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Disruptors — 226 episodes

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From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events

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Street Smarts: The Waterloo company tackling global gridlock

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AI's power, pitfalls, and potential

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REBOOT: Building Canada: A new generation takes charge.

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Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia

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Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline

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Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quantum Era's Encryption Challenge

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The $15m Cliff: Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home

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Risk as Signal: A Canadian Playbook

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Climate-Led Investing: What’s Next

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Alberta’s Next Energy Mix

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Building Canada: A new generation takes charge

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Power to Compute: How Alberta Is Powering the AI Age

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The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer

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Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation

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Powering the North: How the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link Will Build A Stronger Canada

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Feeding the Future: How Saskatchewan is Seeding Canada's Ag-Tech Revolution

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Link to the World: How Manitoba Is Rebuilding a Northern Trade Route

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Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway

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How Atlantic Canada is powering Canada’s place in space

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Defending the Deep: Securing Canada’s Underwater Sovereignty

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The Canada Project (Trailer)

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REBOOT: Agentic AI - The Next Frontier

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REBOOT: AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?

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REBOOT: Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres

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REBOOT: AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption

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Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon

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Space: The Low Earth Orbit Movement

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Building Global from Canada: Shopify’s Entrepreneurial Ambition

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Agentic AI - The Next Frontier

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Beyond Offsets: How to Build a Carbon Removal Industry

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Detect Early, Treat Early: Innovations Shaping the Fight Against Cancer

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How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize on the Buy Canadian Movement

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The Cleantech Edge: Tackling Methane Emissions with Canadian Innovation

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Scammers, Fraud, and Deepfakes: The AI Arms Race

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Entrepreneurs seek to boost Canada’s prosperity and productivity

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AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World?

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Inside the WEF: AI, Geopolitics, and Canada's Place in the Future Economy

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Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres

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From AI to the Final Frontier: Tech Trends Shaping 2025

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On the Move: Canada’s EV Revolution

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Commercializing Space (Part 2): From Frontier to Marketplace

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Space Economy (Part 1): Opportunities and Challenges

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Educating for the Future: Post-Secondary Innovation

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Biotech Boom: Canada’s Life Sciences Revolution

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AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption

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Disruptors x CDL: Canada’s Innovation Journey

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Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era

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REBOOT: AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape

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REBOOT: Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward

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REBOOT: Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots

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REBOOT: Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier

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REBOOT: Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI

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AI: Ready or Not?

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The OceanTech Wave: Diving Deep for Climate Action

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Cultivation Innovation: A New Era for Canadian Agriculture

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The Tech Outlook: Bumpy Now, Bright Soon

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Canada’s Big Plans for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

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AI is Disrupting Canada’s Labour Landscape

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Building Blocks: Solving the Supply Shortage with Prefabricated Homes

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Overruled: The New LegalTech Precedent

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Unlocking the Energy Transition’s Economic Benefit

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Shattering Glass Ceilings in Canadian Cleantech

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Doubling Down: The Definitive Decade for Climate

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Davos Discourse: AI Takes Centre Stage

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Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward

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New Year’s Promise: Pragmatic Shift to a Digitally Charged Future

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Climate Crossroads: Unpacking the Dialogue in the Desert at COP28

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Bridging the Growth Gap with AI Innovation

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Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier

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Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots

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Mapping Canada’s New Greenprint with Sustainable Building Materials

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Soaring Toward a Greener Future with Sustainable Aviation Fuel

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Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI

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Disruptors: Season Seven Trailer

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Reboot of “Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with Applyboard’s Martin Basiri

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Reboot of “The Growing Challenge: Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste”

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Reboot of “Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US”

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Reboot of “AI Helped Produce This Episode"

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Olivier Desmarais: How Canada Can Win In A Net Zero World

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How Indigenous Business Can Accelerate Canada’s Net Zero Transition

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Building Green Part 2: Harnessing High-Tech To Lower Emissions

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Building Green: Fixing Canada’s Leaky Homes

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Innovation Nation: 3 Canadians Share Their Secrets

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From Ship to Shelf: Vancouver’s Port of the Future

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Ten Questions on Climate for Earth Day

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Soil: An Unexpected Climate Change Champion

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Cyber Wars: A Good Offense Is the Best Defense

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Views from the Valley: Is The Worst Over for Tech?

