Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis
The world is on track to add as many people to cities in the next 40 years as we have in the last 40 centuries. Those new buildings and roads will require a lot of concrete, which historically was an ...
25 Elo 202031min
Disruptors Revisited: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurship
Following last week’s International Youth Day, Canadian youth might feel like they have few things to celebrate. As one of the hardest-hit groups in the COVID-induced economic decline, they’re faced w...
18 Elo 202041min
Open Oceans, Open Opportunity: Mapping Canada’s Role in the Blue Economy
Oceans provide safety, a way of life, economic sustainability, and food for the entire planet, yet over 80% of the world’s oceans are unmapped and unexplored. Now, we have the tools and technology to ...
11 Elo 202028min
Beyond Silicon Valley: Why We Need a Global Playbook For Innovation
Nearly 10 years ago, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen famously claimed that “software is eating the world.” But today, a new crop of “frontier innovators” are straying away from disrupting existing ...
4 Elo 202027min
Disruptors Revisited: Data is Bigger than Oil
To succeed in the post-COVID economy, businesses will need more than just a pivot to digital – they’ll need to lean into and harness data to gain an advantage. As the COVID crisis disrupts traditional...
28 Heinä 202036min
App-to-Table: How Tech Can Help Restaurants Rebound
Building a successful company takes a community, and SkipTheDishes is no different. A Winnipeg success story, the food delivery platform has over 25,000 restaurants in its community. John Stackhouse s...
21 Heinä 202024min
Disruptors Revisited: Rewiring the Brain (June 2019)
The COVID pandemic has brought everyday life online and made us more reliant on technology than ever. Many of us are working from home and glued to our screens all day, and then Zooming with friends o...
14 Heinä 202036min
Beyond the Cart: How Grocery Commerce is Transforming
In the midst of a global crisis, getting food from farm to fork has never been more important, and in some ways, more challenging. Nothing has been more essential than keeping Canadians fed and suppli...
7 Heinä 202029min
