Disruptors

By RBC Thought Leadership, John Stackhouse

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Disruptors, an RBC podcast, is an ongoing series hosted by SVP John Stackhouse about reimagining Canada’s economy in a time of unprecedented change. It features thought-provoking conversations with Canadian business and innovation leaders about planting the seeds of a new economy.

Episode Date
Overruled: The New LegalTech Precedent
Mar 26, 2024
Unlocking the Energy Transition’s Economic Benefit
Mar 12, 2024
Shattering Glass Ceilings in Canadian Cleantech
Feb 27, 2024
Doubling Down: The Definitive Decade for Climate
Feb 13, 2024
Davos Discourse: AI Takes Centre Stage
Jan 30, 2024
Hydrogen Horizons: Powering a Green Path Forward
Jan 16, 2024
New Year’s Promise: Pragmatic Shift to a Digitally Charged Future
Jan 09, 2024
Climate Crossroads: Unpacking the Dialogue in the Desert at COP28
Dec 15, 2023
Bridging the Growth Gap with AI Innovation
Dec 12, 2023
Navigating Canada’s Carbon Frontier
Nov 28, 2023
Mechanical Minds: Exploring the World of AI Robots
Nov 14, 2023
Mapping Canada’s New Greenprint with Sustainable Building Materials
Oct 31, 2023
Soaring Toward a Greener Future with Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Oct 17, 2023
Forging Canada’s path in a future filled with AI
Oct 03, 2023
Disruptors: Season Seven Trailer
Sep 19, 2023
Reboot of “Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with Applyboard’s Martin Basiri
Aug 29, 2023
Reboot of “The Growing Challenge: Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste”
Aug 15, 2023
Reboot of “Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US”
Aug 01, 2023
Reboot of “AI Helped Produce This Episode"
Jul 18, 2023
Olivier Desmarais: How Canada Can Win In A Net Zero World
Jul 04, 2023
How Indigenous Business Can Accelerate Canada’s Net Zero Transition
Jun 27, 2023
Building Green Part 2: Harnessing High-Tech To Lower Emissions
Jun 13, 2023
Building Green: Fixing Canada’s Leaky Homes
May 30, 2023
Innovation Nation: 3 Canadians Share Their Secrets
May 16, 2023
From Ship to Shelf: Vancouver’s Port of the Future
May 02, 2023
Ten Questions on Climate for Earth Day
Apr 18, 2023
Soil: An Unexpected Climate Change Champion
Apr 04, 2023
Cyber Wars: A Good Offense Is the Best Defense
Mar 21, 2023
Views from the Valley: Is The Worst Over for Tech?
Mar 07, 2023
Semiconductor Showdown: Canada Enters the Chip Race
Feb 21, 2023
Canada’s Quest for Quantum Dominance
Feb 07, 2023
Davos 2023: “Things could be a lot worse”
Jan 24, 2023
Investing in Climate Action: What Canada Can Learn from the US
Jan 13, 2023
Biodiversity 3.0: How to Leverage Nature as an Asset
Dec 15, 2022
AI Helped Produce This Episode
Dec 06, 2022
COP27: Turning Talk into Action?
Nov 19, 2022
The Growing Challenge Part 3: The Hidden Threat of Food Spoilage and Waste
Nov 15, 2022
The Growing Challenge Part 2: Beef, biogas, dairy, and data.
Nov 08, 2022
The Growing Challenge: How Canada Can Lead the Next Green Revolution in Agriculture
Nov 01, 2022
The Growing Challenge (Trailer)
Oct 18, 2022
Disruptors LIVE: In Conversation with ApplyBoard’s Martin Basiri
Oct 11, 2022
Disruptors LIVE at ELEVATE Festival: In Conversation with John Ruffolo
Sep 27, 2022
New School Rules: How International Students Could Ease Our Labour Crunch
Sep 13, 2022
Disruptors Revisited: Indigenous Leadership and Canada’s Energy Future
Jul 26, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Are Carbon Offsets Actually Effective?
Jul 19, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: How Vehicle Shopping Changed Overnight
Jul 12, 2022
Disruptors Revisited: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback
Jul 05, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Layoffs rock the tech sector
Jun 28, 2022
A Capital Idea: How Indigenous Economics Can Power our Climate Agenda
Jun 21, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: The Pressure Is On for Canadian Farm Crops and Commodities
Jun 14, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Can Canada’s Travel Industry Keep Up With the Post-Pandemic Boom?
Jun 07, 2022
Reinventing Innovation: How Canada Can Prosper in Turbulent Times
May 31, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: A New Reality for Canada’s Hot Housing Market
May 24, 2022
Rock On: Blockchain’s Promise to Empower Musicians
May 17, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Is Canada Poised for a Cashless Future?
