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Shaping What’s Next: How Future Forward is Advancing AI at Cloud Employee

September 15, 2025
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Shaping What’s Next: How Future Forward is Advancing AI at Cloud Employee

📌 TL;DR

Tech isn’t standing still.
Neither are we.

Future Forward is how we make sure every developer you work with can push further - spotting ways to integrate AI into projects, automating what slows teams down, and building solutions that weren’t possible before.

It’s not a crash course.
It’s not a box-ticking exercise.
It’s an ongoing, evolving program to keep our people - and your projects - ahead of the curve.

Why We Built It

AI isn’t a “nice to have” anymore.
It’s shaping architecture decisions, influencing delivery timelines, and opening new possibilities across the stack.

The real challenge?
Knowing how to use it well.
And when not to.

That’s why our Learning & Development leads, Arni and Adi, built Future Forward to be:

  • Flexible – works across time zones, roles, and schedules
  • Hands-on – skills applied to live client work, not just theory

Inclusive – valuable whether you’re coding AI features or using AI to optimise delivery pipelines

*Our Head of L&D, Arni & Senior L&D Specialist, Adi

How It Works

Three phases. One goal: future-ready skills that deliver real value.

Phase 1: Awareness & Literacy

For team members new to AI or ready to strengthen their foundation. Courses cover AI fundamentals, ethics, and real-world use cases - from beginner to advanced. Participants get curated resources and guided pathways to build relevant, practical knowledge they can immediately apply in context.

Phase 2: Maximising Tools & Applications

Focused on using AI-powered tools for productivity, automation, content creation, and collaboration. Developers get hands-on with essential applications - including our Suggested AI Apps Directory - to build applicable, project-ready AI competence.

Phase 3: Integration & Innovation

For those ready to go beyond usage into building, integrating, and deploying AI. This phase challenges participants to apply their new skills to software projects, organisational programs, and business improvement initiatives. Through activities and gamified challenges, they solve real-world problems with AI-driven solutions.

The Momentum

50+ developers joined the kickoff.
130+ enrolled in just weeks.
And it’s not stopping there.

From engineers to our videographers right through to the employee experience team - just a snapshot of who’s involved.

Because AI capability strengthens the whole company.

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