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 talks with Inventures 2019 student pitch winner
In this episode we talk with Nermin Zukic, the Chair of Business from Keyano College, Said el Mejdani, Computer Science teacher from Westwood Community High School, and Sarptashi Bhatta…
Shift talks with entrepreneur Connie Stacey from Growing Greener Innovations
In this episode we talk with Edmonton-based entrepreneur Connie Stacey about her company Growing Greener Innovations, their flagship product the Grengine, and her journey to become a su…
Shift talks with ATB's Todd Hirsch and AI's Laura Kilcrease
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Shift talks with Timothy Caulfield about science misinformation
In his book The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark, writer and scientist Carl Sagan said, "if we're desperate enough, we become all too willing to abandon what may be…
Shift special episode - Business during COVID-19
COVID 19 has swept the globe and has left our Albertan innovation ecosystem in a state of fear and uncertainty. Businesses are struggling to handle the immediate pressure of balancing r…
Shift talks with David Almond about information technology
In this episode we talk with David Almond, Executive Director of Information Technology at Alberta Innovates. Our discussion has many touch points, but the central theme is about using …
Shift talks with Mark Diner from the Alberta Data Institute
In this episode we talk with Mark Diner, director of the Alberta Data Institute, about the importance of data-enabled innovation and how the Institute is positioning itself to help Albe…
Shift talks with Dawn Trautman from Alberta Innovates
In this episode we talk with Dawn Trautman about data and smart agriculture in Alberta, including a discussion of the Alberta Innovates' led Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligen…
Shift talks with Bryan Helfenbaum from Alberta Innovates
In this episode we talk with Bryan Helfenbaum about the value-add of using the bitumen in Alberta's oil sands for things other than fuel, and introduces us to the newly-launched Carbon …
Shift talks with Sean DeWitt from Alberta Innovates
In this episode we talk with Alberta Innovates' Sean DeWitt about health innovation in the province. We focus on the launch of the eXtended Reality Health Economic Acceleration and Deve…