Cyber Wars: A Good Offense Is the Best Defense
Cyber threats have been around as long as the Internet, but attacks have ramped up in the last few years, with the pandemic dramatically shifting more of our work—and our lives—online. Organizations a...
21 Mar 202331min
Views from the Valley: Is The Worst Over for Tech?
It’s no secret that 2023 hasn’t exactly started on a high note for the tech sector. With more than 100,000 workers laid off already this year, looking in from the outside, the industry seems to have l...
7 Mar 202328min
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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Des 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 Des 202230min
