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12th Annual Business Is Jammin’ Charity Golf Tournament

Granite Springs Golf Club 4441 Prospect Road, Bayside, Nova Scotia, Canada

Don't miss the 12th Annual BIJ Charity Golf Tournament! About this event The 12th Annual Business Is Jammin’ (BIJ) Charity Golf Tournament takes place on Friday, Sept., 23, 2022 at the Granite Springs Golf Club. Business is Jammin' is a province-wide charity that encourages youth ages 8-30 to pursue entrepreneurship. Your participation in this exciting event helps keep BIJ programming free. Canadian tax receipts will be issued for all donations. For any questions regarding making your donation or about your tax receipt please contact us.Charitable Business Number: 84006 6674 R0001 For more information, including how you can sponsor this event, email bijyouth@bbi.ns.ca.  

$165

Canada’s Ocean Ambition: Shaping the Next Phase of The OSC – NS

Halifax Convention Centre 1650 Argyle St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Please join us as we connect in-person to shape Canada’s Ocean Ambition and the future of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. Canada’s Ocean Ambition: Shaping the Next Phase of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster – NOVA SCOTIA After a successful first mandate and a pan-Canadian network with over 500 members, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is excited to embark upon its renewed mandate with big ambition for what’s next. We invite you to join us in Halifax on September 26th, 2022 for a strategic conversation on the future of Canada’s Ocean Supercluster and how we can realize the potential of the Canadian Ocean Economy together. We will reflect on the achievements and lessons learned from the first mandate of the OSC and have a curated conversation on the OSC’s future strategy, build our ecosystem further through transformational projects and programming, and help drive digital, sustainable and inclusive growth in ocean. This session will also be a unique opportunity to network with other private sector, academia, non-profit and government organizations in Nova Scotia.

Green Tech Social – New Glasgow

Backstage Brewing 37 Bridge Ave, Stellarton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Backstage Brewing in Stellarton September 28, 2022 5:00 PM Join us on Wednesday, September 28 from 5-7pm at Backstage Brewing in Stellarton for a Green Tech Social! It provides an opportunity to connect with others that are passionate about a green economy in rural Nova Scotia. All are welcome, no RSVP required! For questions, please email Monica at monica@igniteatlantic.com

Halihax September Event: An Evening About Data Science

Wattpad 1877 Hollis St, Halifax

About this event The future of computing revolves around data: how we create it, organize it, and most importantly, how we can use it to improve society. During this event, we’ll hear from three leading technologists about current techniques to personalize algorithms, the most relevant open source technology in the data science space, and what opportunities can be made with the vast amounts of data we deal with. This event will be held at the Wattpad offices in downtown Halifax, with snacks and refreshments provided. Our Speakers Gordon Shotwell Data Scientist & Product Manager @ Socure Gordon is a data scientist and product manager at Socure, where he helps data people build better software. Rima Al Shikh Founder & CEO @ Begin.ai Rima is a founder & executive with 4x exits; she is a data scientist and the inventor, founder & CEO behind Begin.ai, a startup that aims to revolutionize how AI is developed and deployed and bring AI to every application. Fernando Pena-Silva Load Forecaster @ Nova Scotia Power Fernando has been working in Data Science ever since his statistical analysis of large astronomical databases and images, starting first as an undergraduate and later as PhD researcher. He is […]

$11.62

Beyond accessibility: Meaningful inclusion in citizen experiences

Nova Scotia, Canada

Details This month, we continue on from last month's focus in the area of accessibility and inclusion. Join us on Wednesday, September 28th as we listen and learn from Beth Fox, Strategic Engagement Advisor with the Canadian Digital Service. Many UX and service design professionals find themselves advocating for their users within their product teams, and their larger organizations. Increasingly, we're being asked to help improve not just usability, but also accessibility in experiences. In this talk, Beth encourages us to stretch beyond what we might think of as accessible by providing real-world examples of how inclusion (or a lack of it) impacts all facets of services and design. Beth Fox is a public servant with over a decade of bringing user experience and service design skills to public service challenges. As a founding member of the Nova Scotia Digital Service (NSDS), Beth spent years as a user researcher and service designer, advocating for the people who use government services. In her work at the province, she was an advocate for how human-centered design improves the delivery of services. A long-time collaborator across boundaries, Beth recently made the move from the provincial to the federal public service. This summer she […]

Beyond accessibility: Meaningful inclusion in citizen experiences

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

Details This month, we continue on from last month's focus in the area of accessibility and inclusion. Join us on Wednesday, September 28th as we listen and learn from Beth Fox, Strategic Engagement Advisor with the Canadian Digital Service. Many UX and service design professionals find themselves advocating for their users within their product teams, and their larger organizations. Increasingly, we're being asked to help improve not just usability, but also accessibility in experiences. In this talk, Beth encourages us to stretch beyond what we might think of as accessible by providing real-world examples of how inclusion (or a lack of it) impacts all facets of services and design. Beth Fox is a public servant with over a decade of bringing user experience and service design skills to public service challenges. As a founding member of the Nova Scotia Digital Service (NSDS), Beth spent years as a user researcher and service designer, advocating for the people who use government services. In her work at the province, she was an advocate for how human-centered design improves the delivery of services. A long-time collaborator across boundaries, Beth recently made the move from the provincial to the federal public service. This summer she […]

