A range of international speakers will converge on Fredericton this weekend for the Future of Innovation Conference, hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s TME program.

The conference at the Delta Fredericton Hotel on Friday and Saturday will feature such headline speakers as Afghan champion of female education Sakena Yacoobi and the father of the lean canvas, Steve Blank.

The conference

Fredericton-based Internet of Things company Eigen Innovations has closed a $3.5 million round of funding, led by Toronto-based tech specialist Globalive Technology.

The New Brunswick company uses artificial intelligence to help machines manage large amounts of data and improve their productivity. When CEO Scott Everett was nominated for the Manning Award for Innovation in June, he told

Our Job of the Week today is an opening for Research Funding Program Manager at Sydney-based Protocase.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries.  The company has more than 175 employees and 12,000

Blockchain technology has a reputation for being difficult to understand. It’s a relatively new technology that takes on different meanings depending on who you ask. Recently, the folks at the David Aplin Group in Halifax, organized a panel discussion to help the region’s business and innovation community better understand this new industry.

The recent Breakthroughs in Blockchain event in

A key development in the Atlantic Canadian startup community in the past year is that we’re finally noticing ocean-related startups cropping up in a meaningful way.

Not long ago, much of the ocean innovation came from large Atlantic Canadian companies, service companies, or divisions of overseas multinationals. But OceanTech startups – meaning independent companies developing innovative products

I will deliver a presentation on Thursday in Fredericton on Entrevestor’s most recent Atlantic Canadian startup data, with a special focus on New Brunswick.  

The free session, which begins at 10:30 a.m., will be hosted by Opportunities New Brunswick and takes place at Planet Hatch in Knowledge Park.

Last month at Invest Atlantic in Charlottetown, I gave a similar presentation about the metrics

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is seeking proposals for its biannual business development competition, Breakthru 2018/2019.

The competition is a chance for New Brunswickers with a growing business idea to win access to startup capital, mentoring and support from successful founders and companies.

Breakthru is currently seeking proposals in the form of an application, a 60-second video

BioNova, the association for Nova Scotia’s life sciences industry, has released its plan to at least double the biotech sector in the next 12 years, creating 2,700 jobs with average salaries of more than $100,000.

Titled BioFuture 2030, the report outlines a plan to increase the number and size of life sciences companies, with the goal of increasing jobs, investment and research. Penned by

Volta Labs on Oct. 24 will continue a Halifax tradition that dates back to 2011 when it hosts DemoCamp at Pier 21.

DemoCamp is an opportunity for early-stage startups to present their projects to an audience of fellow innovators and potential investors. The catch? No PowerPoint presentations. The presenting companies are not pitching so much as demonstrating what their product does.

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Marcel LeBrun, the driving force behind one of Atlantic Canada’s most successful startups, Radian6, has joined Montreal-based Real Ventures as a Venture Partner.

Real Ventures announced the hiring of LeBrun – who it describes as “arguably one of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs” – in a statement released this morning. While maintaining his base in Fredericton, LeBrun will help the