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Dalhousie University

Dalhousie Job and Career Fair

The Job & Career Fair is the largest on-campus career fair, open to all Dalhousie and King’s students! The event takes place every year in February in the McInnes Room on the 2nd floor in the Student Union Building (6136 University Avenue). Stay tuned for information on the 2021 event. Top five reasons YOU should attend:  You’ll meet employers & organizations from across Canada who are hiring! You’ll learn about new jobs and industries. You’ll explore career options including full-time, part-time, summer, professional & co-op opportunities. You’ll practice your networking skills and make connections. You’ll get free swag from employers. Register

Getting Ahead with Grant Writing

Panel: Getting Ahead with Grant Writing

Join us on Wednesday, February 17 at 10:00am to hear from three founders about their experiences with writing grant applications. Join Volta and the Emera ideaHUB for a moderated panel discussion on grant writing. Three local startup founders will share their "war stories" about pursuing grants. Stories will shine a light on lessons learned including both failures and successes. Are you curious about how you can make yourself stand out when applying for opportunities? Wondering what grants are the best to apply for? Bring your questions and learn the "do's and don'ts" of grant writing. Register

AI

Azure AI Immersion Workshop

Join MNP and Microsoft to explore how Azure AI services can be used to propel innovation at your organization. This free, half-day learning opportunity is designed to help you think differently about developing cloud applications when AI is part of the solution set. You’ll learn about machine learning models, bots, and AI apps and discover the most efficient ways to build solutions using Azure AI. Technical roles from all organizations will learn about Azure AI capabilities and use real-life examples to visualize innovative projects. The workshop starts with an overview of how Azure AI is powering new possibilities for many organizations, followed by a deeper dive and demo showcasing Azure Cognitive Services, Knowledge Mining, and Bots. Register

Amplify your email

AMPlify your Email

In this session, you will learn how to leverage unprecedented features in AMP for Email to create highly dynamic and interactive emails. Discover the capabilities of AMP for building rich and highly engaging email content using Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Register

Getting Results from Your E-commerce Platform

Getting Results from Your E-commerce Platform

So you’ve implemented an e-commerce platform for your business, what’s next? Join Tourism Nova Scotia and Digital Nova Scotia for a webinar presented by Arbuckle Media to learn how to fully integrate e-commerce into your business and get results. The webinar will cover: 1. The e-commerce mindset: how to adapt e-commerce into your regular business reporting and reap the rewards, not only by using it to makes sales but also to learn about your customers. 2. How to speak the language of e-commerce and marketing, even when you have a skills or experience gap in your team; whether you're a service or product-based business. 3. How to stay organized and confidently read e-commerce and marketing reports so you can make actionable decisions based on the data and insights. Register

Blockchain

Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency

In this live 30 minute, information-packed event featuring renowned blockchain and cryptocurrency expert instructor George Levy, you will have the opportunity to learn about the many opportunities currently available with blockchain technology, and why it is considered "essential critical infrastructure" during the COVID-19 Pandemic. You will also have the chance to learn valuable information about Bitcoin, Blockchain and how you can take part in the greatest technological transformation since the World Wide Web. Register

Wonder Women Conference

Virtual Wonder Women Conference

The Wonder Women Conference brings together bold and ambitious women to connect, educate, inspire and empower one another to take on new and expanded roles in work, community and life. Wonder Women is proud to offer diverse female-led content featuring local, professional superheroes. We invite you to build meaningful relationships with women across all industries while participating in engaging workshops and hearing from a panel of local leaders on successes and challenges of women in business. Together, we strive to create a community of inclusivity that ultimately encourages all women to own their ambition, break down barriers, and unleash their superpowers. Let’s lift each other up – the world needs women working together now more than ever. All superheroes welcome – regardless of gender! THE WONDER WOMEN CONFERENCE HAS GONE VIRTUAL! We want to ensure all attendees feel safe and comfortable at our upcoming Wonder Women conference, and with restrictions still evolving, we have decided to make our February 19th 2021 conference entirely virtual. This won't be just another zoom webinar! We are working with our AV partners to make this virtual experience exciting, engaging and uplifting for all. The conference host and speakers will be streamed live from the […]

