Tamkeen Partners with AI and Cloud Solutions Experts ARRAY to Develop Innovative Job Matching Tools Using AI.


Manama: The Labour Fund (Tamkeen) participated in the second edition of the Gateway Gulf Investment Forum hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Under the theme “Investing in a Rapidly Transforming Region,” the forum attracts international participation from top government officials, business leaders, and executives. Tamkeen announced a partnership agreement with ARRAY, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI), enterprise software engineering, and cloud solutions, to utilise ARRAY’s innovative solutions to enhance its services to customers, especially enterprises.

According to Bahrain News Agency, as part of this partnership, ARRAY will design specialised digital solutions for Tamkeen to facilitate job matching through Artificial Intelligence. The digital solutions will enhance databases required for job matching, while also utilising artificial intelligence to match skills with available job opportunities in line with labour market and private sector requirements.

On this occasion, Maha Abdulhameed Mo
feez, Chief Executive of Tamkeen, emphasised Tamkeen’s commitment to adopting the latest advancements in technology to facilitate its programmes and services, making it a priority to automate internal and external operations to enhance the impact of support through a number of programmes. She highlighted that the digital solution developed in partnership with ARRAY will be used for job matching purposes, aligning with Tamkeen’s ongoing efforts to diversify opportunities available to national talent in the private sector in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour.

This partnership aligns with the objectives of the National Labour Market Plan (2023-2026) and Tamkeen’s 2024 strategic priorities focused on economic impact and the private sector under three pillars: increasing economic participation through new employment opportunities for new entrants, expanding career development opportunities for the Bahraini workforce, and further developing the private sector by supporting enterprises and boosting producti
vity and technology adoption.

On the significance of this engagement, Alaa Saeed, ARRAY Innovation Founder and CEO said, “We are extremely pleased to be working with and supporting Tamkeen in its core mission. The innovative AI job matching solution aligns with our commitment to making a positive impact in the Bahraini labour market. The solution also showcases the strength of our Quantitative Development Team, leveraging several Large Language Models and cloud computing to deliver an innovative and scalable product.”

On the applicability of ARRAY Innovation’s solutions in Bahrain, Saeed added, “ARRAY Innovation is on a mission to develop cutting-edge software solutions in Bahrain, providing a wide range of capabilities, including application development, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning that many organisations will benefit from.”

It is worth mentioning that ARRAY is an AI and cloud-native digital solutions firm offering a wide range of solutions and services, including app dev
elopment, data analytics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.