Come and discuss about innovation, AI and more with members of the Databricks User Group in Halifax.

Our speakers

Conor Newcombe will present the latest AI use cases in Nova Scotia Health towards diagnostic imaging process optimization and patients’ risk prediction. Followed by a tour through production workflows and how to maintain high cardinality data streams by Anmol Sidhu. 

Federico Cetraro from BDO will showcase a Databricks Lakehouse architecture for predictive risk scoring across municipal water (25k pipes) and energy (18k transmission lines) assets. Synthetic but realistic data flows through Delta tables for analytics and reverse-ETLs into Lakebase (Postgres + PostGIS) for operational queries, with risk models combining age, environmental exposure, and maintenance history into 0–1 scores. A built-in storm simulation layer lets presenters dial up severity in real time to show how risk cascades across the network, all surfaced through interactive SQL dashboards and a Genie natural-language interface.

Mihir Sanyal from Nova Scotia Power will talk about how hosting the embedded DataBricks Dashboard Solution can help publish data on the Web to users.

Moriya Dechtiar will introduce Women in AI Halifax, the local chapter of the global Women in AI network, empowering women and increasing accessibility in AI through mentorship, research, responsible AI practices, skills development and community-driven impact in Halifax.

Vincent Fortier and Alain Mercier will talk about what's new at databricks and demonstrate how Databricks uses Databricks!

Don’t miss this must‑attend event for Halifax's data community!

Agenda

15:00 - 15:45 Arrival

15:45 - 17:00 Presentations

17:00+ Networking

We warmly thank Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub for hosting us and our partner BDO to help make this happen!

How to access the Innovation Hub : The Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub is located in the South Tower of the Nova Centre. The South Tower entrance is located near the Sackville Street side of the building next to the Gahan House restaurant.

To access the Nova Centre parking, drive West on Prince Street (it is a one-way street) and turn left on Grafton Street where you will enter the Rogers Square. From Rogers Square you may either enter the South Tower by foot, or you may park in the underground parking and use the South Tower Elevators to take you to the South Tower Lobby.

To access the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub from the underground parking lot, you must first locate the South Tower elevators. The designated colour is a plum purple and signage will be marked with “South Tower”. Take the South Tower elevator to the 3rd floor, here, you will find yourself stepping off the Parking Elevator into the South Tower Lobby. From the lobby, you will then take one of the other three elevators to the 13th floor.