While leading Data Science teams in the corporate world we have always found it very challenging to get talented machine learning and big data practitioners over the past decade and always ended up building teams ground up by coaching engineers, statisticians and other quants graduates. With the current boom in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and highly competitive nature of the industry, organizations do not have the luxury of building teams using in-house training approach which is at the cost of precious time of experts within their organization. As a solution to this challenge, we set up Data Science Academy both to upskill enthusiasts who are currently working and to train fresh graduates by helping in bridging the academia-industry gap.