The folks at the University of New Brunswick’s J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship are gearing up to celebrate the centre’s 30th anniversary at its annual RBC leadership conference. 

The two-day conference, called The Future of Innovation in Canada, will take place on Oct. 19 and 20 in Fredericton.

The conference aims to help participants understand basic

Peer Ledger, a Halifax blockchain company, has struck a strategic partnership with the Swiss precious metals company known as PAMP to work together to remove conflict minerals from the global supply chain.

PAMP, whose full name is Produits Artistiques Métaux Précieux, has invested in Peer Ledger as part of the agreement, though the companies did not reveal the size of the investment. The Swiss

A young New Brunswick company is on the cusp of getting the data it needs to assess whether its new video game is effective in helping children cope with anxiety issues.

The company is Fredericton-based Reframe Games, and its video game is called Guide. It has been testing the game with young people, mostly nine to 13-year-olds, at eight clinics in the Fredericton area.

The company’s six-member

Real-time data collection is quickly becoming the gold standard for record keeping across all industries. And Agyle Intelligence, a provider of a real-time operational intelligence platform, is helping set this new standard in Agricultural and Ag-Food processing industries.

Agyle, which is based in Scotchfort Prince Edward Island, is a mobile software for data input and collection for supply

St John’s-based CoLab Software released the beta version of its collaboration platform this week.

CoLab helps engineering teams better communicate and manage feedback when designing 3D models with its integrated platform, called Gradient.

The platform lets engineers share input on a design model, which is a process normally done through a convoluted string of emails, spreadsheets and other

Eight companies have been chosen to compete in this year’s BioInnovation Challenge, a regional health and life sciences business competition hosted by BioNova.

The competition will go down on Nov. 7 at BioPort 2018, BioNova’s annual conference for the life-science industry at the Halifax Convention Centre.

The BIC is one of the longest running business competitions in the Atlantic region. Since

Eyesover Technologies, a provider of opinion tracking and targeting software, has received a $200,000 equity investment from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, as part of a $450,000 funding round.

In addition to the NBIF investment, the Fredericton-based company also received angel investment and a grant from National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program,

Cape Breton’s burgeoning startup community will host a one-day seminar next month in which experts from Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. will provide instruction in online marketing.

The event, to be held Sept. 14, is called Social Media Sydney: A World of Online Marketing. It’s designed to help entrepreneurs and others reach out to potential clients in their community or around the world.

“This

Here’s something to watch in the startup community as we move toward the autumn season: it’s conceivable Atlantic Canadian startups will record $200 million in equity investment this year.

I wouldn’t put money on it, but after the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association released funding data for the first half last week, it’s certainly within the realm of possibility.

On

SomaDetect, a Fredericton-based company that produces an in-line sensor that measures and collects data on critical indicators of milk quality, has various job postings in our Jobs of the Week column today.

The company helps dairy farmers collect data to analyze cows milk to monitor health and milk quality. This year has been good to SomaDetect. In March, the company expanded its operations to