Events from March 27 – March 26 – Page 2 – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Annual State of the Municipality with Mayor Mike Savage

Halifax Convention Centre 1650 Argyle St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

As Nova Scotia approaches the one-million population mark, the city looks and feels much different than it did a decade ago. We are achieving sustainable, progressive growth, creating new opportunities for young people and attracting more people from more places to Halifax. Together with our partners at Halifax Chamber of Commerce, we invite you to hear Mayor Mike Savage address the challenges and opportunities of growth in Halifax.

Advantage Women’s Empowerment Conference

Holiday Inn Sydney 300 Esplanade, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hosted by the Cape Breton Regional Chamber of Commerce, Advantage is a full day of inspiration and empowerment for women, by women working in or for businesses on Cape Breton Island. Advantage is presented by Scotiabank. Advantage Women’s Empowerment Conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Sydney Waterfront on April 29,2022. The doors will open at 8:30 am and the events starts at 9:30 am and runs until 5 pm where it will be followed with a cocktail hour.

Ocean of Data Challenge: One Port City Begins

Online

About this event Halifax Port Authority, PSA Halifax, COVE and DeepSense are are hosting the third Ocean Data Challenge. This free event will kick off on Monday, May 2nd at 4pm ADT with an introduction to the Challenge, presentations from experts, and the chance to ask questions to help idea exploration. Participants submit their video presentation on Monday, May 16th and the winners are announced on Friday, May 20th. Recently PSA Halifax acquired the Fairview Cove container terminal, and now owns both the Fairview Cove and the Atlantic Hub container terminals in Halifax, making our port unified like few others. The Port of Halifax now has one terminal operator, one railroad operator, and one port authority. This change helps Halifax become a One Port City and will create new opportunities for our community. This Data Challenge will invite participants to imagine new ways to drive port efficiency and sustainability, and to help us better understand and communicate the benefits of being a single container terminal operator port. We are inviting students at post-secondary institutions across Atlantic Canada to use ocean data to examine how we can drive urban port sustainability through this Challenge. The challenge is broken down into three […]

Back to Business: Yarmouth and Acadian Shore Region Package and Experience Development Workshop

IGNITE Labs Yarmouth 208 Main St, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Time to get back to business! Tourism Operators start preparing for the return of travel at this insightful one-day workshop. About this event Join Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Tourism Association, Ignite Atlantic, the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia, and Tourism Nova Scotia to learn how to create and promote travel packages and experiences, and raise awareness of your business. Participants will have an opportunity for one-on-one experience coaching and can enter their experience idea in Ignite Atlantic’s Pitch Competition, with prizes to be won! Lunch provided. In this workshop, we will share: Insights about traveller preferences from Tourism Nova Scotia's market research Best practices for creating and delivering experiences and packages Marketing tactics to help grow your business Tourism updates from your region Presenters include: Melanie Lowe, Tourism Development Advisor at Tourism Nova Scotia Lisa Dahr, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia Malcolm Seaboyer, Yarmouth and Acadian Shores Tourism Association

Queering Tech Sales

Online

Do you want to get into the tech industry? Considering a career change? Tech sales is an incredible opportunity for you to consider - great pay, benefits, and lots of personal growth. If you want to figure out how to get in, join us for this webinar! Volley and QueerTech have partnered to bring you ‘Queering Tech Sales’ where you’ll hear from fellow queers working in tech sales on how they got in, why they love it, and what steps you can take.

Modern Fortran for scientific programming

Online

This workshop will be a hands-on introduction to the FORTRAN programming language. Prerequisites: Familiarity with another programming language Fortran, one of the initial high-level programming languages, continues to be an excellent option for high-performance computing due to its superb performance. The newer versions offer many modern features, including object-oriented programming capabilities to programmers. This course will cover some of these features. The session will take place on: Wednesday, May 4th - 12:00pm - 4:00pm (Atlantic time) You need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail) Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.

Women in Tech Day 2022

Online

Women in Tech Day is an interactive exploration which encourages young women to explore computer science and technology! Women in Tech Day is an inspiring, stereotype-busting, interactive exploration which encourages young women to consider the many career pathways and ever-increasing employment openings which exist through the study of computer science and technology. This event will help young women realize the possibilities offered through a career in technology by hearing important messages of the future from other students, faculty, and industry. The skill sets needed by industry through the study of computer science and IT can be linked to every aspect of study from communication, art and design, business, medicine, health, engineering, law, and more. In addition to hearing from our industry and student mentors, your students will be working through a series of activities using python to solve problems in data types, variables, input/output, if statements, and loops. With the help of our instructor and female mentors, they will be put into groups to solve logic and coding problems to build their confidence in computing! Coding experience isn’t necessary to attend the event.

Online Computer Training: Microsoft Excel I (May 10-26)

Online

Level: Beginner Number of Sessions: 6 Session Length: 2 hours In this course, you will use Microsoft Office Excel 2016 to learn how to: Create, open, save, print, edit, and close worksheets and workbooks Insert, copy, move, delete, and rename worksheets Add headers and footers and prepare print layout Select, insert, define width/height, and delete columns and rows Hide and unhide rows, columns, and worksheets Create simple formulas and use defined functions (sum, average, min, max, and count) Use relative, absolute, and mixed references Format cells, and enter and format data Sort and filter data Find and replace data Auto and flash-fill data Remove duplicates Apply “Text to Column” Apply “Freeze Panes”