BirthVenue Launches Blockchain Training Program for Young Professionals

BirthVenue Growth Solutions Pvt Ltd has launched a new Blockchain training program for young professionals working out of coworking spaces or any company offices. After a recent entry in the education market, BirthVenue has started expanding its up-skilling services from college students to early & mid stage professionals across sectors.

After PES University in Bangalore successfully adopted their Blockchain training program, many more colleges have been looking to implement a similar training curriculum from the next semester commencing from January. Their first program has been specially designed for the needs of university students to understand the fundamentals of Blockchain and adopt it as a career.

To help the community further and increase the impact, BirthVenue is now expanding its training services to working professionals in corporate, startups, and anyone situated out of centers like co-working spaces. The delivery model of this new program is quite different for professionals for reasons such as heavy focus on practical hands-on applications, and a good peer group of friends and colleagues in the same location.

Through BirthVenue's skilled team and latest partnerships, they have the potential to scale their services and offer this much sought after course to a broader audience. The biggest blockchain training provider, IBM, has officially partnered with BirthVenue for their development and training services. What this partnership means for BirthVenue is great support in terms of curation, network of blockchain experts, latest updates in the blockchain industry, and most important - internationally recognised certifications.

"Learning something is a lot like downloading a computer program into your memory. The simpler it is, the more effective your skills would become. The more personal it is, the higher will be your retention of the same. Hence, we strongly believe that offline + online combination is the right way to go about deep tech training like Blockchain." said Rohit, Director of BirthVenue.

BirthVenue aims to differentiate itself from other Blockchain training providers by focusing on a balanced combination of offline and online. Specifically, to control the quality of the program, there is a cap on the maximum subscription for each batch. The delivery of the training in universities is quite straightforward as once the university is on board, they only need to provide space for the training and will almost certainly have a confirmed number of subscription for each batch.

For this purpose, BirthVenue has partnered with a couple of centers in Delhi & Bangalore to provide training to the people who work out of those places.

On trying to understand the demand for blockchain training in India, they have identified that offline models often make more of an impact that online models. A lot of the members subscribing to their Blockchain training program have previously taken some form on online training to upskill and have found it inefficient or lacking intensity.

So in order to keep the program relevant, industry-focused, and hands-on, BirthVenue’s main focus is on providing in-person, face-to-face training by accomplished industry experts. It is clear from this business model that Birthvenue intends to provide quality focused training and becoming the go-to blockchain training providers in India.

Govt of India's SWAYAM is Offering Free E-Course on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

SWAYAM -- a programme initiated by Government of India -- is offering a free computer science course on Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

The 12-week undergraduate course named "Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases" is a joint venture from academia and industry, where the target is to cover both the conceptual as well as application aspects of Blockchain, including the fundamental design and architectural primitives of Blockchain, the system and the security aspects, along with various use cases from different application domains.

The online course runs from 29th July to 18th October and the exam will be on 17th November for those wanting to obtain a certificate from the course. The curriculum of the course include Hyperledger, IBM Blockchain Cloud, Ethereum development tools & Quorum, and for self-study SWAYAM website refers to books including "Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies" by Andreas Antonopoulos among others.

As per SWAYAM, "The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centers."

The certification exam is optional and costs ₹ 1000. The certificate received will have the logos of NPTEL,IBM and IIT Kharagpur. NPTEL or "National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning" is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science.

The exam will be conducted in various cities across the country which will be revealed at the time of signing up. Cities that have held exams for other Swayam courses include Lucknow, Kolkata, Guwahati, Mumbai, Thane, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram.

Launched in August last year, SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) aims to provide one integrated platform and portal for online courses. The program, backed by the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development, seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

At present about 1550+ MOOCs courses are listed on SWAYAM of which 800+ courses are already delivered. About 34 Lakhs students have enrolled in these courses.

It is intended to host about 2000 courses and 80000 hours of learning material, within two years: covering school, under-graduate, post-graduate, engineering, law and other professional courses. It is expected to support 3 Crores users in the next few years.

Via ~ Bitcoin.com

IIIT Hyderabad, TalentSprint Announce Pan-India Roll Out of Popular Execs Programs in AI/ML, Blockchain and DLT

The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-Hyderabad) and TalentSprint announced today the All India roll out of their popular executive programs on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as well as Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies. Since their launch in 2018 in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, these hybrid executive programs, with their innovative onsite/online format, have attracted industry professionals in large numbers and achieved a high completion rate.

With eleven successful cohorts already completed or underway, the programs’ pracademic design (deep academic knowledge combined with industry best practices) have been warmly embraced by working professionals. A collaborative faculty model where renowned professors work in partnership with industry practitioners, and a unique 5-step pedagogy of Masterclass Lectures, Hands-on Labs, Guided Mentorship, Immersive Hackathons and Industry Workshops have differentiated these programs.

The All India rollout is in response to an explosive demand for deep-tech expertise currently sweeping through knowledge professionals in all major technology hubs of the country. In particular, the demand for competencies such as AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain have been climbing rapidly over the last twelve months, with signs of further acceleration. The leading analyst firm Gartner has forecasted that AI business value will reach $3.9T by 2022 and Blockchain business value will reach $3.1T by 2030.

According to Prof. P. J. Narayanan, Director of IIIT-Hyderabad said: “As a major research-led institution, we are gratified to see this kind of interest in our deep-tech executive education programs. Our top-ranked AI research group at the Kohli Centre for Intelligent Systems, and our emerging Blockchain Centre of Excellence, through these programs, have been able to convey the recent research advancements to the industry. In return, our researchers are benefitting from insights into challenging industry problems. By extending these executive programs across the nation, we believe the give and take between our institution and industry will reach a whole new level.”

Commenting on the occasion, Dr Santanu Paul, CEO and MD of TalentSprint said: “2018 was the launch year for the cities Hyderabad and Bengaluru, and we used that opportunity to perfect these deep-tech programs. We successfully combined theory with practice, academic rigour with industry experience, onsite with online. The substantial popularity of these programs has encouraged us to launch this updated nationwide format. The click and mortar model of select campus visits and ongoing online engagement makes it very convenient for busy tech professionals, irrespective of their location.”

The All India Program will be delivered over 18 weeks in a hybrid format. There will be 3 campus visits of 3 days each to IIIT Hyderabad, and live interactive online classes in other weeks. The program is priced at Rs 2 lacs + applicable taxes with special scholarships for women.

For more information about the programs, please visit: https://iiit-h.talentsprint.com/aiml/ or https://iiit-h.talentsprint.com/blockchain/

The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) is an autonomous research university founded in 1998 that focuses on the core areas of Information Technology, such as Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and their applications in other domains through interdisciplinary research that has a greater social impact. Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems (KCIS) at IIIT-H was established in 2015 to give a fillip to research, teaching and entrepreneurship in the Broad Intelligent Systems Area. It has the #1 rated Machine Learning Lab in India and acts as an umbrella organization at the institute to both strengthen the existing groups and facilitate new activities in related areas. It also acts as a force multiplier in attracting projects and funding from the government and industry sectors, coordinating research in related domains across different IIIT-H centers, as well as in the institute's research collaboration with other academic institutions in the country.

TalentSprint brings high-end and deep-tech education to aspiring and experienced professionals. It partners with world-class academic institutions and global corporations to develop and offer disruptive programs. TalentSprint's hybrid platform delivers unique onsite and online experiences that help build cutting-edge expertise, for today and tomorrow.

~ Published unedited except the headline, from Business Wire India feed.