The Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence “SADAIA”, through SADAIA Academy, continues its efforts to build and develop the knowledge and practical capabilities of the Kingdom’s young men and women and workers in the public and private sectors in the fields of data and artificial intelligence in order to promote a Saudi generation capable of building a national economy based on data and artificial intelligence and making the Kingdom In the ranks of developed countries in this modern technical field, in order to achieve the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.
This academy is one of SADAIA’s initiatives that aim to raise the level of national competencies in the fields of data and artificial intelligence, and create human capabilities capable of leading the labor market through many promising programs and activities that are carried out in cooperation with a group of leading local, regional and global entities in the fields of data and artificial intelligence. .
Such renewed initiatives launched by SADAIA enjoy the support and interest of the Crown Prince, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SADAIA), Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, based on his keenness to support creators and harness the capabilities to develop their creative skills and enrich their knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence technologies. .
The Academy seeks to develop human capital, build highly qualified national capabilities, and link them to future professions that the country needs, through awareness and knowledge efforts represented in setting up ambitious and specialized programs and camps according to the latest international training methods, which had a positive impact in raising awareness of the importance of artificial intelligence. In the Kingdom, not to mention meeting the interests of various segments of society through programs and training courses that suit their level of progress in understanding the field of data and artificial intelligence.
In its efforts, the Academy stems from a number of objectives represented in developing programs directed at national competencies in the fields of data and artificial intelligence, preparing and implementing programs for skills development initiatives within the national strategy for data and artificial intelligence, strengthening partnerships with academic bodies and universities in the field of training cadres and building competencies, and pursuing study and analysis. The labor market to anticipate and meet the skills needs.
The Academy worked to strengthen its partnerships with specialized educational sectors to transfer expertise and experiences and support programs and initiatives that contribute to the development of human capabilities with the aim of raising awareness and developing specialists and experts in the fields of data and artificial intelligence according to the best standards and curricula, while the Centers of Excellence launched by “SADAIA” contributed in cooperation with a number of Government agencies in harnessing artificial intelligence technologies to serve their goals and develop their products in the areas of research and innovation that cover all vital areas.
The SADAIA Academy offers four qualitative programs: the National Capacity Building Program for Data Science Professionals, the Data and Artificial Intelligence Awareness Raising Program, the SADAIA Customers Program, and the Cooperative Training Program, with the aim of raising awareness of data science and artificial intelligence technologies, and their impact on transforming developed countries and advancing their economy, and training capabilities Governmental and private sectors to understand the systems and services in order to make the most of them in order to ensure the development of business and outputs in these entities.
The Academy was not satisfied with that, but rather went further, and they are the students of Saudi universities, the promising generation of the Kingdom, as it dedicated a cooperative program in cooperation with the Ministry of Education that works to train these students during their studies, according to best practices, in a way that contributes to raising the level of knowledge and specialized and personal skills for them and qualifying them. To enter the labor market efficiently, the program focused on supporting students by aligning academic studies with practical application in an actual work environment.
This program worked to raise the level of knowledge and skills among students by giving them the opportunity to acquire new skills, while enabling national cadres to practice in their field of specialization, and to strengthen the strategic relationship with universities and institutes inside and outside the Kingdom, as well as community engagement by supporting students knowledgeably and financially, preparing them for the labor market, and raising The level of university education outputs to keep pace with the needs of the labor market, and the number of beneficiaries reached more than 572 male and female students from all regions of the Kingdom.
It has also worked on implementing training camps in the field of data science and artificial intelligence, whether in person or remotely, in order to qualify general education students, such as: SDAIA T5 camps: for data science, from which more than 320 male and female students of intermediate and secondary education from various regions of the Kingdom benefited. The National Olympiad for Programming and Artificial Intelligence, which resulted in qualifying our students to compete in regional and international competitions specialized in the fields of artificial intelligence and programming, discussing scientific topics such as: the basic programming environment, artificial intelligence algorithms, computational strategy, and machine learning.
In addition to students, the academy aims to train professionals in the field of artificial intelligence and data by providing training programs for them directly, and supporting professional certificates in cooperation with the Human Resources Fund “Goal” through camps: Data Science, Management and Governance of Data Management, and Sawaher, in which specialized programs were provided. In the field of: Clouders Program, Elevate Program, Machine Learning Training Program, and IBM Skills Build Program.
In these camps, the academy compensated the costs of professional certificates for the trainees in cooperation with Hadaf, such as: Google Foundation Certificate in Cloud Computing, Google Certificate in Professional Data Engineering, Assistant Big Data Engineer ABDE, Certified Analytics Professional CAP, Advanced Big Data Engineer SBDA, and Assistant Big Data Analyst. ABDA, and SBDA Advanced Big Data Analyst.
She also worked on creating the Clouders program to enable the best certificates required in data engineering in the world and cared for the most demanded certificates in the labor market in the field of data engineering, namely: Google Certificate in Data Engineering Professionalism in cooperation with Google Cloud, Amazon Certificate in Data Engineering and Analytics, and worked with Google is building a qualifying program that grants a certificate in this specialty after 7 months of study and training, and the number of recipients of this certificate has increased from 4 Saudi engineers in the Kingdom at the time of launching the program to 39 engineers now.
During the year 2023, the Academy aims to implement training programs for priority sectors according to the strategic direction of SODAIA, which are sectors: smart cities, health, energy, environment, security, in addition to the government sector, and the Academy has worked to build international partnerships with major technology and computer companies in the world to build programs And skills, especially: IBM, DELL.
The Academy is proceeding in its plans in parallel with the objectives of the Human Capacity Development Program, one of the Vision 2030 programs linked to the data and artificial intelligence strategy until 2025, namely: providing qualitative knowledge for the distinguished in priority areas, ensuring compatibility between education outputs and the needs of the labor market, expanding vocational training to meet the needs of The labor market, improving the readiness of young people to enter the labor market.
The Academy is also working to establish a training platform with interactive content, with the aim of training national cadres in data science and artificial intelligence according to the best international standards in the platforms, including developing a set of educational and training materials to raise public awareness in data and artificial intelligence, and aims to train more than 46 thousand beneficiaries. During the year 2023 AD, students of general, higher and technical education and the workforce, in addition to presenting qualitative initiatives in the same year on awareness programs in the areas of: basic awareness, general awareness, specialized awareness, compulsory awareness, and participatory awareness, in cooperation with major technology and computer companies in the world.
Okaz (Riyadh)
