AWS Provides Free ML Training for Business Leaders

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have launched Machine Learning (ML) Essentials, which are three free training courses implemented to empower business leaders and improve their leadership and technical decision-making abilities.

Each course’s duration is 30 minutes, in which real-world examples from Amazon’s 20+ years of scaling ML within its own operations will be included. After completing the courses, the business leader will be capable of assessing whether their organization is ready to move forward with ML, where ML can be most impactful on their organization, and they will also be able to identify concrete next steps.

What Does AWS Provide in Each Training Course?

The first course will be “Machine Learning”, in which those who take the course will learn the fundamentals of ML, along with its uses and potential challenges. The second course will be ‘Planning a Machine Learning Project’, where business leaders will learn how their organization can plan for an ML project. The third and final course will be ‘Building a Machine Learning Ready Organization’, which will offer insights on how to prepare an organization for the successful implementation of ML.

With recent Gartner research showing that only 53% of ML projects develop from prototype into production, AWS is hoping to be the catalyst for change. Professor Albert Klein-Tank, head of the Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Science and Services, expressed his delight to be working with AWS on such a significant focus area.

Klein-Tank: “We were excited to work with colleagues from the AWS ML Solutions Lab as part of the Embark program… They provided technical skills and experience that enabled us to explore a complex categorization problem that offers improved insight into how Earth’s biosphere could be affected by climate change”.

“Our climate models generate huge volumes of data, and the ability to extract added value from it is essential for the provision of advice to our government and commercial stakeholders. This demonstration of the application of machine learning techniques to research projects has supported the further development of these skills across the Met Office”.

With ML projects needing the extra push from plan to practice, AWS is tackling that problem head-on by providing these invaluable training courses to aspiring business leaders free of charge, with the hope that it can make all the difference.