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Disruptors — 234 episodes
REBOOT: Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation
REBOOT: Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway
From Ottawa to Orbit: Two Views on Canada’s Big Day
Own The Stack: Canada's Data Sovereignty Test
Can AI Fix ER Wait Times?
Canada’s Tech Growth Challenge
Permission To Prompt: AI’s Path From Experimentation to Scale
The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed
From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events
Street Smarts: The Waterloo company tackling global gridlock
AI's power, pitfalls, and potential
REBOOT: Building Canada: A new generation takes charge.
Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia
Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline
Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quantum Era's Encryption Challenge
The $15m Cliff: Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home
Risk as Signal: A Canadian Playbook
Climate-Led Investing: What’s Next
Alberta’s Next Energy Mix
Building Canada: A new generation takes charge
Power to Compute: How Alberta Is Powering the AI Age
The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer
Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation
Powering the North: How the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link Will Build A Stronger Canada
Feeding the Future: How Saskatchewan is Seeding Canada's Ag-Tech Revolution
Link to the World: How Manitoba Is Rebuilding a Northern Trade Route
Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway
How Atlantic Canada is powering Canada’s place in space
Defending the Deep: Securing Canada’s Underwater Sovereignty
The Canada Project (Trailer)
REBOOT: Agentic AI - The Next Frontier
REBOOT: AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?
REBOOT: Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres
REBOOT: AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption
Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon
Space: The Low Earth Orbit Movement
Building Global from Canada: Shopify’s Entrepreneurial Ambition
Agentic AI - The Next Frontier
Beyond Offsets: How to Build a Carbon Removal Industry
Detect Early, Treat Early: Innovations Shaping the Fight Against Cancer
How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize on the Buy Canadian Movement
The Cleantech Edge: Tackling Methane Emissions with Canadian Innovation
Scammers, Fraud, and Deepfakes: The AI Arms Race
Entrepreneurs seek to boost Canada’s prosperity and productivity
AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?
Inside the WEF: AI, Geopolitics, and Canada's Place in the Future Economy
Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres
From AI to the Final Frontier: Tech Trends Shaping 2025
On the Move: Canada’s EV Revolution
Commercializing Space (Part 2): From Frontier to Marketplace
Space Economy (Part 1): Opportunities and Challenges
Educating for the Future: Post-Secondary Innovation
Biotech Boom: Canada’s Life Sciences Revolution
AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption
Disruptors x CDL: Canada’s Innovation Journey
Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era
REBOOT: AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape
REBOOT: Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward
REBOOT: Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots
REBOOT: Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier
REBOOT: Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI
AI: Ready or Not?
The OceanTech Wave: Diving Deep for Climate Action
Cultivation Innovation: A New Era for Canadian Agriculture
The Tech Outlook: Bumpy Now, Bright Soon
Canada’s Big Plans for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape
Building Blocks: Solving the Supply Shortage with Prefabricated Homes
Overruled: The New LegalTech Precedent
Unlocking the Energy Transition’s Economic Benefit
Shattering Glass Ceilings in Canadian Cleantech
Doubling Down: The Definitive Decade for Climate
Davos Discourse: AI Takes Centre Stage
Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward
New Year’s Promise: Pragmatic Shift to a Digitally Charged Future
Climate Crossroads: Unpacking the Dialogue in the Desert at COP28
Bridging the Growth Gap with AI Innovation
Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier
Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots
Mapping Canada’s New Greenprint with Sustainable Building Materials
Soaring Toward a Greener Future with Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI
Disruptors: Season Seven Trailer
Reboot of “Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with Applyboard’s Martin Basiri
Reboot of “The Growing Challenge: Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste”
Reboot of “Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US”
Reboot of “AI Helped Produce This Episode"
Olivier Desmarais: How Canada Can Win In A Net Zero World
How Indigenous Business Can Accelerate Canada’s Net Zero Transition
Building Green Part 2: Harnessing High-Tech To Lower Emissions
Building Green: Fixing Canada’s Leaky Homes
Innovation Nation: 3 Canadians Share Their Secrets
From Ship to Shelf: Vancouver’s Port of the Future
Ten Questions on Climate for Earth Day
Soil: An Unexpected Climate Change Champion
Cyber Wars: A Good Offense Is the Best Defense
Views from the Valley: Is The Worst Over for Tech?
