- Nexstar Network, which offers professional coaching, expert training, and resources to help the tradespeople become businesspeople, announced an expanded partnership with SkillCat, an online training platform for the skilled trades such as HVAC. The collaboration brings together Nexstar’s member-driven training through its NexTech Academy platform and SkillCat’s mobile-first workforce development platform to create a fully scalable, accessible, and affordable training ecosystem for the skilled trades. The partnership will provide members with access to 300,000+ active job seekers on SkillCat’s network; added accessibility to essential certifications (EPA 608/609, NATE, OSHA-10/30) through SkillCat’s mobile-first training platform; 500-plus additional hours of technical training content; SkillCat’s mobile learning app for flexible, on-the-go training; custom learning plans and pre-hire assessments; and on-demand videos, manuals, error codes, and troubleshooting guides.
SkillCat also recently formed two other new partnerships. The company partnered with NATE (North American Technician Excellence). Through this collaboration, the NATE Ready-to-Work (RTW) certificate is now available directly inside SkillCat’s mobile app—empowering anyone, anywhere to study, prepare, and get certified entirely from their phone. SkillCat also partnered with Mercy Ships, floating hospitals that provide free surgeries to poor communities, to equip its HVAC technicians, plumbers, and electricians with free access to more than 200 SkillCat courses and certifications.
- Global food company Glico Asia Pacific selected Bites as its microlearning partner to roll out digital training and upskilling programs across six countries in Southeast Asia—Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore—reaching 500-plus employees. Bites’ AI-powered platform turns existing PDFs and slide decks into short, localized learning modules in minutes.
- To bridge the AI and IT skills gap, Nomad Futurist—a nonprofit helping underrepresented communities access tech careers—is teaming up with the Interconnection Academy, an online educational platform from global Internet operator DE-CIX, to offer free, industry-certified training in networking and data centers to thousands globally. The Interconnection Academy also is launching new modules on networking and the interconnection ecosystem in January and April 2026, with further courses planned throughout the year.
- MedCerts, a leader in online healthcare and IT career training and a Stride, Inc., company, announced a new partnership with Apprenti, a leader in registered apprenticeship programs. Together, they’re expanding access to registered apprenticeships in high-demand life science fields and helping employers across the country connect talent with skilled, job-ready workforces. The collaboration will produce on-the-job learning and mentorship opportunities in critical roles such as medical assistant, pharmacy technician, phlebotomy technician, EKG technician, sterile processing technician, and surgical technologist. Participating employers will be able to launch and sustain registered apprenticeships, programs approved and validated by the U.S. Department of Labor or a State Apprenticeship Agency.
MedCerts also formed a partnership with eHBCU, a digital HBCU (historically black college or university) consortium. This collaboration combines MedCerts’ workforce development expertise with the cultural legacy of HBCUs to expand access to career-focused certification programs nationwide. The eHBCU portal offers affordable, online certification programs built with employer input so graduates are both credentialed and fully prepared for the workforce.
- TalentBridge launched a Hire-Train-Deploy pilot program with ServiceNow to help reshape how top tech talent is developed, certified, and deployed into high-impact roles. The ServiceNow platform brings together AI, data, and workflows to transform how people work across every corner of business. Through this partnership, TalentBridge will serve as one of a select group of pilot program leaders tasked with identifying high-quality talent, equipping them with ServiceNow certifications, and connecting them with career opportunities at leading organizations nationwide. The new Hire-Train-Deploy model allows TalentBridge to combine its talent acquisition capabilities with ServiceNow’s training ecosystem. The partnership will provide a structured development path with hands-on mentoring and placement support throughout the process.
- Emtrain, a provider of compliance training and risk intelligence, announced its latest integration with Workday, bringing compliance content, annualized training, and skills mapping directly into Workday Learning with the Workday Cloud Connect for Learning API. The integration empowers Workday users to assign and track Emtrain’s skills-based compliance training directly within Workday Learning. Admins can sync their curated Emtrain content library to Workday, where any future changes are automatically kept up to date. Learner progress and completion data are synced to Workday in real time via xAPI, while the behavioral risk signals captured in Emtrain’s compliance training content generate insights available through Emtrain’s Risk Intelligence platform.
