Lily Cheng, a product design director at Silicon Valley-based health tech company Big Health is an expert at the intersection of technology and behavioral change. Now, Cheng is among the many professionals going back to school for generative AI skills building, taking courses from Google, Coursera, Stanford and online platform Maven Learning.
“I’ve been a life-long learner,” said Cheng, a former design lead at Fitbit and a Stanford grad. “One of the reasons I’m learning about GenAI is that it is transformative for tech and jobs in the future. It’s critical, must-know knowledge and if you don’t keep up, you become obsolete in tech cycles that are moving fast.”
As new Gen AI-powered technologies keep coming and demand for skills change rapidly, workforce and professional training is on the rise. Training programs among big tech players, university executive education from Stanford, MIT, Harvard and others, and online tech education companies such as Maven, Udacity and Udemy are helping to fill the gap.
