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Exponential with Amanda Lang Podcast

208 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

Exponential with Amanda Lang explores the worlds of business, technology, sociology and art, delving into how they intertwine with each other. Lang has been covering business news in North America for 20 years, beginning her journalism career at The Globe and Mail and then the National Post, before moving into television with ROBTV, CNN and BNN.

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Episodes

Exponential: Evelyn Forget, part 2

August 12, 2018 20:26 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MB

Amanda asks Evelyn to explain what the “Dauphin Experiment” was?

Exponential: Evelyn Forget, part 4

August 12, 2018 20:26 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda talks more with Evelyn about the recent cancellation of a similar pilot program in Ontario

Exponential: Jonathan Ballesteros, CEO of the Geyser System, part 4

August 05, 2018 20:23 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda talks more with Jonathan about his decision to move beyond his career in medical/bio design and where his adventurous nature has taken him

Exponential: Jonathan Ballesteros, CEO of the Geyser System, part 3

August 05, 2018 20:22 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Amanda chats with Jonathan about any interest from some of the big investors out there? And his career before Geyser…

Exponential: Jonathan Ballesteros, CEO of the Geyser System, part 1

August 05, 2018 20:22 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda asks Jonathan Ballesteros, CEO/Founder of the Geyser System, about the Geyser System, and what lead him to invent it

Exponential: Jonathan Ballesteros, CEO of the Geyser System, part 2

August 05, 2018 20:22 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Amanda asks Jonathan about whether he considered a global application for his new invention?

Exponential: Ride Sharing Panel, part 4

July 29, 2018 20:19 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda converses with the panel about some of the issues these services might cause in markets across Canada moving forward…

Exponential: Ride Sharing Panel, part 3

July 29, 2018 20:19 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MB

Amanda talks to the panel about the theory behind the “Trojan Horse” approach behind ride sharing platforms

Exponential: Ride Sharing Panel, part 1

July 29, 2018 20:19 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda talks to the panel on where we are in the the game on ride sharing in Canadian markets

Exponential: Ride Sharing Panel, part 2

July 29, 2018 20:19 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Amanda chats with the panel about the politics of acceptance in some markets across Canada

Exponential: Sylvain Charlebois, The Food Professor, part 1

July 22, 2018 20:16 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Sylvain Charlebois – “The Food Professor” Canadian researcher in food and policy for Dalhousie University explains what the acronym GMO is and how it applies to our food industry

Exponential: Sylvain Charlebois, The Food Professor, part 4

July 22, 2018 20:16 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Sylvain Charlebois discusses the “science” behind the production and modification of our food

Exponential: Sylvain Charlebois, The Food Professor, part 3

July 22, 2018 20:16 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Sylvain Charlebois describes how difficult it will be moving forward when it comes to labelling GMO products for consumers

Exponential: Sylvain Charlebois, The Food Professor, part 2

July 22, 2018 20:16 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Sylvain Charlebois talks about the difference in GMO testing with animals oppose to produce

Exponential: Joseph Heath, Professor of Philosophy U of T, part 4

July 15, 2018 20:13 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Joseph Heath describes how big companies doesn’t always correlate into better ethics and how a company’s “brand” plays into the equation

Exponential: Joseph Heath, Professor of Philosophy U of T, part 2

July 15, 2018 20:12 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MB

Joseph Heath talks about the framework that business ethics takes in North America

Exponential: Joseph Heath, Professor of Philosophy U of T, part 1

July 15, 2018 20:12 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Joseph Heath explains what “business ethics” are and why companies have them

Exponential: Joseph Heath, Professor of Philosophy U of T, part 3

July 15, 2018 20:12 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Joseph Heath explains how incentives in large companies can blur the lines on ethics in business

Exponential: Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, part 1

July 08, 2018 20:07 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, discusses where his awareness of Indigenous/First Nation began

Exponential: Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, part 2

July 08, 2018 20:07 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Paul Martin talks about his confusion over Steven Harper’s decision on the Kelowna process/negotiations

Exponential: Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, part 3

July 08, 2018 20:07 - 9 minutes - 8.94 MB

Paul Martin shares his honest opinion on how he feels about our current relationship with our indigenous people

Exponential: Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, part 4

July 08, 2018 20:07 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Paul Martin explains why he believes the “apology” is imperative, and what reconciliation really is

Exponential: Tim Nash, Founder of Good Investing, part 1

July 01, 2018 20:01 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Tim Nash, Founder of Good Investing, teaching people to invest in socially responsible and green funds, explains what a “Green Bond” is?

