AWS Tech Alliance expands to Germany, Italy and Singapore

In June, 2023, at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Washington DC, the AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance initiative was announced to improve the employment gap by increasing tech skills globally. The launch provided access to students across three countries: the US (Illinois, New York, and Washington), Egypt, and Spain. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the Tech Alliance in three additional countries: Germany, Italy, and Singapore.

“The AWS Skills to Jobs team has implemented Tech Alliances to support our customers by finding the qualified talent they are looking for,” said Valerie Singer, general manager of AWS worldwide public sector global education. “We are moving forward by addressing tech skills in post-secondary education, involving employers to support student learning, and aligning our mission with convening organizations, ministries, and government to ensure sustainable change.”

New Tech Alliance countries

The AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance expansion into Germany, Italy, and Singapore carries the same mission of aligning education providers, employers, government agencies, and business conveners to grow tech skills in their geographies. These new Tech Alliances will directly connect more than 3,500 learners to cloud employers throughout the 2023-2024 academic year. Learn more about the new Tech Alliance countries, including participating employers, post-secondary education providers, and business conveners:

Germany

Germany is known for its engineering innovations and has a high demand for early career talent with the skills to developing digital products and services of the future. AWS worked with education providers UnternehmerTUM at the Technical University of Munich, IU International University of Applied Sciences, FOM Hochschule, DCI Digital Career Institute, and Reutlingen University to launch the Germany Tech Alliance. This alliance focuses on providing pathways to jobs in digital product development and engineering.

Participating Tech Alliance employers include: Siemens, Vitesco Technologies, Deloitte, XL2 (a venture of Audi and Capgemini), ZOI, Accenture, and Nordcloud, as well as business conveners KI Park and the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK Bildungs gGmbH). Select events will take place in cooperation with Bitkom, Germany’s digital association representing more than 2,200 companies of the digital economy, and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community’s GovTech Campus. The Germany Tech Alliance is carried out under the patronage of Fabian Mehring, Bavarian State minister of digital affairs.

“Over the last 20 years, we have worked to make Munich a highly successful deep tech hub in Europe with our educational programs. By partnering with the AWS Tech Alliance and combining our available resources, we are going to enable talent at scale for Germany and Europe,” said Helmut Schönenberger, CEO of UnternehmerTUM.

Italy

Over the last two years, AWS has supported vocational schools and universities in Italy by introducing AWS authorized content within their official degree programs. This led to pilot courses featuring AWS Cloud as a core topic, setting the foundation for the launch of the Italy Tech Alliance. The Italy alliance has six participating employers: Accenture, Deloitte, Exprivia, Fastweb, VMengine, and Sorint Lab.

Participating post-secondary education providers include: the University La Sapienza Rome, ITS ICT Piemonte Turin, ITS Rizzoli Milan, ITS Steve Jobs Catania, ITS Lazio Digital Rome, ITS Apulia Digital Maker Foggia, ITT Marconi Rovereto, and the University Parthenope Naples.

Singapore

The Singapore Tech Alliance has more than 20 collaborating organizations and several participating employers, including NCS, Thales, ChildSafeguarding.com, and The Startup Buddy. Participating skilling agencies include Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), an initiative of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Singapore alliance employers provide engagement activities, career readiness workshops, and job fairs to learners. The alliance collaborates with universities and polytechnic institutions such as Temasek Polytechnic and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). The inaugural goal of the Singapore alliance is to connect 1,800 learners to employers for entry level tech jobs.

“AWS was instrumental in connecting us with Nanyang Technological University and potential candidates for our software development intern program,” said Dr. Matt Harris, co-founder and CEO of ChildSafeguarding.com. “We hired an excellent candidate, who contributed meaningful work that shipped with our core system and is being used by clients today.”

Successful start to the Tech Alliance

The five initial Tech Alliances all continue to improve tech talent readiness within their respective geographies since the June launch. In Egypt, AWS signed a new nationwide agreement with the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research (MoHESR) in June, alongside 100 ministers, higher education, and government affiliates. Currently, the Egypt Tech Alliance convenes more than 30 higher education universities under MoHESR and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) through its workforce development affiliates: the National Telecommunications Institute (NTI) and the Information Technology Institute (ITI). More than 20 AWS Partners and customers have committed to the Egypt alliance.

The three Tech Alliance regions in the US have also grown their footprints. Seventeen programs across nine higher education institutions have completed skills gaps analysis alignment workshops, collectively impacting more than 140,000 students. Thirty-nine employers have engaged directly with students across 15 career-readiness and work-based learning events.

In Spain, AWS has committed and delivered on three regional government agreements (Andalucía, Aragon, and Valencia) to deliver AWS training and curriculum across vocational training colleges, universities, and business schools. More than 30,000 students are training through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) program. The program’s courses are mapped to AWS courses, and are delivered by almost 900 educators trained through the AWS Academy program, across nearly 500 vocational training centers and universities.

“The Tech Alliance in Spain has been a great opportunity for NTT DATA to attract junior talent, testing students’ abilities live through an AWS Jam [hackathon], while allowing internal talent to contribute to the development of the new generation of professionals in the digital field as one of the company’s strategic purposes,” said Ignasi Aranda Casals, technology executive principal, NTT DATA Europe and Latin America.

If you’re attending re:Invent 2023, join the Tech Alliance’s breakout panel “Working globally to build tech skills and talent pipelines” (session ID: WPS 104) today at 4 p.m. PST.

To learn more, join, or contribute to a Tech Alliance, please visit the AWS Tech Alliance homepage.