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Semiconductor Showdown: Canada Enters the Chip Race

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Canada’s Quest for Quantum Dominance

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Davos 2023: “Things could be a lot worse”

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Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US

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Biodiversity 3.0: How to Leverage Nature as an Asset

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AI Helped Produce This Episode

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COP27: Turning Talk into Action?

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The Growing Challenge Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste

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The Growing Challenge Part 2: Beef, biogas, dairy, and data.

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The Growing Challenge: How Canada Can Lead the Next Green Revolution in Agriculture

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The Growing Challenge (Trailer)

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Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with ApplyBoard’s Martin Basiri

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Disruptors LIVE at ELEVATE Festival: In Conversation with John Ruffolo

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New School Rules: How International Students Could Ease Our Labour Crunch

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Disruptors Revisited: Indigenous Leadership and Canada’s Energy Future

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The 10-Minute Take: Are Carbon Offsets Actually Effective?

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The 10-Minute Take: How Vehicle Shopping Changed Overnight

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Disruptors Revisited: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback

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The 10-Minute Take: Layoffs rock the tech sector

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A Capital Idea: How Indigenous Economics Can Power our Climate Agenda

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The 10-Minute Take: The Pressure Is On for Canadian Farm Crops and Commodities

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The 10-Minute Take: Can Canada’s Travel Industry Keep Up With the Post-Pandemic Boom?

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Reinventing Innovation: How Canada Can Prosper in Turbulent Times

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The 10-Minute Take: A New Reality for Canada’s Hot Housing Market

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Rock On: Blockchain’s Promise to Empower Musicians

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The 10-Minute Take: Is Canada Poised for a Cashless Future?

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The Climate Conversations: How Indigenous Leadership Can Drive Canada’s Energy Transition

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The Climate Conversations: Can Clean Tech Rise to the Challenge?

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The Climate Conversations: How to Achieve Energy Security in a Low-Carbon World

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The 10-Minute Take: Food Inflation & Agtech

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Brain Power: Why Neurotechnology is Making Waves

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The 10-Minute Take: The Great Nickel Rush of 2022

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Taking Off: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback

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The 10-Minute Take: Cyber Threat – Digital Transformation’s Dark Side

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The Way Forward: The Push for Women’s Inclusion in VC

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The 10-Minute Take: Waterloo’s Booming Tech & Innovation Scene

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The Green Collar Revolution

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The 10-Minute Take: Tech’s Big Sell-Off

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The Great Resignation . . . or the Great Reshuffle?

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Disruptors: Season Four Trailer

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The Climate Conversations: Indigenous Leader JP Gladu

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The Climate Conversations: UN Special Envoy Mark Carney

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The Climate Conversations: Scientist Katharine Hayhoe

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The Climate Conversations: Can Cities Save Our Planet?

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The Climate Conversations: How to Energize Our Future

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The Climate Conversations: How to Build a Greener Food Chain

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The Climate Conversations: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Introducing: The Climate Conversations (Trailer)

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Disruptors Revisited: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid

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Disruptors Revisited: Three Companies Redefining Resilience in 2021

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Disruptors Revisited: How 5G Will Transform the Canadian Economy

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Land of Unicorns - Canada’s New Bounty of Billion-Dollar Tech Companies

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Leaders of Tomorrow: How Indigenous Youth Can Seize the Digital Day

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Rethinking Biotech: How big, long-term bets are paying off

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Good Medicine: Is the future of healthcare digital?

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New Frontiers: How Canadian Tech is Shaking Up Space

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The Creativity Economy Part 2: From the Classroom to the Boardroom

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BONUS: Why Blockchain Holds the Key to a Greener Planet

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The Creativity Economy Part 1: A (New) Power Skill for the 2020s

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Charging Ahead: Canada’s Role in The E-V Revolution

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The Last-Mile Ecosystem: One-on-One with the CEO of DoorDash

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Diversity In/Action: Improving Inclusivity in the Tech Sector

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The Business of Benevolence: How Technology is Changing Charitable Giving in Canada

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2021, Year of the Gamer: How Video Game Culture is Conquering Canada and the World

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Pandemics, Pivots, and Predictions: Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead to 2021

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Impersonal Information: Data and Privacy Protection in 2020 and Beyond

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The Intangibles Economy: How to Make Canada an IP Powerhouse

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From Connected Cows to Smart Cities: Enabling the 5G Economy

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Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI

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Apps, Anxiety, and Adolescence: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid

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The SheEO Model: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Lead the Recovery

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8 Ways COVID is Still Disrupting the Economy

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How the NEXT Generation of Entrepreneurs Could Kickstart a Wave of Change

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Cancon and Beyond - How Wattpad Is Becoming a Global Content Destination and Distributor

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Genomics and the Bio-Revolution: A roadmap for Canada's economic recovery.

