BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260501T113000Z DTEND:20260501T190000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Workshop: AI in the Workplace - A Practical Guide for Business Leaders DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This training has eligibility requirements for participation listed below - please read carefully\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us as Symplicity Designs offers their 1-day training on AI in the Workplace\, covering best practices on how to leverage its use in each core area of your business (Marketing\, Sales\, Operations\, HR\, and Leadership).\nThis comprehensive training will provide current best practices and risk mitigation when employing artificial intelligence in a business setting\, beginning with practical ground rules regarding AI's use as a co-pilot.\n\n \n\nThe training is designed to include every level of eagerness and reluctance in the face of AI\, with hands-on activities\, and open Q&A periods at the end of each section.\n\n \n\nMEET YOUR FACILITATOR\n\nMatt Symes\, CEO & Founding Partner\n\nSymplicity Designs\n\nMatt Symes is the CEO and founding partner of Symplicity Designs. He has guided 600+ private and public-sector organizations through strategic transformation\, unlocking over $1B in profitable growth and helping Symplicity earn and sustain B-Corp certification with impact that places the firm among the global top decile for the triple bottom line. As a serial company builder\, he has started\, acquired\, and scaled a diversified portfolio from a specialty coffee roastery to professional services giving him credibility that most consultants can only reference.\n\n\n\nHe is the AI Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UNB's Technology Management & Entrepreneurship (TME) program\, a transformation strategist\, and an AI-first organizational architect. Matt's point of view is direct: AI is no longer an IT project\; it's a management discipline. Since 2023\, he and the Symplicity team have introduced practical AI to more than 300 organizational leaders. Their deeper deployments have produced millions of dollars in unlocked productivity and capacity by redesigning workflows\, compressing cycle times\, and instrumenting decisions with data. His playbook blends leadership behaviors\, change mechanics\, and hands-on systems integration so teams can ship value on Monday not someday. \n\n\n\nHis operating experience includes stepping in as COO to help scale a CPG firm from $20M to $155M in revenue\, doubling a global IT firm's revenue in less than three years\, and has supported systemic performance improvements in education and healthcare. His grandfather was a roofer who started a roofing company and his heart lies with helping small business owners. That breadth informs how he mentors founders and executives: align on a compelling future\, make the few hard choices that matter\, and build an environment where execution becomes routine.\n\n\n\nAn award-winning CEO and award-winning educator\, Matt was named Business Leader of the Year by the Halifax Chamber in 2021 for his role in helping the region navigate the Covid-19 pandemic and he has been recognized four times as Atlantic Canada's Top 50 CEOs (2022 2025). Through keynotes\, workshops\, and his 12-month Levership cohort\, he distills what works in the field into pragmatic tools leaders can use immediately to scale without sacrificing their desired lifestyle. Offstage\, you'll find him enjoying his own espresso\, logging miles as he works toward seven marathons on seven continents\, and living a life of intention and adventure with his partner Emily and their two young daughters. Matt's a business builder\, a curious human\, and proud girl dad committed to showing up with purpose (and not just talking about it).\n \n\n\nELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES\n\nAs per the guidelines for LSI funding\, there is eligibility criteria for participants. **\n\nA business is eligible to participate if it:\n\n\n is located in Nova Scotia\n is registered and active in the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies or incorporated by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature\n has a direct workforce development need (like upskilling employees\, adopting new technologies or addressing critical skills gaps within their industry) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

PLEASE NOTE: This training has eligibility requirements for participation listed below - please read carefully

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\nJoin us as Symplicity Designs offers their 1-day training on AI in the Workplace\, covering best practices on how to leverage its use in each core area of your business (Marketing\, Sales\, Operations\, HR\, and Leadership).

\nThis comprehensive training will provide current best practices and risk mitigation when employing artificial intelligence in a business setting\, beginning with practical ground rules regarding AI&rsquo\;s use as a co-pilot.
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\nThe training is designed to include every level of eagerness and reluctance in the face of AI\, with hands-on activities\, and open Q&\;A periods at the end of each section.
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MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

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Matt Symes\, CEO &\; \;Founding Partner
\nSymplicity Designs
\nMatt Symes is the CEO and founding partner of Symplicity Designs. He has guided 600+ private and public-sector organizations through strategic transformation\, unlocking over $1B in profitable growth and helping Symplicity earn and sustain B-Corp certification&mdash\;with impact \;that places the firm among the global top decile for the triple bottom line. As a serial \;company builder\, he has started\, acquired\, and scaled a diversified portfolio&mdash\;from a specialty coffee roastery to professional services&mdash\;giving him credibility that most consultants can only \;reference.
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\nHe is the AI Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UNB&rsquo\;s Technology Management &\; Entrepreneurship \;(TME) program\, a transformation strategist\, and an AI-first organizational architect. \;Matt&rsquo\;s point of view is direct: AI is no longer an IT project\; it&rsquo\;s a management discipline. \;Since 2023\, he and the Symplicity team have introduced practical AI to more than 300 \;organizational leaders. Their deeper deployments have produced millions of dollars in \;unlocked productivity and capacity by redesigning workflows\, compressing cycle times\, and \;instrumenting decisions with data. His playbook blends leadership behaviors\, change \;mechanics\, and hands-on systems integration so teams can ship value on Monday&mdash\;not \;someday. \;
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\nHis operating experience includes stepping in as COO to help scale a CPG firm from $20M to \;$155M in revenue\, doubling a global IT firm&rsquo\;s revenue in less than three years\, and has \;supported systemic performance improvements in education and healthcare. His grandfather \;was a roofer who started a roofing company and his heart lies with helping small business \;owners. That breadth informs how he mentors founders and executives: align on a \;compelling future\, make the few hard choices that matter\, and build an environment where \;execution becomes routine.
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\nAn award-winning CEO and award-winning educator\, Matt was named Business Leader of the \;Year by the Halifax Chamber in 2021 for his role in helping the region navigate the Covid-19 \;pandemic and he has been recognized four times as Atlantic Canada&rsquo\;s Top 50 CEOs \;(2022&ndash\;2025). Through keynotes\, workshops\, and his 12-month Levership&trade\; cohort\, he distills \;what works in the field into pragmatic tools leaders can use immediately to scale&mdash\;without \;sacrificing their desired lifestyle. \;Offstage\, you&rsquo\;ll find him enjoying his own espresso\, logging miles as he works toward seven \;marathons on seven continents\, and living a life of intention and adventure with his partner \;Emily and their two young daughters. Matt&rsquo\;s a business builder\, a curious human\, and proud \;girl dad&mdash\;committed to showing up with purpose (and not just talking about it).
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ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES

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As per the guidelines for LSI funding\, there is \;eligibility criteria \;for participants. **
\nA business is eligible to participate if it:

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