Cancelled Workshop: AI in the Workplace - A Practical Guide for Business Leaders

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

Join 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).

This 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.

The 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.

Alternate Date Available: Tuesday March 11, 2025

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Matt Symes, CEO & Founding Partner
Symplicity Designs

Matt Symes is a serial entrepreneur, a recovering academic, and a marathoner. As a founding partner of Symplicity Designs, Matt has been the organization's CEO for ten years. Matt has helped over 500 organizations and institutions both scale and recover from some of their darkest moments. He brings a reality check to leadership teams, works with them to confront the brutal facts, and specializes in developing sound strategies to navigate through uncertain times.

In addition to Symplicity Designs, Matt also manages a portfolio of companies of which he holds a majority or minority stake, including bio-tec, signage and vehicle wrapping, meal prep and delivery, geospatial building modeling, bookkeeping, online learning, and an experiential retail coffee shop. Matt has a unique ability to bring clarity to chaos, which has earned him the honour of being named Business Leader of the Year (2020) from the Halifax Chamber of Commerce and one of Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEOs (2022, 2023) with Atlantic Business Magazine. He sits on the Board at Groupe Savoie and is a Strategic advisor for an 80M IT firm. Matt also goes out of his way to embrace leading-edge environmentally sustainable practices at his companies, no matter how much effort and resources are required. Matt believes in stoicism – that we all have 100 percent control over our mindset. With that frame of mind, it’s possible to do almost anything, and he enjoys solving complex problems.

ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES

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

is located in Nova Scotia
is registered and active in the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies or incorporated by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature
has been operating for at least 1 full calendar year
generating at least 30% of revenue from commercial activity (any business activity occupied with commerce or trade with an expectation of profit)

Registration is limited to 1 employee representative per organization to allow more members the opportunity to participate.

** Not-for-profits are not currently eligible to participate in this training.
The Halifax Chamber has other free training opportunities available to NFPs - please reach out to learn more.

Cancelled Workshop: AI in the Workpla...

Date and Time

Tuesday Mar 4, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM AST

Lunch will be provided

Location

LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED

Fees/Admission

This training is fully funded by the Department of Labour, Skills, and Innovation (LSI), and is FREE for eligible participants.

**Please note: your registration gives Halifax Chamber of Commerce permission to use the photographs taken during the event for any legal use.

Contact Information

Ashley Groves, Event Specialist
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