Tech Wednesdays with NPower Canada
Tech Wednesdays (English/Anglais)
Location
Online
About this event
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NPower Canada is a charitable organization that launches underserved youth and adults, including people with disabilities, BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ individuals, into meaningful & sustainable careers in technology. Through its free in-demand digital and professional skills training programs, NPower Canada connects job seekers to employers who are looking for junior IT/tech talent. NPower Canada has grown from enrolling 87 learners in 2015 to 2,500 in 2022, scaling within Ontario and expanding nationally to Alberta in 2019, Nova Scotia and British Columbia in 2021 and Quebec in 2022.
To date, more than 80% of NPower Canada’s 6,000 alumni have secured in-demand tech jobs such as Help Desk Analyst, QA Specialist and Information Security Analyst with industry leaders such as Accenture, CGI, CIBC, Cisco, Deloitte, IBM, RBC, Softchoice, TD and TELUS.