Events from June 1, 2022 – June 9, 2022 › Webinar › – Page 8 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Online Business Development Training: Start a Successful Small Business in Canada

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ISANS and RBC are pleased to facilitate this important training session for current or aspiring business owners. In this two-part training session, you’ll hear from George Gerges, financial Advisor at RBC, who will teach you everything you need to know to start and grow your business in Canada. Our goal is to help you and help our community to prosper! In Part 1, “Starting and Planning your Business,” you will learn about: Making sure your business idea will fly Finding the money to start and control of your cash All the legal stuff you need to know Help & Advice In Part 2, “Financing and Growing your Business,” you will learn about: How Financing can help your business Short term and long term financing Reasons to grow and focusing on customers Diversifying, funding, resources and help To attend this session, you must: Be an ISANS business client Have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level of 5+ Attend both training dates – Part 1 on May 25 and Part 2 on June 1 For more information, and to register, please contact: Suhel Shaikh | 902-406-7793 | business@isans.ca

Accelerating Accessibility for Businesses

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The workforce underrepresentation of people with disabilities is well documented. At the same time, labour and skills shortages continue to be a challenge for employers in Nova Scotia, particularly as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. For employers, adopting a mindset that forefronts equity, inclusion, and belonging in recruitment, retention, engagement, communication, training, and everyday workplace practices is key to building a bridge between a skilled and valuable labour pool and proven gaps in the labour market. This means moving beyond the built environment to include different ways of recruiting, communicating with, training, and engaging employees. Join Sea Change CoLab for a free virtual workshop to: Define disability, accessibility, inclusion, and belonging, and identify how these concepts apply in your workplace. Explore Nova Scotia’s Accessibility Act and its impact on workplaces. Identify barriers to accessibility through first voice case studies and scenarios. Integrate the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as one framework for accessibility that removes barriers. Develop strategies for creating an accessible and inclusive workplace and culture. Come to this session and leave with a toolkit of resources to accelerate accessibility in your workplace!

What Search Data Can Tell You About Your Brand

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Topic: Share of Search - What Search Data Can Tell You About Your Brand Description: Marketing experts have found a connection between online searches for your business and your business’s total sales in relation to overall industry sales (or your market share). In this webinar, you’ll learn what it means to measure your search volumes and how to use that information to monitor and improve awareness of your business. This webinar is offered in partnership between Tourism Nova Scotia and Digital Nova Scotia through DigiPort, a one-stop-shop of interactive services and educational opportunities to help tourism businesses develop digital marketing skills and access professional support to improve their online presence. Time: Jun 23, 2022 10:00 AM in Halifax  

QT Connect Café – AJ Fernandez Rivera, Managing Director, Accenture

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AJ Fernandez Rivera is a Managing Director at Accenture based out of the Toronto office. AJ has been with Accenture for more than 20 years and has lived and worked in various Accenture and client locations across Asia, Europe, and North America. She is currently the Products and CMT Canada Technology Sales Lead, and the Programme Lead for Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC). In addition, AJ is the Executive Sponsor of Accenture Canada's PRIDE ERG, the Accenture Canada Technology I&D Lead and the North America Co-Sponsor for LGBT Leaders Learning (L3) course. AJ identifies as a transgender woman and is a staunch advocate of inclusion and diversity having set-up and led the very first LGBTQ+ organization in Accenture Asia Pacific region. AJ's personal interests include watching foreign films, travelling, yoga and meditation. TUNE IN TO WATCH IT LIVE - Here on this page, on YouTube, Facebook, or on LinkedIn !

Technologies For Inclusive Employment, EducatIon, and Life

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The workforce underrepresentation of people with disabilities is well documented.At the same time, labour and skills shortages continue to be a challenge for employers in Nova Scotia, particularly as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Distinctability provides sustainable solutions for organizations in employment, education, health and social care that create environments to leverage the skills and capabilities of people with disabilities and mental health support needs. In this session you will learn how you can start addressing labour shortages through supportive technology. Join us on June 8th to explore strategies for inclusive employment and workforce development through people-focused assistive technology solutions and resources.

