their survival. To foster a culture of innovation, ICT education Dr. Anton Ravindran short shelf life, and enterprises need to acquire technical know- how speedily and incessantly. Dr. Anton has also ventured into the legaltech industry by leveraging from AI and Data Science under the banner of his other company—SmartLaw Pte Ltd. This company is focused on and has developed leading edge solutions that assist lawyers and clients in reviewing and analyzing contracts as well as in predicting sentencing outcomes of complex litigious matters in just a few minutes. The solution uses NLP to read hundreds of pages of contracts and legal documents in split seconds; as a result of which, legal professionals can save significant legal resources and achieve cost savings for clients. Additionally, in fields of legal practice such as divorce, criminal offences, and medical negligence, SmartLaw uses its trained neural brain to help lawyers predict verdicts and evaluate the relevance of previous precedents in order to mount a successful claim or defence. In so doing, SmartLaw hopes to democratize and provide broader access to legal services by using its user-intuitive and AI based solutions. Moving both companies forward with a two-pronged approach, Dr. Anton discusses how the organizations are poised to expand in the near future. “For GICT, we plan to work with new partners in the region and provide our training programs in their locale. Our second step of growth involves increasing the delivery of online training,” he adds. For SmartLaw, we will continue to add additional disciplines and jurisdictions for the Predictor function while we will continue to add additional functionalities for the Smartlaw’s Smart Contract Review and Analysis feature for the nearer term, he said. || May 2021 18 MANAGEHRMAGAZINE.COM