BOB: How to Raise Capital

COVE Colin MacLean Hall, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us on Thursday, September 29, for Start-Up Yard at COVE’s Business Over Breakfast. Listen to a select group of VCs share the best tactics to use when founders approach them for a raise. Breakfast: 8:00am - 8:30am Talk: 8:30am - 9:30am SPEAKERS: Sally Ng Sally is the founder and CEO of The Triple Effect, which focuses on developing best practices in corporate innovation, entrepreneurial community development, and technology coaching. Currently, Sally is an executive-in-residence at East Valley Ventures. Previously, she was CEO at a new social enterprise called Tribe Network and a senior director at Highline Beta. Sally has led multiple corporate innovation venture teams within Fortune 1000 companies, applying strategy and execution to help companies grow beyond their core. Over the years, she has worked with organizations such as Brightspark Ventures, National Angel Capital Organization and a number of others that enable the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Sally has actively been involved with the start-up community through her work with Techstars Startup Weekend and has travelled around the world facilitating events. She recently completed a six-year term serving on the national board of directors for the Community Foundations of Canada (CFC), a charity with an asset portfolio […]

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DNS Member Mixer @ Covers

Covers 102 Chain Lake Dr, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join Digital Nova Scotia and Covers on September 29th for our second, FREE in-person Member Mixer! Come and meet DNS members new and old, we also invite those curious about what it's like to be a DNS member to attend and learn more! Please note, space is limited please register to confirm your attendance Agenda 5:00pm Reception: Opening remarks, Ice Breaker, & encouraging people to have some snacks and drinks 6:00pm Games/Networking Activities 7:00pm Wind Down: Closing remarks and encouraging people to mix and mingle

ISNS September Social – In Person

The Oxford Taproom 6418 Quinpool Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Free game industry social night at The Oxford Taproom in Halifax! It's time to hang out and meet other game industry folk in-person at The Oxford Taproom! Come meet your fellow game devs and help grow the industry in Nova Scotia! Date and time Thu, 29 September 2022, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM ADT Location The Oxford Taproom 6418 Quinpool Rd Halifax, NS B3L 1A8

Introduction to WordPress Multisite – RSVPs for in person spots

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

Details Please note that this is a hybrid event. This registration is for in-person event at Volta in downtown Halifax only - please see the online event to RSVP if you're attending online only: https://www.meetup.com/wordpress-halifax/events/288477946/ . 7:00: Room opens 7:15: Introduction to WordPress Multisite - speaker is online and will be streamed to us live in the room. What Ken will cover: What is Multisite? (Software Architecture) Hosting and Business Considerations (Pros & Cons) Setting It Up Domain Mapping Must-Have Plugins Q&A Bio: Ken Stuczynski, owner of Kentropolis Internet Community (1998-present), provides hosting, design, registrar, and web consultation services to individuals, community organizations, and businesses. His core competency is Wordpress and primarily uses a Divi theme framework, as well as running multiple WPMU (WordPress MultiUser) sites for many years. 8:00: We will be splitting off from the online event for the "Happy Hour" in person while we split into groups and have discussions and get questions answered. 9:00: Meetup Ends

Why Microsoft on AWS

The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse 5136 Prince Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Why Microsoft on AWS When: Wednesday Oct 5, 2022 Program: 2 - 4 PM ADT Happy Hour: 4 - 6 PM ADT Location: The Old Triangle Irish Alehouse, 5136 Prince Street, Halifax Join Amazon Web Services, CDW, and NorthBay Solutions to learn why AWS is the best cloud solution to run your Microsoft workloads! For 10 years, AWS and NorthBay have been working together to help customers untangle the complex world of software licensing in the Cloud. AWS and NorthBay will discuss and demonstrate that a partnership with us offers a cost-effective and low-risk way to transition traditional on-premise workloads into the Cloud. Ultimately, this will build your confidence in choosing AWS as a preferred Cloud platform for Microsoft workloads. Then you will interact with a group of panelists, discussing the “Art of the Possible” as you hear how customers transverse from legacy on-premise workloads or another Cloud offering onto AWS. Finally, we look forward to getting to know you better with a fun and social LIVE happy hour. Agenda 1:30 PM Registration 2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Cloud Economics 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Why AWS for Microsoft Workloads 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM How NorthBay helps customers transition […]

Atlantic CIO Briefing

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

TECHNATION works with CIO leaders from across Canada at all levels of the public sector.  After hosting a well-attended virtual CIO briefing session in June 2021, we are back hosting a hybrid event to profile more amazing forward-thinking leaders from the Atlantic Region to discuss critical issues and to identify digital acceleration opportunities for government services (including ongoing Covid recovery and response). This curated dialogue will create an open and transparent value exchange between industry and government; increased awareness of current challenges and opportunities; and identify opportunities for innovative, citizen-centric digital solutions and collaboration, partnership, and co-creation. TECHNATION will host this important briefing with a hybrid format to allow speakers to participate from throughout the region and attendees from across Canada.