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Bulletproofing your Business for the Future

The best leadership strategies to take your company to the top tier Most owners and executives can relate to these statements: > It’s easier to do stuff on your own versus stopping and training others how to do it properly. > You may know where you want to be in a couple of years but don’t have a real road map to get there. > You have spent the past few years building the business, and now you're in protection mode versus growth mode. > All roads lead to a select few in the company, creating a bottleneck. Learn from Dave Mattson, best-selling author and sales and management thought leader, and gain access to the information that will help you make your organization run like a well-oiled machine. Register Now

Social Selling Success (Optional free workshop)

How to Use LinkedIn to Fill Your Pipeline Now is a great time to rethink and evolve your social media sales strategy. Mike Montague, Sandler’s Global Head of Content and author of "LinkedIn the Sandler Way," will dive into his effective methods for utilizing social media, specifically LinkedIn, to add more people, opportunities, and information to your sales pipeline. Learn how to prospect from the comfort of home. Looking for a break instead of this workshop? No worries. Take a leisurely break, eat, stretch, move around, check your emails, take out the dog, and mentally prepare for the second half of the summit. Either way, you've got 45 minutes before it's time to focus on sales strategies. Register Now

Winning Sales Strategies for Today’s World

Get ahead and stay ahead by avoiding the "Buyer-Seller Dance" Designed for salespeople, sales leaders, and business owners. Gain the skills that will help you who set goals and succeed. Whether you are trying to avoid a sales slump or maximize your peak sales window, these selling strategies will help you get ahead and stay ahead of the competition. Selling is a slight edge business, and sometimes, the advantage of beating your competition can mean millions of dollars. You'll learn how to: > Manage behaviors and best practices to develop your people > How tracking revenue goals provide lagging patterns > Top performers' approach to culture Register Now

Webinar: Canadian Technology Accelerator

About this Event Join us for a webinar on the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) program designed for Canadian tech companies looking to tackle the Silicon Valley market in 2020. Speakers include: Yaa-Hemaa Obiri-Yeboah, Canadian Trade Commissioner , Vancouver Thierry Lu, CTA Program Manager, Palo Alto Jonathan Lowenhar, Founder of Enjoy the Work, Silicon Valley Topics covered Introductions Canadian Trade Commissioner Service offer to Canadian businesses Overview of current dynamics in Silicon Valley in the wake of Covid, particularly the ICT / digital sector Overview of the CTA Digital Disrupted Program in Silicon Valley: how we work with Canadian companies and key dates Q&A REGISTER The CTA Program in Silicon Valley The CTA in Silicon Valley helps early stage Canadian technology startups and SMEs access the region’s unique resources to achieve business objectives such as acquiring clients, establishing strategic partnerships and fundraising. The program will prepare selected companies to gain exposure at a globally recognized conference: TechCrunch Disrupt*. The whole program will take place from July 27 - Sept 18, 2020. Who should apply The ideal startup should already have raised some funding (think Seed) and be prepared to raise a Series A round when applying for the program. Startups and SMEs with a […]

Human-Centered Design for Digital Products

Did you know, DNS members with less than 50 employees could access this training program for free? Have more than 50 employees? No worries, you could attend for 50% off! Course overview Human-centered design (HCD) empowers us to tap into the human experience at every step of the design process so that we are considering the end-users - our customers! In this 4-day course, participants will: Learn key concepts of human-centered design, including empathizing with customers through observation and interviews Tap into human-centered design principles to design and develop digital products people love to use Develop “points-of-view” based on user needs and insights, and ideation through brainstorming creative solutions for design challenges Explore considerations for designing accessible and inclusive digital products Most importantly, through a hands-on experiential approach, participants will 'learn by doing' and discover practical ways to leverage this design and management framework in their organizations. This course includes: 16 hours of class time 4 hours of 1-1 consultation A design framework guide that contains templates for you to use Eligibility This program has been fully funded through Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI), and will be provided FREE for DNS members with less than 50 employees. If your […]

Uncover the right idea

Are you looking for an innovative business idea? Learn how to find a startup idea through ideation discovery tools and exercises, including ideation interviews in the second event in the Virtual Networkshop Series. What does Networkshop mean? It is a hybrid event that is part networking and part workshop! Whoever said virtual events weren't social and interactive is about to be proven very wrong! Florian Villaume, Director of the Memorial Centre for Entrepreneurship, will discuss how to use the tools that startups around the world utilize to innovate and set themselves up for success and get to know potential customers by exploring how to solve their problem(s). Find out what to ask, who to ask and why to ask to uncover your startup idea. This short presentation will be followed by a chance to practice your idea finding skills and network with entrepreneurial students across Atlantic Canada. Once again this workshop is in partnership with the entrepreneurship centres in the following Atlantic Canadian universities: University of Prince Edward Island Cape Breton University Dalhousie University University of New Brunswick Saint Mary's University Mount Saint Vincent University Memorial University *For the best Hopin experience with this event, please ensure you are using a Chrome or Firefox web […]

