Name: Levi's A.I. bootcamp helps employees find new solutions to old problems
Uploaded: 2022-05-31
Duration: 4 min 49 s
Description: Employees are applying what they learn to help solve both creative and business challenges.

Employees are applying what they learn to help solve both creative and business challenges.

Levi's A.I. bootcamp helps employees find new solutions to old problems

Tech

Levi's trains workforce in data science with A.I. bootcamp

every company today is a tech data and Ai company, whether the company realizes it or not is a different question, but that's the reality. We are living in a modern society and we as human beings experience ai in our everyday lives. And so it's critical for any business to be able to integrate it into its daily operations. It's not just a i it's this combination of digital data and Ai digital is what gives lots of data, lots of data makes artificial intelligence possible and then artificial intelligence makes digital smarter. So it's this flywheel magic flywheel, that is the essence of a modern business. Our team is always growing. Um it's in the hundreds. Um but it's probably meaningless to say exact numbers because it's much more important that it's people who have these skills, digital skills data skills, ai skills and fluency throughout the company so they can apply them, but they can also serve as the champions and ambassadors of change. And within that context, we have recently just in this past year launched an industry first machine learning bootcamp In which we have trained more than 100 people. They have gone back to their jobs and now they're applying these new skills at the moment. We're working on a jacket and a dress that we have inspired by the starting night painting designed by my algorithm. I finished the machine learning group camp in june of 2021 what I wanted to solve is like if I have this black pair of jeans, how might this look if it was made out of indigo or gray or purple. Um and like not just like coloring it up in Photoshop but like really like how would that like look. Um so that's why I made the algorithm but what I found was interesting is that I could put in almost any kind of inspiration image in there and create these wonderful unique garment. So it started out from like just trying to solve this one problem of like figuring out how different finishes might look on different fabrics, but it really expanded into this um bigger kind of really cool, interesting project that we're now working on making these ai inspired garments. I have started taking the boot camp recently and really what I hope to gain from coming out of this boot camp is strong technical data analysis skills. The ability to consolidate different data sources, uncover insights that I may not have been able to previously with my current skill set that I have in my producer role. Um I actually do create a lot of manual reporting based off of promo performance. So really that entails a lot of manual work that I do to clean up and consolidate data from different sources that we use that levi's and so what I feel is really valuable um and it's really useful coming out of this machine learning boot camp is that I'm going to be able to develop different technical skills in order to for example, automate these reports and so what I'm going to be able to do with the time that I'll gain in this position is actual data analysis so that I can actually uncover deeper insights with the data since we do work with a lot of data here at Levi's and so just being able to automate and consolidate is going to be really valuable um in the end. So Not only do we train the employees for eight weeks, we pair them after they graduate with someone from the strategy and artificial intelligence team and also a mentor so that they continue to work so they no longer do the same job in effect. Even if they had gotten back to the same job, they have already upgraded their role and they are applying these new skills to their old jobs. They've always seen those problems. The beauty of you know, taking people who know the company in the industry is that they have been facing problems for years. They just didn't have the tools to solve them. I realized that I changed the way that I think about being a creative, being creative isn't just like about you know, making one product or making you know one thing or doing one season. It's about like creating these tools these ecosystems so that you know, everyone can like be a part of the design process and um you know just expanding the way that I think about design. It's it's been really transformative