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
The robots are coming! NO. The robots are here.
Prior to remediation, hazardous sites like tailings ponds require analysis, but they're perilous environments for people to go to take measurements. Robots, however, are immune to such …
Hemp: A Global Miracle Crop
Hemp has the potential to play a significant role in the future of Alberta's agriculture industry. Shift by Alberta Innovates interviews Jan Slaski of InnoTech Alberta and Aaron Barr, C…
Innovating in Alberta's healthcare system
Building a robust digital health ecosystem in Alberta needs health delivery partners willing to challenge the status quo in clinical care, and partners that are willing to take the risk…
Taking the common and doing the extraordinary
Silicon is one of the most common elements on the planet. It's benign, relatively easy to work with and Edmonton-based Applied Quantum Materials has it mastered.
In today's podcast we t…
Timothy Caulfield on covid misinformation and the launch of #ScienceUpFirst
On this episode we speak with Timothy Caulfield about the battle against science misinformation, specifically information related to covid and the vaccines that are coming out.
This is …
Shift talks with Dr. John Lewis about the journey to conquer Covid
Welcome to Shift by Alberta Innovates.
On this episode we speak with Dr. John Lewis from Edmonton-based ENTOS pharmaceuticals about their journey toward creating a made-in-Alberta vaccin…
Shift talks with Cam Linke about the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and how they're helping Alberta businesses
Happy new year!
As one of Canada’s three centres of AI excellence, as part of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute in Edmonton, Alberta boasts some se…
Shift talks with Chris Holt from Phase Sensors and Professor John Davis from the University of Alberta about their collaboration
Phase Sensors is an Edmonton-based company that develops and builds high-performance custom micro-sensors for industrial monitoring in hostile high-temperature and high-pressure environ…
Learn how to change the DNA of healthcare with Shift!
In this episode we talk with members of Alberta Innovates health innovation and platforms' team about digital health in Alberta.
We cover everything from the ethics of going digital to …
Shift talks with Alberta's Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, Doug Schweitzer; and Alberta Innovates CEO Laura Kilcrease about diversification and Alberta's economy
This episode we're talking with Alberta's Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, Doug Schweitzer; and Alberta Innovates CEO Laura Kilcrease about diversification and Alberta's econom…
Shift talks with Brenda Beckedorf, Executive Director of the Alberta IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a network of devices and systems that are embedded with sensors and other technologies that are connected over the Internet for the purpose of co…
Learn how to build a gazelle with Shift!
This is a special episode of Shift we recorded for Small Business Week in Alberta called Learn how to build a gazelle.
In this case, we're not talking about the four-legged variety. In t…
Shift talks about the value of failure in innovation
We're Shifting speeds this episode and talking with local writer, Scott Lilwall, who sat down with people in Alberta's innovation community to talk about the value of failure and the le…
Shift talks with John Carle from the Alberta Cannabis Council and Dr. Sunil Rajput about cannabis
The legalization of cannabis is not without its hurdles. Science is seeking to fill the knowledge gaps when it comes to the implications and uses of medical cannabis, and the impact can…
Shift talks with Dr. Elizabeth Cannon about women in STEM and the role mentoring plays
As lead up to the September 15, 2020 Women Leading Innovation event presented by Inventures Unbound and SHEinnovates, our guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Cannon. Elizabeth talks with us ab…
Shift talks with Karen MacKenzie about the role Indigenous female entrepreneurs can play in building new economies
2020 is the word we use for for perfect vision, but as with the year and how it's gone so far, we have to start seeing things in a new way. Today's guest, Karen MacKenzie, helps us to e…
Shift talks with Neil Gruninger from Calgary-based Kidoodle.TV about child safety online and growing a business
Starting a company with the goal of creating an over-the-top media service for kids where parents can feel confident their children are watching appropriate shows is no easy task. Coupl…
Shift talks with Harry Sharma from the Conference Board of Canada about innovation
Based on a methodology with benchmark statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other sources, the Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) gave Alb…
Shift talks with Amos Schwartzfarb, managing director of Techstars Austin about starting a business and "building belief by data."
In this episode we talk with Amos Schwartzfarb, managing director of Techstars Austin, and author of Sell More Faster about starting a business and "building belief by data."
We dive in…
Shift talks with Melinda Emerson and Craig Elias about starting a small business
In this episode we take a deep dive into starting a business with Innovation Rodeo keynote speaker and best selling author Melinda Emerson and Bow Valley College's Chiu School of Busine…