Shubhra Singh, CEO of Halifax-based EmployNXT has received the Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Saint Mary's University.

Singh is a co-founder of EmployNXT, which has developed an artificial intelligence system to help match employers with job applicants based on the AI’s assessment of their abilities and preferences, with the aim of reducing the opportunities for bias to creep into

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based support organization for BIPOC entrepreneurs, is holding two networking sessions in New Brunswick next week. They are:

Tribe at ConnexionWorks in Saint John, Dec 4, 5 to 7pm. The event is free. Register here.
Tribe at Planet Hatch in Fredericton, Dec 5, 5 to 7pm. The event is free. Register here.

The group is also offering founder drop-in support sessions every

The second Innovation Den contest run by Halifax-based QEII Foundation and the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub has boosted three young health innovation companies with $170,000 of funds.

The contest was set up last year with money provided by Chester couple John Hunkin and Susan Crocker. The pair had already established the Angels’ Den at St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation in Toronto and wanted

As well as winning Nova Scotia’s recent Provincial Spotlight Award, rural innovation hub IGNITE Atlantic is celebrating taking the Science Champion Award.

The Provincial Spotlight Award, presented by Digital Nova Scotia, celebrates organizations outside Halifax that demonstrate growth through tech-focused export, recruitment, and community engagement.

The Science Champion Award, offered in

Government grants are valuable but Atlantic Canada’s technical founders need to stop focusing on perfecting their products and understand their own sales propositions and strategies straight off the bat, says Kent Summers, a Boston-based B2B sales expert who recently presented in Halifax.

Summers, founder and managing partner at the Spinnaker Sales Group, was one of the B2B sales experts at

A celebration of the life of Brian Flood, a co-founder of the pioneering cybersecurity startup Q1 Labs, will be held Monday, Nov. 25, at 5 p.m. at the Wu Conference Centre at the University of New Brunswick.

Flood, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 63, teamed up with Chris Newton, Dwight Spencer and Sandy Bird in 2001 to found Fredericton-based Q1 Labs. Flood was the first CEO of

Employees resistant to returning to the office, the changing face of AI, older and more experienced direct reports, and employee mental health are among the big issues challenging today’s managers, according to Modern Manager: Conquering the Five Frustrations of Leadership.

“The demands on today’s manager have changed and increased dramatically post-pandemic,” St. John’s-based author Corina

Fresh off her big win at an international science contest, Dalhousie University student Dina Rogers is aiming to transform our relationship with plastic with a novel method of deconstructing waste, allowing plastic constituents to be re-used.

Earlier this month, Rogers won Science Breakthrough of the Year in the Emerging Talents category at the Falling Walls Competition in Berlin. Now back home

A national program that pairs students with startups and businesses for work experience is set to bring more opportunity to the region’s students.

The Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax is now the Regional Lead Atlantic Canada for Experience Ventures, a program led by The Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking at the University of Calgary.

The

Two Atlantic Canadian investment groups that back under-represented founders are working on new funds that could bring millions of dollars to high-growth companies.

Tribe Network, the Halifax-based support organization for BIPOC entrepreneurs, hosted a panel on investment Tuesday as a kickoff for its Leaders Summit, which is taking place today (Wednesday, Nov. 20). During the discussion, Tribe