Shift by Alberta Innovates
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Shift by Alberta Innovates is dedicated to interviewing the innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers who are leading the future of innovation in Alberta and globally. Alberta has many unsung heroes and many interesting and important technological advancements being made that will greatly impact our lives. Shift is a spotlight for listeners to get a sense of how Alberta innovation is leading the way.
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Shift for Inventures – Gamechanging Health
May 16, 2022 15:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBAs a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event. This episode focuses on the track Gamechanging Health and features an interview with Julie Xu, Senior Product Manager at DrugBank. DrugBank is the world’s first intelligent and comprehensive drug knowledge platform. With the help of artificial intelligence, their expert team authors, verifies, and structures all of the latest biomedical inf...
Shift for Inventures - Redefining Capitalism
May 10, 2022 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBAs a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event. This episode puts a spotlight on the track Redefining Capitalism and features an interview with Ayo Aiyeleye, Director for Capital Access at Alberta Innovates, and Shelley Kuipers, Co-founder and CEO of The51. Alberta Innovates is the province’s largest research and innovation agency. From funding to commercialization, we are Alberta’s i...
Shift for Inventures - Redefining Capitalism
May 10, 2022 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBSend us a Text Message. As a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event. This episode puts a spotlight on the track Redefining Capitalism and features an interview with Ayo Aiyeleye, Director for Capital Access at Alberta Innovates, and Shelley Kuipers, Co-founder and CEO of The51. Alberta Innovates is the province’s largest research and innovation agency. From funding to commercializ...
Shift for Inventures - Futurecasting Work
May 02, 2022 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBSend us a Text Message. As a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event. This episode focuses on the track Futurecasting Work and features an interview with Jackson McDonough, co-founder and CEO of Upwardly Careers. Upwardly is upping the recruiting game by matching high-performing talent in Calgary with high-potential companies in the tech, finance, real estate, and energy sectors. Thei...
Shift for Inventures - Mission-Critical Moonshots
April 27, 2022 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBSend us a Text Message. As a part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we're presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year's event. This episode highlights Mission-Critical Moonshots and features an interview with Cole Rosentreter, founder and CEO of Pegasus Imagery. Pegasus builds and deploys autonomous drones to provides aerial data collection at scale, using AI systems to enable real-time data analytics. Mission-Critical Moonshots The 196...
The future of Alberta wellsites
April 06, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBSend us a Text Message. InnoTech Alberta recently received a $1.85 million grant from the Clean Resource Innovation Network. The grant, which was part of the network's reducing environmental footprint technology competition is being used to look at alternative technologies for well remediation, closure and to prevent methane leakage from abandoned well bores. Estimates suggest there are over 90, 000 inactive wells in Alberta alone, with approximately 54,000 wells leaking methane into th...
The hydrogen market push for an entrepreneur with Leland Oberst CEO of Innovative Fuel Systems
March 11, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBSend us a Text Message. What does the hydrogen market push look like for an entrepreneur? What about bridge technologies as we move to net zero? Is net zero even possible? Joining us today is Leland Oberst, President and CEO of Innovative Fuel Systems to give his thoughts on what the move to a hydrogen economy could look like for entrepreneurs. Innovative Fuel Systems (IFS) is an Alberta company that has developed a proprietary technology for heavy duty trucks that reduces greenhouse gas...
Shift for Inventures - Cultivating AgTech
March 09, 2022 21:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBSend us a Text Message. As a special Shift segment on Inventures, we're presenting an episode for each of the track being featured at this year's event. This episode is on Cultivating Agtech and features an interview with Adam Brown, Strategic Initiatives Lead at Wyvern Inc., and Edmonton-based space data company redesigning the satellite to enable a sustainable future for humanity. Cultivating AgTech By 2050, the global population is estimated to reach 9 billion people. This is already ...
