Events from May 29 – March 20 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Team Development Lessons From Sports

Part 3: Growing Teams, A Winning Team The most famous winning sports franchises didn't become winners because they had the right players, they started to win because they got those players to work together and play their positions effectively. Getting players to work together is a key element in creating a winning organization! In this 90-minute webinar, we'll cover: Play your position Coaching relationship with a team Coaching relationship with players one-on-one Performance systems that help players reach their potential Recognition and accountability systems Participants will leave this webinar with: Coaching techniques for teams and individuals A plan for structuring a performance management system Strategies to ensure your team members understand their roles and their contributions to the team Skills for formal and informal recognition and accountability Register   Team Development Lessons From Sports Part 1: Leading Teams Team Development Lessons From Sports Part 2: Growing Teams About Dave Reynolds Dave Reynolds has over 15 years of business development experience ranging from launching and developing new products, to refining sales strategies, and customizing learning and development programs for companies all over Atlantic Canada. Dave has been growing sales teams for the past 10 years and has found a unique way of motivating employees to […]

Navigating Covid-19: Wage Support Programs for Hiring Students

Join the conversation about how student wage subsidies can help you take your business to the next level for little or no cost. Join the ICTC Atlantic Regional Coordinator, NS Department of Labour and Advanced Education Youth Outreach Coordinator, and Dalhousie University Co-op Education Coordinator to learn about the Provincial and Federal wage subsidy programs available to NS businesses and not for profit organizations and how to find the skills you need within the NS student community. Your key takeaways from this session will be: • Hear about how co-op students can add value to your organization • Learn about provincial and federal student wage subsidies you may be able to leverage • Gain an understanding of the ICTC WIL-Digital program • Gain an understanding of the provincial programs for students and new graduates • Find out how to match your needs with student talent What is the WIL Digital Subsidy? ICTC’s WIL Digital is an innovative Work Integrated Learning program that helps employers grow their businesses by providing financial assistance for hiring post-secondary students. WIL Digital is funded by the Government of Canada’s Student Work Placement Program (SWPP) and provides a wage subsidy of 75% up to $7,500 for […]

Shaping Success: Positioning Your Business for Growth in What Lies Ahead

About this Event You have built a company that matters, creating value for customers, employees, and your community. You want to stabilize where you are now and position your business to achieve growth and innovation for what lies ahead. No one can predict the future, although you want to be clear on what is most important to make the right decisions to persevere and succeed. And you want to protect the people who are with you and provide a bigger future of possibility and opportunity. But there is a lot of noise around you, too much information in fact, distracting you from what is most important, and taking your attention from where you need to be. And people are talking about the same things again and again. And the pandemic has created upheaval and disruption, and it continues – leaving you worried about what is happening with people in your company. Are people in your business focused on the right opportunities to sustain revenues? Are people in your business investing time to innovate? Are people in your business able to cope with the accelerated pace and scale of challenges hitting the company? The key to the future of your business […]

Shaping Success: Positioning Your Business for Growth in What Lies Ahead

About this Event You have built a company that matters, creating value for customers, employees, and your community. You want to stabilize where you are now and position your business to achieve growth and innovation for what lies ahead. No one can predict the future, although you want to be clear on what is most important to make the right decisions to persevere and succeed. And you want to protect the people who are with you and provide a bigger future of possibility and opportunity. But there is a lot of noise around you, too much information in fact, distracting you from what is most important, and taking your attention from where you need to be. And people are talking about the same things again and again. And the pandemic has created upheaval and disruption, and it continues – leaving you worried about what is happening with people in your company. Are people in your business focused on the right opportunities to sustain revenues? Are people in your business investing time to innovate? Are people in your business able to cope with the accelerated pace and scale of challenges hitting the company? The key to the future of your business […]

Tenant Talks, featuring Marie MacCormick of SEATAC

Join us every Tuesday for Tenant Talks, a new weekly web series with COVE tenants. We sit down with a new COVE member each week to discuss their company and the exciting projects and products they are working on. Marie MacCormick, SEATAC Program Director, joins us for this episode of Tenant Talks. SEATAC supports the growth of the ocean economy by providing research services to local businesses and other organizations that work in the ocean technology sector. NSCC was awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funding to establish SEATAC in 2019, along with industry funding from Thales Canada and the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE). Nova Scotia's first Technology Access Centre (TAC), SEATAC helps businesses be more productive and competitive through for-fee, easy access to research expertise and technology. SEATAC's team is focused on addressing customers’ needs and collaborates with NSCC Applied Research and other NSCC departments to offer a wide array of services and expertise. SEATAC’s services include: • Mechanical design engineering and prototyping • Various types of 3D printing • Data communications and analytics • High-resolution remote sensing • Geographic information system (GIS) capabilities. Register Now

Student Wage Subsidies + Hiring Strategies in Nova Scotia

Join the conversation about how student wage subsidies can help you take your business to the next level at little to no cost. About this Event A Zoom link will be emailed to you at 10:00am day of the event.   Join the conversation about how student wage subsidies can help you take your business to the next level for little or no cost. Tim Perron: ICTC Atlantic Regional Coordinator, Margaret Schwartz : NS Department of Labour and Advanced Education Youth Outreach Coordinator, and Theresa Myra: Dalhousie University Co-op Education Coordinator, to learn about the Provincial and Federal wage subsidy opportunities to make it easier for small businesses, non-profits and startups to hire post-secondary youth into meaningful career opportunities. Key takeaways from this session will include: • How co-op students can add value to your organization • Gain an understanding of the ICTC WIL-Digital program • Provincial youth employment programs such as Graduate to Opportunity and the Co-op Education Incentive. • Find out how to match your needs with student talent Register Now

