Disruptors
Understand the forces that are shaping the future of business and technology to navigate the
rapid changes in Canada’s tech landscape.
Innovation is driving business productivity and sustainability across industries in Canada and beyond. How can Canadian entrepreneurs make the most of these new technology opportunities? How can they embrace disruption and scale their businesses?
Powered by cutting-edge research from RBC, Season 8 of Disruptors kicks off with a special
series, Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, co-hosted by Sonia Sennik, Chief Executive Officer of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL),
and RBC’s John Stackhouse. Together, they dive into the latest advancements in AI,
automation, and data analytics, highlighting their transformative impact on business and the
economy.
You’ll hear from pioneers in AI, clean energy, and life sciences—people leading the way in
turning technology innovation into practical business solutions. From AI’s role in improving
business productivity to the future of work, Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era delivers the insights you need to stay competitive in a world driven by technology and digital transformation.
The show highlights strategies and ideas that can help your business navigate rapid changes in
the tech landscape. Whether you’re a business leader, entrepreneur, or policymaker, Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era equips you with the tools to thrive in this new technology-driven economy.
Follow Disruptors x CDL: The Innovation Era, an original podcast from RBC, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 204
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Rethinking Biotech: How big, long-term bets are paying off
To learn more about AbCellera and its antibody discovery platform, follow this link.
Canada’s biotech sector was in the spotlight during Covid. To learn more about how it responded—and how the nationa…
Good Medicine: Is the future of healthcare digital?
To learn more about the companies mentioned in the show and the services they offer, follow the links for Maple, Well Health, and Dialogue.
Last December, the CD Howe Institute published a report on …
New Frontiers: How Canadian Tech is Shaking Up Space
To learn about NASA’s Lunar Gateway project — an outpost that supports a return to the lunar surface as well as deep-space exploration — click here. To see how MDA’s AI-powered Canadarm3 will work on…
The Creativity Economy Part 2: From the Classroom to the Boardroom
To learn more about the companies and institutions who participated in this podcast, visit their websites: I-Think, Sheridan College, Shopify, Lululemon, and Ubisoft Montreal. Richard Florida can be …
BONUS: Why Blockchain Holds the Key to a Greener Planet
RBC Tech for Nature is RBC’s multi-year commitment to preserving our natural ecosystem and works with partners to leverage technology and innovation capabilities to solve pressing environmental chall…
The Creativity Economy Part 1: A (New) Power Skill for the 2020s
Click the following links to learn more about Cirque du Soleil and its creative process. You can find details on the programs and streams offered by The Creative Destruction Lab HERE, or visit the Ro…
Charging Ahead: Canada’s Role in The E-V Revolution
For details on Propulsion Quebec, its mission, and its business areas, visit propulsionquebec.com. You can learn more about GBatteries and its unique, ultra-fast charging technology at gbatteries.com…
The Last-Mile Ecosystem: One-on-One with the CEO of DoorDash
To learn more about DoorDash, its philosophy, and its origin story, you can visit the company’s website. For details on its revenue during the pandemic, read this recent Bloomberg article. John menti…
Diversity In/Action: Improving Inclusivity in the Tech Sector
It’s something that has the power to enable both empathy and exclusion; to provide us with new perspectives while simultaneously silencing other voices that deserve to be heard: technology.
And while …
The Business of Benevolence: How Technology is Changing Charitable Giving in Canada
It’s something that’s always been a part of the Canadian identity, but has taken on a new urgency over the past twelve months: our tendency to support charities, non-profits, and community organizati…
2021, Year of the Gamer: How Video Game Culture is Conquering Canada and the World
Did anyone in your household wake up to find a new video game, virtual reality headset, or console under the tree over the holidays? Do your kids spend hours on end online, watching their favourite g…
Pandemics, Pivots, and Predictions: Looking Back on 2020 and Ahead to 2021
Extraordinary. Unprecedented. Devastating. There’s no shortage of words that have been used to describe everything Canadians have endured over the past 12 months. COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted…
Impersonal Information: Data and Privacy Protection in 2020 and Beyond
What do digital privacy and COVID-19 have in common with climate change, Kompromat, counter-espionage hackers, and the new Netflix movie “The Social Dilemma”? They’re just a few of the many topics th…
The Intangibles Economy: How to Make Canada an IP Powerhouse
It’s a term that’s been front and centre this fall, as the federal government considers ways to shepherd Canada out of the economic downturn caused by COVID: intellectual property. But what exactly i…
From Connected Cows to Smart Cities: Enabling the 5G Economy
There’s been no shortage of hype. Now, after years of headlines heralding it as a transformative technology, an evolution in wireless service, even a “game changer for humanity,” 5G is finally being …
Can an Algorithm Be Racist? The Growing Push for Ethical AI
From facial recognition software that fails to recognize women and people of colour, to Twitter algorithms which seem to prefer white faces in photo previews, there’s been no shortage of negative hea…
Apps, Anxiety, and Adolescence: Youth Mental Health in the Age of Covid
It was already a challenge, even before the pandemic: helping young people and their families navigate Canada’s complex, fragmented mental health system. But experts say COVID could also serve as a c…
The SheEO Model: How Female Entrepreneurs Can Lead the Recovery
Canadian women entrepreneurs are a dynamic and powerful economic force. After all, women own and operate almost one-third of all firms in Canada, and they start businesses one-and-a-half times more o…
8 Ways COVID is Still Disrupting the Economy
The past eight months have been an unprecedented time of disruption in Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected everything from how we work, learn, and shop to how we travel, entertain ourselves, a…
How the NEXT Generation of Entrepreneurs Could Kickstart a Wave of Change
When others see obstacles, entrepreneurs see opportunities. Nowhere is that more true than the up-and-coming generation of business minds, many fostered through NEXT Canada. The organization gives en…