Innovative Care 2020

Atlantic Canada’s Event of the Year for Health Care and Aging. An opportunity to hear from small and large innovative companies in the Health and Longevity Sectors, to learn new skills and to network with investors, startups and support organizations. A great program of speakers from near and far and a startup pitch competition highlighting new, exciting ideas. Innovate Care, the Jameson Group and Aging2-Halifax are pleased to be working in collaboration with the NS Dept of Seniors, Northwood and other organizations to showcase Nova Scotia as an innovation hub for innovative home & health care, aging, senior, mobility and independent care solutions. The event will offer a fully-featured virtual experience. On October 5 & 6th IC2020 in partnership with Aging2.0’s and its Pitch competition will feature thought provoking keynotes and interactive roundtables on innovative care solutions. They’ll focus on independence for those who require care at home, at a home care facility or within a health care system. The 2 day event will provide a forum for today’s frontline healthcare providers and technology solution providers along with startups, investors and major innovators like Google, Amazon, Oculus, Telus Health, etc to come together in a “think tank” setting to discuss […]

Building a Career in the Tech Sector

Learn from industry experts about the skills and steps that will help you build and advance your career in the tech industry. Whether you have recently begun your career in tech or are currently working towards a related degree, you may find yourself asking “What can I be doing now to better prepare myself for a career in tech?” or “How can I continue to build on my current role to advance my career?” Join ShiftKey Labs and Digital Nova Scotia this upcoming Tuesday, October 6th for a panel discussion addressing these questions. Come ready to learn about the skills and steps that will help you build and advance your career in tech. This virtual panel discussion will run from 12pm – 1pm and will allow for questions at the end of the session. About our panel: Akram Al-otumi, Director, ShiftKey Labs Nick Misener, Partner – IT Recruitment, Venor Nicole Seamone, HR & Talent Lead, REDspace Katie Wright, Director of Engineering, Dash Hudson Register

Voice Technology Accelerator Program – Applications Due

Building the future of Canadian voice technology. Applications will open for Canada’s second cohort of the Voice Technology Accelerator Program in collaboration with Amazon’s Alexa Fund starting Monday, October 5 until Sunday, October 18 at 11:59pm.   Open to Canadian companies coast to coast, the program is designed exclusively for entrepreneurs who are advancing voice-powered technologies OR who have the potential to broaden their product(s) with voice and AI enablement. Startups in the program get: Our award-winning accelerator programming One-to-one mentorship sessions with our in-house experts (including all business fundamentals such as IP creation and protection) Flexible delivery model: Enjoy our variety of office space options in Waterloo Region with professional meeting rooms for private meetings (with unlimited internet and coffee) or be fully remote Potential access to grants and funding through our investor and grant networks Alexa-focused technical Lunch and Learn sessions hosted with Amazon staff Access mentor network and office hours, technical solutions architect Exclusive Amazon AWS Credits for first time users Learn More

Lean Six Sigma Virtual Training Begins

Add to your problem solving and process improvement skills, support driving a continuous improvement culture in your organization. Projects on average have a 10x return on the investment. We have trained hundreds of LSS Green Belts and our instructors have coached Green Belt projects whose sum exceeds $40m dollars! With 50 hours divided up over 1/2 day online virtual training, join Barrington OPS as they cover in depth training in the LSS DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology. This course you learn how to apply a wide range of Lean Six Sigma problem solving and process improvement tools and statistical analysis. We ensure this class is interactive with breakout groups, live instructor interaction at all times, an in class case study. We can follow up with 1 x 1 coaching through a Green Belt process improvement project. Upon completion of the classroom training, passing a technical test and completion of the certification criteria you will receive a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.   The Training begins on November 3rd and ends December 10th, 2020   Register

Take on Tech

Don't have a tech background but want to create a startup? Great, you've come to the right place. There are countless amazing startups that are created by people just like you. And these days all startups have some technology element, so let's take on tech! We invite you to participate in this hands-on introductory technology training to learn some foundational skills and concepts. The goal is to have each participant leave with a greater understanding of the tech topic of their choice and the resources to keep learning. Join one of three tech topics: Artificial Intelligence How to build a website Digital tools and approaches for remote teamwork This workshop is in partnership with the entrepreneurship centres in the following Atlantic Canadian universities: University of Prince Edward Island Cape Breton University Dalhousie University University of New Brunswick Saint Mary's University Mount Saint Vincent University Memorial University *For the best Hopin experience with this event, please ensure you are using a Chrome or Firefox web browser. Register

Innovating Online – Youth Digital Programming

Digital technology and innovation workshops focusing on problem-solving, communications, critical thinking and teamwork skills. Innovating on The Internet Have the next (big or small) idea, no budget, or development skills? No problem – you shouldn’t start with building anyway. In this hands on workshop we will explore pre-product design tools that anyone can pick up to express their app idea. With these tools you will walk away with a means to engage your user base to test concepts, gather feedback quickly, very inexpensively, and early on in the product cycle. Don’t have a big idea? You will eventually. We will have some starter ideas on hand for you to play with. Come build your innovation skill set with us. Register