Events for June 4, 2020 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry
Ongoing

Social Media Decisions that Work Every Time!

This FREE 5-day learning event will teach you the most effective way to develop your social media strategy so you can show up with authority and connect with your audience. Learn how to make decisions about your social media that work for you... EVERY SINGLE TIME. Find your audience. Choose your priorities. Create a consistent presence. All actionable. No fluff. You'll walk away with a solid blueprint for your social media. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Anita Kirkbride, owner and Head Twirp at Twirp Communications, is a highly sought after social media consultant and speaker who helps small business owners and entrepreneurs leverage their social media. She is Halifax's leader in social media training and consulting, founder of Social Media Day Halifax, and the pioneer behind Responsible Scheduling -- guidelines that help clients make the most of their social content without overwhelming or ignoring their audience. For over a decade, Anita has been helping businesses and agencies improve their social skills and manage their own social media marketing through social media consultations, strategy development, training, and audits. She’s also been a featured speaker at a variety of industry conferences and business events including Atlantic Internet Marketing Conference, Blog Jam, PodCamp and the Centre for Women in Business. Register […]

Reactivating your Business Safely Webinar

The Strait Area Chamber of Commerce and Cape Breton Partnership are partnering to offer a webinar to help businesses understand what they need to do in order to keep their staff, customers and themselves safe during the reopening of the Nova Scotia economy. Speakers: - Don Martell, owner and operator of Strait Area Safety Services - Marc Andre LaVoie, leader and founder of Risk Marcker Incorporated Presenters will provide details on Occupational Health & Safety legislation and how it applies during COVID-19, the roles and responsibilities of employers, give you examples of innovative ways you can address the challenge in your workplace, leave you with a greater understanding of how COVID can spread and be better prepared to act on preventative measures. The session will be capped at 100 participants, however, the webinar will be recorded and shared on the Cape Breton Partnership website and social media channels to ensure the information is accessible to all. Register Now

Design Thinking for Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning

Design Thinking for Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning Online Workshop This event will be held on two dates: Thu, June 4, 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM ADT Wed, June 10, 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM ADT   This highly interactive and hands-on workshop offers a deep dive into AI, machine learning, and other emerging technologies targeted at leaders responsible for creating disruptive new digital products & services. The program is intended for those with or without a strong background in machine learning, AI, and related technologies – no technical expertise is assumed. Participants can expect to walk away with a comprehensive understanding of how AI and machine learning work, as core technologies and a wide range of applications, including recommendation engines, personalization, predictive analytics, conversational/voice interfaces, and process automation. An overview of ethical or responsible AI frameworks will wrap up the workshop, to ensure that participants are equipped with the skills to think about how data bias, training scenarios and other factors can impact outcomes. Problem reframing methods, confusion matrices, error recovery optimization frameworks, and AI-focused ideation methods will all be introduced throughout the workshop. If you are a part of an underrepresented group and would like to attend this […]

Navigating COVID-19: How to Use Scenario Planning to Deal with Uncertainty

Join Innovation, Learning & Leadership Specialist Laurie Cook of Chutzpah Consulting to learn how to become more proactive instead of reactive in dealing with Covid-19.  This interactive, online workshop will show you how to not just use Scenario Planning on your own, but also how you could involve other people on your leadership team, your employees and other stakeholders in helping you to innovate in a way so you can not just survive, but thrive. If there is one thing we can count on, it is that the world is a complex and chaotic place.  Covid-19 has just made it more so. Organizations that want to move beyond the shock and a day-to-day mindset of struggle related to Covid-19 will find Scenario Planning a very useful tool to help them do that. In this uniquely interactive session, you will learn: What Scenario Planning is all about The key components of scenario planning How to use a very simple but practical approach to doing scenario planning What kind of questions to ask, yourself and others, to move forward in a positive way How to think about your true purpose and focus on that Register Now