Podcast Episodes

Dominion Dynamics CEO thinks defence is a "generational opportunity" for Canadian entrepreneurs

"Too many American subs dominate this market.  Eighty percent of what we buy is from American companies. We wanna reverse that. We wanna make 80 percent of what we buy from Canadian companies. So we …

Published on 15 hours ago

Budget 2025: "cautiously optimistic"

It's a power-packed post-Budget panel podcast featuring a plethora of Canadian policy wonks! Vass Bednar (Canadian SHIELD Institute), Benjamin Bergen (CCI), and Jaxson Khan (Aperture AI) join to expl…

Published on 1 week ago

What the AWS outage reveals about Canada's digital sovereignty

"We were sleepwalking our way into this new economy, and we've had a bit of a wake-up call."

Ian Rae, CEO of Aptum and a member of Minister Evan Solomon's AI Task Force, has been building internet in…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Why Canada doesn't buy Canadian tech

"If you're a founder in Canada, you have a playbook, which is: try to get outside of the country as soon as possible. Try to sell outside of the country."

Raymond Luk thinks the "cultural belief we'r…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Can Canada build its own social network?

"It's one thing to say 'let's do this in a sovereign way.' It is a whole other to actually do it."

Gander Social is attempting to do something that seemed inconceivable six months ago: build a Canadi…

Published on 1 month ago

Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?

"Don't talk to your customers because your customers will keep you in the place that you used to be."

AI adoption is now an industry-wide mandate. It's putting a lot of pressure on Canadian entrepren…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Tailscale's CEO has an idea "worth billions" for AI startups

"That's the literal term several CISOs have used with me unprompted: 'ticking time bomb.' There's no world in which this doesn't explode the way it's done right now."

Tailscale CEO Avery Pennarun thi…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why Canada's defence tech sector is suddenly exploding

"It actually allows us an opportunity to build sovereign capability and leapfrog to get our armed forces where they need to be by taking advantage of leapfrog Canadian technologies."

US President Don…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI

"There's a really good chance that a young person's parents—or even their friends—don't even know that this individual is building a relationship with these chatbots. And that's where the danger exis…

Published on 2 months ago

Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?

"We're going to find in the next year or two that the amount of leakage actually goes up quite a bit because I think the focus on AI is just moving really, really fast. But I don't see the same energ…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago