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Zer and KoçDigital share their experience in robotic process automation and artificial intelligence in the trainings they organize for high school students.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - 80 students from the 9th grade attended the robotic process automation and artificial intelligence trainings, which were first organized at Kadıköy Anatolian High School with the cooperation of Koç Group's purchasing company Zer and KoçDigital, which offers solutions in the fields of internet of things with advanced analytics.

The trainings aiming to increase the digital literacy of young people are held online for 12 weeks. Students who participate in the training, the content of which is created by Zer and KoçDigital employees, also receive a participation certificate when they complete the process.

“The solution to catch up with technology is in competent human resources”

Stating that the trainings will increase the digital literacy of young people and they will guide them in choosing their future professions, Zer General Manager Mehmet Apak said that they aim to spread the trainings in 2021.

In his statement, Apak said: “In today's world, we encounter the concepts that are always used in training as users. How much do we know and understand? The new generation's acquaintance, understanding and experience with technological concepts and processes at the earliest period will be effective both in their future career choices and in their ability to understand and develop the technology world they were born into. Today, all companies are talking about digital transformation, ten years later we will talk not about digital transformation, but about how we can catch up with technology and even faster, and we will look for competent human resources to develop new technologies and tools to catch this pace. Our resource will be our youth who receive these trainings.”

“Success of digital transformation affects the rules of competitiveness”

Stating that they are very happy to reach the students of our country with their cooperation with Zer, KoçDigital Company Manager Önder Kaplancık said, “Today, the rules of competitiveness are largely determined by the success of organizations in digital transformation. The first condition of a successful digital transformation is the development of qualified human resources. This leap in digital transformation is closely related to the future of all our young friends who continue their education in changing professions and new business areas that come into our lives. We live in a period in which innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and big data come to the fore. Our wish is to raise awareness about these innovative technologies among young generations; To contribute to the training of future data analysts, data scientists, artificial intelligence and machine learning experts, robotics engineers.”

They wrote code and created a robotic process

In the trainings, responsible for artificial intelligence and data science studies at KoçDigital, Dr. Özgür Akarsu, Dr. Salih Duran, Dr. Şebnem Güneş Söyler and Zer Robotics Process Automation Unit Manager Yamaç Yılmaz were narrators, students meet the basic dynamics of the digital world, while listening with examples of concepts we frequently encounter today such as big data, machine learning, deep learning, algorithms, robotic processes, and even writing code, . they found the opportunity. They practically designed the process and commissioned the robots in the processes they had written themselves.

Skills gap will be high in the next five years

The 'Future of Jobs' report published by the World Economic Forum in 2020, which provides insight into the future jobs and provides in-depth information from 15 different industrial sectors in 26 countries, reveals the future change that the workforce will experience in the fields of artificial intelligence, data science and robotics. According to the report, against the 85 million jobs lost by increasing automation by 2025, 97 million new professions of the future will emerge, and these jobs will mainly be in the fields of data science, artificial intelligence, robotics and cyber security. In the next five years, the skills gap on the workforce will continue to be high as skills demanded by employers change.