Technology consultancy firm Accenture has announced a major partnership with Nvidia to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across enterprises, building on $3 billion in AI-related bookings in its recent fiscal year.

The collaboration will see Accenture train more than 30,000 professionals globally to help clients implement and scale AI solutions, with a particular focus on agentic AI systems - an advanced form of generative AI that can act on user intent and create new workflows autonomously.

At the heart of the partnership is the new Accenture AI Refinery platform, which incorporates Nvidia's complete AI technology stack. The platform will be available across public and private cloud platforms, enabling companies to reimagine their processes and operations.

Julie Sweet, chair and chief executive officer at Accenture, said: "We are breaking significant new ground with our partnership with Nvidia and enabling our clients to be at the forefront of using generative AI as a catalyst for reinvention."

The initiative includes the establishment of new AI Refinery Engineering Hubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Malaga and London, adding to existing facilities in Mountain View, California and Bangalore. These hubs will focus on developing and implementing large-scale AI operations.

Early results from internal implementation show promising outcomes. Accenture's marketing function has already integrated the AI Refinery platform, resulting in a 25-35 per cent reduction in manual steps and an expected 25-55 per cent increase in speed to market, alongside 6 per cent cost savings.

Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer at Nvidia, emphasised the transformative potential of the partnership: "Nvidia's platform, Accenture's AI Refinery and our combined expertise will help businesses and nations accelerate this transformation to drive unprecedented productivity and growth."

The partnership is already bearing fruit in Southeast Asia, where Indosat Group has announced Indonesia's first sovereign AI initiative. Working with Accenture and using Nvidia's technology, the project aims to enable secure AI deployment while ensuring proper data governance and regulatory compliance, with an initial focus on the financial services sector.

Accenture, which employs 774,000 people across more than 120 countries, will also introduce a new virtual facility robot fleet simulation system, integrating various Nvidia technologies to enable industrial companies to develop autonomous, robot-operated factories.

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