May 10, 2022
The Climate Conversations: How Indigenous Leadership Can Drive Canada’s Energy Transition
May 03, 2022
The Climate Conversations: Can Clean Tech Rise to the Challenge?
Apr 26, 2022
The Climate Conversations: How to Achieve Energy Security in a Low-Carbon World
Apr 19, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Food Inflation & Agtech
Apr 12, 2022
Brain Power: Why Neurotechnology is Making Waves
Apr 05, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: The Great Nickel Rush of 2022
Mar 29, 2022
Taking Off: The Travel Sector’s Long-Anticipated Comeback
Mar 22, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Cyber Threat – Digital Transformation’s Dark Side
Mar 15, 2022
The Way Forward: The Push for Women’s Inclusion in VC
Mar 08, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Waterloo’s Booming Tech & Innovation Scene
Mar 01, 2022
The Green Collar Revolution
Feb 22, 2022
The 10-Minute Take: Tech’s Big Sell-Off
Feb 15, 2022
The Great Resignation . . . or the Great Reshuffle?
Feb 08, 2022
Disruptors: Season Four Trailer
Feb 01, 2022
The Climate Conversations: Indigenous Leader JP Gladu
Dec 14, 2021
The Climate Conversations: UN Special Envoy Mark Carney
Dec 07, 2021
The Climate Conversations: Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
Nov 30, 2021
The Climate Conversations: Can Cities Save Our Planet?
Nov 16, 2021
The Climate Conversations: How to Energize Our Future
Nov 09, 2021
The Climate Conversations: How to Build a Greener Food Chain
Nov 02, 2021
The Climate Conversations: Where Do We Go From Here?
Oct 26, 2021
Introducing: The Climate Conversations (Trailer)
Oct 12, 2021
Disruptors Revisited: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
Aug 31, 2021
Disruptors Revisited: Three Companies Redefining Resilience in 2021
Aug 17, 2021
Disruptors Revisited: How 5G Will Transform the Canadian Economy
Aug 03, 2021
Land of Unicorns - Canada’s New Bounty of Billion-Dollar Tech Companies
Jul 27, 2021
Leaders of Tomorrow: How Indigenous Youth Can Seize the Digital Day
Jul 13, 2021
Rethinking Biotech: How big, long-term bets are paying off
Jun 22, 2021
Good Medicine: Is the future of healthcare digital?
Jun 01, 2021
New Frontiers: How Canadian Tech is Shaking Up Space
May 11, 2021
The Creativity Economy Part 2: From the Classroom to the Boardroom
Apr 27, 2021
BONUS: Why Blockchain Holds the Key to a Greener Planet
Apr 22, 2021
The Creativity Economy Part 1: A (New) Power Skill for the 2020s
Apr 13, 2021
Charging Ahead: Canada’s Role in The E-V Revolution
Mar 30, 2021
The Last-Mile Ecosystem: One-on-One with the CEO of DoorDash
Mar 16, 2021
Diversity In/Action: Improving Inclusivity in the Tech Sector
Feb 16, 2021
The Business of Benevolence: How Technology is Changing Charitable Giving in Canada
Jan 26, 2021
2021, Year of the Gamer: How Video Game Culture is Conquering Canada and the World
Jan 12, 2021
Pandemics, Pivots, and Predictions: Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead to 2021
Dec 15, 2020
Impersonal Information: Data and Privacy Protection in 2020 and Beyond
Dec 08, 2020
The Intangibles Economy: How to Make Canada an IP Powerhouse
Nov 24, 2020
From Connected Cows to Smart Cities: Enabling the 5G Economy
Nov 10, 2020
Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI
Oct 20, 2020
Apps, Anxiety, and Adolescence: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
Oct 13, 2020
The SheEO Model: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Lead the Recovery
Oct 06, 2020
8 Ways COVID is Still Disrupting the Economy
Sep 29, 2020
How the NEXT Generation of Entrepreneurs Could Kickstart a Wave of Change
Sep 22, 2020
Cancon and Beyond - How Wattpad Is Becoming a Global Content Destination and Distributor
Sep 15, 2020
Genomics and the Bio-Revolution: A roadmap for Canada's economic recovery.
Sep 08, 2020
Concrete: An unlikely hero in the climate crisis
Aug 25, 2020
Disruptors Revisited: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurship
Aug 18, 2020
Open Oceans, Open Opportunity: Mapping Canada’s Role in the Blue Economy
Aug 11, 2020
Beyond Silicon Valley: Why We Need a Global Playbook For Innovation
Aug 04, 2020
Disruptors Revisited: Data is Bigger than Oil
Jul 28, 2020
App-to-Table: How Tech Can Help Restaurants Rebound
Jul 21, 2020
Disruptors Revisited: Rewiring the Brain (June 2019)
Jul 14, 2020
Beyond the Cart: How Grocery Commerce is Transforming
Jul 07, 2020
Global Canadians: The Tech Sector's Secret Weapon
Jun 30, 2020
The New Mall: Digital, Data and Delivery
Jun 23, 2020
A Digital Cure for Healthcare
Jun 16, 2020
Small Business’s Digital Pivot
Jun 09, 2020
How the COVID-19 Crisis will Transform Higher Education
Jun 01, 2020
How to Build a Strong Tech Workforce in a Post-COVID Economy
May 26, 2020
How Is “Photography 3.0” Helping Us Experience the World in a Post COVID Society?
