In conversation with Diwakar Chittora, Founder & CEO at Intellipaat about upcoming courses and significance of employee training.
Most popular courses which are being enrolled by individuals?
Intellipaat provides around 150 courses which are generally enrolled by IT individuals, corporate and CXO’s. Our most popular courses are Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Cloud and DevOps, Digital marketing, and Programming.
How many free courses do you provide?
Intellipaat is providing 12 free courses for Individuals to enroll and upskill themselves during the lockdown. These courses include Java, C and Data Structures, MS Excel, MS SQL Training, Artificial Intelligence Foundation, etc.
What are your coming plans?
In these tough times where unemployment is growing at the rapid pace it is very important for professionals and fresher’s to gain skills that will make them employable. Our focus will be on offering course to increase employability as well as help the professionals to grow in their career.
Do you have tie ups with corporates fortraining employees?
We have tied up with nearly 200 companies in India. We help their employees learn new skills. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many new companies have expressed interest in having their employees trained online by us. Recently, a leading financial player expressed an interest in having between 800 to 900 people trained by Intellipaat.
What is your view on online education?
We are in the new normal where all the educational institutes are delivering education online. COIVID 19 has actually moved us 10 years ahead of time especially in education sector where everything is moved online. I see a lot of scope in online education with lots of innovation to come in coming years.
Which modern technology is going to be the next big thing in the market?
Data Science, AI & Cloud will be the next big thing in the coming years. The way we see the world will be a lot different in next 8-10 yrs from now where most of the repetitive and non-skilled work will be taken by bots and almost all the web applications as well as internal applications will be hosted on Cloud infrastructure
