Events from March 30, 2022 – May 28, 2022 › Meetups › – Page 5 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

What is SEO and why should you care how people search? with Callum Pinkney

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7:00 - Room opens 7:15 - Presentation: What is SEO, and why should you care about how people search? Event Details: To truly win at Search Engine Optimization, a business should understand two things: what their target audience is truly searching for and what they want from the relationship, and what Google understands about search queries across the internet. This presentation is going to break down what is happening when someone searches, and also how Google figures out if you are worth ranking. The presentation will also touch on a few things you can do yourself to improve your relationship with Google, and why just dropping keywords everywhere onto a page is a disservice to your customers. Bio: Callum owns and runs a marketing company helping professional service companies strategize their marketing goals and execute on bringing trackable ROI to the table. Pilot Solutions offers marketing strategy and execution, website development, branding, SEO, and PPC Ads. 8:00 - Happiness Bar Share your screen to get help, feedback, learn something new, or help a buddy out. Chat and get to know fellow WordPress bloggers, designers, and developers. Those who register for the event on Meetup.com will receive Gather.Town meeting link/password (no […]

UX Salon Halifax: Product Discoveries

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What we're about UX Salon Halifax is a group that gathers to inspire and entertain one another. Join us if you're interested in collaborating with others and contributing to ideas on User Experience and Design. What is a Salon? A salon is a regular gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held to increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.

apply(conf) 2022

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apply() is a free virtual interactive event on data engineering for applied machine learning. It is geared for data and ML teams to discuss the practical data engineering challenges faced when building ML for the real world. Participants will share best practice development patterns, tools of choice, and emerging architectures they use to successfully build and manage production ML applications. Agenda includes: 40+ deep dive live tech talks 4 Hands-on workshops/tutorials Networking with speakers/attendees Post-event social (in-person) in NYC and San Francisco Food, swags and prizes Featured speakers: Chip Huyen from Stanford University Matei Zaharia, Co-Founder from Databricks Smitha Shyam, Director of Engineering from Uber Shreya Shankar from UC Berkeley - RISELab Mike Del Balso, Co-Founder from Tecton Waleed Kadous, Head of Engineering from Anyscale Manoj Agarwal, Architect Fellow from Walmart Global Cary Goltermann, Machine Learning Engineer from Primer.ai and 30+ more.

Halihax Micro Event: Front End Edition

Foggy Goggle 2057 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Join us for an evening full of discussion on front end development. JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more! Ask questions, share new frontend tech, etc... Hosted by Terry Smith, Tech Lead @ Codecov. Where: Foggy Goggle @ 2057 Gottingen St, Halifax When: May 18th @ 7:30pm

Ocean Connector: Developing and Adapting Technology to Target Global Goals

Colin MacLean Hall 27 Parker Street, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Meet the Atlantic Indigenous ocean businesses developing innovative ocean technology projects selected under the Samqwane'jk initiative. About this event Samqwane’jk is a first-of-its-kind initiative led by Ulnooweg Development Group in collaboration with COVE and Upswing Solutions. Indigenous ocean businesses were invited to propose projects in partnership with companies at COVE. Three projects have been selected to receive funding support rolled out over two years. Join us on May 26th to meet three Atlantic Indigenous Ocean companies selected to receive support under the Samqwane’jk Ocean Partnership Initiative for their innovative ocean projects. The purpose of the Samqwane’jk initiative includes building partnerships with ocean technology companies to boost competitiveness, enhance innovation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing for Indigenous and non-Indigenous ocean businesses alike. In addition to funding, the three selected initiatives will receive training and business development support while aiming to deliver measurable progress against the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Learn more about Samqwane'jk at www.samqwanejk.com. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 SDGs, an urgent call for […]

Open Dialogue Live: The Space Race of the 21st Century

Dalhousie SUB 6136 University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

We’re entering a new wave of the space race. Join us for a conversation with our special guests: Canadian Space Agency’s Tony Pellerin, Manager, Mechanical Engineering and Technical lead for the Canadian Cubesat Project and Dalhousie alum, Arad Gharagozli (MASc‘22), who launched GALAXIA, a space hardware and software company. The conversation will discuss satellites and nano satellites, the science and research behind them, and the societal impacts of the space race of the 21st century. This event will be presented in person in the McInnes Room, as well as livestreamed via Dalhousie Alumni and Friends Facebook Live and Dalhousie YouTube. All attendees will have an opportunity to engage during the Q&A portion following the discussion. To attend this informative evening, register HERE

May Co-Working Session

Nova Scotia, Canada

Details Let's show our WordPress websites a little love this month! We're getting together for a co-working session to work on our sites. Install a new theme or plugin, set up WooCommerce, create a new page ... it's up to you. Pair up and help each other or work alone - it's your choice within the video conferencing platform we're using, Gather.Town. Instructions and Password to enter will be emailed to you on the day of. See you there!

OPEN EAST HANTS DAY 2022

Nova Scotia, Canada

Open East Hants is a unique opportunity for residents and visitors of East Hants to celebrate our local business community. Businesses that register for this event open their doors to the public and invite the community into their place of business to share their products and services. This collective "Open House" event makes it easy for people to experience everything East Hants has to offer, so that they become ambassadors of our area by getting acquainted with the people who work and play here. REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS HERE