Fast Lane Group Reaches Historic Milestone: Over 600,000 Participants in Instructor-Led Training Sessions Worldwide in Just 12 Months

Hamburg, August 2026 – Over the past twelve months, the Fast Lane Group trained more than 600,000 learners worldwide in instructor-led sessions for the first time in the company's history – 92 percent delivered virtually, 8 percent in physical classrooms. The milestone underscores Fast Lane's global reach, with training offerings and customers in more than 90 countries. Including on-demand online learners, Fast Lane reached a combined total of more than 1 million students worldwide over the past twelve months.

Notably, well over half of all training sessions were delivered in the areas of AI and Agent Development – a clear signal of how quickly organizations worldwide are upskilling their teams for an AI-driven future of work. Fast Lane trained a full 75% of its 600,000 learners in AI or Agent training: an unmistakable signal of its leadership role in the global AI transformation.

Demand remained equally strong in the core disciplines of Security and Networking: roughly 50,000 learners each were trained in these two areas over the past twelve months – clear evidence that, even beyond the AI hype, Fast Lane remains a trusted partner for securing and building critical infrastructure.

Reaching 600,000 learners in a single year is a milestone we at Fast Lane are incredibly proud of, said Torsten Poels, CEO & Chairman of the Board of the Fast Lane Group. It reflects the speed and determination with which organizations worldwide are investing in upskilling their people, above all in AI and Agentic AI. Over the past twelve months, we've proven that we can not only meet this enormous demand but scale it with the highest quality — both virtually and in person. That's something we, as a company, are incredibly proud of.

This record reflects a fundamental shift in IT training: organizations everywhere are under significant pressure to prepare their workforce, quickly and at scale, for AI technologies, Agentic AI, and modern security requirements. As the only global partner of all three cloud hyperscalers – Microsoft, AWS, and Google – and a partner to more than 30 additional leading IT vendors, Fast Lane is positioned to meet this demand at a scale unmatched in the company's history.

Fast Lane is evolving from a leading training provider into the frontier of the global AI transformation – driven by an uncompromising ambition to lead. This ambition is underscored by an unprecedented run of industry recognition: over the past twelve months alone, Fast Lane has been named a top partner by Cisco seven times worldwide, bringing its all-time total to an impressive 52 Cisco awards. On top of that, the company has received numerous additional top awards from leading technology partners such as Google, Splunk, HPE Aruba, AI CERTs, and many others. Fast Lane sees itself not just as a training provider, but as an enabler: the company helps thousands of businesses worldwide become AI frontier organizations themselves, and trains the AI-leading enterprises of tomorrow.

Building on this record achievement, Fast Lane plans to further expand its training portfolio around AI, Agentic AI, and Security, to keep preparing organizations and professionals worldwide for the technological challenges of tomorrow.