Utilizing IT Platforms to Enhance Youth Employment

In this webinar, we will discuss how Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms can facilitate the scaling up of youth employment in MENA through AI-powered up-skilling and mentorship targeted at unemployed youth and tech startups. This webinar will highlight a model aim at connecting technology professionals in the United States with youth job seekers to enhance their networking opportunities, expose them to the US market, and assist them in accessing virtual tech jobs remotely. While technology serves as a platform for scaling up and driving jobs in developing countries, it also provides substantial career growth possibilities for the MENA youth in an ever-expanding technology sector either through employment or entrepreneurship endeavors.

This webinar will walk the audience through a case study of a cyber academy in Amman, Jordan, which was established by the Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI) and has confirmed the starved demand for up-skilling and mentorship by both young job seekers and employers. This case study highlights the critical need for scaling this delivery model, while maintaining its efficacy, and explains how recent innovations in AI algorithms and high-performance computing will enable the necessary technological disruption in this space to suitably satisfy the massive demand.

Finally, the webinar will outline the parameters of the requisite and complementary partnership between academia and the private sector to cost-effectively bring these AI-powered up-skilling/mentorship delivery models to market at scale.