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Snowflake has announced the launch of the program One Million Minds + One Platform, which aims to certify over 100,000 users in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud by the year 2027. This training comes at no cost to participants and allows them to enhance their skills in data and AI. The initiative starts with an investment of $20 million from the company, offering training courses taught directly by Snowflake to students and professionals in emerging and high-growth markets worldwide.
A 2024 Gallup survey reveals that 22% of workers express concerns about potential job obsolescence due to technological advances such as generative AI. The same study indicates that 72% of HR directors at Fortune 500 companies anticipate that AI will replace some jobs within their organizations in the next three years. To remain competitive in the rapidly evolving and highly competitive labor market, workers must develop and expand their skills with the latest technologies to stand out and provide valuable experience to future startups and companies.
“To succeed in the digital age, all employees need the skills to contribute in a data- and AI-centric world,” says Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake. “This means that AI must not only be accessible to users at all levels but they must also understand how these applications function throughout the data lifecycle and how to optimally interact with them. Through our investment, Snowflake is providing academic institutions and workers from different regions of the world with the tools and training they need to build successful careers as technologists and entrepreneurs of the future.”
“One Million Minds + One Platform” aims to address the needs of students and workers who wish to both develop and expand their skills and obtain certification on the Snowflake Data Cloud platform for AI. The program has two main focuses:
Snowflake for Academia
With the goal of empowering the next generation of professionals in artificial intelligence, data, and applications, Snowflake offers students free access to its software, training materials, and an industry-leading data curriculum, as well as training for educators. The Snowflake for Academia program provides teachers with training courses to earn certification in Snowflake and prepare them for teaching. Once certified, they receive curricular materials that range from fundamental courses to advanced tutorials at their own pace, including free access to the Academic Lab throughout the semester.
“The role of academia is to expose students to the diversity of people, tools, and technologies they will encounter in the professional world,” says Nate Crawford, Professor of Software Engineering and Data Science at the University of St. Thomas. “Thanks to the free Snowflake for Academia program and free Snowflake credits, we have been able to deliver a robust course that provides essential skills to those soon entering a constantly evolving job market. Interaction with these technologies at this stage lays the groundwork for future leaders and fosters the development of the competencies that companies seek in their candidates.”
Over the next year, Snowflake plans to double the number of educators and academic institutions worldwide that provide training, guide, and certify students on its platform.
Snowflake Training for Emerging and High-Growth Markets
Snowflake will offer new training on the Snowflake platform, designed for individuals with limited experience in using Snowflake who seek to accelerate their knowledge of AI Data Cloud. These courses, aimed at workers and students from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Canada, India, Korea, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and other regions, will be taught by Snowflake-certified instructors. This is a free, live, step-by-step introductory training that provides users with the hands-on experience and confidence needed to begin their data transformation journeys within their organizations.
Snowflake-certified instructors will guide program participants through the AI Data Cloud architecture, which includes data storage, data lakes, data engineering, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), data applications, and data sharing. Upon completing the program, students will be able to earn the SnowPro Platform Associate certification, available starting in February 2025, successfully validating their new skills, including how to:
- Configure and navigate the Snowflake user interface and Snowflake Notebooks.
- Create databases, stages, and utilize processing resources.
- Load and leverage structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Understand Snowflake roles and data access management.
- Understand and manage the structure of the Snowflake account.
- Utilize the LLM features of Snowflake Cortex.
The “One Million Minds + One Platform” program is only part of Snowflake’s broader education and skills development strategy. Snowflake University offers instructor-led, on-demand, and self-directed courses that have helped hundreds of thousands of data professionals accelerate their data initiatives, whether they are just starting or driving advanced data projects.