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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 so they can use generative AI as a competitive advantage.”
Justin Boitano, Nvidia’s vice president of enterprise AI software, said in a press call, “Every job function can benefit. There are a lot of great early successes. Customers are not always AI experts. The Accenture team has invested a lot” in this expertise.
The new group amounts to an expanded partnership between Accenture and Nvidia. With generative AI demand driving $3 billion in Accenture bookings in its recently-closed fiscal year, the new group will help clients lay the foundation for agentic AI functionality using Accenture’s AI Refinery, which usesthe full Nvidia AI stack—including Nvidia AI Foundry, Nvidia AI Enterprise and Nvidia Omniverse—toadvance areas such as process reinvention, AI-powered simulation and sovereign AI. This software foundation will help Nvidia sell more of its AI processors.
Guan said the Accenture AI Refinery will be available on all public and …