BMO Financial Group has teamed up with PLATO to offer the Amazon Web Services re/Start program virtually to Indigenous students across Canada. Twenty-two students, some from remote communities, have started a 12-week Cloud computing boot camp, followed by a six-month BMO internship to learn and apply those skills on the job, and opportunities for full-time employment. AWS re/Start is a skills development program that prepares individuals for a career in technology with the mission of building a pipeline of talent with core Cloud and Cloud-adjacent skills that are transferable to multiple technology roles.

The people participating in this program with PLATO and BMO have been selected from a pool of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit applicants from across Canada who have demonstrated a strong interest in technology. BMO signed on as a founding partner of the WEF SkillsLink Alliance in June 2021, joining a community of influential leaders committed to the 'Reskilling Revolution,"' an ambitious goal to provide 1 billion people with improved education, skills and job opportunities by 2030.