Accenture forms Nvidia business group to scale enterprise AI adoption

Accenture has formed an Nvidia business group with 30,000 professionals to receive training to help enterprises scale up for the AI era.

The aim is to train Accenture’s team to help clients reinvent processes and scale enterprise AI adoption with AI agents, said Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, in a press briefing.

“We are living in the future we are envisioning, starting with our own company,” Guan said. “We are reinventing this business.”

Accenture is tapping its existing workforce for the talent, but it is also training current employees and hiring new people to meet the 30,000-person goal for the new group, Guan said. She did not disclose how many new hires there would be. She also did not say how much each company will invest in the partnership.

“Demand for GenAI is not slowing down,” Guan said. “We are coming together to increase adoption ...