INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE
UiPath partners with
ITIDA to accelerate
automation skills
development in Egypt
ITIDA will introduce the UiPath
Academic Alliance Program to
develop and empower a skilled
talent pool.
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’s
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
programme to the Egyptian ICT industry
to help bridge the skills gap and build a
skilled workforce in emerging and disruptive
U
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS
INTELLIGENT
TECH CHANNELS
Issue 24
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, the 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
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
UiPath has signed a Letter of Intent
with Egypt’s ITIDA to help build the
country’s national capabilities in RPA
will mandate the coexistence 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.”
47