This is Scale AI’s first partnership with SEEC, a unit of the Schulich School of Business at �첥��Ƶ, and the funding amount is expected to grow in subsequent years.

SEEC’s Masters Certificate in Analytics for Leaders aims to provide participants with up-to-date learning in the areas of data, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). Scale AI is working to cement Canada’s foothold in the AI industry and train tens of thousands of professionals for the future, with a mission to accelerate the integration of AI across all Canadian organizations, large and small.

“Partnering with Scale AI further enables the Schulich Executive Education Centre to offer career-transforming programs to professionals who need to acquire or enhance their digital, data and artificial intelligence acumen,” said Rami Mayer, executive director of the Schulich Executive Education Centre. “Scale AI’s mission in advancing AI capability across Canada aligns with our own vision to offer cutting-edge training from coast to coast, in rural and urban areas – in essence, to all communities. With their financial support and our programs, we believe hundreds of Canadians can fast track their AI training, advance their career and have a positive impact on the Canadian economy.”

This partnership will provide education and financial support from Canada’s top-ranked business school to help hundreds of Canadian professionals develop artificial and digital intelligence skills.

Julien Billot, CEO of Scale AI, said, “Imagining and developing AI solutions to business problems is not enough. It is critical to have skilled professionals in the field to implement and give effect to these solutions on a daily basis. Enabling the development of a specialized workforce is therefore a key element of our industrial strategy whose goal is to help address current labour shortages, meet the needs of businesses and give Canadians access to interesting and well-paying jobs.”

“The Masters Certificate in Analytics for Leaders is focused on addressing a current skill and knowledge gap in AI,” said Murat Kristal, program director of the Centre of Excellence in Analytics at the Schulich Executive Education Centre and professor in the Schulich School of Business. “We feel that a partnership with a Supercluster such as a Scale AI will truly accelerate upskilling in areas of artificial intelligence.”

Interested participants can begin the application process by visiting . To be eligible, participants need to be employed in Canada by an organization with a registered office in Canada. Participants will need to supply a written attestation to the Schulich Executive Education Centre confirming they have not received nor expect to receive any other government financial assistance related to the tuition cost of the training program.

For more information on the Schulich Executive Education Centre, visit its .

For more information on Scale AI, visit its .

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�ٰ�.��Patrick Safieh, a member of the hospital’s medical staff, is spearheading the project after his own experience in the Healthcare Leadership Development Program (HLDP) developed by SEEC in the Schulich School of Business at �첥��Ƶ. HLDP is an example of a SEEC .

An instructor with SEEC and a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Safieh was inspired to launch a training program for medical students in the hospital’s new Family Medicine Teaching Unit to help them better understand the non-medical aspects of delivering services in a time of budget restraints and disruptive change.

“As part of my own Healthcare Leadership Development Program course work [in 2019], I designed a Family Medicine Teaching Unit at Humber River Hospital, which provides full-time core teaching of University of Toronto medical school students,” said Safieh, a facilitator in SEEC’s new . “HLDP helped with areas that I needed to accomplish goals, such as networking, presenting, negotiating and other essential skills.”

Safieh’s success in creating a teaching unit at Humber River Hospital also comes from a partnership he fostered between Humber River Hospital, the University of Toronto and various hospital departments that worked together to achieve a successful result.

“I was privileged to be involved in the genesis of this Humber River project and am proud to say that the HLDP provided the tools to get this project started. The program was instrumental in getting this project off the ground, and will benefit the hospital, physicians, and ultimately patients through improved family and emergency medicine for the community. I was able to immediately apply my HLDP learning in helping to create Humber River Hospital’s Family Medicine Teaching Unit,” said Safieh.

Safieh’s project also aims to position Humber River Hospital as a major health-care centre for the 850,000 people living in a relatively under-serviced section of northwest Toronto.

SEEC has worked successfully for more than 10 years with various health-care organizations across Canada by delivering custom versions of the Healthcare Leadership Development Program. It also offers several open enrolment leadership programs for physicians, dentists and clinicians under the Schulich Mini-MBA brand.

Participants in the HLDP receive a master’s certificate upon completion of 90 hours of study that includes:

• leadership assessment exercises;
• executive one-on-one and group coaching;
• knowledgeable faculty members that teach topics such as design thinking, complexity theory, negotiation, collaboration, and leadership and conflict resolution; and
• independent learning tailored to each participant’s personal leadership development needs.

For more on what SEEC has to offer, visit the .

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