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Michael Conway shared thisThe 6th year of our massively successful AI / ML scholars program is now open to learners across the globe!! The Udacity and AWS teams have been heads down building out new programming so click on the post below to apply today.Michael Conway shared thisAI is becoming a core capability across industries and the need for applied skills is growing fast. Now is the time to build yours. The AWS AI & ML Scholars Program helps you progress from foundational knowledge to real, career-ready skills through hands-on, applied learning. Applications are now open 🔗 https://bit.ly/41qbz8I
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Michael Conway reposted thisMichael Conway reposted thisIntroducing the Accenture LearnVantage LinkedIn page. As the pace of technology accelerates, organizations need the skills to keep up. Accenture LearnVantage helps build the workforce capabilities that power transformation—from AI and data to cloud and cybersecurity. Follow along for ideas, insights, and innovations shaping the future of workforce capability-building. Excellence isn’t found. It’s enabled. With Accenture LearnVantage. #LearningAndDevelopment #FutureOfWork #DigitalTransformation [Image Description: A photograph of people moving through a busy urban setting, suggesting momentum, scale, and workforce readiness. Text overlay reads: Powering talent with the capability to perform and the confidence to innovate]
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Michael Conway shared thisFolks who know me best know that I bleed Udacity blue; which for the record is the bright-cerulean blue. The amazing people and opportunities it has brought to my life and career over these past 8 years hold a very special place in my heart that can never be replaced. So while I technically joined Accenture LearnVantage almost two years ago as part of Udacity's acquisition by Accenture, I felt it important to wait for my fellow Udacians to finish their integration before I updated my status. I want to thank the integration team at Accenture, including Sabah Haroon, Michael Oh, Julie Hickey, Julie Anderson, Florencia Alvarez, Arti Tiwari - MA, B.Ed as well as the LearnVantage leadership team Swati Sharma, Kishore P Durg, Ravi Shankar Nori, Majd Sakr and of course Udacity CEO Kai Roemmelt for their tireless leadership guiding us on this journey to become a part of one Accenture. This is the end of an era for me and my team. But the future of how we as a society learn and develop in these exciting - and admittedly sometimes scary - times is a chapter that is yet to be written. But I couldn't be prouder to co-author that story with the amazingly talented group of learning professionals that Accenture has brought together. I'm on a remote mountain farm in Arkansas this week reflecting on the past and doing my very best to hold my self in the present. But come Monday I'll be back at it adding my little contribution to help shape the future. If you're a Udacian past or present, thank you all for being a part of my journey and I look forward to hearing about the amazing things you're all going to do. As always, please do let me know how I can support you better!!
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Michael Conway shared thisUdacity AI Content Product Lead Joe Fontaine breaks down the critical difference between vibe coding and vibe engineering. Definitely worth 2 minutes to watch!!Michael Conway shared thisCome for the Aloha 🌺 shirt vibes, stay for the existential crisis about the future of software engineering. We need to talk about "𝘝𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨." Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term, we’ve seen a wave of developers trying to "prompt and pray" their way to production. But if you’ve tried this on a legacy codebase, you know the truth: Vibes don't handle edge cases. Vibes don't secure APIs. And Vibes definitely don't scale. I just dropped a new video breaking down why the industry is shifting from 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 to 𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, and how to stop just generating code and start architecting intelligence. I’m also thrilled to officially announce the launch of the 𝐀𝐈-𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐔𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲. We didn't just add a "prompting" module. We rebuilt the curriculum for the Agentic era. 🔥 Course 4 is entirely dedicated to Vibe Engineering, teaching you with direct access how to orchestrate Claude Code in the project workspace to build robust, test-backed systems. Stop crossing your fingers on every commit. Start engineering with AI. 📺 Watch the video: https://lnkd.in/gyu5k48i #AI #SoftwareEngineering #VibeCoding #Claude #Udacity #EdTech
