Accenture bolsters assistance for technology and development through new MIT-wide effort

MIT and Accenture today announced a five-year partnership that will further advance learning and research study through brand-new service merging insights in technology and innovation. The MIT and Accenture Merging Initiative for Market and Technology, established within the School of Engineering, will intend to draw faculty, scientists, and students from throughout MIT.

MIT’s alliance with Accenture spans over 15 years and has proven to be critical in establishing academic programs and training in innovation advancement and data analysis. The industry leader has actually worked together with MIT across areas consisting of: MIT Professional Education, MIT Sloan Executive Education, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, MIT CSAIL Alliances, MIT Horizon, MIT Career Advising and Professional Advancement, MIT Data Science Laboratory, MIT Data to AI Laboratory, the Gabrieli Lab, and the Department of Economics Effort on Innovation and the Future of Labor, to name a few.

“The world is experiencing disturbance beyond what any of us have seen in our life times. Because context, it is more crucial than ever that academic community and industry work together to address pressing societal difficulties and opportunities,” states MIT President L. Rafael Reif. “Structure on MIT’s long relationship with Accenture, we aspire to join forces again now to demonstrate how the merging of markets and technologies is powering the next wave of change and development, and how we can harness and shape these forces for favorable impact.”

Accenture will work with MIT to establish opportunity on multiple fronts: from graduate fellowships granted to finish trainees dealing with research in industry and innovation convergence who are underrepresented, consisting of by race and ethnic culture and by gender, to an ambitious curriculum targeting Accenture’s 500,000 employees.”As disruptive technologies and concepts continue to blur the limits between markets, moving with speed and creating a future that will benefit all requires a different technique,” states Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture. “Quick progress will depend upon the ability of markets to learn from each other, from innovation leaders and from varied perspectives throughout business and academia. MIT, with its strengths across science and engineering, the arts, architecture, liberal arts, social sciences, and management, and its continuing dedication to interdisciplinary programs, is the ideal partner for Accenture to create breakthrough brand-new research study, education and believed management programs that can assist companies and nations seize the chance of the merging of industry, innovation and markets and welcome the modification it will bring to develop more 360-degree worth for all.”

The brand-new MIT and Accenture Merging Initiative for Market and Technology will focus on the following offerings:

• Advancing a portfolio of research tasks that deal with innovation and market merging in the near and long-lasting. This will consist of MIT research study that is data-driven that links to topics including AI, knowledge curation, and skill.
• Providing 5 yearly fellowships that will be awarded to finish trainees working on research study in industry and innovation convergence who are underrepresented, consisting of by race and ethnicity and by gender.
• Developing several knowing programs consisting of: a digital knowing program bringing learnings to the more comprehensive Accenture neighborhood and leveraging MIT’s a lot of innovative digital knowing approaches; a weeklong program held at MIT (perhaps online) for Accenture leadership; a program created to immerse c-suite executives in the current merging innovations; and chances for the MIT student neighborhood to engage with Accenture thought leaders.

“Our brand-new cooperation with Accenture, which will build upon prior mutual efforts, is an apparent and wonderful advance,” says Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Teacher of Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology. “I can’t wait to see the numerous amazing academic and innovative chances introduced through this alliance.”

Sanjay Sarma will function as chair of the board of advisers for the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Market and Technology. Sarma is vice president for open knowing at MIT and the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Brian Subirana, research scientist and director of the MIT Auto-ID laboratory, will function as director of the Initiative. Co-leads of the new Initiative will be Anantha Chandrakasan and Sanjeev Vohra, worldwide lead of Accenture Applied Intelligence, both of whom will work with the board of advisers consisting of members from each organization.