IIT-Madras startup aims to upskill women, launches ‘AI-for-Women’

GUVI, a start-up incubated by the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) has upskilled the technical skills of women under a special campaign called ‘AI-for-Women’. The virtual event includes a training session that equips participants to build an AI app with Machine Learning (ML) model. On successful completion of the event, certificates will be given to those with a demonstration of AI skills as well as to those who participated.

Besides ‘AI-for-Women’, about eight virtual and in-real-life events were launched under the SriGeek initiative from February 2023 to March 2023, to provide free upskilling as well as career opportunities for women.

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The most prominent events among these include ‘AI-for-women’, Tech-talks with successful women entrepreneurs, distribution of tech skill resources to economically challenged women, and #Sheisback program for women to return back to the workforce after a career break, the IIT-M said.

‘AI-for-women’ is derived from its successful precedent called ‘AI-for-India’ for which the virtual event garnered a global success attracting large volumes of responses from numerous aspirants, especially from remote skills who had found tech-skills accessible and understandable.

Their active participation in the ‘AI-for-India’ has made GUVI create the Guinness World Record for the 'Most number of users to take a programming lesson in 24 Hours,' by beating the previous record by 50 times.