Would you like to save money on your next hire? Are you looking to grow your business? If yes, then join this interactive session with Rohini Mangla, Corporate Strategist for Youth Employment Programs at the Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration. She is an experienced educator who is a newcomer as well. During the session hosted by ISANS, you will learn about training and hiring supports available to businesses across Nova Scotia. Learn more about the eligibility criteria, application process, and turn-around times for various provincial funding programs. In this session, ISANS will cover: Hiring incentive programs such as START, Graduate to Opportunity, Co-op Education Incentive, Student Summer Skills Incentive, and Apprenticeship START Training supports such as Workplace Education Incentive, Skills Online NS, and WIPSI (Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive) To attend this session, you must: Be an ISANS business client Have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level of 5+ For more information, and to register, please contact: Debra Power |  business@isans.ca

Join ISANS and award-winning brand strategist and leading marketing CEO, Neil Stephen of ‘This Is Marketing,’ for an online business training session. Neil will explore the power and importance of building a marketing strategy that fits the business you are trying to grow. The session is interactive with a specific question-and-answer period at the end called “Ask Neil Anything” for all your marketing questions. In this session, you will learn: What a marketing strategy is (and why you need one) How to determine the size and type of strategy you need How to set a marketing budget The role of research and outreach How to build the actual strategy To attend, you must: Be an ISANS business client Have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level of 5+ For more information, and to register, please contact: Debra Power  |  902-406-3009  |  business@isans.ca

Why cyberattacks are so difficult to trace back? They are usually made by smart hackers who finish the raid without a noticeable trace. Sometimes they get caught, but most of the time they still run free. So, what to do when the bad guys are trying to access corporate data? During this super intense session hosted by Beyond Trust, the audience will learn how to establish informative monitoring that can alarm you if something goes wrong in your environment. They will be brought to the advanced level of monitoring the Windows operating system so that next time when something happens in their infrastructure, they will be able to collect data traces correctly. Beyond Trust will review the signs and symptoms of your systems being attacked as well as demonstrate ways of detecting intrusion patterns. During the session Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO and Founder of CQURE, Microsoft MVP and RD, Cybersecurity expert, will demonstrate the most up-to-date attacks, corresponding with techniques of discovery. It is going to be a super engaging session that showcases the best practices for information extraction. Participants will receive ready-to-launch instructions about how to extract information from various places in the operating system and monitoring solutions. After this session, […]

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but will give you insight to how media, programs and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration. We will provide an approachable overview of how a computer works, by both looking at their history and breaking one down to explain individual components, before highlighting some of the trade-offs to consider when buying a computer. We will provide practical, simple, and actionable advice on digital security and show you a few "pro tips" on how to make the most of your workstation, phone, or whatever device you happen to use. Whether you have a lot or a little experience using your digital technology, if you want to learn how to use your devices more effectively, this workshop is for you! This session will be delivered online. Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not […]

What is High Performance Computing (HPC) and what can it do for me? How can ACENET help? Used by researchers across many disciplines to tackle analyses too large or complex for a desktop, or to achieve improved efficiency over a desktop, this session takes participants through the preliminary stages of learning about high performance computing (HPC) and computing clusters, and how to get started with this type of computing. It then reviews software packages available for applications, data analysis, software development and compiling code. Finally, participants will be introduced to the concept of parallel computing to achieve much faster results in analysis. This session is designed for those with no prior experience in HPC, and are looking for an introduction and overview. This session will be delivered online. To get the most from ACENET basics, please register for a Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) account. To register contact your supervising professor, ask for their CCRI, then visit https://ccdb.alliancecan.ca/account_application. If your professor is not registered with the Alliance, please have them register, then follow up with you. In addition to an Alliance account, you will want a computer with Windows, MacOS X, or a Unix-based operating system (not a ChromeBook), […]

Linux is the terminal interface used to enable you to use the ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) HPC clusters from your desktop. It's the tool you need to get your data on the clusters, run your programs, and get your data back. In this session, learn how to get started with Linux, how to create and navigate directories for your data, load files, manage your storage, run programs on the computing clusters, and set file permissions. This workshop is designed for those with no prior experience in working with a terminal interface. This session will be delivered online. To get the most from ACENET basics, please register for an Alliance account. To register contact your supervising professor, ask for their CCRI, then visit https://ccdb.alliancecan.ca/account_application. If your professor is not registered with the Alliance, please have them register, then follow up with you. In addition to an Alliance account, you will want a computer with Windows, MacOS X, or a Unix-based operating system (not a ChromeBook), and a stable internet connection. A registered account is not mandatory, just recommended to get the most out of our lessons. You can attend the first session to see how ACENET […]