Building synthetic cities with Myrna Bittner and Edmonton-based RUNWITHIT Synthetics
February 22, 2022 23:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Remember Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum's character from Jurassic Park? He's a scientist interested in an esoteric branch of mathematics called chaos theory, the study of unpredictable behaviour in systems governed by deterministic laws. I'd like unpack that preceding paragraph into three points: Chaos theory is legit form of math. Jeff Golblum's character Malcolm was awesome and goes onto appear in two sequels. Unpredictably is what makes the future complicated. T...
Our Hydrogen Future and Government Policy
February 08, 2022 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBSend us a Text Message. On previous SHIFT conversations, we have learned that one of the major gaps to commercializing the hydrogen market is the lack of government policy. What is our current state and what should our elected officials consider when moving this promising industry along? Joining us today is Heather Campbell Executive Director of Clean Technology at Alberta Innovates and Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon, Assistant Professor at School of Public Policy and Director of the Sustainable...
Extracting lithium with Summit Nanotech CEO and Women in Cleantech Challenge winner Amanda Hall
January 24, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Summit Nanotech is developing technology to tackle the world's most daunting energy and environmental challenges. And Amanda has recently won the Women in Cleantech Challenge funded by NRCan. Join us as we catch up with Amanda and get her insights on clean technology. Bio Amanda Hall is a professional geophysicist and the CEO/Founder of Summit Nanotech, a company that developed direct lithium extraction technology for the growing lithium-ion battery sector. Amanda f...
Shift talks with Doug Holt and Simon Raby about Alberta's scaleup gap and what the ecosystem is doing to help businesses grow.
January 09, 2022 23:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we talk with Doug Holt and Simon Raby about a report Simon prepared for Alberta Innovates that identifies a scaleup gap in Alberta. Essentially, we're good at starting companies but not so good at growing them. Our discussion explores the scaleup gap and what those in the Alberta entrepreneurial ecosystem, like Alberta Innovates, are doing to address it. BIOS Doug Holt, Associate Vice President of Investment at Alberta Innovates Doug is a seasoned...
Hydrogen - why is it such a big deal for Alberta?
December 14, 2021 20:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBSend us a Text Message. With a worldwide market estimated to be worth over $2.5 trillion a year by 2050, experts are looking to hydrogen as a huge opportunity for Alberta. It's going to require a coordinated approach from all three levels of government, however, to do it. In this episode we talk with David Van Den Assem from Alberta Innovates and Kirk Hamilton from C-FER Technologies about hydrogen and what it could mean for Alberta's economy. They also discuss what Alberta Innovates, C-...
eDNA - a powerful technology for wetland ecology
November 26, 2021 20:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBSend us a Text Message. We all know what DNA is but what is eDNA? Described as another tool in the toolbox for wetland ecologists, we find out in this episode's conversation with Jenet Dooley from the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute and Brian Eaton from InnoTech Alberta's Environmental Impacts team, it's more than that. It's an emerging technology that at its most basic level it's a process and technology for detecting animal species; but it's also the means to more effectively ...
Diversity, equity, and inclusion drive Calgary-based HelpSeeker Technologies
October 21, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Monique Fry, VP of Community Success for Calgary-based HelpSeeker, a technology business that provides access to community, health, and social services to over 38 million individuals who make Canada home, joins us for this episode. As a First Nations woman, Monique walks us through her experiences and the importance that HelpSeeker places on values that recognize a diverse clientele and partnership base. BIO Monique is from the Xwchíyò:m First Nation on her grandf...
The Innovation of Work with Dan Bruinooge of Servus Credit Union
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBA new generation of digital nomads is creating a ‘do anything from anywhere’ workplace shaped by technologies that erase distance and compress time. Which begs the question, how is work innovating? Shift by Alberta Innovates talks to Dan Bruinooge, the Chief People & Corporate Services Officer at Servus Credit Union. Dan oversees a broad portfolio including people and culture, diversity & inclusion, innovation, corporate effectiveness, fraud risk management, as well as the many corporate s...
The 21st-Century Stethoscope: Portable Ultrasound Technology with MEDO.ai
September 09, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBShift interviews David Quail, serial entrepreneur, and Co-Founder and Technology Strategist of MEDO.ai. Established in 2018, MEDO was born from the idea that the combination of portable ultrasound with AI could make the 21st-century stethoscope, allowing users to peer into the human body and make important diagnoses accurately and reliably with the help of AI trained on thousands of previous cases. Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and organizations that are cont...
