Empowering future innovators to design impactful digital solutions for societal challenges.
OUR WHY
Inspiring purposeful innovations
RTI’s mission is to create meaningful digital products that delight customers and scale businesses. Our proprietary digital innovation process and frameworks have led to dozens of successful solutions, but as an organization that puts outcomes over outputs, we had bigger aspirations. We knew that by sharing our approach, we could raise the bar for digital innovation across our industry and exponentially increase the number of lives we touch. As we explored opportunities, it became more and more clear that the best place to start was with the next generation of innovators.
OUR PARTNERSHIP
Mentoring the next generation of innovators
For the past four years, RTI has been mentoring students from Sheridan’s Interaction Design (IXD) Program in creating meaningful digital solutions. We’ve coached over 300 students on how to validate problem spaces and design digital solutions using RTI’s proven approach. In addition to our mentorship, our team dedicates time to review the students’ work and awards winning teams with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience.
OUR IMPACT
Solving real-world problems with meaningful digital solutions
RTI’s vision is to positively impact 1 billion lives with meaningful digital solutions. Through the CoLab Workshop, Sheridan's IXD students have worked alongside RTI to support exploratory research into specific problem spaces and surface creative solutions.
For example, our team had a notion that digital technologies could play a pivotal role in addressing loneliness and social isolation. The 2022/2023 CoLab students helped flesh out the research that led to Kindl, a AI-powered platform for building and fostering deeper relationships. Today, our team is validating strategic possibilities and refining a proof of concept for a real-world solution.
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Disaster Management
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Family Dynamics
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Immigration
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Food Insecurity
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Addiction
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Workplace Wellbeing
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Housing Accessibility
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Loneliness
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Recidivism
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Mental Health
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Equitable Healthcare Access
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Early Childhood Education
Want to Build Solutions That Matter?
Whether you're exploring a new idea or already making strides, If you’re working on a digital project that drives real-world change, we’d love to hear from you.