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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!

Tribe Network Huddle with MindFrame Connect: Principles of Mentorship

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Want to improve your mentor skills? Join Tribe Network and MindFrame Connect on June 2, 2022, at 11:00 am AST for a virtual workshop focused on the core skills required to effectively manage a mentorship relationship. About the Workshop The MindFrame Connect team and Tribe’s Sally Ng will take participants through the key principles of being a mentor with practical frameworks and real-life examples on how to make the relationship more effective. Please note: The Zoom link will be emailed to you before the event. About MindFrame Connect MindFrame Connect is a not-for-profit created in partnership by Dalhousie University, Toronto Metropolitan University, I-INC, Globalive, and Davis Pier. Funded through FSC, MindFrame Connect shares lessons from leading experts, entrepreneurs, and mentors in workshops, how-to videos, masterclasses, literature pieces, podcasts, and learning aids. All content is designed to provide practical learnings on two streams of programming – improving the craft of mentorship and creating more resilient, high-performing entrepreneurs. MindFrame Connect works with accelerators, hubs, and academic institutions to provide training complementary to their current program offerings and catered to the needs of their entrepreneurs and mentors. All offerings are vetted by a team of entrepreneurs, mentors, and academics and offered at no […]

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  

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FITTskills International Market Entry Strategies

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Nova Scotia Business Inc., in partnership with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, is pleased to offer FITTskills International Market Entry Strategies.   This course will run 4 days: Monday, June 6, 2022 - 9 am – 12:30 pm Friday, June 10, 2022 - 9 am – 12:30 pm Monday, June 13, 2022 - 9 am – 12:30 pm Friday, June 17, 2022 – 9 am – 12:30 pm   Ensure your success in new markets by conducting proper research, selecting the most effective entry strategy and implementing it efficiently. The International Market Entry Strategies course examines what individuals in organizations need to know and do to ensure the success of new international ventures. You will learn how to research market entry options, analyze them, and then select the most effective strategy for your needs. With this knowledge in hand, you will also discover how to implement and manage your new market entry strategy and build a successful future in your new market. For more information, please contact: Yuliya Demish ydemish@nsbi.ca 902.221.5138 DOWNLOAD FULL COURSE OUTLINE

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Win Clients with Privacy

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What is stopping you from landing your next client? Or your biggest client yet? Privacy helps you build trust – and that’s something you can’t buy. In this 45-minute lunch and learn by Barrington Consulting, we will show you three easy ways to use privacy to gain client trust and win clients with privacy! We will also give real examples of how some of our clients have won business by being more privacy-aware. It might be the most profitable lunch hour you spend this year! Meet the Presenter Linda Bolton, Privacy Practice Lead at Barrington Consulting Linda Bolton is the Privacy Practice Lead at Barrington Consulting and a Fellow of Information Privacy through the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She has completed over 80 privacy projects, supporting companies to grow their privacy culture

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 !

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Reduce, Reuse, Responsible Tech

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Join Digital Nova Scotia, Ocean Start Up Project, COVE Start Up Yard and dive into how tech can be used responsibly to minimize environmental impact and our carbon footprints. Our panelists will also explore the ways that we can add value to how we interact with the ocean and climate, creating a harmonious ecosystem in Nova Scotia waters.

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

Black Start-Up Project Atlantic Roadshow: Virtual Session

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Join us for Tribe Network’s Black Start-Up Project Atlantic Roadshow! Can’t make it to an in-person event? Join us for our virtual show! Tribe is inviting Black entrepreneurs and aspiring business owners to network and talk about challenges and opportunities to help inform Tribe Network’s Black Start-Up Project programs and services that will propel Black entrepreneurship and innovation forward. Why should you attend? Network with Black leaders and aspiring business owners from across Atlantic Canada. Engage with Black change-making panellists in an interactive Q & A. Share your perspectives and experiences as a Black entrepreneur in a safe forum to help inform the Black Startup Project. Who can attend? This event is open to Black community members with entrepreneurial ambitions and Black entrepreneurs with established businesses who want to access training workshops, capital, networking opportunities, entrepreneurial support and more! About the Black Start-Up Project What if more Black, Indigenous and People of Colour worldwide had the knowledge, resources and tools needed to succeed as entrepreneurs and innovators? And what if these supports were shared by us, for us? Tribe Network’s Black Start-Up Project is a unique program to provide Black entrepreneurs and business owners – like you – in Atlantic […]

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 […]