The 21st-Century Stethoscope: Portable Ultrasound Technology with MEDO.ai
September 09, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Shift interviews David Quail, serial entrepreneur, and Co-Founder and Technology Strategist of MEDO.ai. Established in 2018, MEDO was born from the idea that the combination of portable ultrasound with AI could make the 21st-century stethoscope, allowing users to peer into the human body and make important diagnoses accurately and reliably with the help of AI trained on thousands of previous cases. Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and or...
Creativity, research and being an entrepreneur: our talk with Jana Rieger from True Angle Medical Technologies
July 14, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBSend us a Text Message. "Is there anything Jana doesn't do?" is a refrain I found myself pondering as this interview was happening. A professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation - Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Alberta, Jana is a medical researcher, an entrepreneur, and a novelist. On this episode we start by talking about her company True Angle Medical Technologies, Jana's journey from researcher to entrepreneur, and the help that she and her partners received as they grew...
Enhancing your cybersecurity to enhance and protect your business
June 30, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Last episode we spoke about how startups can establish a solid legal foundation as they get things rolling; In this episode we talk with Nigel Russell from CyberSecure Canada about online security and the steps you can take right now to not only protect your business, but your entire supply chain, online. CyberSecure Canada is the country's cybersecurity certification program for small and medium-sized organizations. Certification enhances your competitive advantage...
Enhancing your cybersecurity to enhance and protect your business
June 30, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBLast episode we spoke about how startups can establish a solid legal foundation as they get things rolling; In this episode we talk with Nigel Russell from CyberSecure Canada about online security and the steps you can take right now to not only protect your business, but your entire supply chain, online. CyberSecure Canada is the country's cybersecurity certification program for small and medium-sized organizations. Certification enhances your competitive advantage by letting your supply c...
Laying the legal foundation when starting a business
June 15, 2021 17:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBSend us a Text Message. Starting a business can be fun and rewarding. It's also challenging and not for the faint of heart. There are many matters that need to be taken into account. And legal considerations are amongst those. As our guest on today's episode, Paul Barbeau, puts it, "startups tend to be really cost-sensitive. And they certainly don't want to retain a legal firm that's going to engage in a real legal overkill. All that said though, there are some core principles that startups...
The three Rs of the hemp (r)evolution
May 27, 2021 02:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk with Fred Pels from Gaia Grow Corp, Usukuma Ekuere from Canna Stream Solutions, and Andre Sinclair from TruExtracts about their partnership around an innovation destined to shake up the hemp and cannabis industry. Bios Fred Pels, co-founder, president & director of Gaia Fred previously oversaw the establishment and expansion of the Green Room as a leader in medical cannabis supply, industry best practices and education about the cannabis ind...
The robots are coming! NO. The robots are here.
May 18, 2021 22:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBSend us a Text Message. Prior to remediation, hazardous sites like tailings ponds require analysis, but they're perilous environments for people to go to take measurements. Robots, however, are immune to such perils. Edmonton-based Copperstone Technologies has created a series of autonomous robots that can traverse any terrain to perform site hazardous site investigations. On this episode we talk with Craig Milne, CEO of Copperstone Technologies about the role the company plays in offerin...
Lessons in Leadership with Servus Credit Union President and CEO Garth Warner
April 21, 2021 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBThe origins of the first credit union in Alberta in 1938 are very similar to an entrepreneurial journey: gap identified, solution created, trial and tribulations experienced, perseverance rewarded and a modicum of success achieved. Servus Credit Union has achieved more than a modicum of success and under Garth's tenure of stewardship Servus has gone on to set the bar quite high amongst, not only credit unions, but more traditional banking institutions by achieving unprecedented success on a...
