Pluralsight announced a strategic partnership with Elice. Through this partnership, Elice will leverage Pluralsight's hands-on, immersive and domain-specific technology learning content as a strategic complement to Elice's existing online learning offerings currently available in Korea. Pluralsight content will be offered through Elice's LXP platform and translated and localized using Elice's proprietary AI technology.

With the pace of technology-driven business transformation accelerating rapidly, Korea is facing a massive digital skill shortage particularly impacting Asia's dominant, hardware-focused organizations. According to a 2022 survey conducted by consulting firm AlphaBeta and commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS), there is high demand for employers in Korea to train workers on digital skills, especially those related to cloud and the much needed advancement of software based innovation, yet the current pace of training is not keeping up. This is problematic given that the study found that, by 2025, the average worker in the region will need to gain 7 new digital skills to keep pace with technological change.

Elice, founded through the artificial intelligence lab at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), aims to address this challenge and foster digital talent across the country. The company provides some of the APAC region's larger companies with its Elice LXP, an AI and ML equipped platform to help usher in the education necessary for digital transformations. Elice has captured the interest of Korea's larger conglomerates, including SK and LG, both of which are moving quickly to adopt the Elice LXP to help advance their team's digital skills to better compete in today's business climate.

Leveraging Pluralsight's world class technology learning content and experiences, Elice will introduce training courses in areas that will be crucial to future innovation in Korea including cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Elice customers will also have access to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and other certification preparation courses which are often less accessible across Korea and greater APAC.