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Michael Conway shared thisI couldn’t be prouder to announce Udacity's launch of our Master’s in Artificial Intelligence program. Core to our mission at Udacity has always been providing high-quality technology education and training to the millions of talented learners around the world locked outside the high walls (and high costs) of formal higher ed. But those walls are coming down fast and our fully accredited program is what the future of tech education looks like: accessible, industry-connected, and built for impact. 👉 Read more from Udacity’s announcement below. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LearningInnovation #TechEducation #Udacity #AILeadershipMichael Conway shared thisToday marks a milestone for Udacity. We’re launching a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, delivered through the Udacity Institute of AI and Technology, a member college of Woolf. This new program gives learners around the world the opportunity to earn a master’s degree in AI that’s fully accredited, flexible, affordable, and rooted in Udacity’s hands-on, project-based approach. Udacity began with a mission to democratize education, and we’re proud to take another step forward in making world-class AI education accessible to all. Learn more about the new master’s degree ➡️ https://bit.ly/4opVMR4
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Michael Conway shared thisTo my fellow L&D content creators, the AI content isn’t coming, it’s already here. Let’s #reinvent learning together.Michael Conway shared thisMessing around with Sora 2 video this weekend. Are there still weird glitches? Absolutely. But what's wild is how fast this stuff is improving. The character consistency, simply from taking a few seconds of selfie-style video, is amazing. Six months ago this wasn't even possible. Anyway, made this little experiment about how I think we could actually use this in learning, and where this all might go. Fair warning: this contains me pretending to give a TED talk and running from the cops. Y'know, normal Tuesday stuff.
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Michael Conway reposted thisAI video is moving fast. Jump in for a fun and engaging ride inside Simon Allardice's brain as he explores what AI video can do now and where it might be heading. Suggestion: don't watch this in a space where it would be rude to laugh out loud...Michael Conway reposted thisMessing around with Sora 2 video this weekend. Are there still weird glitches? Absolutely. But what's wild is how fast this stuff is improving. The character consistency, simply from taking a few seconds of selfie-style video, is amazing. Six months ago this wasn't even possible. Anyway, made this little experiment about how I think we could actually use this in learning, and where this all might go. Fair warning: this contains me pretending to give a TED talk and running from the cops. Y'know, normal Tuesday stuff.
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Michael Conway shared thisJoe Fontaine’s got it right!!Michael Conway shared thisThe AI talent gap isn't about a lack of people interested in AI. It's about a lack of people who can actually build with it. Companies today are flooded with candidates who can talk about the latest models, but they're struggling to find practitioners who can fine-tune them, build applications, and deploy real-world solutions. That’s the difference between being a commentator and being a creator. It's not just about keeping you current; it's about making you indispensable. That's why so many learners around the globe seek out and complete our Nanodegrees for their upskilling into technical practitioner roles. And the results speak for themselves: 91% of our Udacity AI graduates report that our programs helped them achieve their career goals. In this video, I break down the path to becoming an AI builder—the kind of talent that doesn't just observe the future but actively creates it. Ready to start building? Here’s your toolkit: 🐍 Master the fundamentals: AI Programming with Python https://lnkd.in/gjbqdhAF 🚀 Build and deploy applications: Generative AI https://lnkd.in/gP8RdaS6 🤖 Explore the cutting-edge of AI automation: Agentic AI https://lnkd.in/gGqPrzw6 The #AI opportunity is here. Go build your bridge. #FutureOfWork #TechSkills #CareerGrowth #ArtificialIntelligence
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisA mega shout out to this incredible human - Tarun Cherukuri - who is being awarded the most coveted Skoll award for the incredible work he and his team at Indus Action have been doing for years! Congratulations Tarun Cherukuri. This is very well deserved and we are so proud of your team and you!
