Diverse Tech Talent Program
Diverse Tech Talent Program
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description

The Diverse Tech Talent Program (DTTP), is an initiative by World Innovation League (WIL) in collaboration, Atila, Co.Lab, and Riipen. DTTP is on a mission to bridge the diversity gap in the tech industry and provide essential skills, mentorship, and job placements for Black Canadians and new immigrants. DTTP is poised to reshape the future of tech by fostering diversity, providing specialized training, and opening doors to exciting career opportunities.

Employers can find out more and sign up here: learn.riipen.com/dttp

Recent experiences

AI Guided Web App Development (July)

Jul 14, 2025 - Aug 8, 2025

4 week digital tech placements for Canadian employers.  Learners are participants of the Diverse Tech Talent program . They have recently completed hands-on, intensive training in AI-Guided Web Development fundamentals, with a focus on Replit. They're skilled, adaptable, and motivated to continue learning, enriching your project and kickstarting their developer careers. For non-web app projects they are focused on streamlining operations and workflows using AI integrations. The participants do not have specific coding language backgrounds. In this project, a team of participants will help your company understand and solve a product problem over a four week period. They will apply their skills to your business challenge as the capstone project in their DTTP certificate program. Submit a project here for the DTTP team to review.  Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5-6 participants. Projects will start July 14th If you have questions or need help drafting your project content please email us at dttp@riipen.com. You can also find all of our help articles here.

Admin DTTP Team
Matches 6
Category Website development
Closed

No-Code Development (July)

Jul 14, 2025 - Aug 8, 2025

4 week digital tech placements for Canadian employers.  Learners are participants of the Diverse Tech Talent program . They have recently completed hands-on, intensive training in no-code development fundamentals, focusing heavily on workflows and automations to increase efficiencies. They're skilled, adaptable, and motivated to continue learning, enriching your project, and kickstarting their developer careers. In this project, a team of participants will help your company understand and solve a product problem over a four-week period. They will apply their skills to your business challenge as the capstone project in their DTTP certificate program. Submit a project here for the DTTP team to review.  Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5-6 participants. Projects will start July 14th If you have questions or need help drafting your project content please email us at dttp@riipen.com. You can also find all of our help articles here.

Admin DTTP Team
Matches 6
Category Software development + 1
Closed

AI Product Management

Mar 24, 2025 - Apr 19, 2025

4 week digital tech placements for Canadian employers Learners are participants of the AI Product Management Diverse Tech Talent Program. They have recently completed hands-on, intensive training in problem discovery and product thinking. They're skilled, adaptable, and motivated to continue learning, enriching your project and, kickstarting their product management careers. In this project, a team of participants will help your company understand and solve a product problem over a four week period. They will apply their skills to your business challenge as the capstone project in their DTTP certificate program. Submit a project here for the DTTP team to review.  Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5 participants. Product Management projects will start on March 24, 2025. If you have questions or need help drafting your project content please email us at dttp@riipen.com. You can also find all of our help articles here.

Admin DTTP Team
Matches 20
Category Product management
Closed

Front-End Web Development (March 2024)

Mar 4, 2024 - Apr 1, 2024

4 week digital tech placements for Canadian employers.  Learners are participants of the Web Development Diverse Tech Talent program . They have recently completed hands-on, intensive training in front end web development fundamentals. They're skilled, adaptable, and motivated to continue learning, enriching your project and kickstarting their developer careers. In this project, a team of participants will help your company understand and solve a product problem over a four week period. They will apply their skills to your business challenge as the capstone project in their DTTP certificate program. Submit a project here for the DTTP team to review.  Once approved, you will be matched with a team of 5 participants. Web Development projects will start on March 4th 2023. If you have questions or need help drafting your project content please email us at dttp@riipen.com. You can also find all of our help articles here.

Admin DTTP Team
Matches 28
Category Software development + 1
Closed

Latest feedback

Bilal Hasanjee
CEO
August 25, 2025
Experience feedback
Unfortunately, our experience with this project was well below expectations. The UVAA/DTTP team did not provide student profiles, résumés, or skills information before the start of the program, which meant we could not plan or assign work effectively. As a result, we lost almost an entire week of valuable project time before meaningful work began. In addition, there were multiple instances of unprofessional behaviour from the majority of team members—several did not show up to agreed meetings without notice, and one participant was openly rude and unprofessional in his communications. While a small number of learners (notably Sonashree and Charmaine) worked professionally and collaboratively, the overall conduct and communication from the rest of the team significantly disrupted the project and delayed progress.
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Claudius Thomas
Claudius Thomas
Employer
August 22, 2025
Experience feedback
The project that was posted for this program had a lot of logistical issues with students who wanted to participate. In the end, only ONE student worked on the project from start to finish. No administrator intervened despite all the communication expressing difficulties.
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Lance Marwood
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He / Him
Director of Communications
August 21, 2025
Experience feedback
Excellent, proactive team with hands-on skills and an efficient approach to everything they do.
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