Hemp: A Global Miracle Crop
April 07, 2021 22:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Hemp has the potential to play a significant role in the future of Alberta's agriculture industry. Shift by Alberta Innovates interviews Jan Slaski of InnoTech Alberta and Aaron Barr, CEO of Canadian Rockies Hemp Corp. About Jan Slaski: Over the last 17 years, Jan Slaski has been leading research aimed at introduction and breeding of hemp varieties that suit the needs of the fibre and food industries on the Prairies. To fully realize potential residing within this ...
Innovating in Alberta's healthcare system
March 18, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBSend us a Text Message. Building a robust digital health ecosystem in Alberta needs health delivery partners willing to challenge the status quo in clinical care, and partners that are willing to take the risk of implementing new technologies and involve the patients in the process. In this episode we talk with Dr. Aly Nanji, CEO and founder of C-health, an Alberta-based healthcare organization. Aly provides insight into how C-health, one of Canada's largest multi-specialty practices, is ...
Taking the common and doing the extraordinary
March 01, 2021 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSend us a Text Message. Silicon is one of the most common elements on the planet. It's benign, relatively easy to work with and Edmonton-based Applied Quantum Materials has it mastered. In today's podcast we talk with company CEO David Antoniuk about a recent deal they signed with Alberta Health Services. The deal, which sees the company provide AHS's subsidiary Alberta Precision Laboratories with kits that use AQM’s proprietary MagDx™ technology, including magnetic silicon-based nanopart...
Taking the common and doing the extraordinary
March 01, 2021 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBSilicon is one of the most common elements on the planet. It's benign, relatively easy to work with and Edmonton-based Applied Quantum Materials has it mastered. In today's podcast we talk with company CEO David Antoniuk about a recent deal they signed with Alberta Health Services. The deal, which sees the company provide AHS's subsidiary Alberta Precision Laboratories with kits that use AQM’s proprietary MagDx™ technology, including magnetic silicon-based nanoparticles, provides a made-in...
Timothy Caulfield on covid misinformation and the launch of #ScienceUpFirst
February 10, 2021 21:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBSend us a Text Message. On this episode we speak with Timothy Caulfield about the battle against science misinformation, specifically information related to covid and the vaccines that are coming out. This is a follow-up conversation with Tim as he appeared in our seventh-ever episode. Always engaging and ever-informative, we had a blast talking with Tim learning about his work and the new initiative #ScienceUpFirst that he's helping to co-lead. Make sure to listen until the end when he ...
Shift talks with Dr. John Lewis about the journey to conquer Covid
January 27, 2021 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Welcome to Shift by Alberta Innovates. On this episode we speak with Dr. John Lewis from Edmonton-based ENTOS pharmaceuticals about their journey toward creating a made-in-Alberta vaccine for Covid-19. John walks us through how he and his team's work on genetic medications as a treatment for metastatic cancer created an opportunity to develop a potential Covid vaccine using their proprietary Fusogenix genetic medicines delivery platform. Along the way we discuss t...
Shift talks with Cam Linke about the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and how they're helping Alberta businesses
January 13, 2021 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSend us a Text Message. Happy new year! As one of Canada’s three centres of AI excellence, as part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Edmonton, Alberta boasts some serious powerhouses of the artificial intelligence and machine learning world. People like Richard Sutton, who's widely regarded as the father of reinforcement learning, a branch of machine learning that focuses on how AI should take actions to achieve an end goal. Michael Bowling, w...
Shift talks with Chris Holt from Phase Sensors and Professor John Davis from the University of Alberta about their collaboration
December 07, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBSend us a Text Message. Phase Sensors is an Edmonton-based company that develops and builds high-performance custom micro-sensors for industrial monitoring in hostile high-temperature and high-pressure environments. (Read more here.) In 2017, Phase Sensors worked with University of Alberta professor John Davis as part of a Campus Alberta Small Business Engagement grant to build and patent a new sensor, which has since attracted the attention of one of the world’s largest oil & gas companie...
Learn how to change the DNA of healthcare with Shift!