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisTechnology creates potential. People turn it into value. Adoption breaks down when operating model change outpaces workforce capability. That’s why enablement must go beyond course completion. Instructor-led training (ILT) connects outcomes with real-world relevance—bringing structure, role clarity, and decision confidence during transformation. Explore how Accenture LearnVantage is helping teams turn change into capability - https://accntu.re/4cIsHfo #InstructorLedTraining #CapabilityBuilding #EnterpriseTraining [Image Description: A photograph of crowd in a street, conveying pace, scale, and movement.]
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisI'm excited to share that I recently joined Google. I'll be building evaluations and a continuous feedback loop to make Gemini the most useful and trustworthy model for enterprises around the world. I'm thankful for the opportunity to work at Cohere for Joelle Pineau, and alongside brilliant research scientists like Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Maximilian Mozes, and so many others, who are deeply dedicated to leading the field with cutting-edge science and applying it to enterprise customers' needs. I'm so proud of the work we did to make the Command models not just safer, but more trustworthy and truly localized to our global customers' cultural contexts and needs. Gemini for enterprise is a natural extension of what I've worked on for my whole career: bringing high-quality, trustworthy information to the people who need it. I'm excited to continue my journey at Google and contribute my experience in training models to be worthy of trust by businesses and society at large.
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisAs I continue experimenting with AI‑driven video creation, I’ve been testing tools like Invideo, HeyGen, Flow, and finally stitching outputs together using Wondershare Filmora. The journey has been exciting, but it also revealed a few practical limitations: 1. Short video duration (8 seconds per generation) Most current diffusion‑based video models still operate within tight time windows. Since they work through iterative noise‑removal, longer sequences introduce complexity and instability. This seems to be a model‑level limitation across platforms. 2. Lip‑sync challenges with human characters While cartoon or stylized characters look fantastic, human avatars often struggle with accurate lip‑sync. I consistently observed a noticeable lag between the spoken audio and the character’s mouth movements. 3. Multi‑character scenes are still unreliable When a script involves two characters in the same scene, the second character’s lip‑sync often drifts or becomes misaligned. This makes conversational scenes difficult to execute cleanly. 4. Character consistency across clips Even when using the same avatar, generating the next 8‑second segment often introduces subtle (and sometimes major) variations in appearance. Maintaining continuity across scenes remains a challenge. I’m sharing these observations to learn from the community. If you’ve found ways to overcome these issues — or if you know tools that handle these scenarios better — I’d love to hear your suggestions. Always open to learning and improving.
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisI had the opportunity to attend the ASU+GSV Summit alongside leaders shaping the future of education. Accenture LearnVantage had a strong presence this year across stages and at our booth. It was great to see the level of energy, curiosity, and engagement from attendees throughout the week. Across sessions and conversations, one theme stood out clearly: humans are and will remain at the center of AI-driven change. A key takeaway from our panel: AI should be approached as a value creation strategy, not just an efficiency play. It requires rethinking products and services, putting humans first by evolving roles, and enabling the training and mindset shifts needed for the workforce to deliver that value. We had a strong discussion on the prerequisites to AI-enabled personalization and how it can reshape learning at scale when applied meaningfully. HR and Learning leaders are being asked to fundamentally redefine personalized learning in the age of generative AI, but in many cases, the data needed to design learning around the person, their context, and their real work remains the biggest barrier. Accenture LearnVantage Insights begins to bridge this gap. As an agentic AI copilot, it brings together signals across the workforce to enable more adaptive, contextual learning experiences, moving beyond generic pathways toward intentional, business-aligned reinvention. Swati Sharma, alongside Kian Katanforoosh, explored how verified data is transforming talent decisions at enterprise scale, shifting organizations from intuition to true skills intelligence. Timothy Toomey spoke on The Force stage about elevating human potential and performance, highlighting Accenture's investment in career military professionals and their transition into civilian roles. By combining their skillsets with our Udacity capabilities, we are helping guide them toward meaningful career paths, an example of how technology and human ingenuity can unlock opportunity at scale. Thank you to everyone who connected with us at the Accenture LearnVantage booth or joined the conversation. Our team felt the momentum across clients, partners, startups, and leaders throughout the week. Looking forward to continuing the dialogue on what human-centered, AI-enabled learning transformation can become. Accenture LearnVantage will see you next year, ASU+GSV. ASU+GSV Summit Accenture Mark Guiditta Rob Lauber Carla Martínez Schmickrath Josh Elboim Satyajit "Doc" Doctor Renzo Reyes Colton Gyulay Karie Willyerd Mark Atkinson Ed Stevenson Marissa Farrar MHRM SPHR SHRM-SCP Kishore P Durg Colton Gyulay
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisMost transformations prioritize technology. But value is determined by workforce capability. Skilled teams adopt faster, make better decisions, and sustain change beyond go-live. When capability lags, so does value. Upskilling can’t be an HR checkbox—it needs to be a transformation KPI. The organizations seeing real returns invest in talent as deliberately as they do in tech. How are you rebalancing your investment? #EnterpriseTraining #TechnologyStrategy #ITLeadership [Image Description: A visual carousel combining text and simple visual elements that highlight statistics about workforce skills.]
