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
Shift for Inventures – Taming Urban Jungles
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…
Shift for Inventures – Gamechanging Health
As a 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 focuses on the track…
Shift for Inventures - Redefining Capitalism
As a 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 …
Shift for Inventures - Futurecasting Work
As a 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 focuses on the track…
Shift for Inventures - Mission-Critical Moonshots
As a 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 highlights Mission-C…
The future of Alberta wellsites
InnoTech Alberta recently received a $1.85 million grant from the Clean Resource Innovation Network.
The grant, which was part of the network's reducing environmental footprint technolo…
The hydrogen market push for an entrepreneur with Leland Oberst CEO of Innovative Fuel Systems
What does the hydrogen market push look like for an entrepreneur? What about bridge technologies as we move to net zero? Is net zero even possible? Joining us today is Leland Oberst, Pr…
Shift for Inventures - Cultivating AgTech
As a special Shift segment on Inventures, we're presenting an episode for each of the track being featured at this year's event.
This episode is on Cultivating Agtech and features an int…
Building synthetic cities with Myrna Bittner and Edmonton-based RUNWITHIT Synthetics
Remember Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum's character from Jurassic Park? He's a scientist interested in an esoteric branch of mathematics called chaos theory, the study of unpredictable beha…
Our Hydrogen Future and Government Policy
On previous SHIFT conversations, we have learned that one of the major gaps to commercializing the hydrogen market is the lack of government policy. What is our current state and what s…
Extracting lithium with Summit Nanotech CEO and Women in Cleantech Challenge winner Amanda Hall
Summit Nanotech is developing technology to tackle the world's most daunting energy and environmental challenges. And Amanda has recently won the Women in Cleantech Challenge funded by …
Shift talks with Doug Holt and Simon Raby about Alberta's scaleup gap and what the ecosystem is doing to help businesses grow.
On this episode we talk with Doug Holt and Simon Raby about a report Simon prepared for Alberta Innovates that identifies a scaleup gap in Alberta. Essentially, we're good at starting c…
Hydrogen - why is it such a big deal for Alberta?
With a worldwide market estimated to be worth over $2.5 trillion a year by 2050, experts are looking to hydrogen as a huge opportunity for Alberta. It's going to require a coordinated a…
eDNA - a powerful technology for wetland ecology
We all know what DNA is but what is eDNA?
Described as another tool in the toolbox for wetland ecologists, we find out in this episode's conversation with Jenet Dooley from the Alberta …
Diversity, equity, and inclusion drive Calgary-based HelpSeeker Technologies
Monique Fry, VP of Community Success for Calgary-based HelpSeeker, a technology business that provides access to community, health, and social services to over 38 million individuals wh…
The 21st-Century Stethoscope: Portable Ultrasound Technology with MEDO.ai
Shift interviews David Quail, serial entrepreneur, and Co-Founder and Technology Strategist of MEDO.ai.
Established in 2018, MEDO was born from the idea that the combination of portable …
Creativity, research and being an entrepreneur: our talk with Jana Rieger from True Angle Medical Technologies
"Is there anything Jana doesn't do?" is a refrain I found myself pondering as this interview was happening.
A professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation - Rehabilitation Medicine at the…
Enhancing your cybersecurity to enhance and protect your business
Last episode we spoke about how startups can establish a solid legal foundation as they get things rolling; In this episode we talk with Nigel Russell from CyberSecure Canada about onli…
Laying the legal foundation when starting a business
Starting a business can be fun and rewarding. It's also challenging and not for the faint of heart. There are many matters that need to be taken into account. And legal considerations a…
The three Rs of the hemp (r)evolution
In this episode we talk with Fred Pels from Gaia Grow Corp, Usukuma Ekuere from Canna Stream Solutions, and Andre Sinclair from TruExtracts about their partnership around an innovation …