Semiconductor Showdown: Canada Enters the Chip Race
Is the hustle to build a reliable, domestic supply of semiconductors the new space race?Semiconductors are small computer chips the size of a fingerprint that contain hundreds of millions, if not bill...
21 Helmi 202327min
Canada’s Quest for Quantum Dominance
Imagine a mathematical problem so complex, it would take today’s most sophisticated supercomputer 9,000 years to solve. Now, imagine a new type of computer that could solve the very same problem in ju...
7 Helmi 202328min
Davos 2023: “Things could be a lot worse”
After a three-year hiatus, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, came back with a vengeance, just as a fragmented world confronts a confluence of crises. The global meeting of...
24 Tammi 202328min
Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US
As we begin a new year, we’re creeping ever closer to the point of no return in the fight against climate change. Sea levels are rising, the earth is warming, we’ve seen thawing permafrost and large s...
13 Tammi 202335min
Biodiversity 3.0: How to Leverage Nature as an Asset
WTF: where’s the finance? It was a hot topic at COP27, the UN Climate Conference in Egypt in November, and it continues to be a source of debate at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the Co...
15 Joulu 202226min
AI Helped Produce This Episode
AI was expected to revolutionize the way we do just about everything, but the changes that were promised haven’t materialized as quickly as expected. What’s holding AI back?On this episode of Disrupto...
6 Joulu 202230min
COP27: Turning Talk into Action?
Amidst a backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, rapidly rising inflation, ever-lingering COVID, and near constant political convulsions, this year’s COP27 took on an unprecedented weight. In this e...
19 Marras 202228min
