Melda Akin, an award-winning pc scientist and the founding father of D14.AI , the true AI firm fixing companies’ sophisticated optimization challenges has launched Sirius Labs, an AI-driven coaching app that goals to enhance girls’s tech expertise and set them up for promising profession paths.
Impressed by her personal journey as a feminine forging a profitable profession in pc science and the challenges confronted, Melda is launching Sirius Labs to interrupt down obstacles for girls in tech and to assist improved profession pathways for future feminine expertise.
Melda Akin, CEO and Founding father of Sirius Labs, mentioned:“I consider within the energy of tech to resolve the world’s greatest challenges. Sirius Labs brings curated, personalised studying paths to allow girls the most effective likelihood potential to reach the expertise sector. By means of our AI engine, we constantly monitor, study, and enhance content material suggestions for our college students to create probably the most environment friendly studying journey.
Sirius Labs, goals to make use of the facility of tech to show tech, whereas addressing the dearth of feminine illustration in tech roles. In 2022, the variety of girls in huge tech fell by 2.1% and solely 19% of the worldwide expertise sector workforce are girls.
The Sirius Labs platform evaluates every scholar when first enrolled onto this system and makes use of AI to dynamically create a personalised studying pathway tailor-made to their particular person wants. The scholars are mentored in expertise and taught key expertise to land tech-based jobs via workshops, bootcamps and women-empowerment occasions with prime expertise firms.
Within the subsequent six months, Sirius Labs plans to coach 100 MENA and Turkey-based girls to land their dream tech job and signal 20 hiring contracts for expertise roles.
With the variety of girls pursuing STEM topics in increased schooling on the decline and solely 18% of girls reaching new pc science levels, it is crucial that we collaborate with key gamers throughout the house and supply assist and mentoring to females who wish to pursue a profession in expertise. I sit up for demonstrating the transformative potential of Sirius Labs, and AI-driven coaching, for girls in tech and serving to them safe their dream jobs,”Melda added.
The Sirius Labs program will cowl a wide range of technology-focused topics together with product administration, venture administration, IOS improvement, Android improvement, introduction to AI, knowledge science and software program improvement. It additionally presents recommendation on essential comfortable expertise wanted to reach the expertise sector, in addition to interview preparation, negotiation and communication expertise, battle decision, public talking and storytelling.
The initiative will collaborate with main expertise firms throughout MENA. Sirius Labs will assist them supply and retain the most effective expertise while additionally empowering the longer term feminine tech workforce via managing Bootcamp classes and sponsorship alternatives. Sirius Labs is open to partnering with firms from throughout completely different industries trying to recruit tech expertise or perform tech coaching for his or her staff.
Sirius Labs’ founder Melda Akin is ranked one of many High 20 Ladies in Tech MENA 2022 and 2021, and High 10 Ladies Behind Center Jap Tech Manufacturers 2021 by Forbes. Melda was additionally chosen as ‘Ladies Entrepreneur of the Yr’ in 2022 on the Center East Womens Chief Summit and is a mentor within the United Nations and NAMA Ladies Empowerment group. Melda was the primary girl on the earth to prepare and conduct AI and machine studying coaching for girls within the area – in collaboration with the Cyber Defence and Ministry of Communications and Data Expertise of the Kingdom of the Saudi Arabia.
Melda can also be the Founder and CEO of D14.Ai – an AI-startup delivering optimization-as-a-service options to companies globally. D14 helps firms develop by way of efficiency-enhancing AI options that take away the complexity of automation, scheduling and group administration. Its proprietary core AI expertise, backed by innovative tutorial analysis, remedy exponentially arduous optimization issues, able to evaluating hundreds of thousands of combos in minutes, as much as 3,000x sooner than competing options.
Earlier than launching D14.AI , Akin arrange her first firm to serve digital transformation consultancy to assist firms develop income via digital options.
In 2022, Melda was on the Forbes listing of 20 Ladies Behind Center Jap Tech Manufacturers .