The Thursday Before Stampede: What Spending Data Says About Canada's Economy

Mastercard's data shows the biggest retail day of Stampede happens before it starts, and that's just the opening insight. Benjamin Jacob (SVP, Mastercard) hosts Anne Butler (Bank of Canada), Ruhee Ismail-Teja (Calgary Chamber), and Philippe Burns (Tech Thursday) on agentic commerce and the $1.7T shift coming by 2030, how the Bank of Canada builds trust into the plumbing of the economy, the small business AI adoption gap, and why the deals at Stampede still get done in cowboy boots. Recorded live at the Sam Centre in Calgary.