Shift by Alberta Innovates
We're happy to announce we won Best Business podcast for 2025 by the Quill Podcast Awards!
Shift by Alberta Innovates is dedicated to interviewing the innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers who are leading the future of innovation in Alberta and globally. Alberta has many unsung heroes and many interesting and important technological advancements being made that will greatly impact our lives. Shift is a spotlight for listeners to get a sense of how Alberta innovation is leading the way.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Tonya Wolfe and Red Deer Polytechnic: supporting entrepreneurs across Alberta
Nestled in central Alberta, Red Deer Polytechnic is a post secondary institution with major aspirations--and some serious clout. With lots of connections through the regional innovation…
Why building great ecosystems is even more important today with Chris Heivly
There's no one playbook that defines the path to startup success. For Chris Heivly, it's a mindset.
My conversation with Chris touches on his new book, Building the Fort, what people ca…
Lia Garvin: The work place reframe
On this episode we're teasing another of our Inventures speakers: Lia Garvin. Lia is engaging, insightful and an absolute pleasurer to talk with. She takes years of experience working f…
Shift teases Inventures' panels - Scale your Everest: How to be a Resilient Entrepreneur
Welcome to the second in our series of Inventures teaser episodes leading up to our event starting on May 31.
My guest this episode is Erik Severinghaus. Erik joins me for brief discussi…
Shift teases Inventures' panels - critical thinking to mitigate risk in a chaotic information economy
Welcome to the first in our series of Inventures teaser episodes leading up to our event on May 31.
My guests on this initial episode are Christine Maligec from Marsh Canada and Ron Mar…
From doctor to entrepreneur - Oliver Bathe from Qualisure Diagnostics
Calgary-based Qualisure Diagnostics is making some serious inroads with the introduction of their flagship cancer diagnostic tool Thyroid Guide Px.
The company uses machine intelligence…
Working in the chaos - How PK Sound is changing the sound industry
Since the inception of line arrays (the big speakers you see stage left and right at major events) there hasn't been much innovation in the realm of sound reinforcement. Until PK Sound …
From making money to making a difference: Charles Buchanan from Technology Helps
Charles Buchanan is a man on a mission to build community and help end technology poverty for non-profit social entreprises. Through his company Technology Helps, Charles and his team t…
Alberta clean tech crushes the status quo: Kelly Krahulic from Summit Nanotech
Summit Nanotech has been on fire for the last little while. Company founder and CEO Amanda Hall was the $1 Million grand prize winner of the Women in Cleantech Challenge in 2021. They t…
Everything communicates: Shift talks with Andrew Goldner from GrowthX
Welcome to the third and final installment of our Edmonton Startup Week podcast series.
On today's episode I sat down with the mind-expanding Andrew Goldner from GrowthX to learn about t…
Conquering uncertainty or at least getting comfortable with it: Shift talks with James Keirstead
Welcome to part two of our Edmonton Startup Week podcast series.
On today's episode I had the great pleasure of sitting down with James Keirstead from Levven Electronics to talk about a…
Edmonton Unlimited spearheads Edmonton Startup Week
Alberta has a lot to boast about when it comes to female tech leaders, and our next guest is no exception. Catherine Warren leads the newly-rebranded Edmonton Unlimited as a vital cog i…
A Thursday Night Tradition that's making an impact across the prairies
Zack Storms and Tim Lynn are the co-founders of Startup TNT, which is a community of entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, innovators and startup supporters that gathers every week to h…
Digital health isn't only for humans - Sylvester AI helps diagnose an ailing animal
Cats are 10, 000 years less domesticated than dogs, so they don't always tell us the truth with their body language and sweet little purrs.
Enter Sylvester ai, a Calgary-based company t…
Legal Solutions for Startups with Goodlawyer's Joshua Weinberger
Goodlawyer is an Alberta-based interactive, online service that provides legal solutions for startups.
When company CEO and founder Brett Colvin was working at one of Canada's largest …
From fats to fuels with Dr. David Bressler
We met with Dr. David Bressler while at Inventures on June 2, 2022. We spoke to him about his work converting lipids into hydrocarbons (biofuel), his role with Forge Hydrocarbons and ab…
The Future of Agriculture with Robert Saik
Agriculture is in Robert Saik's blood.
It began with his career on a mixed farm in Alberta, and he's since gone onto found and invest in many companies in the agricultural sector rangin…
What are Non-Fungible Tokens? For artist and advocate Cowboy Smithx they're game changers.
We joined Cowboy Smithx backstage at Inventures 2022 just prior to his panel #T7NFT Building Community in the Arts: Utilizing Blockchain Technology to Boost the Creative Economies.
The #…
On the floor at Inventures 2022
Inventures 2022 took place June 1 through 3 at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, Alberta. Attended by over 3000 people, the event brought together investors, innovators, researche…
Shift for Inventures – Navigating to Net-Zero
As part of a special Shift series on Inventures 2022, we’re presenting an episode for each of the seven content tracks featured at this year’s event.
This episode puts a spotlight on th…