Afro Future Accelerator
Call for applications.
About the Program
This free course program will cover several key themes and topics that include a practical mix of career strategy, personal development, and cultural programming. The 4 week digital career accelerator program focuses on 4 main areas:
- Future People: Let’s start with you, the individual. Personal development training for people of African descent. We cover personal branding, mental health, personal resilience, and self empowerment.
- Future Places: Let’s start with your environment. During these sessions we go over the powerful histories of black cities and civilizations from around the world across history. We also cover the current smart city urban planning innovations and plans for these cities of the future and new areas of creation.
- Future Possibilities: Let’s start with your ecosystem. Careers of the future will be radically different. These sessions will go over the future industry disruptions that will occur in healthcare, energy, education, finance etc and cover ways to tackle black unemployment and prepare individuals for black careers in the digital workforce of the future.
- Future Pioneers: Let’s start with your role models. Who do we highlight as influential leaders, icons and cultural pillars? These sessions will feature a range of speakers who will share #howImadeit stories, strategies and insights. This will include entrepreneurs, teachers, athletes, tech moguls and more. (Check out Afro Future Summit Series)
About the Benefits!
What is received post completing the program?
- Afro Future Accelerator Powered by Microsoft Certificate of Completion
- Access to skills training certificates and sessions by Linkedin, Microsoft and Google
- Attend all sessions to get the free partner credit perks from AWS, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud, Sendgrid, and more.
- Access to Accelerator Demo Day and Career Fair
- Access to 5000+ delegates via fall summit event schedule and network with pioneers of color from around the world