On International Programmers Day, Zoho Creator Expands Training Initiatives, Aims to Foster the Application Development Ecosystem
Chennai —Zoho, a leading global technology company headquartered in Chennai, on the occasion of International Programmers Day (celebrated on September 13), announced the expansion of Zoho Creator’s ‘Young Creators Program‘ (YCP) to Tier 2/3 towns, including Agra, Coimbatore, and Kottayam. YCP aims to empower future business professionals, with minimal to no coding experience, to build comprehensive solutions. Additionally, Zoho Creator is conducting a free training program during the developer month (September), for business users and developers to help them deep-dive into the dynamic low-code technology landscape.
“In the current environment of rapid technological advancements, it has become imperative for individuals across industries and professions to upskill themselves regularly,” said Bharath Kumar B, Head of Marketing and Customer Success, Zoho Creator. “This is also essential for students, who represent the next generation of leaders and professionals. The Young Creators Program (YCP) recognises this pressing need and is dedicated to providing students the skills to leverage low-code technology to solve various business challenges that may occur in their professional journey, so that they can help their future employers quickly adapt to changing market scenarios and be resilient. YCP is expanding its reach within the country and collaborating with educational institutions to ensure that students are equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to create powerful applications.”
Launched in 2022, YCP has collaborated with 24 educational institutions across 14 cities and towns in the country, including Guntur, Roorkee, Vellore, and Guwahati. The two-day training helps students with the fundamentals of building applications and solutions on Zoho Creator. Students are also familiarised with critical aspects of application building like business process automation, building relationships with data, business intelligence, and analytics via the low-code platform. This student-centric program has introduced more than 6400 students to low-code globally, including in India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico, and UAE.
As for the developer month free training, experts from the Zoho Creator team will provide free training to registered users in two stages, depending on their familiarity with the technology. Stage 1 is designed to equip business users (across functions) who do not have coding know-how to build device-agnostic applications. Stage 2 is curated for users with prior coding and implementation experience, to train them advanced capabilities of low-code platforms.