Dr Brad Donaldson, VP Academic at SAIT (Episode 20) | 8 November 2019

In this episode, Brad Donaldson shares his views with Allen Wazny on how SAIT, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, prepares graduates to work in the current world. In his view, SAIT’s industry linkages are critical “…we are moving from industry telling educators what they want in graduates to now asking for us to help them figure it out…”.  This is a link to Professor Donaldson’s LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/brad-donaldson-edd-8b6335.  This is a link to the SAIT website: https://www.sait.ca/ §§§ Subsequent to this podcast, I managed to have Jason Tate on the podcast to provide some insight to the recently formed SAIT school for Advanced Digital computing and transformation.  Jason is an instructor and part of the Technical Advisory Board at SAIT.  Jason was a guest on episode 266 (on 10 March 2021 in his capacity as COO of Bridgewater Labs) and episode 296 (on 4 May 2021 with Computer Science students from the University of Calgary) §§§ As many will know, in January 2020, the Calgary Economic Development funding initiative, OCIF (Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund) committed $8.2 million over 5 years to support the Digital Transformation Talent hub as part of SAIT's new School for Advanced Digital Technology. This is the link to the NewsWire article: https://bit.ly/3EylBra §§§ Technology | Innovation | Education | Learning | Deep technology | Digital Transformation | Calgary Higher education | YYC learning | YYC tech startups | Calgary Business | YYC Business | YYC investments | Calgary investments | Founders | Small Business | Calgary education | New Economy | Live Tech Love Life | Future Proof | Re-learning | Re-tooling | Career Pivot | Business transformation | Canadian investments | Canadian Podcast | Podcast guests | Canada Podcast