AI solutions are among the most in-demand products and services you can offer your customers, and having a team of skilled experts can help you take advantage of the expanding market opportunities in AI. As of last year, 82% of business leaders said their employees will need new skills to be prepared for the growth of AI.1 We want to help our partners close this skills gap and unlock the potential of Microsoft technology through skilling opportunities designed specifically for Microsoft partners.
Ensure your team is prepared to harness the power of AI across solution plays by attending an in-person AI Training Day. During this event, you'll learn best practices from real-world AI deployments and discover the most effective sales tactics used by Microsoft sales teams. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Microsoft AI tools to help you understand the capabilities of Microsoft AI and how these solutions can contribute to your customers' success.
This year, we expanded the training series to include 12 locations around the globe. While we have concluded this year's trainings in Mexico City and São Paulo, please join us in Berlin, Paris, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg, New York, Mumbai, London, Seoul, and Tokyo.
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We created ongoing partner skilling opportunities like these AI Training Days because we consistently hear from our partners about their need to expand their expertise, develop innovative solutions, and reach a broader customer base. Our holistic, end-to-end partner training programs can help your organization achieve its key business objectives.
- Create business opportunities by offering new solutions and capabilities to your customers, which helps them realize more value from their technology investments.
- Accelerate to value by building your team's skill set and preparing them to be project-ready.
- Unlock the potential of your most valuable asset by investing in training for your sales and technical teams.
- Build AI skills by growing your pool of AI-trained employees and learning how AI can best serve your customers' needs.
"It's a great space, and a safe space, to learn and grow," said one partner of Microsoft skilling events. Explore our upcoming events, including in-person, on-demand, and hybrid options, to find out how we can support your team in growing your AI and cloud business.
Accelerate your path to certification with Certification Weeks
Achieving certification in sought-after capabilities can help your business stand out in a crowded market. When your organization earns a certification, you show potential clients you can build customized solutions that integrate with their systems, keep their organization current with the latest Microsoft technologies, and supply them with modern, secure, and responsible solutions. Additionally, it demonstrates to our Microsoft field sales organization that partners have the capacity to help with customer solutions.
We designed our Certification Weeks to help your employees with beginner and intermediate-level expertise quickly develop relevant skills so your organization can meet the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements in key solution areas.
Register today for these upcoming Certification Weeks:
Develop new business with Sales and Pre-Sales Partner Skilling bootcamps
To grow your business, you need to understand the critical points in the customer journey, identify business opportunities, and articulate the differentiated value of your AI and cloud solutions. We can help your sales team build advanced sales knowledge and techniques in Microsoft solution areas with training based on our industry expertise, market research, and decades of experience in the sales journey.
Our on-demand, hybrid, and interactive Sales and Pre-Sales Skilling bootcamps provide scheduling flexibility for learners at every level of experience, so your team can learn wherever and whenever their calendar allows.
Register today for one of our upcoming Sales and Pre-Sales Skilling bootcamps:
Prepare for deployment with Partner Project Ready workshops
When it's time to launch a new customer project, your team needs to be ready to provide value. Learn to deploy new projects more efficiently and reduce your time to value with Partner Project Ready workshops. These workshops focus on enhancing your team's skills in architecting, deployment, and implementation of Microsoft AI and cloud-related technology.
These multiday workshops prepare your developers, solution architects, and data scientists to transfer their hands-on training directly to customer projects while deepening their level of expertise so they can better serve customers who rely on them for expert advice.
Register today to get your team Partner Project Ready in four solution areas:
The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program provides comprehensive, ongoing skilling opportunities to help build the knowledge and skills your organization needs to deliver quality solutions to your customers and assist them in their AI transformations. As a Microsoft partner, be sure to take advantage of available training and certification resources to expand your capabilities—and your business potential.
Explore our in-person technical workshops
Our in-person regional partner skilling workshops are meticulously crafted for the AI era. These hands-on workshops provide the essential skills required in today's dynamic landscape and cover four pivotal solution areas:
- Build and Extend Copilots to Enhance Business Productivity
- Data Security with Microsoft Purview
- Modernizing Data and Analytics with Microsoft Fabric
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Learn to identify, prioritize, and create AI solutions with ISV AI Envisioning Days
Through Microsoft ISV AI Envisioning Days, you can explore AI business opportunities and better understand how to create a comprehensive development plan for your AI application solution. Whether you’re just beginning to identify and prioritize AI use cases or are ready to plan, build, and deploy solutions, you’ll get the frameworks to help you make AI a reality in your organization.
From engineers and data scientists to enterprise architects and product owners, your team members will gain access to powerful tools, learn from industry-related use-case examples, chat with Microsoft experts, and more.
Register today for one of our upcoming AI Envisioning Days, crafted to meet the needs of ISVs:
1 Microsoft, 2023 Work Trend Index: Annual Report, (Redmond, WA: Microsoft, 2023).