Workshop: How Do Your Security Decisions Impact Your Enterprise Sales Deal?

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Join Volta + Software Secured on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 12:00pm ADT for How Do Your Security Decisions Impact Your Enterprise Sales Deal About this event When: Wednesday, June 8, 2022, 2022 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm AST Where: Virtual via Zoom ( log in details will be included in your Eventbrite confirmation email) Description: Enterprise customers are demanding more security requirements from their vendors than ever before. When digital demand skyrocketed with the onset of the pandemic, the risk of serious cyberattacks soared as hackers infiltrated more large-sized company networks through targeting clients or partners. As you can imagine, your security decisions now have huge implications on the likelihood of closing enterprise deals. Join us for a discussion on what enterprises look for when vetting possible tech vendors and the best practices to start implementing so that you stand out against your competition. We’ll also introduce you to vendor security questionnaires: the tool that most enterprises use to weed out their most secure tech vendors from the most risky.

Beyond Unification: How CNAP Should Reduce Cloud Security Risk

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By now, every security team understands that unification is the first step to securing their workloads in the cloud. Disparate niche solutions are impossible to manage, with differing security needs at different points in the cloud tech stack and for different types of microservices at different points in the SDLC. Unification can’t be the end goal, though, because cloud security teams are still struggling with alert fatigue, friction with DevOps and manually trying to prioritize where their attention and remediation is required. In this webinar, we will examine how to reduce cloud security risk and eliminate existing complexity in the cloud, by using smarter unification tools that can help security professionals reduce risk in the cloud and DevOps teams to remain empowered and agile. In this webinar you will learn: How to pull business objectives into the security alert prioritization process Why establishing an asset's effective security policy in the cloud is critical to risk elimination How to eliminate friction with DevOps teams and turn your organization’s security into an innovation enabler

Halifax Data Science Meetup – June 2022

VOLTA 1800 Argyle Street #Unit 801, Halifax, NS

Details Hi everyone, Long time no see!, we are excited to announce that we are back at organizing Data Science presentations for the benefit of the whole professional, academic and enthusiastic community! We have two interesting speakers lined up for this coming June! We'll meet up at 6:00 pm on Wednesday June 8th, and kick off talks shortly after. Pizza and refreshments will be provided *** Space is limited so be sure to RSVP. Also please cancel your RSVP in case you find you are not coming, regardless of how close to the meetup date you find out! *** 1.- Generating Refuted Claims and the Importance of Critical Statements in NLP Pipelines Speaker: Domenic Rosati, Senior Research Scientist, scite.ai Bio: Domenic’s research focuses on natural language understanding and reasoning in scientific texts and how to improve scientific discovery and evaluation with AI. Abstract: With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT3 that perform at almost human levels without any fine tuning on many NLP (Natural Language Processing) benchmarks, a new line of research has emerged trying to assess the safety of these models by assessing the factuality and faithfulness of their outputs Unfortunately, LLMs have been shown to […]

Stewart McKelvey Member Webinar – Software Licensing

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Our June Member Webinar will be hosted by Stewart McKelvey: Software Licensing – Focus on SaaS Agreements. This session will cover key topics relating to SaaS Agreements such as scope of the license, data ownership, audit rights, service level commitments and remedies, SaaS management, limitations of liability (essentially, tips on what to say and what not to say in your SaaS agreement). Meet the Speaker Susan Norman Susan specializes in advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, financings, tax planned corporate reorganizations and commercial agreements. She has worked extensively in the mining, oil and gas, construction and information technology sectors. She works with clients on a broad range of issues including incorporating new companies, drafting contracts, reviewing lease agreements, preparing franchise and license agreements and securing financing. Susan has extensive experience advising clients in relation to option agreements, joint venture agreements, royalty agreements and aboriginal partnership agreements. She has extensive experience in advising early-stage and established players, together with investors, on shareholders’ agreements and corporate governance, share options, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, she has an large client base that relies on her for advice on commercial services contracts and cloud-related contracts such as SaaS agreements, together […]