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    • 02 Apr 2024
    • 30 Apr 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • 0

    This program, aligned with PMI's 2021 Exam Content Outline and PMBOK 7th Edition, Agile Practice Guide, and Process Groups Practice Guide, focuses on key areas for project success. The course begins with understanding project purpose and success metrics, emphasizing business compliance, value delivery, and organizational change support. It then delves into Project Management Processes per PMBOK standards, providing a solid management framework for project teams.

    A critical aspect is managing project teams, emphasizing both management and leadership skills. Topics include conflict resolution, leadership attributes, empowerment, servant leadership, team development, negotiation, collaboration, mentoring, and emotional intelligence. Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the Exam Content Outline, gain experience through practice tests, and confidently schedule their PMP certification exam. This comprehensive approach ensures a deep understanding of project management principles, aligning with international standards, and cultivating essential skills for effective project leadership.


    Who should take this course?: Ideally, this is for senior, practicing, full-time project managers who have demonstrated project management capability and need that final certification to prove their organization’s project management maturity and capability.

    Participants must have:

    ● A bachelor’s degree (or global equivalent) and 36 months of project management

    experience, or

    ● A Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate degree, or the global equivalent)

    50 months of project management experience, and;

    ● 35 hours of structured project management training


    • 30 Apr 2024
    • 10:00 AM
    • Zoom
    Register

    ChatGPT has recently introduced “GPTs”, custom versions of ChatGPT that you can create by combining custom instructions, extra knowledge, and any blend of skills. This session will demonstrate how to create your own GPT to help with any variety of day-to-day tasks or organizational processes. We will give you the knowledge and space to build your own GPT in this workshop, diving deeper into testing, improving, and optimizing your GPT.

    Webinar Takeaways:

    1. What use cases GPTs are best used for

    2. How GPTs work (similarities and differences from ChatGPT)

    3. How to create your own GPT

    Meet your presenter...

    Robert Newcombe is an Industrial Engineer and a passionate advocate for using AI to transform organizational productivity. After a decade of consulting experience, gaining project, coaching, and training experience in many different sectors and industries, he started Newcombe Consulting to help others improve their operations with generative AI.


    • 02 May 2024
    • 16 May 2024
    • 3 sessions

    This three-week course explores Cloud Data Warehousing and Data Lakes, covering critical aspects weekly. In the first week, participants delve into understanding the distinctions from traditional databases, exploring use-cases, evaluating Cloud Native vs Third-Party Data Warehouses, and comparing trade-offs between speed, convenience, and cost. The second week focuses on data loading, pipelines, and security, addressing differentiation of data types, ETL processes, real-time data integration, and security considerations.

    The final week delves into data preparation, modeling, and actionable insights, covering transformations, data modeling, BI tool connections,and activation for Business Process Automation. Designed for professionals in marketing, sales, product, and operations, the course equips participants to understand, implement, and optimize Cloud Data Warehousing solutions.


    Who should take this course?: This course is designed for professionals performing data & business analysis activities in marketing, sales, or product or their respective operations levels. It is equally beneficial for front-line analysts as well as their managers as this course both covers the operational planning aspects of modern cloud data warehousing and practical considerations that help optimize costs

    and performance to fit the SMB segment. Positions that this course would be beneficial for include but are not limited to:

    ● Data / business analysts

    ● Data / marketing / sales operations professionals

    ● Product Managers

    ● SEO & Paid Advertising professionals, both internal and external (agencies, freelancers, etc.)

    ● Marketing leaders like Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), directors, managers


    • 08 May 2024
    • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Venor (140 Water Street, Suite 902)
    • 51
    Register


    Join us for an evening of networking and insight into the tech industry right here in St. John's! You'll have the chance to meet the SFHA team, industry professionals, and fellow students from the area.

    This event is also a great opportunity to explore a tech workspace and make valuable connections. Refreshments will be provided.

    This event is for attendees who are 19 years of age or older*

    • 15 May 2024
    • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • 1209 Marginal Road, Halifax, NS
    • 4
    Register

    AI is everywhere today. Is it in your company’s products? In this session we will explore:

    • Things to consider when making your products “smart” with AI

    • How to ensure AI-enabled products play well with your company’s strategy, and

    • How to use less of that crucial resource, data, while getting good performance in AI capabilities

    This session will be part talk, part interactive discussion. We will look at specific tools to assess your company’s AI priorities, and techniques to make AI models less data-hungry.

    3 Key Takeaways 

    • Discover opportunities for adding AI to your products using a structured, disciplined analysis
    • Assess what is needed for your company to fully leverage new strategic possibilities offered by AI
    • Learn about contemporary approaches to training performant AI and machine learning models with less data

    Meet your presenter..

    Nick Pogrebnyakov

    Head of AI and Data Science at Sparrow BioAcoustics

    Nick has held positions in both academia and industry. Before joining Sparrow, Nick was a Technical Lead and a Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter. For 13 years he was an Associate Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business School, where he taught on and researched technology strategy, international business strategy, and innovation in supply chains. With a background in Computer Science and Mathematics, Nick holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University.


    • 24 Sep 2024
    • 22 Oct 2024
    • 9 sessions

    This comprehensive course on lead lifecycle covers key aspects of effective lead management and customer engagement. Starting with lead generation, participants learn strategies for lead enrichment, qualification, and understanding attribution models. The course delves into lead routing, conversion, and handling dead leads, emphasizing best practices throughout. Sales processes in B2B, B2C, and B2G contexts are explored, alongside opportunity stages, product and pricing structures, subscription and custom pricing models, and quote generation processes.

    Who should take this course?: This program is crucial for businesses seeking to enhance lead management and customer engagement.


    • 08 Oct 2024
    • 31 Oct 2024
    • 8 sessions

    Upon completion of the program, participants have confidence in understanding Scrum and how they can apply it directly in their organization. They will have practiced concepts related to Scrum in class,and reflected on their learnings during the course, sharing them in small teams in the class.

    Who can take this course?

    This course is intended for professionals who want to implement Scrum in their workplace. Individuals who have already begun Scrum implementation in their organization and who want to verify their knowledge would also benefit from this course. Scrum applies to any size and type of organization.


    • 14 Jan 2025
    • 20 Feb 2025
    • 12 sessions

    This program includes 24 hours total of training which includes twelve 2-hour online classes. Participants have email access to the facilitator during and after the program, so they may discuss any Agile topics in preparation for the exam.

    Includes training, workbook, exam preparation book, one year of PMI membership and the PMI-ACP exam fee. Participants are required to attend at least 90% of the total 24 hours to get credit for the educational hours as required by PMI for the certification.

    The program includes all materials, training and support required to pass the PMI-ACP exam. When a participant completes the training (as per the Course Outline), one year of PMI membership will be paid. When the participant successfully submits their PMI-ACP application to PMI, their PMI-ACP exam fees will be paid. The PMI-ACP exam application is required to be submitted within three months of the program end date.

    Who should take this course?:

    This course is intended for professionals who want to gain the PMI-ACP certification. PMI has designated requirements which individuals must meet to qualify to write the PMI-ACP exam.

    You must have:

    • A high school diploma,

    • 21 contact hours of training in Agile practices (which this program provides),

    • 12 months of general project experience within the last 5 years. If you currently have your PMP® or PgMP® this requirement is covered.

    • 8 months of Agile project experience within the last 3 years. (Have a look at projects that have been run in an iterative and incremental manner.)


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