Halihax

Check it out! The annual compensation in the Halifax tech community report is available now for 2025. In the report you’ll find salary, technology, and community insights that can help you better understand the technology community of Halifax and beyond.

https://www.halihax.com/annual-compensation-report/2025?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2025survey

If you’re a member of the Halifax tech community don’t miss out on your chance to contribute to our annual report! 👀

We’ll highlight important insights to emerging technologies, salary and benefit changes, and employment trends in our community. It only takes a few minutes to fill out, and is completely anonymous: https://www.halihax.com/r/survey-2025?utm_source=social

Then, share our survey with your friends and colleagues. The more responses we get, the more representative our report becomes of our community as a whole!

Every year we run a community survey to understand growth and trends in the Halifax tech community (from salary and benefits, to technologies, and employment trends) 🔍

The survey can take less than 10 minutes to complete. as most questions can be optional (but the more insight the better). Our survey is open to people of all backgrounds, roles, or income levels. We want to get to know our community better!

Access the survey here: https://halihax.com/r/survey-2025?utm_source=social

Join us on November 20th at Volta for our next Data Science meet-up. We’ll have talks from Matt Zimola, CEO of ReelData, and Jacob MacRitchie, AI Support Engineer at Groq. Pizza and refreshments will be provided!

🗓 Thursday, November 20th
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1781026862289

Join us on October 20th at Volta for our next Data Science meet-up. We’ll connect over talks, including one from Matt Zimola, CEO of ReelData AI, on developing AI systems. We’ll then have time for socializing/networking. Pizza and refreshments will be provided! 🍕

🗓 Monday, October 20th, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta

Reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1781026862289

Time is running out for you to grab tickets for our Data Science meetup on Thursday, June 19th at Volta!

We have two great speakers in Saadat Qadri, and Tim Speed who will speak about model stewardship and state of the art computer vision

Reserve your spot today! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1401744659009

A Future of Infinite Worlds: Tim Speed will speak about how computer vision and world modelling is expanding at a rapid rate!

He'll share state of the art research & side project preview!

Grab your ticket for our next Data Science meetup on June 19th at Volta 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1401744659009

From Dashboard Factories to Model Stewards: Saadat Qadri will ask — what if the dashboard factory disappeared and a model-steward bot handled 80% of ad-hoc asks?

Grab your ticket for our next Data Science meetup on June 19th at Volta 🎟️

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1401744659009

Join us on June 19th at Volta for another Data Science meet-up. We’ll connect over talks from speakers Saadat Qadri, and Tim Speed, and have time for networking. Pizza and refreshments will be provided! 🍕

🗓 Thursday, June 19th, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-data-science-meetup-tickets-1401744659009

We have a ton of great presenters lined up for our Show & Tell meetup this week! Everything from Whale Detection, D&DBeyond, Vibe Coding, and Taming Social Noise with LLMs!

🗓 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta

Don’t miss out, grab your ticket now 👉 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-show-tell-what-are-you-working-on-tickets-1318600101399

Are you a part time warlock? Alex Lockhart is (along with Staff Engineer at Datasite LLC). At Show & Tell on May 1st, Alex will share how he built a Chrome Extension for D&DBeyond

🗓 Thursday, May 1st, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta
Reserve your spot today! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-show-tell-what-are-you-working-on-tickets-1318600101399

Want to be better at vibe coding? At our Show & Tell meetup on May 1st, Shrey (Senior Sofware Engineer in AI at Vivun Inc) will share a hands-on tutorial showing how to use Cursor IDE to create a demo portfolio app in about 10 mins

Grab your ticket! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-show-tell-what-are-you-working-on-tickets-1318600101399

At our Show & Tell event May 1st: Sandy Walsh (Sr. Flight Software Engineer at Planet Labs by day, Owner of Dark Secret Software by Night) will kick us off with a bit of history & motivation for #side-projects in Halihax & share about his most recent project

RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/halihax-show-tell-what-are-you-working-on-tickets-1318600101399

Calling all hackers, weekend warriors, or just people who have a tough nut to crack in their day jobs. On May 1st at Volta we’re hosting a Halihax Show & Tell meetup, and are looking for people who want to show off their work!

Simply RSVP to the event as a presenter, and we’ll reach out to coordinate:
https://bit.ly/4ihCr0T

Join us on May 1st at Volta for our Halihax Show & Tell meetup. We’re running a lightning round showcase of tough problems, fun solutions, and ingenuity in our community. Pizza and refreshments will be provided! 🍕

🗓 Wednesday, May 1st, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta
Reserve your spot today! https://bit.ly/4ihCr0T

Time is running out for you to grab tickets for our Data Science meetup tomorrow night – Wednesday, March 26th at Volta!

We have two great speakers in Fatemeh Rahimi and Jacob MacRitchie, who will share their knowledge on Compound AI systems and Reasoning Models.

Reserve your spot today! https://bit.ly/4iCqza5

Don’t miss our next Data Science meetup on March 26th at Volta

Jacob MacRitchie, who is a self-taught dev building internal tools with AI at Samson Digital in Cape Breton, will share his knowledge on Reasoning Models!

Grab your ticket: https://bit.ly/4iCqza5

Our Data Science meetup is on March 26th at Volta

Fatemeh Rahimi, Senior NLP Scientist at Pythonic AI, will give a talk on Compound AI Systems which will explore the crucial shift from thinking about AI as isolated models, to understanding them as complex systems

Reserve your spot today! https://bit.ly/4iCqza5

Join us on March 26th at Volta for another Data Science meet-up. We’ll connect over talks from two speakers – Fatemeh Rahimi, and Jacob MacRitchie, and also have time for socializing/networking. Pizza and refreshments will be provided! 🍕

🗓 Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM – 9 PM
📍 Volta
Reserve your spot today! https://bit.ly/4iCqza5

Tonight's the night. Join us at Volta to jump start our events calendar for 2025. We’ll debrief on 2024, share what’s in store for 2025, and spend time together catching up. Pizza and refreshments will be provided 🍕

🗓 Wed, Feb 19th, 2025
⏰ 6:30 PM–9 PM
📍 Volta

Be sure to grab your ticket: https://bit.ly/3CPBzSq