Digital Nova Scotia on Thursday presented its Tech Forward Awards to individuals and organizations in eight categories, to recognize innovation, entrepreneurship and diversity in the tech industry.

The IT industry association for Nova Scotia for

Fredericton agtech company Picketa Systems has released its flagship product LENS, which allows agronomists and other agricultural professionals to analyze plant tissue in real-time in the field.

The company, which grew out of the University of New

The organizers of the first InnovateNB Awards, which will be handed out at a gala in Saint John on Tuesday, have announced the shortlist.

The shortlist features three finalists in each of eight categories, which include such fields as diversity and

Halifax dental technology startup PhotoDynamic has hired a new CEO to steer the company through the commercialization process.

Ying Tam, whose last job was as managing director of health at Toronto startup hub MaRS Discovery District, succeeds

Fredericton’s Symbodi and Halifax’s Milk Moovement were named to Deloitte Canada’s 2022 Companies To Watch list, after reporting revenue growth of 3,084 percent and 246 percent respectively over the past three years.

The global services company

Jevon MacDonald, one of the pre-eminent tech entrepreneurs in the region, has launched a new venture after teaming up with two co-founders in the San Francisco area.

MacDonald, the former CEO of Manifold and GoInstant, earlier this year co-founded

The Black Startup Project is inviting BIPOC entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada to submit a two-minute video pitch on which they will receive personalized feedback from Black mentors, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and industry allies.

The top five

St. John’s-based PragmaClin Research is preparing to test its system for monitoring Parkinson’s Disease patients in both Newfoundland and Labrador and Britain on the back of raising more than $1 million of non-dilutive funding since its founding.

Armando Balboni, the CEO of Halifax drug discovery company Appili Therapeutics is leaving his role to become the company’s chairman and rejoin the United States military as Director of the Life Sciences Research Center at the United States Air Force

The PEI BioAlliance has received $3.18 million in funding from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island to help fund the next iteration of its Emergence Bioscience Business Incubator.

The federal government’s Atlantic Canada Opportunities

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But a token

MESH/Diversity, the New Brunswick company whose software helps organizations improve diversity and inclusion, has launched a new program to help human resource executives and others improve their skills.

The company announced recently that it is