- Kahuna Workforce Solutions, a skills and competency management SaaS platform, and Vocantas, a leader in innovative automated shift management and communication solutions, formed a strategic partnership that helps organizations reduce staffing gaps, ensure qualified coverage, and improve the employee experience. The partnership combines Kahuna’s validated skills and competency insights with Vocantas’ automated communication and shift management technology. Together, the solutions enable organizations to staff shifts more efficiently, identify the right employees for each role, and provide more flexibility and visibility into scheduling and staffing opportunities.
Kahuna Workforce Solutions also formed a strategic partnerships with Intecrowd, a Workday services partner, to help organizations connect validated frontline skills data with Workday and turn HR strategy into operational outcomes. With Intecrowd’s Workday implementation expertise and Kahuna’s certified Workday integration, organizations across energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and field services can enable and streamline their Workday and Kahuna systems and gain a comprehensive understanding of frontline capability to make better staffing, compliance and training decisions.
- Udacity, part of global professional services firm Accenture and a provider of tech skills for the AI economy, and Woolf, a Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) and Harvard Business Publishing education partner, launched a fully accredited Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence degree program. The degree is built around Udacity’s project-based curriculum, awarded by Woolf, and recognized through the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) across more than 60 countries—including the U.S., Canada, and Australia, and 43 European nations.
- Enboarder, an agentic AI employee journey platform that unifies onboarding, enablement, mobility, and offboarding into a single experience layer, formed a new strategic partnership with SmartRecruiters to deliver connected, AI-powered recruiting-to-onboarding experiences. Through this partnership, Enboarder builds on SmartRecruiters’ AI-driven recruiting capabilities by automatically launching AI-led onboarding and enablement journeys the moment a candidate accepts an offer. This connects recruiters, hiring managers, HR, new hires, and AI agents in a single, orchestrated experience. The agentic AI platform combines both AI agents and AI assistants to deliver adaptive, personalized experiences.
- AcademiX School of Learning and DeVry University formed a partnership aimed at creating greater access to educational pathways for learners in the Caribbean. AcademiX offers a learning experience that combines real-world scenarios and innovative technologies to create a dynamic learning environment. This initiative is a part of DeVry’s broader commitment to expanding access to higher education across the Caribbean through its Bridge to Brilliance initiative, which offers flexible online learning options. Through the partnership, AcademiX learners can transfer seamlessly into DeVry University’s online programs, with eligible students receiving up to 50 percent tuition savings.
- Q-CTRL, a global leader in quantum infrastructure software, formed a partnership with QUCAN in support of its QC101 program to offer online quantum learning programs for any learner globally. QC101 is an official event of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) organized by QUCAN, a global quantum center for learning. With this partnership, Black Opal, Q-CTRL’s interactive quantum learning platform, will be offered alongside QC101’s live lectures, expert talks, and industry sessions supported by educators from institutions and facilities. Black Opal uses visualizations, gamified lessons, and step-by-step tutorials to make complex quantum topics accessible for learners at any level of knowledge. QUCAN participants will learn quantum principles in practical and hands-on ways with live, self-paced, community-driven, and AI-assisted components.
- BUNDLAR, a provider of no-code augmented reality content management, formed a strategic partnership with Vuzix Corporation, a global leader in AI-powered smart glasses and waveguide technologies. This collaboration brings together BUNDLAR’s Knowledge Now platform and Vuzix’s wearable hardware to accelerate the adoption of extended reality (XR) solutions across enterprise, government, and defense markets. The partnership makes it possible for enterprises and public-sector organizations to create, manage, and publish immersive XR content directly to Vuzix smart glasses without coding.
- The American Marketing Association (AMA) launched a new digital badging initiative with Credly by Pearson, a global leader in digital credentials. This new system will recognize and validate professional development achievements across AMA’s learning programs, offering marketers the opportunity to showcase their skills and expertise on platforms such as LinkedIn and on e-mail signatures. The new badging system will showcase AMA’s suite of professional development offerings, including certifications. Each badge will be verifiable, shareable, and aligned with industry-recognized competencies.