May 19, 2020
In Innovation, It’s David vs Goliath
May 12, 2020
Can Alberta Tech Transform Global Energy?
May 05, 2020
Will the COVID Crisis Lead to a Digital Revolution in Government?
Apr 28, 2020
Canadian Innovation in Crisis
Apr 21, 2020
RBC Disruptors: Season Two Trailer
Apr 19, 2020
Is Data Bigger than Oil?
Feb 28, 2020
Why Are There so Few Black Entrepreneurs in the Digital Economy?
Feb 21, 2020
How a Canadian Company Used AI to Detect the Coronavirus
Feb 13, 2020
The Skills Shift
Nov 06, 2019
Solving for the Silver Tsunami
Oct 29, 2019
The Audience Strikes Back
Oct 09, 2019
Disrupting Democracy
Sep 18, 2019
In Conversation with Two Next Gen Entrepreneurs
Sep 03, 2019
Farmer 4.0: The Shift to Automation
Aug 27, 2019
Farmer 4.0: Agriculture's Skills Revolution
Aug 27, 2019
From Burberry to Apple: A Shift in Retail (July 8, 2019)
Jul 08, 2019
Rewiring the Brain (June 24, 2019)
Jun 24, 2019
AI for Good? (June 6, 2019)
Jun 06, 2019
Disrupting the daily RITUAL Event Highlights (April 24, 2019)
Apr 26, 2019
The Future of Shipping Event Highlights (April 3, 2019)
Apr 08, 2019
"Hey Alexa, What's Next for Voice Tech?" Event Highlights (March 28, 2019)
Apr 02, 2019
Willing To Fail: The Disruptive Force of an Entrepreneurial Mindset Event Highlights (Feb. 27, 2019)
Mar 01, 2019
BlackBerry's Big Pivot Event Highlights (Jan. 16, 2019)
Jan 21, 2019
The Spin Master [Toy] Story Event Highlights (Dec. 4, 2018)
Dec 13, 2018
RBC CEO Dave McKay in conversation with PayPal CEO Dan Schulman
Nov 28, 2018
Fireside Chat with iNovia’s Patrick Pichette
Nov 13, 2018
Slack: Changing The World With Chat Event Highlights (Oct. 1, 2018)
Oct 19, 2018
Mental Health In The Digital Age Event Highlights (Sept. 26, 2018)
Oct 02, 2018
Next Gen Entrepreneurs Event Highlights (Aug. 21, 2018)
Sep 02, 2018
Netflix's Jessica Neal on Building a Culture of Innovation
Aug 11, 2018
How to Think Like a Startup 2.0 Event Highlights (July 18, 2018)
Jul 23, 2018
Shopify's Harley Finkelstein on the Future of Tech Talent
Jun 29, 2018
Diversity x Inclusion x Innovation Event Highlights (June 20, 2018)
Jun 23, 2018
Estonia: The World's First Digital Democracy
Jun 01, 2018
Cryptocurrency: Future or Folly? Event Highlights (Apr. 26, 2018)
Apr 27, 2018
Canada's Skills Revolution: the Human Touch in Healthcare Automation
Mar 31, 2018
Canada’s Skills Revolution: Building the Winery of the Future
Mar 28, 2018
Canada’s Skills Revolution: Feeding the Future
Mar 28, 2018
Scott Galloway on Breaking Up Tech's Big Four
Mar 16, 2018
Freshco's Mandy Rennehan on Women in Trades
Mar 08, 2018
The NFL's Maryann Turcke on Sports Content in the Mobile Age
Mar 03, 2018
Mnubo's Frederic Bastien on the Internet of Things
Feb 25, 2018
Canada's AI Challenge with RBC CEO David McKay & Integrate.AI CEO Steve Irvine
Feb 08, 2018
Davos Debrief with RBC CEO David McKay
Jan 28, 2018
Sidewalk Labs - RBCDisruptors Event Highlights (Jan. 17, 2018)
Jan 26, 2018
Sidewalk Labs' Dan Doctoroff: Quayside and the Future of Cities
Jan 17, 2018
MLSE's David Hopkinson on Raptors Uprising and eSports
Jan 05, 2018