PRESS RELEASE
08/JUL/2019
Cloud Ace and Nihon Kogakuin College AI Systems Department
sign partnership agreement
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Cloud Ace Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, CEO: Makoto Aoki) has signed an agreement to partner with Nihon Kogakuin College AI Systems Department (Nihon Kogakuin College: Ota, Tokyo; Nihon Kogakuin Hachioji College: Hachioji City, Tokyo; Principal: Kazuo Maeno.)
Cloud Ace, a Google Cloud Platform™ (GCP™) Premier Partner, will harness its knowledge and experience providing GCP support services for AI, Machine Learning, IoT and billing, to a wide range of big and small businesses in a variety of industry fields, in order to support the implementation of a new curriculum in the college’s AI Systems Department.
Cloud Ace’s Google™️ certified trainers will teach vocational seminars where they will pass on their cutting-edge IT business knowledge, providing a solid educational foundation to equip students with the skills needed to gain Google Cloud certification.
There is no doubt that the need for personnel skilled in AI and cloud based technologies will continue to grow. At Nihon Kogakuin College AI Systems Department, students will use GCP, a platform favored by large companies for games and app development, marketing, etc. and learn how to build AI solutions on the cloud, as they acquire those programming language / Python skills essential for AI development. They will also be introduced to the open source machine learning library for software and production, TensorFlow™️, and gain practical skills which will inspire them to create AI solutions.
Cloud Ace Chairman comment
“The services provided by Google Cloud are top-notch, not only in terms of user numbers but also on the technology side. Google Cloud also leads the world in AI related services as a pioneer in large scale distributed parallel processing. We will harness GCP to teach students about AI and support the implementation of the AI systems department’s new curriculum. We will provide cutting-edge IT knowledge and challenge the students to learn new and valuable skills.”
- Ayatoshi Yoshidumi, Chairman at Cloud Ace Inc.
College Principal, Nihon Kogakuin College comment
“As a country, Japan is beginning to transform itself into an AI, Big Data and cloud systems society within diverse fields, and the speed of change is predicted to accelerate even further. This means that there is a pressing need to nurture talent that can master basic AI technologies and apply them in various industries.
From April 2020, our new AI Systems Department will incorporate Google Cloud Platform into its teaching materials, and implement a new AI teaching curriculum. Amidst the technology innovation progressing in many different social, industrial, cultural and artistic fields, typified by 5G, we will capture the benefits of our partnership with Cloud Ace to train and nurture engineers and members of society who can take the initiative in the field of artificial intelligence.”
- Kazuo Maeno, College Principal, Nihon Kogakuin College / Nihon Kogakuin Hachioji College
■ About Cloud Ace Inc.
Head Office: 12F Nihon Building, 2-6-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
CEO: Makoto Aoki
Cloud Ace is a Google Cloud Platform Premier Partner with a rich track record in supporting the introduction and operation of Google Cloud Platform.
■ About Nihon Kogakuin
Nihon Kogakuin College is a comprehensive college that conducts courses in a variety of fields such as IT, entertainment, design, medicine and sports.
College Principal: Kazuo MaenoNihon Kogakuin College: 5-23-22 Nishi-kamada, Ota-ku, Tokyo
Nihon Kogakuin Hachioji Campus College: 1401-1 Katakuramachi, Hachioji City, Tokyo
■ Press release enquiries:
Cloud Ace Inc. Business Planning Department
TEL: 03-6280-5939 Email: marketing@cloud-ace.jp
*Google, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, GCP, and TensorFlow are trademarks of Google LLC.