Designed to address the region’s demand for skilled workers in web development and data analytics, industry group Digital Nova Scotia and Bluedrop ISM have launched Skills for Hire Atlantic for tech enthusiasts looking to re-skill and up-skill.

Up to 300 participants will be accepted into the virtual, flexible, no-cost 20-week training program commencing August 2, this year.

Skills for Hire has

Dalhousie University-based SuperNOVA, along with Acadia First Nation and Ulnooweg Education Centre have announced their first STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program for Indigenous youth.

The August program will see 20 high schoolers from Acadia First Nation attend Melkiknuawti, a land-based education program that aligns STEM concepts with local Indigenous knowledge and culture.

Jennifer Wagner posted on social media last week that she is stepping away from Dartmouth-based CarbonCure Technologies, where she has served as President for several years.

We asked Wagner a few questions about her tenure at CarbonCure and what the future holds for one of the region’s leading cleantech entrepreneurs:

Q: Why are you moving on now?

JW: I’ve been with the company right from the

Halifax-based Fractional Finance has raised about $500,000 for its new, blockchain-driven platform that’s designed to change the way people invest in real estate.

The company’s first product is called the Frabric, which allows users to buy into real estate investments using tokens purchased on the platform. It aims to allow investors of limited means – who are shut out of many real estate

Well-known Halifax-based entrepreneur and educator Akram Al-Otumi is leaving Shiftkey Labs, the software innovation sandbox, and moving to a new position as a Catalyst Project Director with Toronto-based SVX.

Since 2019, Shiftkey Labs has hosted and organized 185 events and programs which have attracted over 6,500 participants and achieved an overall growth of 300 percent, he said in

In the wake of a PEI BioAlliance white paper that described systemic barriers to recruiting life sciences talent from outside Atlantic Canada, startup community observers say the same stumbling blocks exist for information technology companies across the region.

But the Atlantic provinces still enjoy comparative advantage even in some domains where they are troubled — a distinction industry

The four Atlantic provinces have launched a new initiative to collaborate on clinical trials for medtech and pharmaceutical research, dubbed the Atlantic Clinical Trials Network, or ACTN.

Health authorities from each province, along with industry groups BIOTECanada and Innovative Medicines Canada, have said they will “streamline” the clinical trial process and reduce barriers to patients

Karina LeBlanc, Executive Director of the Fredericton-based Pond Deshpande Centre is leaving her role at the head of the socially conscious group after 10 years with the organization.

PDC is part of the University of New Brunswick and was established by entrepreneurs Gerry Pond and Desh Deshpande to find solutions to complex social issues. Recently, PDC announced it is moving to a revenue-driven

The University of New Brunswick, its new McKenna Institute and TechImpact have announced two initiatives to help prepare New Brunswickers for the growing employment opportunities in information technology. 

The first is a new Coding Boot Camp. The program is a partnership between UNB’s College of Extended Learning for adults not interested in pursuing a four-year degree, the university’s McKenna

Charlottetown’s BioVectra, which manufactures pharmaceutical ingredients and is owned by Miami-based private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, has been included in Waterloo incubator Communitech’s inaugural Team True North list of startups that are on track to reach $1 billion in annual revenue.

To qualify for the 35-company list, businesses must show growth rates equal to the top one percent of