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Information Session for Students and New Graduates: Fastlane Machine Learning Associates Program (MLA) Summer 2026 Cohort

January 27, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

The FastLane MLA Program is a 4-month paid program that offers an immersive experience for students and recent graduates to enhance their skills in AI and support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their innovation journey. The program is designed to provide participants with valuable industry experience and the opportunity to apply AI in real-world contexts alongside top-tier technical talent.

We are now seeking talented candidates to participate in our upcoming Summer 2026 cohort (runs between May to early September 2026), which will focus on GenAI with special interest in multimodal and agentic AI use cases. This includes work on multimodal use cases, intelligent assistants, autonomous agents, multi-step reasoning systems, and tool-integrated language models.

Program Benefits

  • Be part of a select cohort of Machine Learning Associates (MLAs) and join a structured AI-centric learning program to acquire technical skills and tools and deliver business value.
  • Discover whether AI is the right tool for an SME and deliver a proof of concept to address their use case.
  • Increase your employability by getting unique access to Vector’s technical and project management expertise and resources.
  • Engage with like-minded individuals in a collaborative setting and expand your network within the AI ecosystem.

Eligibility:

  • You are a student/recent graduate (within 1 year of graduation) of an AI-related graduate program or a researcher working with Vector Faculty. i.e. You are NOT eligible to participate in this program If you graduated before May 2025.
  • You are legally eligible to work in Canada and will reside in Canada for the duration of the program.
  • You have skills and experience employing machine learning models in Python. Having implemented these solutions is considered an asset.

Please contact mla.summer@vectorinstitute.ai with any questions.