The AI institute
built for Canadians.
30 self-paced diploma programs, taught by working practitioners at Canadian banks, hospitals, agtech, and the federal public service. Learn modern AI under Canadian regulatory reality — PIPEDA, AIDA, OCAP — and earn a credential you can verify online.
- ★★★★★ 4.9 from graduates
- ✓ 30-day refund guarantee
- ✓ Verifiable Canadian credential
- ✓ Pay in 4 · interest-free
Four pillars. 30 diplomas. One credential.
Every Altaris program sits inside one of four academic pillars. Move laterally between them, or stack diplomas to specialize.
Applied ML & Deep Learning
PyTorch, transformers, evaluation, and deployment. Every module ends in a production-graded artifact — not a Colab notebook.
Data Engineering for AI
The pipelines nobody teaches: ingestion, feature stores, drift detection, and observability on Canadian cloud regions.
AI Product & Governance
PIPEDA, AIDA, the federal Directive on ADM, and provincial frameworks — threaded into curriculum, not bolted on.
LLMs, RAG & Agents
Retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and agentic patterns. Ship a real assistant, not a chatbot demo.
Featured programs
Hand-picked across our catalog of 30.
AI Engineering with RAG
Production-grade retrieval-augmented generation
AI Ethics and Canadian Policy
Navigate AIDA, PIPEDA, and the responsible-AI landscape
AI for Business Leaders
Strategy, ROI, and governance for executives
AI for Canadian Agriculture
From precision ag to supply-chain forecasting
AI for Cybersecurity
ML defense, offense, and adversarial robustness
AI for Educators
Bring AI into K-12 and post-secondary classrooms responsibly
A studio, not a lecture hall.
Altaris is built around what practitioners actually do. Every module is short, applied, and reviewed against a rubric a hiring manager would recognize.
- Weekly office hours
- Live sessions with faculty and TAs across Canadian time zones — Halifax to Victoria.
- Rubric-graded capstones
- Each diploma includes 4–6 capstones reviewed by a working practitioner, not autograded.
- Cohort Slack + peer review
- Learn alongside 200+ Canadian professionals per intake. Introverts welcome — participation is optional.
- Lifetime access
- Curriculum updates ship monthly. Once you're in a program, you keep every future revision.
Practitioners, not pundits.
Our instructors ship AI systems for a living at Canadian banks, hospitals, agtech, and the federal public service. They teach what actually works in production.
Ex-RBC Borealis AI. Published in NeurIPS and JMLR. Leads our production ML track.
Staff engineer at a Canadian Big Five bank. 12 years shipping ML at regulated scale.
Former Vector Institute researcher. Builds RAG systems for Canadian healthcare providers.
Advised Treasury Board on the Directive on ADM. PIPEDA and AIDA compliance specialist.
The only AI academy that teaches to Canadian regulation.
American curriculums teach AI ethics in the abstract. We teach the frameworks Canadian employers are audited against — because you'll be shipping under them next Tuesday.
- ✓PIPEDA & provincial privacy law
- ✓Bill C-27 / AIDA readiness
- ✓Federal Directive on Automated Decision-Making
- ✓OCAP® principles for Indigenous data
- ✓OSFI E-23 model risk (financial services)
- ✓PHIPA / provincial health privacy
Real Canadians. Real hires.
Every quote below is from a verified Altaris graduate. Salaries are self-reported in CAD. See the full list at /outcomes.
"I walked in with the RAG capstone and walked out with an offer the same week."
- Salary
- $175,000
- Time to hire
- 4 wk
"I deploy models for a living now. Six months ago I'd never touched Kubernetes."
- Salary
- $148,000
- Time to hire
- 5 wk
"Robotics-focused capstone got me into the perception team."
- Salary
- $152,000
- Time to hire
- 8 wk
"Hired before I even finished the program. The portfolio sold itself."
- Salary
- $108,000
- Time to hire
- 4 wk
"The mentorship pairing with a working Shopify engineer is what got me through the offer."
- Salary
- $145,000
- Time to hire
- 5 wk
"The PRD reviews from a working PM are unmatched."
- Salary
- $138,000
- Time to hire
- 6 wk
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A no-strings introduction to how AI actually works, written for Canadian professionals. Delivered one short lesson a day.