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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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Major Reports

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Articles

Trust, Scale, and Strategy: How to Build an AI-First Organization

How Schneider Electric turned pandemic-era supply chain disruption into an opportunity to reinvent its operations with AI

Canada’s Biotech Reboot: How to keep the vital life sciences sector strong

Canada’s life sciences sector has been a paragon of strength and economic vibrancy, but recently it has been showing signs of weakness.

GenAI: Is Canada ready?

How far behind is Canada when it comes to Gen AI? The latest and most comprehensive look came in Statistics Canada’s quarterly survey of business…

Lululemon’s Tom Waller on the merits of ambiguity, the perils of wallowing in success and why ‘projects own people’

Tom Waller, of Lululemon, speaks about the importance of purpose and what he’s learned as leader of Whitespace, the firm’s in-house innovation and R&D…

Ajay Agrawal on how to build your creative muscle

Ajay Agrawal, the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, speaks about the importance of goal-setting, how to recognize success and more.

Brittany Forsyth’s lightbulb moment

Brittany Forsyth, outgoing chief talent officer at Shopify, speaks about maintaining a creative startup culture in the face of explosive growth.

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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.

Digital Refineries: Data centres as Alberta’s new resource

Alberta’s tech minister Nate Glubish on attracting AI data centres without subsidies, protecting the grid and turning natural gas into intelligence.

Canada’s Biotech Challenge

Canadian medical research has produced breakthrough after breakthrough. But too often, the companies behind the science scale elsewhere.

Two Middle Powers, One AI Bet: Canada and Germany’s Tech Alliance

This episode of Disruptors was recorded live at ALL IN 2026 in Montreal

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