Exponential: Tim Nash, Founder of Good Investing, part 4

July 01, 2018 20:01 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Tim Nash chats about his vision for people to take control of their own finances with an eye on investing in green bonds

Exponential: Tim Nash, Founder of Good Investing, part 2

July 01, 2018 20:01 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Tim Nash talks about how certain countries are starting to derail the conversation around the benefit of “going green”

Exponential: Tim Nash, Founder of Good Investing, part 3

July 01, 2018 20:01 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Tim Nash discusses how each of us need to make our own decisions on what kind of carbon footprint we want to leave

Exponential: June 24 2018, part 4

June 24, 2018 19:52 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Sam Sebastian talks about the challenges of leading a creative workforce at Google in comparison to The Weather Network

Exponential: June 24 2018, part 3

June 24, 2018 19:52 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Sam Sebastian touches on what changes in mindset he’s implementing at the Weather Network to improve the business mode

Exponential: June 24 2018, part 2

June 24, 2018 19:51 - 7 minutes - 7.11 MB

Sam Sebastian discusses why we “love” talking about the weather

Exponential: June 24 2018, part 1

June 24, 2018 19:50 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Sam Sebastian, CEO Pelmorex Corp (The Weather Network), talks about why he left a forward company like Google, to take over at The Weather Network

Exponential: June 17 2018, part 4

June 17, 2018 19:47 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Joseph Aoun explains how higher education must offer opportunities/courses that will impact the learner positively in a robotic world

Exponential: June 17 2018, part 2

June 17, 2018 19:45 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Joseph Aoun says we must adapt our educational curriculums to artificial intelligence

Exponential: June 17 2018, part 3

June 17, 2018 19:45 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Joseph Aoun helps walk us through our Cognitive capacities (the human qualities that computers cannot apply…yet)

Exponential: June 17 2018, part 1

June 17, 2018 19:44 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda Lang talks with Joseph Aoun, North Eastern University President, author of the book “Robot Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Joseph Aoun explains what is Exponential Learning?

Exponential: June 10 2018, part 4

June 10, 2018 19:41 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Stephen Poloz talks about how a hot housing market and possible trade war, leaves for many tough decisions for Canada moving forward

Exponential: June 10 2018, part 3

June 10, 2018 19:41 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada, has strong views of the rhetoric around global trade and trade wars in general

Exponential: June 10 2018, part 2

June 10, 2018 19:40 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MB

Angel Gurria, Head of the OECD, talks about how when critiquing the different economies around the globe, it’s all about the facts

Exponential: June 10 2018, part 1

June 10, 2018 19:39 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Bill Morneau, Canada’s Finance Minister, discusses how the conversation at the G7 was hijacked by “tariff talk”

Exponential: June 3 2018, part 4

June 03, 2018 19:38 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Barry talks about how he helps people and organizations apply change

Exponential: June 3 2018, part 3

June 03, 2018 19:37 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Dan talks more about ‘Behavioral Economics’ and how we’re not actually in control of our own decisions

Exponential: June 3 2018, part 2

June 03, 2018 19:37 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Dan Arielly, Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight, explains why we are “naturally” resistant to change…and the behaviors we exercise to stay away from change

Exponential: June 3 2018, part 1

June 03, 2018 19:35 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Amanda Lang sits down with Barry Pokroy, Partner at Farber and co-founder of Circle and Square. Barry talks about our psychological weaknesses as human beings…and how we often resist change; good and bad

Exponential: May 27 2018, part 4

May 27, 2018 19:33 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Canada is a world leader in quantum Mechanics, how do we retain that momentum?

Exponential: May 27 2018, part 3

May 27, 2018 19:32 - 9 minutes - 8.96 MB

Where does religion fit into the field of theoretical physics?

Exponential: May 27 2018, part 2

May 27, 2018 19:31 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

What draws people to the world of theoretical physics?

Exponential: May 27 2018, part 1

May 27, 2018 19:30 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

What is Theoretical Physics? Neil Turok - South African physicist, and the Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, walks Amanda through it all

Exponential: May 20 2018, part 4

May 20, 2018 19:28 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

Is the success of these programs/bonds solely attached to private market investment/interest? Who receives the windfall and who gets left out?

Exponential: May 20 2018, part 3

May 20, 2018 19:28 - 9 minutes - 8.95 MB

Ontario has dabbled in Social Impact bonds. Who should fund and run such programs? Government or private funding?

Exponential: May 20 2018, part 2

May 20, 2018 19:27 - 7 minutes - 7.12 MB

Most of the investors involved are philanthropic by nature

Exponential: May 20 2018, part 1

May 20, 2018 19:27 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

What is a Social Impact Bond? Its purpose? The costs involved…and the justification for that cost. Amanda Lang talks with Nadine Pequeneza - Director/Producer of the film titled “The Invisible Heart”. Delving into the complex and unorthodox marriage of charity and capitalism with the use of Social Impact Bonds

Guests

Craig Kielburger
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