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Podcast

The New Energy Race: Batteries, bills and Canada’s grid

In this episode of Disruptors, Jigar Shah and John Stackhouse discuss battery storage, clean power, and Canada’s electricity strategy

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Articles

Ready to Take Your Company to the Next Level? 8 Tips for Raising Capital

You’ve got your big idea. You’ve hired the best talent, and you’re making great progress on your product. What’s the next step?

Flash Forward from Flash Boys: How a Canadian is Shaking Up Wall Street

Brad Katsuyama is an unlikely revolutionary, but the unassuming former RBC trader is taking on some of the most powerful players on Wall Street to…

How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur in Canada: 10 Tips from the Best in Tech

10 tips from the Go North event that every tech entrepreneur might want to take to heart.

5 Ways to Turn Alberta’s Slump into an Innovation Boom

To explore Alberta’s growing innovation economy, we took our monthly #RBCDisruptors series to Calgary and profiled three local entrepreneurs and what…

Go North: 10 Ideas for Innovation, Strong and Free

10 insights that emerged from Go North, a brainstorming conference for entrepreneurs organized by Google and Royal Bank of Canada.

How to Create an Innovation Super-Cluster? Look Back in Time.

What does it take to leverage the capabilities of a tech cluster encompassing Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Hamilton?

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Disruptors Podcast

Disruptors, hosted by John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, is our flagship podcast that explores how technology and innovation is reshaping the economy.

Newfoundland: Defending the Deep

Securing Canada’s underwater sovereignty (The Canada Project – Episode 1)

Season 9: The Canada Project (Trailer)

Featuring visionary leaders harnessing technology to take on Canada’s most-urgent challenges

Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon

Are we ready for the AI era or are we stuck in an imagination gap?

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