Fueling Startup Growth

Fueling Startup Growth: Getting it Right the First Time

The world is more competitive than ever, and while ideas are easy, taking something beyond idea to real growth can be much harder. In this training, we will equip you to use data to help you make decisions, and orient yourself for growth. Session 1: What do you need to understand to figure out where your business fits in the grand scheme? What actually matters for your technology startup? Session 2: Once you’ve started to understand your place in the world, how do you gather information successfully, from primary and secondary sources? Session 3: Once you have data inputs, how do you make sense of it? What are your next steps? The course will be facilitated by Dr. Jonathan Calof, an expert who has helped thousands of companies with their growth. All of the content will build on the previous day, so make sure you join us for all of it. Due to interactive nature of the training, this will be offered only as live training. Training will run from 9am Atlantic Standard Time - 1130am Atlantic Standard Time each of the three days. This training is supported by ACOA and is free of charge for Atlantic Canadian Startups. This […]

SEO Brunch February

SEO Brunch

Join us for SEO Brunch the last Monday of every month. Learn valuable SEO tips & share knowledge with a group of like-minded individuals. SEO Brunch | Event Schedule 12:30-1:00: 10-Minute SEO Audit (TBA) 1:00-1:30: Guest Talk (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! Powered by: Digital […]

Woman working

Women Entrepreneurship Conference: She-Covery: The Role of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Pandemic Recovery

An official event of the Women Entrepreneurship Conference; a free, month-long event series, presented by the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH) in partnership with Women Enterprise Organizations of Canada (WEOC). As Canada begins to focus on post-pandemic economic recovery, supporting women entrepreneurs is more critical than ever before. The research shows clearly that structural barriers long-faced by women entrepreneurs have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic and health crisis that has affected women entrepreneurs more than men and has affected Indigenous, racialized and other diverse entrepreneurs most of all. In this session, we’ll discuss how the ecosystem is responding to support women entrepreneurs during this time. Register

Ocean Solutions Exchange

Ocean Solutions Exchange

Join us for our virtual discussion to learn from global industry experts about opportunities to solve major ocean sector problems. The Ocean Startup Challenge will award $1.4 Million in 2021 to start and grow new ocean tech companies in Canada. Leading up to the launch of the Challenge, we're hosting a six-part series of industry-led presentations and interactive networking sessions. This speaker series will bring together ocean industry experts in shipping and transportation, fisheries and aquaculture, naval and defence, energy and marine bio-resources. You will hear from industry leaders who will discuss the challenges faced by each sector, highlight opportunities in the market, and share other insights into their respective fields. Join us on Tuesday, February 23 at 1 pm AST for part four of the virtual dialogue series focused on naval and defence. After the panel discussion, you'll have a chance to connect with speakers and other attendees during sector networking. You'll hear from: Tobias Stapleton, Co-Founder, Managing Director, Blue Innovation Symposium Mae Seto, PhD, Associate Professor & Irving Chair in Marine Engineering and Autonomous Systems John Waterston, Program Manager, DARPA Ocean of Things Sue Molloy, PhD, PEng, President Glas Ocean Electric Michael Brasseur, Co-Chair, NATO Maritime Advisory Board, […]

Remaking Retail

Remaking Retail

In the age of digital disruption, retailers have had to make big changes in order to adapt to the new world that we live in today. The pandemic has dramatically accelerated this disruption, and according to retail analysts, this massive shift is here to stay as retailers begin to blur the lines between digital and physical. To discuss this ever-changing landscape and how to stand out by "choosing remarkable", the David Sobey Centre is honored to host two outstanding retail experts. Jeff Leger, President, Shoppers Drug Mart and this year's Distinguished Retail Speaker, and Steve Dennis, Senior Forbes Contributor, Best Selling Author, Consultant, and named one of the top 5 Retail Influencers in the industry. Steve will also give a sneak peek and share insights from his new unreleased book "REMARKABLE RETAIL: HOW TO WIN & KEEP CUSTOMERS IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION" Recently named "the best retail book of all time" by Book Authority. Register