Events for March 2, 2023 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

NEXT Business Summit 2023

Online

From staffing challenges and digitization to sustainability and ESG, NEXT will focus on a wide variety of themes that will help you look ahead and adopt best practices in our ever-changing business climate. Join them for a day of insights, networking, and learning from the comfort of your computer. Connect with industry peers and partners in our workshops to find out more about what is available to support your business.

Artificial Intelligence: An Intro & Ethics Breakdown

Online

Part 1: Intro to AI: What is it? How can you use it? Part 2: Ethics in AI: Is AI good for me? Can it be trusted? During part 1 we will cover off the fundamentals of AI. Since you can read about it anywhere, we will also drill into what it takes for you to create your own system, and the challenges many face with trying to understand when to identify where an AI system is being used and how it is helping/hurting you. In part 2 we must talk about the implications of AI. We will touch on the countless books, Netflix series, and other well documented materials that explore how AI is often created by a narrow group of people. After this session you will understand why you need to ask questions about systems that use AI and consider the harm it may be causing you or others. In addition, you will have the tools to ask yourself or others creating their own AI to ensure what they create is equitable. Key Takeaways: There is a broad range of what can be considered AI. You can define it however you want, depending on the day and how […]

MindFrame Connect and Tribe Network Presents: Inclusive Mentorship

Killam Memorial Library 6225 University Avenue Room #2600, Halifax

Join MindFrame Connect and Tribe Network for a 90 minute, hybrid session to discuss the foundations for building an inclusive mentorship relationship with Coach Carey, followed by a brief question and answer period.

Experience Pub/Sub and Vertex AI

Online

Join Google Engineers as they learn about the concepts of cloud computing and the tools of Google Cloud. About the hands-on workshop topics: Google Cloud Pub/Sub - Qwik Start Google Cloud Pub/Sub is a messaging service for exchanging event data among applications and services. In this workshop kickoff, you will do the following: Learn the basics of Pub/Sub. Create, delete, and list Pub/Sub topics. Create, delete, and list Pub/Sub subscriptions. Publish messages to a topic. Use a pull subscriber to output individual topic messages. Use a pull subscriber with a flag to output multiple messages. Vertex AI - Qwik Start In this workshop section, you will use BigQuery for data processing and exploratory data analysis and the Vertex AI platform to train and deploy a custom TensorFlow Regressor model to predict customer lifetime value. The goal of the lab is to introduce to Vertex AI through a high value real world use case - predictive CLV. You will start with a local BigQuery and TensorFlow workflow that you may already be familiar with and progress toward training and deploying your model in the cloud with Vertex AI. Register and receive a direct invite to the Live Google Meet with chat […]