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Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis

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Disruptors Revisited: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurship

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Open Oceans, Open Opportunity: Mapping Canada’s Role in the Blue Economy

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Beyond Silicon Valley: Why We Need a Global Playbook For Innovation

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Disruptors Revisited: Data is Bigger than Oil

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App-to-Table: How Tech Can Help Restaurants Rebound

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Disruptors Revisited: Rewiring the Brain (June 2019)

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Beyond the Cart: How Grocery Commerce is Transforming

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Global Canadians: The Tech Sector's Secret Weapon

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The New Mall: Digital, Data and Delivery

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A Digital Cure for Healthcare

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Small Business’s Digital Pivot

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How the COVID-19 Crisis will Transform Higher Education

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How to Build a Strong Tech Workforce in a Post-COVID Economy

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How Is “Photography 3.0” Helping Us Experience the World in a Post COVID Society?

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In Innovation, It’s David vs Goliath

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Can Alberta Tech Transform Global Energy?

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Will the COVID Crisis Lead to a Digital Revolution in Government?

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Canadian Innovation in Crisis

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RBC Disruptors: Season Two Trailer

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Is Data Bigger than Oil?

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Why Are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs in the Digital Economy?

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How a Canadian Company Used AI to Detect the Coronavirus

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The Skills Shift

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Solving for the Silver Tsunami

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The Audience Strikes Back

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Disrupting Democracy

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In Conversation with Two Next Gen Entrepreneurs

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Farmer 4.0: The Shift to Automation

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Farmer 4.0: Agriculture's Skills Revolution

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From Burberry to Apple: A Shift in Retail (July 8, 2019)

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Rewiring the Brain (June 24, 2019)

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AI for Good? (June 6, 2019)

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Disrupting the daily RITUAL Event Highlights (April 24, 2019)

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The Future of Shipping Event Highlights (April 3, 2019)

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"Hey Alexa, What's Next for Voice Tech?" Event Highlights (March 28, 2019)

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Willing To Fail: The Disruptive Force of an Entrepreneurial Mindset Event Highlights (Feb. 27, 2019)

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BlackBerry's Big Pivot Event Highlights (Jan. 16, 2019)

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The Spin Master [Toy] Story Event Highlights (Dec. 4, 2018)

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RBC CEO Dave McKay in conversation with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman

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Fireside Chat with iNovia’s Patrick Pichette

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Slack: Changing The World With Chat Event Highlights (Oct. 1, 2018)

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Mental Health In The Digital Age Event Highlights (Sept. 26, 2018)

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Next Gen Entrepreneurs Event Highlights (Aug. 21, 2018)

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Netflix's Jessica Neal on Building a Culture of Innovation

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How to Think Like a Startup 2.0 Event Highlights (July 18, 2018)

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Shopify's Harley Finkelstein on the Future of Tech Talent

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Diversity x Inclusion x Innovation Event Highlights (June 20, 2018)

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Estonia: The World's First Digital Democracy

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Cryptocurrency: Future or Folly? Event Highlights (Apr. 26, 2018)

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Canada's Skills Revolution: the Human Touch in Healthcare Automation

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Canada’s Skills Revolution: Building the Winery of the Future

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Canada’s Skills Revolution: Feeding the Future

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Scott Galloway on Breaking Up Tech's Big Four

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Freshco's Mandy Rennehan on Women in Trades

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The NFL's Maryann Turcke on Sports Content in the Mobile Age

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Mnubo's Frederic Bastien on the Internet of Things

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Canada's AI Challenge with RBC CEO David McKay & Integrate.AI CEO Steve Irvine

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Davos Debrief with RBC CEO David McKay

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Sidewalk Labs - RBCDisruptors Event Highlights (Jan. 17, 2018)

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Sidewalk Labs' Dan Doctoroff: Quayside and the Future of Cities

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MLSE's David Hopkinson on Raptors Uprising and eSports