Semiconductor Showdown: Canada Enters the Chip Race
Canada’s Quest for Quantum Dominance
Davos 2023: “Things could be a lot worse”
Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US
Biodiversity 3.0: How to Leverage Nature as an Asset
AI Helped Produce This Episode
COP27: Turning Talk into Action?
The Growing Challenge Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste
The Growing Challenge Part 2: Beef, biogas, dairy, and data.
The Growing Challenge: How Canada Can Lead the Next Green Revolution in Agriculture
The Growing Challenge (Trailer)
Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with ApplyBoard’s Martin Basiri
Disruptors LIVE at ELEVATE Festival: In Conversation with John Ruffolo
New School Rules: How International Students Could Ease Our Labour Crunch
Disruptors Revisited: Indigenous Leadership and Canada’s Energy Future
The 10-Minute Take: Are Carbon Offsets Actually Effective?
The 10-Minute Take: How Vehicle Shopping Changed Overnight
Disruptors Revisited: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback
The 10-Minute Take: Layoffs rock the tech sector
A Capital Idea: How Indigenous Economics Can Power our Climate Agenda
The 10-Minute Take: The Pressure Is On for Canadian Farm Crops and Commodities
The 10-Minute Take: Can Canada’s Travel Industry Keep Up With the Post-Pandemic Boom?
Reinventing Innovation: How Canada Can Prosper in Turbulent Times
The 10-Minute Take: A New Reality for Canada’s Hot Housing Market
Rock On: Blockchain’s Promise to Empower Musicians
The 10-Minute Take: Is Canada Poised for a Cashless Future?
The Climate Conversations: How Indigenous Leadership Can Drive Canada’s Energy Transition
The Climate Conversations: Can Clean Tech Rise to the Challenge?
The Climate Conversations: How to Achieve Energy Security in a Low-Carbon World
The 10-Minute Take: Food Inflation & Agtech
Brain Power: Why Neurotechnology is Making Waves
The 10-Minute Take: The Great Nickel Rush of 2022
Taking Off: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback
The 10-Minute Take: Cyber Threat – Digital Transformation’s Dark Side
The Way Forward: The Push for Women’s Inclusion in VC
The 10-Minute Take: Waterloo’s Booming Tech & Innovation Scene
The Green Collar Revolution
The 10-Minute Take: Tech’s Big Sell-Off
The Great Resignation . . . or the Great Reshuffle?
Disruptors: Season Four Trailer
The Climate Conversations: Indigenous Leader JP Gladu
The Climate Conversations: UN Special Envoy Mark Carney
The Climate Conversations: Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
The Climate Conversations: Can Cities Save Our Planet?
The Climate Conversations: How to Energize Our Future
The Climate Conversations: How to Build a Greener Food Chain
The Climate Conversations: Where Do We Go From Here?
Introducing: The Climate Conversations (Trailer)
Disruptors Revisited: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
Disruptors Revisited: Three Companies Redefining Resilience in 2021
Disruptors Revisited: How 5G Will Transform the Canadian Economy
Land of Unicorns - Canada’s New Bounty of Billion-Dollar Tech Companies
Leaders of Tomorrow: How Indigenous Youth Can Seize the Digital Day
Rethinking Biotech: How big, long-term bets are paying off
Good Medicine: Is the future of healthcare digital?
New Frontiers: How Canadian Tech is Shaking Up Space
The Creativity Economy Part 2: From the Classroom to the Boardroom
BONUS: Why Blockchain Holds the Key to a Greener Planet
The Creativity Economy Part 1: A (New) Power Skill for the 2020s
Charging Ahead: Canada’s Role in The E-V Revolution
The Last-Mile Ecosystem: One-on-One with the CEO of DoorDash
Diversity In/Action: Improving Inclusivity in the Tech Sector
The Business of Benevolence: How Technology is Changing Charitable Giving in Canada
2021, Year of the Gamer: How Video Game Culture is Conquering Canada and the World
Pandemics, Pivots, and Predictions: Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead to 2021
Impersonal Information: Data and Privacy Protection in 2020 and Beyond
The Intangibles Economy: How to Make Canada an IP Powerhouse
From Connected Cows to Smart Cities: Enabling the 5G Economy
Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI
Apps, Anxiety, and Adolescence: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
The SheEO Model: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Lead the Recovery
8 Ways COVID is Still Disrupting the Economy
How the NEXT Generation of Entrepreneurs Could Kickstart a Wave of Change
Cancon and Beyond - How Wattpad Is Becoming a Global Content Destination and Distributor
Genomics and the Bio-Revolution: A roadmap for Canada's economic recovery.
Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis
Disruptors Revisited: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurship
Open Oceans, Open Opportunity: Mapping Canada’s Role in the Blue Economy
Beyond Silicon Valley: Why We Need a Global Playbook For Innovation
Disruptors Revisited: Data is Bigger than Oil
App-to-Table: How Tech Can Help Restaurants Rebound
Disruptors Revisited: Rewiring the Brain (June 2019)
Beyond the Cart: How Grocery Commerce is Transforming
Global Canadians: The Tech Sector's Secret Weapon
The New Mall: Digital, Data and Delivery
A Digital Cure for Healthcare
Small Business’s Digital Pivot
How the COVID-19 Crisis will Transform Higher Education
How to Build a Strong Tech Workforce in a Post-COVID Economy
How Is “Photography 3.0” Helping Us Experience the World in a Post COVID Society?
In Innovation, It’s David vs Goliath
Can Alberta Tech Transform Global Energy?
Will the COVID Crisis Lead to a Digital Revolution in Government?
Canadian Innovation in Crisis
RBC Disruptors: Season Two Trailer
Is Data Bigger than Oil?
Why Are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs in the Digital Economy?
How a Canadian Company Used AI to Detect the Coronavirus
The Skills Shift
Solving for the Silver Tsunami
The Audience Strikes Back
Disrupting Democracy
In Conversation with Two Next Gen Entrepreneurs
Farmer 4.0: The Shift to Automation
Farmer 4.0: Agriculture's Skills Revolution
From Burberry to Apple: A Shift in Retail (July 8, 2019)
Rewiring the Brain (June 24, 2019)
AI for Good? (June 6, 2019)
Disrupting the daily RITUAL Event Highlights (April 24, 2019)
The Future of Shipping Event Highlights (April 3, 2019)
"Hey Alexa, What's Next for Voice Tech?" Event Highlights (March 28, 2019)
Willing To Fail: The Disruptive Force of an Entrepreneurial Mindset Event Highlights (Feb. 27, 2019)
BlackBerry's Big Pivot Event Highlights (Jan. 16, 2019)
The Spin Master [Toy] Story Event Highlights (Dec. 4, 2018)
RBC CEO Dave McKay in conversation with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman
Fireside Chat with iNovia’s Patrick Pichette
Slack: Changing The World With Chat Event Highlights (Oct. 1, 2018)
Mental Health In The Digital Age Event Highlights (Sept. 26, 2018)
Next Gen Entrepreneurs Event Highlights (Aug. 21, 2018)
Netflix's Jessica Neal on Building a Culture of Innovation
How to Think Like a Startup 2.0 Event Highlights (July 18, 2018)
Shopify's Harley Finkelstein on the Future of Tech Talent
Diversity x Inclusion x Innovation Event Highlights (June 20, 2018)
Estonia: The World's First Digital Democracy
Cryptocurrency: Future or Folly? Event Highlights (Apr. 26, 2018)
Canada's Skills Revolution: the Human Touch in Healthcare Automation
Canada’s Skills Revolution: Building the Winery of the Future
Canada’s Skills Revolution: Feeding the Future
Scott Galloway on Breaking Up Tech's Big Four
Freshco's Mandy Rennehan on Women in Trades
The NFL's Maryann Turcke on Sports Content in the Mobile Age
Mnubo's Frederic Bastien on the Internet of Things
Canada's AI Challenge with RBC CEO David McKay & Integrate.AI CEO Steve Irvine
Davos Debrief with RBC CEO David McKay
Sidewalk Labs - RBCDisruptors Event Highlights (Jan. 17, 2018)
Sidewalk Labs' Dan Doctoroff: Quayside and the Future of Cities
MLSE's David Hopkinson on Raptors Uprising and eSports