December 01, 2020 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk with members of Alberta Innovates health innovation and platforms' team about digital health in Alberta. We cover everything from the ethics of going digital to the programs being offered to entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators in the province. Featuring: Sean DeWitt, Senior Business Partner, Health Innovation Sunil Rajput, Senior Business Partner, Health Innovation Sandra Stabel, Senior Business Partner, Opportunity Development Ta...
Learn how to change the DNA of healthcare with Shift!
December 01, 2020 20:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this episode we talk with members of Alberta Innovates health innovation and platforms' team about digital health in Alberta. We cover everything from the ethics of going digital to the programs being offered to entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators in the province. Featuring: Sean DeWitt, Senior Business Partner, Health Innovation Sunil Rajput, Senior Business Partner, Health Innovation Sandra Stabel, Senior Business Partner, Opportunity Development Tammy Mah-Fraser, Executive...
Shift talks with Alberta's Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, Doug Schweitzer; and Alberta Innovates CEO Laura Kilcrease about diversification and Alberta's economy
November 19, 2020 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode we're talking with Alberta's Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, Doug Schweitzer; and Alberta Innovates CEO Laura Kilcrease about diversification and Alberta's economy and more. BIOS Doug Schweitzer Minister Doug Schweitzer was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta on April 16, 2019, as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow. A dedicated husband, father of 2 young girls and a long-serving community volunteer, Schweitzer has a strong record of publi...
Shift talks with Brenda Beckedorf, Executive Director of the Alberta IoT
November 03, 2020 03:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBSend us a Text Message. The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a network of devices and systems that are embedded with sensors and other technologies that are connected over the Internet for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems. IoT is a multi-billion dollar global industry. On this episode we talk with Brenda Beckedorf, the executive director of the Alberta IoT, about her organization's role in representing a unified voice for Alberta-based SMEs ...
Learn how to build a gazelle with Shift!
November 02, 2020 22:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBSend us a Text Message. This is a special episode of Shift we recorded for Small Business Week in Alberta called Learn how to build a gazelle. In this case, we're not talking about the four-legged variety. In this context, a gazelle is a young, very fast-growing company. This type of company maintains consistent and rapid expansion of both employment and turnover. Join the Alberta Innovates Entrepreneurial Investment team as they lead you through an entrepreneur's journey of innovation fr...
Shift talks about the value of failure in innovation
October 16, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSend us a Text Message. We're Shifting speeds this episode and talking with local writer, Scott Lilwall, who sat down with people in Alberta's innovation community to talk about the value of failure and the lessons it can teach us. Scott Lilwall is an Edmonton-based freelance writer and podcast producer. His writing has been featured on CBC, Alberta Innovates and many others. For this episode, he reached out and chatted with Alberta Innovates CEO Laura Kilcrease, Jessica Doody, lead progr...
Shift talks with John Carle from the Alberta Cannabis Council and Dr. Sunil Rajput about cannabis
September 23, 2020 20:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSend us a Text Message. The legalization of cannabis is not without its hurdles. Science is seeking to fill the knowledge gaps when it comes to the implications and uses of medical cannabis, and the impact cannabis can have on recreational users. Cannabis entrepreneurs are looking to create long-term sustainable growth for this new industry they feel can help diversify Alberta's economy, all while wrestling with black market purveyors of questionable quality and other obstacles. Today on...
Shift talks with Dr. Elizabeth Cannon about women in STEM and the role mentoring plays
September 09, 2020 20:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBSend us a Text Message. As lead up to the September 15, 2020 Women Leading Innovation event presented by Inventures Unbound and SHEinnovates, our guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Cannon. Elizabeth talks with us about women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics; what it takes to succeed and to be a true leader; her goal of supporting women-led business and the important role she feels mentorship plays in helping one another succeed. BIO Dr. Elizabeth Cannon is forme...
Shift talks with Karen MacKenzie about the role Indigenous female entrepreneurs can play in building new economies
August 26, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBSend us a Text Message. 2020 is the word we use for for perfect vision, but as with the year and how it's gone so far, we have to start seeing things in a new way. Today's guest, Karen MacKenzie, helps us to explore and understand the role Indigenous culture and practices play in contributing to building those new economies. We talk about female Indigenous entrepreneurs, building genuine relationships in business and how she works as a mentor to help other women grow as entrepreneurs. BIO ...
