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PARIS, February 2, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

One year after the launch of its strategic plan 2020-2025, SKEMA is pleased to

announce several concrete advances especially in artificial intelligence:

With SKEMA AI Institute, AI is being rolled out across all programmes and

campuses.

A forerunner in 2019 with the opening of an AI research centre in Montreal,

SKEMA is gaining momentum with the creation of the SKEMA AI Institute, a global

system that brings together some twenty professors and experts around AI and

deploys the school's AI strategy - from research to concrete applications in

all the school's programmes - while drawing on the territories and ecosystems

of its various campuses in France and abroad.

In this context, the school's historical cooperation with the UCA (University

Cote d'Azur), and more particularly, the Institut 3IA Cote d'Azur, is worth

mentioning.

For Alice Guilhon, Dean of SKEMA Business School: "It was essential to

introduce AI into all of SKEMA's academic programmes. It even constitutes one

of the pillars of SKY25: it's what we call hybridisation. This hybridisation is

one of the levers of our ambition to become an 'Avant-Garde' school by

proposing the hybridisation of 100% of our programmes: AI at the service of the

business world."

Among the advances in the field of AI, we can note the following:

- Constitution of a SKEMA "AI Faculty", composed of more than 20 professors

and researchers divided into 4 interdisciplinary fields: AI Fundamentals; IA,

Economics & Finance; IA, Marketing & Management; IA, Operations, Supply Chain &

Information Systems.

- Integration of an "AI" specialisation within the Global BBA programme.

- Launch of a new Specialised Master(R) programme for "AI project managers" in

autumn 2021, currently in the process of being approved by the "Conference des

Grandes Ecoles" organisation.

Asma Hanafi, a student in the Master in Management programme (Grande Ecole

Programme) who has chosen the "IA for managers" programme, says: "The added

value of such an AI training programme lies, above all, in its technical

nature. Being a business school student and applying for an internship while

having skills in machine learning and programming make us attractive profiles

with an edge. I felt this advantage during the interviews for my internship

search because it aroused the curiosity of several recruiters. Today, AI is an

integral part of all sectors of activities. It contributes to research,

innovation, and decision-making, whether it be for marketing, human resources,

finance, etc. Data management and analysis are issues that all companies face.

It is therefore essential for the manager of tomorrow to know how to master

such central subjects."

To date, more than 70% of SKEMA's programmes include the AI dimension in their

teaching. With the SKEMA AI Institute and its new programmes, the school

prefigures what will eventually become a specific entity under the name "SKEMA

AI School for Business".

For more details on these initiatives, take a look at the SKEMA AI for Business

brochure: http://bit.ly/2YnnLGL.

Contact: Christine Cassabois, Christine.cassabois@skema.edu

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SOURCE: SKEMA Business School