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Simpson New CEO of TechImpact

Cathy Simpson, T4G’s current vice-president of people and culture, has been reading Hit Refresh, a new book by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
The book is about transformation – both Nadella’s own personal transformation and transformation inside
NeoThermal wins Volta WTWT Pitch
NeoThermal Energy from Halifax won a $500 Visa gift card at Volta Labs’ Women Taking Over the World with Tech pitching competition on Tuesday. The event saw five early-stage female-led tech companies present at the Volta offices on Barrington
Networking is Vital to Female Professionals
Female-focused competitions, programs and funding opportunities are fantastic and necessary ways to encourage women to join tech and business fields. But sometimes all it takes is a quick email blast and a few bottles of wine to get the ball
UNB Student Aids African Farmers
Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa commonly lose 60 per cent of their crop before it gets to market, and that number is way too high for Damilare Odumosu.
The Nigeria native has been a student for the past year in the Masters of Technology, Management
Volta, McInnes Cooper Form Partnership
Halifax-based Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, and national law firm McInnes Cooper have announced a corporate partnership.
McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. ft. space with a permanent satellite office, making
ACOA, NBIF Give $5.5M to UNB Centre
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are providing a total of $5.5 million in funding to the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick.
The two agencies said in
Densitas Signs with UK Hospital Group
Halifax-based Densitas, a breast imaging analytics innovator, has signed a partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the U.K. to bring its breast screening technologies into routine clinical workflow.
The Densitas software provides an automated
LaunchPad 2018 Demo Day
Participants in LaunchDal’s LaunchPad Accelerator will showcase their ventures at its fifth annual Demo Day on August 7. Participating ventures include an online convenience store and a company that is creating a software for mental health.
The
Contact Lenses for the Colour Blind
You may have seen those tear-jerking YouYube videos in which colourblind people use special glasses to see the world in full colour for the first time. Until now, those heavily tinted glasses are the only market solution that lets colourblind folks
Startup Zone to Host Invest Atlantic
The ninth annual Invest Atlantic conference will take place in Charlottetown this year, checking off all four provinces as hosts of the pan-Atlantic conference.
Invest Atlantic, which started in 2010, was initially based in Halifax. This September,
UNB TME Celebrates 13 Startups
Thirteen entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial teams took to the stage in Fredericton on Thursday as UNB TME held its summer send-off for two of its programs.
The University of New Brunswick’s Technology, Management and Entrepreneurship program began by
Google Film To Highlight NS Seniors
A team from Google has been in Nova Scotia this week filming a pilot project that uses Google Home to improve the lives of seniors.
For the past three months, a team led by entrepreneur John Hamblin has been working with the voice-activated product