Shift talks with Neil Gruninger from Calgary-based Kidoodle.TV about child safety online and growing a business
August 12, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBSend us a Text Message. Starting a company with the goal of creating an over-the-top media service for kids where parents can feel confident their children are watching appropriate shows is no easy task. Couple that with YouTube being one of your main competitors and the task almost seems impossible. Well, that's what Neil Gruninger and his partner Michael Lowe did when they created Kidoodle.TV. The online service has boomed in recent years, and we sit down to chat with Neil, the company's...
Shift talks with Harry Sharma from the Conference Board of Canada about innovation
July 23, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBSend us a Text Message. Based on a methodology with benchmark statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other sources, the Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) gave Alberta a D grade in terms of Innovation and placed Canada 14th out of 15 countries in their recent innovation report card. We discuss how Alberta and Canada traditionally do well in terms of creating startups, but we struggle as a province and a nation at turning these into globally su...
Shift talks with Amos Schwartzfarb, managing director of Techstars Austin about starting a business and "building belief by data."
July 09, 2020 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk with Amos Schwartzfarb, managing director of Techstars Austin, and author of Sell More Faster about starting a business and "building belief by data." We dive into the importance of basing decisions on data, Amos's W3 methodology for increasing the likelihood of repeatability in terms of business success, chat about how rock climbing is a good analogy for starting a business, and how impostor syndrome sometimes creeps in! Bio Amos was bo...
Shift talks with Melinda Emerson and Craig Elias about starting a small business
June 22, 2020 19:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we take a deep dive into starting a business with Innovation Rodeo keynote speaker and best selling author Melinda Emerson and Bow Valley College's Chiu School of Business Entrepreneur-in-Residence Craig Elias. Melinda and Craig will share their insights on business: how to start one, pitch one, build networks/supports and move toward success. Bios Melinda F. Emerson twitter.com/SmallBizLady Melinda, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Business ...
Shift talks with Inventures 2019 student pitch winner
June 04, 2020 03:00 - 25 minutes - 17.9 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk with Nermin Zukic, the Chair of Business from Keyano College, Said el Mejdani, Computer Science teacher from Westwood Community High School, and Sarptashi Bhattacherya, one of the student pitch winners from Inventures 2019. We discuss how Nermin, through Keyano College, worked with Said from Westwood Community High School to get, at the time, grade 10 student, Sarptashi Bhattacherya and two of his fellow classmates to Inventures 2019 to pitc...
Shift talks with entrepreneur Connie Stacey from Growing Greener Innovations
May 22, 2020 21:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBSend us a Text Message. In this episode we talk with Edmonton-based entrepreneur Connie Stacey about her company Growing Greener Innovations, their flagship product the Grengine, and her journey to become a successful female entrepreneur in the male-dominated space of deep tech. Shift by Alberta Innovates focuses on the people, businesses and organizations that are contributing to Alberta's strong tech ecosystem.
Shift talks with ATB's Todd Hirsch and AI's Laura Kilcrease
April 30, 2020 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBSend us a Text Message. This episode of Shift is brought to you by Inventures Unbound, the ultimate platform for innovators, investors and industry to share, inspire and interconnect virtually. If you have a pass to Inventures 2020, you already have access to all of Unbound’s goodies. If you’d like access to just Unbound, there’s a pass for that at Inventures Canada Get your pass today! Todd's bio Todd Hirsch is the Vice President and Chief Economist for ATB Financial. For over 20 years,...
Shift talks with Timothy Caulfield about science misinformation
April 08, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBIn his book The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark, writer and scientist Carl Sagan said, "if we're desperate enough, we become all too willing to abandon what may be perceived as the heavy burden of skepticism." In this age where pseudoscience and its spurious claims are seeing widespread promotion, the heavy burden of skepticism is one we should all shoulder just a bit more. In this episode, we talk with writer, tv host, and University of Alberta professor of health l...