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Startup Canada Tour – Halifax

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax

Join the Canadian entrepreneurship ecosystem at the Startup Canada Tour to expand your network, learn from industry leaders, and apply valuable insights to your early-stage business! Expand Your Network This is your opportunity to connect with the people who can help your business thrive! At the Halifax stop of the Startup Canada Tour, meet business mentors, support organizations, and fellow entrepreneurs from across Canada. Dive into the Ask the Expert Lounge, spark collaborations, and grow your network with meaningful connections. Gain Expert Insights Learn from leading industry professionals through keynotes, panels, mentors, and workshops. From funding strategies to leveraging technology for growth, gain actionable knowledge that you can put into practice right away. This opportunity doesn’t come around every day! Accelerate Your Growth Whether you’re just starting out or ready to scale, walk away with tools, resources, and strategies to take your business to the next level. Turn ideas into action and fuel your next big leap.

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Nova Scotia’s Digital Economy Report Launch: Findings & Future Outlook

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VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax

Join us for the official launch of a first-of-its-kind report on Nova Scotia’s digital economy, offering a comprehensive view of its economic footprint, labour market dynamics, and future growth trajectories. Presented by Nortal Canada. This session will bring together leaders from across industry, government, and the broader ecosystem to explore what is driving growth in the province’s digital economy, where key constraints exist, and what is needed to unlock the highest growth potential. The event will feature opening remarks to set the context for Nova Scotia’s digital future, followed by a presentation of key findings from the report, highlighting key insights related to talent, investment, productivity, and economic outcomes. This will be followed by a panel discussion that will then bring together sector leaders to reflect on the findings, share lived experiences, and discuss implications for their business strategy and broader and ecosystem development. The session will: Provide a clear and data-driven picture of Nova Scotia’s digital economy, including its contribution to GDP and employment; Examine the balance of supply and demand, including emerging pressures related to talent availability, experience levels, and retention; Highlight key gaps limiting growth, including firm scale-up, capital intensity, and technology diffusion; Surface the critical enablers […]

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Coffee, Community and Co – Work

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax

Need a change of scenery while you work? Join Coffee, Community and Co-Work at Volta! When: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 9:00am - 5:00pm Where: Volta, 1800 Argyle St., Unit 801, Halifax, NS, B3J 3N8 Description: Need a fresh workspace to fuel your focus? ☕✨ Come spend the day at Volta for Coffee, Community & Co-Work on Wednesday, April 29 from 9:00am - 5:00pm. This isn’t a structured event—just an open invitation to bring your laptop, settle in, and enjoy a change of scenery with harbour views, bottomless coffee, and good company. Here’s what you’ll enjoy: ✅ Workspace access all day—set up for an hour or stay until closing ✅ Complimentary coffee, tea, and treats to keep you energized ✅ A relaxed co-working vibe with founders, innovators, and professionals No agenda. Just a space to work, connect, and recharge your productivity. NOTE: If you are unable to attend any of the event please take a minute and cancel your ticket. This allows the team to better prepare for every event. By attending this event, you agree to be photographed and/or filmed and give permission to Volta to use your image in promotional and/or marketing materials.

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Bridging Marine Excellence w/ AI-Driven Observability

COVE Colin MacLean Hall, Dartmouth

AI observability foundations, real-time visibility, public sector and defense outcomes, plus a Dynatrace demo for strategic innovation. Event Overview Join PureLogic and Dynatrace for a private session exploring how AI-driven observability is helping organizations gain real-time visibility across increasingly complex environments. Set against the backdrop of Atlantic Canada’s marine innovation ecosystem, this event will highlight how observability supports mission-critical operations across both public and private sectors, including defense. Throughout the day, attendees will learn about the foundations of AI Observability, the value of real-time insights for strategic decision-making, and how public sector customers are using Dynatrace to improve performance, resilience, and innovation. The session will also include live demonstrations showing how observability can help organizations respond to operational challenges, modernize with confidence, and build a stronger common operating picture. Event Details When: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM Where: Colin McLean Hall, COVE | 27 Parker Street, Dartmouth Theme: Bridging Marine Excellence with AI-Driven Observability

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Spring Dinner: AI in Practice: Working Smarter

Halifax Convention Centre Nova Scotia

The fourth industrial revolution is here, and it’s changing how we do business, how we interact with each other, and how we learn. To make sure Halifax is ready and able to take full advantage of this exciting opportunity, join the Halifax Chamber of Commerce at the 2026 Spring Dinner for a discussion on real-world applications of AI. Speakers will highlight how Nova Scotia-based organizations are already using AI to drive productivity, innovation, and impact through practical and human-centred approaches. Learn how AI is being applied across sectors in Nova Scotia while recognizing effective AI adoption depends on human skills like strong critical thinking, ethics, and leadership. You'll hear from experts on broad reflections on AI and the future of work, and move into a conversation on tangible success stories, starting with the adoption of AI in post-secondary education to increasing productivity for local companies. Featuring presentations from: Matt Symes, Symplicity Designs Practical examples of how AI tools are being used in business today for productivity, systems improvement, and making a difference in the bottom line. Mike Smit, Dalhousie University Faculty of Management How educational institutions are adapting to AI, how it’s changing how and what we learn, and the […]

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Formally Verified AI: What Machine-Checked Proofs Reveal About LLM Compression

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax

Speaker ​Sean Simms ​Founder & CEO, Manazo Labs (HarmonicQ Inc.) — Halifax, Nova Scotia ​Most AI research is tested by running experiments and comparing results on standard tests. But what happens if you check a published AI method using strict, formal math instead of just experiments? This talk walks through a real example: we used the Lean 4 proof system to mathematically verify Google Research’s TurboQuant method. The full proof includes 8 files and 58 machine‑checked results, with no gaps or assumptions. While doing this, we also fixed three issues in the original paper: we improved one of the constants by 43%, we put a clear limit on an assumption that was previously left open‑ended, and we proved that one of the design choices in the method is actually the best possible. The talk ends with a live demo showing how these verified results can be used in real AI systems.