The AI institute
built for Canadians.
5 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. 5 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 5.
Diploma in Applied Machine Learning
End-to-end ML engineering: classical algorithms, deep learning with PyTorch, transformers, and production deployment.
Diploma in LLM Systems & RAG Engineering
Production retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and enterprise LLM infrastructure.
Diploma in AI Product & Governance
Lead AI products from discovery to compliance: model evaluation, UX patterns, Canadian regulatory alignment (AIDA/PIPEDA), and ROI.
Diploma in Data Engineering for AI
High-throughput data pipelines, vector databases, lakehouse architecture, and real-time feature stores for enterprise AI.
Diploma in AI Leadership & Strategy
Enterprise AI adoption, talent strategy, change management, capital allocation, and executive decision-making.
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.
"The vector database and streaming pipeline modules in the Data Engineering diploma were immediately applicable to our Calgary analytics infrastructure. Best technical education investment I have made."
- Salary
- $140,000
- Time to hire
- 3 wk
"The capstone jury defense was rigorous and conducted by real industry practitioners. Having my certificate verifiable online gave hiring managers instant trust in my credentials."
- Salary
- $115,000
- Time to hire
- 6 wk
"The self-paced diploma gave me practical RAG and evaluation engineering skills that immediately distinguished me in interviews. I landed a senior ML role in Toronto within 4 weeks of completing my capstone."
- Salary
- $145,000
- Time to hire
- 4 wk
"Altaris AI Academy's focus on Canadian regulatory standards like PIPEDA and AIDA gave our product team the exact legal and architectural clarity we needed to ship our customer-facing AI features safely."
- Salary
- $138,000
- Time to hire
- 6 wk
"Coming from classical software engineering in Vancouver, I needed hands-on PyTorch and MLOps experience without taking a year off work. The verifiable diploma helped me transition to a full-time ML engineering role."
- Salary
- $132,000
- Time to hire
- 5 wk
"As an executive in Montreal, I needed to understand both the technical realities of generative models and the governance requirements. The AI Leadership diploma gave our leadership team complete alignment."
- Salary
- $165,000
- Time to hire
- 2 wk
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A no-strings introduction to how AI actually works, written for Canadian professionals. Delivered one short lesson a day.