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Michael Conway liked thisMichael Conway liked thisAs I built my experience as a product manager, one person came up over and over as the product manager's product manager: Marty Cagan. Marty has authored three of the most influential books on the subject and his thinking has shaped how PMs work. Needless to say, I can't wait to sit down with Marty and talk about how the PM role is evolving as AI becomes more prevalent in our lives. Join us LIVE on Thursday, 4/23, at 9 AM PT for the discussion. Register now! Link in comments.
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Costantinos Costantinos
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Africa’s treats its diaspora mostly as a bank account, not a brain trust. This critique that gets to the heart of the "human capital paradox" that leaders are grappling with at the 39th AU Summit in 2026. True, African nations have treated the diaspora—as a "bank account" (prioritizing remittances, which reached over $100 billion in 2025). However, the 2026 agendum signals a shift toward treating them as a "brain trust"—the intellectual engine for industrialization and digital sovereignty. The remittance trap has, for decades, been the metric for "successful" migration - the dollar amount sent home. In countries like Egypt, Nigeria, and Ethiopia, remittances often exceed FDI, creating a consumption economy. AU is pushing the "brain trust" model through several high-stakes initiatives. The startup/innovation visa is a proposal to allow African tech talent and entrepreneurs to move seamlessly between member states. The goal is to keep "African AI Architects" working on African problems rather than losing them to Silicon Valley. The Reparations Decade isn't just about money; it’s about narrative and intellectual justice. It includes a framework for "knowledge transfer" where the '6th Region' is invited to lead specialized sectors like biotech, green energy, etc.
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Oluwatamilore Oni
Centre for Public Impact • 3K followers
You're speaking my language!" was one of my first thoughts in this third episode of Africa, Which Way Employment? with Sharmi Surianarain. The first two episodes in the series were an expansion of my vocabulary. As I am neither a development economist nor a policymaker, my learning posture was very much at the fore. As examples, I had to ask Ms. Oteh what she meant by "capital market products" and Dr Hardy exactly what she was referring to when she repeatedly mentioned "data infrastructure". 😁 Sharmi has over two decades of experience in youth capacity-building from her time aa the Vice President of Lifelong Engagement at the African Leadership Academy to her current leadership at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator as its Chief Impact Officer. While I am nowhere near her depth of experience in youth employment programming, I knew exactly what she meant throughout the conversation. Phew. 😅 Sharmi has such a thorough grasp of the youth employment space, and she breaks down its value chain, if you will, beginning from the context of Africa's exploitation, to the philosophical purpose of work, what successful policy implementation looks like, and emerging economies of work (listen 😁). When you see headline's like the International Monetary Fund's "The Clock is Ticking on Sub-Saharan Africa's Urgent Job Creation Challenge", think of Sharmi's 3x3 framework: 🎯 Purpose 🎯 Productivity 🎯 Income x 💪🏾 Social enterprise 💪🏾 Private sector 💪🏾 Government Link to full the episode below! #FutureOfWork #YouthEmployment #AfricaEmployment #JobCreation #TalentDevelopment #DecentWork #AWWE #Podcast #CareWork
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US Mission Morocco
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America’s innovation and digital policy continue to inspire Morocco's future leaders. 💡 This week at the State Department, Moroccan participants in the Distinguished #HumphreyFellowshipProgram on Emerging Technology Policy met with desk officers to exchange ideas. The conversation highlighted how academic and industry leaders are shaping the future of technology, and how U.S.–Morocco collaboration continues to grow through people-to-people exchanges.
