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Disruptors

RBC Thought Leadership, John Stackhouse

Disruptors, now in its 11th season, has become your front-row seat to Canada’s innovation story—200+ episodes exploring the people, ideas, and technologies reshaping Canada’s future. Each episode, hosted by John Stackhouse, SVP, Office of the CEO at Royal Bank of Canada—and former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail—cuts through the hype and focuses on what you need to know.This season, we’re leaning into urgency: the global economy is shifting, geopolitics are noisy, and Canada needs to respond. You’ll hear from founders, investors, scientists, operators, and policy leaders at the forefront. Listen for a clearer understanding of the tech and innovation shaping Canada and the world—and practical insights to help you make sense of what’s coming next.

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243 episodes

  1. Space Race: Getting Canada to Orbit 20:49
  2. Clear Skies: Direct air capture and Canada's advantage 18:29
  3. Permission to Fail: A case for youth entrepreneurship 23:21
  4. Digital Refineries: Data centres as Alberta’s new resource 25:07
  5. Canada's Biotech Challenge 26:02
  6. Two Middle Powers. One AI Bet 19:55
  7. Canada's AI Potential 15:28
  8. David, Goliath, and Drones: The New Map of Geo-Technology 25:34
  9. REBOOT: The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer 36:33
  10. REBOOT: Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation 29:44
  11. REBOOT: Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway 26:41
  12. From Ottawa to Orbit: Two Views on Canada’s Big Day 23:25
  13. Own The Stack: Canada's Data Sovereignty Test 27:46
  14. Can AI Fix ER Wait Times? 26:31
  15. Canada’s Tech Growth Challenge 26:06
  16. Permission To Prompt: AI’s Path From Experimentation to Scale 28:14
  17. The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed 26:41
  18. From MLB to Metallica: The Canadian Company redefining live events 35:21
  19. Street Smarts: The Waterloo company tackling global gridlock 25:47
  20. AI's power, pitfalls, and potential 34:27
  21. REBOOT: Building Canada: A new generation takes charge. 30:09
  22. Trust at Scale: Lessons from Wikipedia 28:35
  23. Tech Wins Gold: How Canada Can Rebuild Its Olympic Pipeline 31:12
  24. Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: The Quantum Era's Encryption Challenge 22:13
  25. The $15m Cliff: Keeping Canadian Agri-Food Startups Scaling at Home 28:30
  26. Risk as Signal: A Canadian Playbook 23:39
  27. Climate-Led Investing: What’s Next 23:32
  28. Alberta’s Next Energy Mix 24:12
  29. Building Canada: A new generation takes charge 28:51
  30. Power to Compute: How Alberta Is Powering the AI Age 26:51
  31. The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer 36:07
  32. Beyond the Battery: Inside Quebec’s Mine-to-Refine Transformation 29:19
  33. Powering the North: How the Kivalliq Hydro-Fibre Link Will Build A Stronger Canada 21:46
  34. Feeding the Future: How Saskatchewan is Seeding Canada's Ag-Tech Revolution 19:26
  35. Link to the World: How Manitoba Is Rebuilding a Northern Trade Route 24:33
  36. Port to Prosperity: How Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Is Rebuilding Canada’s Pacific Gateway 26:14
  37. How Atlantic Canada is powering Canada’s place in space 25:44
  38. Defending the Deep: Securing Canada’s Underwater Sovereignty 19:35
  39. The Canada Project (Trailer) 2:28
  40. REBOOT: Agentic AI - The Next Frontier 30:20
  41. REBOOT: AgriFood and Food Security: Can Canada Feed the World? 29:51
  42. REBOOT: Powering Canada: Electricity and Data Centres 30:33
  43. REBOOT: AI in Canada: Leading Innovation, Lagging Adoption 29:13
  44. Canada’s AI Opportunity with Minister of Artificial Intelligence Evan Solomon 26:05
  45. Space: The Low Earth Orbit Movement 33:53
  46. Building Global from Canada: Shopify’s Entrepreneurial Ambition 31:11
  47. Agentic AI - The Next Frontier 29:55
  48. Beyond Offsets: How to Build a Carbon Removal Industry 31:39
  49. Detect Early, Treat Early: Innovations Shaping the Fight Against Cancer 30:00
  50. How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize on the Buy Canadian Movement 22:14