NOS launches Advanced Analytics course with Nova SBE Executive Education and LTPlabs

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The FAAST (Forward the Advanced Analytics Smart Transformation) programme will cover around 500 company employees, with a particular focus on non-technical profiles, that is, without a background in technological areas, including members of the various business units, directors and administrators.

In a hybrid format, between in-person and remote, the first groups will start training in February and the course will have a maximum duration of 17 hours, divided into theoretical and practical classes and thematic modules. Although the training will be large-scaled, the programme was designed to allow a personalised experience, through the creation of modules adjusted to each audience.

Filipa Carvalho, NOS Executive Director, "The focus on Artificial Intelligence represents an extraordinary and unavoidable commitment of our organisation, achieved through the application of this technology in every area of the company, without exception. It is also achieved through the scope and ambition of the FAAST training process, which aims to generate in the organisation a broad understanding of the importance and potential that cognitive technologies based on data have for our growth. The focus on Advanced Analytics puts NOS at the level where it needs to be, which is a level for the future."

In the era of Big Data and digital transformation, introducing intelligent processes for data analysis has an undoubted impact on the business and is a key factor in increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of organisations. Investment in this training programme responds to two strategic pillars of NOS: that of enhancing and training its workforce, on the one hand, and, on the other, that of innovation which, through better-prepared professionals, will be leveraged more quickly and effectively, in favour of improvement of the products and services provided to the Portuguese.

The inaugural session of the project took place this Monday, January 24th, and was broadcasted live to all participants from the Horizon Studio, a virtual studio located on the Nova SBE Executive Education campus. Representatives from NOS, Nova SBE Executive Education and LTPlabs attended the event, which also included a presentation by Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Machine Learning and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Rayid Ghani founded and directed the Center for Data Science and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and was the Chief Scientist for Barack Obama's 2012 election campaign.