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Board Spotlight: Q&A With Ashley McInnis
Our Board Spotlight series continues this month, highlighting the leaders who lend their time, experience and perspectives to Digital Nova Scotia’s Board of Directors .
Synexiom Labs is tackling AI’s trust problem from Cape Breton
Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at giving answers. The problem, according to Cape Breton-based Synexiom Labs , is knowing when those answers are wrong. For brothers and co-founders…
Feed Nova Scotia backs Food Web's mission to connect food entrepreneurs with commercial kitchens
A $25,000 grant from Feed Nova Scotia is helping Food Web remove financial barriers for food entrepreneurs while accelerating the growth of its shared commercial kitchen marketplace. Justin Andrews w…
The digital pivot that helped Good Robot Brewing Company keep growing
The digital pivot that helped Good Robot Brewing Company keep growing A Digital Nova Scotia Success Story For many small businesses, the hardest investments aren't the obvious ones. They're the ones…
Stop automating what you haven't proven yet
Expert Series features guest perspectives from leaders across Nova Scotia's tech community, sharing practical insights, lessons learned and real-world expertise through the Digital Nova Scotia platfo…
Board Spotlight: Q&A with Robert Chambers
Welcome to Board Spotlight, a new series introducing the leaders helping shape the future of Nova Scotia's tech sector through Digital Nova Scotia's Board of Directors .
Built on relationships: How WBC Designs has evolved over nearly two decades
A background in psychology is not widely considered a business essential, but for Craig Steinberg, Owner and Lead Designer of WBC Designs , it's become one of the company's greatest strengths. Long b…
Pouring purpose into business: How Lemonade Communications found sweet success in values-driven marketing
For Emily Sollows and Meghan Doucette, business has always been deeply personal. As the founders of Lemonade Communications , the two neighbours-turned-business-partners build their digital marketing…
Nova Scotia has 500,000 hot water tanks. Daniel Roscoe sees half a million small batteries.
When most people picture grid storage, they picture warehouses of lithium-ion battery packs. Daniel Roscoe, CEO of Roswall Development , pictures something a lot more familiar: the white cylinder in…
Why audiences are getting harder on AI content
Why audiences are getting harder on AI content The McDonald's Netherlands Christmas commercial went up on YouTube on December 6. Three days later, McDonald's took it down . Viewers had spent the week…
Nova Scotia produces tech talent every year. CGI is making sure it stays here.
Across Nova Scotia, co-op students and recent graduates are entering the workforce, eager to build careers in technology. While training early-career talent requires investment, companies like CGI Ha…
The future of food hubs is digital, not physical
There's a gap between local farms and local tables. Most Nova Scotians want to eat local. And lots of restaurants would love to serve more local produce. Ask any Chef from a local restaurant and you'…
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