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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

Online Workshop: Data Bias + Artificial Intelligence

AI can enhance automation, improve forecasting, + make our lives more efficient, but what are the ethical considerations for its use? About this Event When: Monday, November 9, 2020 from 10:00am to 12:00pm Where: Virtually on Zoom ( Zoom details will be included with your registration confirmation) Description: With products such as Alexa, Google Home, Siri, and countless others, artificial intelligence-technologies have become a household mainstay. AI can enhance automation, improve forecasting, free up humans from tedious tasks, and revolutionize customer experiences. But, as with any innovation, there also come all of our Black Mirror-type fears, like “What if it goes wrong?” With many examples of AI technologies not working as intended due to data biases and many other influences (hint: Google “Microsoft Tay”), it’s becoming critically important for organizations to better understand how to design better AI-enabled products and services. In this interactive and challenging workshop, you'll explore the relationship between data and predictive systems, and develop the curiosity and critical thinking skills to be more aware of how our biases can influence AI and machine learning systems. Participants will walk away with practical tools and frameworks that can be used to improve how AI is deployed to be more inclusive, […]

Government Aftershock: The Role of Gov’t and Startups in COVID-19 Recovery

In this virtual panel discussion from OPIN and Volta, you will learn how government can work with startups in the COVID-19 recovery effort. As a part of the Government Aftershock event, the Nova Scotia Outpost for Public Sector Innovation (OPIN) and Volta are co-hosting a virtual panel discussion on government leveraging startups in the COVID-19 recovery effort. The discussion will focus on procurement processes and procedures, experiences from both the business community and public sector, and discuss potential for a new path forward. This is an opportunity to learn how and why startups and government work the way they do, and what a more productive relationship might look like in the future. Panelists: Alexandra McCann, Executive Director, ONSIDE Luke DeCoste, Co-Founder, Proof Raye Lemke, Strategist, Government of Nova Scotia Andrew Anningson, Head of Production - Canada , Binogi Chris Mitchell, Chief Procurement Officer, Province of Nova Scotia What is Government Aftershock? Government Aftershock, an event convened by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Observatory of Public Sector Innovation, will run across locations globally, combining local conversations with an international dialogue about how crisis has played out across different countries and different contexts. Participants will hear from, and help inform, […]

Azure Analytics Immersion Workshop

Join MNP and Microsoft for a 2-part virtual event on November 17th, designed to get you started with cloud analytics on Azure. Part 1 is an instructional session, intended for both business and technical users, that will describe how modern approaches to analytics can transform your business - and more importantly, the concepts you must understand to do more with your data. Part 2 is a hands-on lab, where you will learn to plan and implement the migration of an existing on-premises enterprise data warehouse to Azure Synapse Analytics and integrate it with both cloud-based and on-premises services and data sources. Feel free to register for the full day, or just Part 1 if you are not interested in completing the lab portion. By attending this workshop, you will better understand how to: Create an analytics pipeline that goes from data ingestion to insights using Power BI Empower self-service analytics Enable a truly data-driven culture in your business The lab will also cover: The planning process for Azure Synapse migration Identifying schema and data incompatibilities, Efficiently migrating data from on-premises databases to the cloud Data distribution in Azure Synapse Analytics Migrating ETL jobs to Azure Data Factory Supporting ad-hoc workloads […]

CPQI Halifax Job Fair

Get ahead with our job fair. Hear real stories from a world-leading FinTech. The world has changed, and by leveraging strong Digital Transformation strategies and tools, financial institutions are leading the way to improved customer experience, enhanced efficiency, shorter development lifecycles and greater security. CPQi provide digital transformation and technology services to the world's leading financial institutions and businesses.  Founded in 2007, CPQi have 9 offices across the Americas, with the most recent office being opened in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Register

Ideathon

This week we invite you to join our Ideathon! it is a mini one-hour hackathon but instead of creating a solution/prototype at the end of a long weekend, you will find a problem worth solving and propose an idea worth validating! During the event, you'll work with an interdisciplinary group of students made up of your entrepreneurial peers from all across Atlantic Canada. Together you'll discover a problem that needs solving, brainstorm a solution and present it to the group.  No experience or startup idea is needed to join! To end this event, you'll be invited to network with all participants for the last session of the fall 2020 Virtual Networkshop series in with the entrepreneurial centres in the following 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

Healthy Aging Hackathon

ShiftKey Labs and Pulse are proud to present the Healthy Aging Hackathon! Take part in this 3-day event, come up with innovative solutions! For the first time, Shiftkey Labs and health innovation sandbox, Pulse, are partnering to host a virtual hackathon to solve problems in healthy aging and continuing care November 20 -22! In this intensive innovation event, teams will collaborate to develop new solutions to challenges in the industry. In the end, students will present their software-based solution prototype to compete for amazing prizes! Register