Update on the Internet for Nova Scotia Initiative in Cape Breton

Hosted by the Cape Breton Partnership, this webinar will feature a presentation and update from Deborah Page, Director of Marketing and Communications with Develop Nova Scotia on the Internet for Nova Scotia Initiative in Cape Breton. This webinar is open to the public and free to attend, however, pre-registration is required. The session will be capped at 100 participants, however, the webinar will be recorded and shared on the Cape Breton Partnership social media channels to ensure the information is accessible to all. Register Now

Intro to Customer Discovery with Katelyn Bourgoin

About The Webinar ​​​​​​​This 45-min webinar will give you a quick introduction into customer discovery. You'll learn how many of the world's fastest-growing companies use customer discovery to make better decisions and grow 2-3X faster. We believe that the customer discovery process is often overlooked but if done correctly it can yield amazing results. We want to help set you and your brilliant idea up for success. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 23 from 12:30-1:15 pm. ​​​​​​​ ​​​​ ​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​About Katelyn Bourgoin: ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​She is a 4X founder turned growth strategist and trainer. She understands the challenges business leaders face because she's ​​​​​​​been there herself. With operational experience spanning the marketing, tech, and ​​​​​​​hospitality sectors, Katelyn has been named as an influential entrepreneur by Forbes magazine and featured in Inc., HuffPost, Bustle, CBC, CTV, Global TV and more. Katelyn is recognized as one of the " top 20 wonder women of SaaS marketing and growth" by SaaStock. Her past clients include high-growth tech startups, SMBs, business support organizations, and Fortune 500 companies like ​​​​​​​Target and Holiday Inn. Today Katelyn is the CEO of Customer Camp and helps frustrated founders, marketers, salespeople to focus on what really matters- their customers. After all, whoever gets […]

WTWT Workshop: Visioning

This visioning workshop will help you establish a clear mission, vision, and build confidence in your business plans. About this Event Join Volta and Natalie Frederick-Wilson from Centre for Women in Business on July 23 at 5:30pm for a visioning workshop. Natalie will guide participants through a visioning exercise that will help you establish a clear mission and vision, and build confidence in your plan to start and grow your business. By participating in the session, you will be able to describe your business' value proposition, articulate your vision for the future, and know what steps to take next to create or update your business plan. About the speaker: Natalie Frederick-Wilson is a former business owner, who joined the Centre for Women in Business in October 2019 with a goal to inspire women and students to go from innovative idea to startup, and beyond. She does this by connecting them to the right business advice, tools and training. Natalie holds a certificate in Business Development and in Leadership and Innovation from Dalhousie University and has extensive experience in business automation and customer service management. As an American immigrant of Afro-Caribbean descent, Natalie believes that helping others succeed is the greatest […]

Blue Economy Leadership Labs: Optimizing Opportunities with Design Thinking | Part One

Design Thinking helps navigate the unknown through cycles of creativity and critical thinking. Think of it as a superpower that allows for ideation in new markets and new purposes/applications for existing technology/products. Given the current COVID situation, and the lull it has pressed into sales cycles for several SMEs across the ocean technology industry, there is an opportunity to provide training into how your business can creatively repurpose your existing products for new markets, or retool your current production for new purposes. Join us for a two-part virtual workshop led by Doug Jones, CEO of IGNITE, and Christine Hamblin, Innovation Principal at Accenture. These online sessions will be highly customized to the ocean tech community, highlighting relevant examples of repurposed products and offering useful activities to help develop the creative and cognitive muscle. The desired outcome of the workshop is to facilitate ongoing innovation for sales optimization that will help regional companies to recover and build resilience during this unprecedented time. Part One with Doug Jones: Friday, July 24th | 10:30 am – 11:30 am Part Two with Christine Hamblin: Wednesday,. July 29th | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Register Now

ICTC CyberTitan Virtual Summer Camp

Cybersecurity is a fast growing field. Would you like to start learning the basics of how to protect your computer? This summer camp is designed for beginners to help understand how to prevent cyber attacks. The camp is designed to be hands-on, going through the basics to secure Windows and Linux based computers. On the last day, there will be a mini-competition with those participating. One week only! Seats are limited! July 27-31 starting at 9:00am each day. Camp will be held via teleconference. For Youth 12-18 years old. Participants should have DSL internet connection and Windows OS computer. Registration is free. Register Now

SEO Brunch

About this Event SEO Brunch | Event Schedule 12:30-1:00: 10-Minute SEO Audit (TBA) 1:00-1:30: Guest Speaker (TBA) 1:30-2:00: Q&A Period What is SEO Brunch? SEO Brunch is a meet-up of people who are interested in Search Engine Optimization. The community varies from professionals who have worked in the space for a long time to those new to the industry. Some regular attendees include: seasoned SEO professionals affiliate marketers who generate a large portion of their traffic and sales from organic search new-to-the-industry marketers tasked with improving their companies organic visibility business owners that want to improve traffic to their website professionals with other marketing specialties who want to align their approach to SEO those that are always curious and want to learn Webinar Details Our event will be hosted on Zoom which can be used (for free) in-browser as well as through their downloadable app. Anybody interested in joining needs to get their free ticket here & we will then send you the link to our Zoom webinar. Please join us & ask lots of questions! Register Now