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Adam Lewis
Mosaic Health Ltd • 2K followers
There's a paradox at play in the development sector that is hardly discussed: how the push for "pay equity" at international organizations has actually exacerbated pay *inequity* within countries. New report shows that employees of (i)NGOs & multilaterals reap the highest salaries in Kenya -- more than 10x what the average Kenyan earns (much higher for executives): https://lnkd.in/e_3mJqB7 Which raises the question: If a country's highest-paying industry is externally funded aid, is there still an incentive to make progress?
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Lawrencia Andey
Coding Ladies Academy • 255 followers
𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 Coding Ladies Academy is proud to partner with AmaliTech to expand opportunities for young women in tech. Our shared mission is to empower Africa’s next generation of digital leaders through training, mentorship, and real career pathways. Together, we are helping more girls and young women gain the skills, experience, and confidence they need to thrive in the tech industry. *#CodingLadiesAcademy #AmaliTech #WomenInTech #DigitalSkills #TechForAfrica #PartnershipForImpact*
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Sharon Cheramboss
APO Group • 3K followers
Africa’s EdTech conversation is clearly shifting, and it is a shift worth paying attention to. For a long time, the focus was on pilots, experimentation, and single-market proof points. What we are seeing now feels different. Capital is becoming more deliberate, governments are clearer on outcomes, and African-built education platforms are increasingly being designed with regional scale in mind from the outset. As this transition happens, one thing is becoming clearer. Solutions that scale are not only those that work, but those that are understood. Investment is moving away from novelty and toward platforms that can clearly articulate impact, align with national priorities, and communicate value consistently across markets. Expansion is maturing too. The strongest platforms are not just adding flags on a map. They are building infrastructure that understands curriculum differences, procurement realities, and long-term adoption. In this phase, scale looks less like user growth charts and more like institutional trust, credibility, and visibility with the right stakeholders. AI is part of the story, but it is no longer the headline. Its real value in Africa is practical. Supporting teachers, improving learning outcomes, and enabling better system-level decisions, when deployed responsibly and in context. Making that value visible matters just as much as building it. All of this points to a simple reality. African EdTech is moving from promise to permanence. The next phase will belong to those who can connect capital, policy, execution, and narrative across borders. #EdTechAfrica #AfricanInnovation #EducationTechnology #PanAfrican #ImpactInvesting #AIinEducation #ScalingAfrica #EducationForAll #TechRevolutionAfrica #APOGroup
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ZETA
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🎧 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW on YouTube! This week on Tech Pathways, we’re joined by climate educator, nonprofit leader, and Ironman athlete Margaret Wang-Aghania — and this conversation goes deep. 🌍🔥 From building SubjectToClimate into a leading climate ed platform, to training youth across Africa in digital skills, Margaret shares how she’s using tech and education to fuel real-world change. In this episode, we dive into: 💡 The moment she realized teachers needed better climate tools 🌐 Lessons from building a nonprofit with global partnerships 🏃♀️ How endurance sports shaped her leadership mindset 🧠 Real talk on burnout, pivoting careers & staying hopeful If you care about climate, Gen Z leadership, or building mission-driven tech — this one’s for you. 🎥 Watch now on YouTube — https://lnkd.in/dK6D_7xA
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