Disruptors

Conversations on innovation, technology and policy shaping Canada's future AI summary

RBC Thought Leadership, John Stackhouse Visit website › Business · EN · 244 episodes · latest 2026-11-10

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Disruptors, now in its 11th season, has become your front-row seat to Canada’s innovation story—200+ episodes exploring the people, ideas, and technologies reshaping Canada’s future. Each episode, hosted by John Stackhouse, SVP, Office of the CEO at Royal Bank of Canada—and former Editor-in-Chief of The Globe and Mail—cuts through the hype and focuses on what you need to know. This season, we’re leaning into urgency: the global economy is shifting, geopolitics are noisy, and Canada needs to respond. You’ll hear from founders, investors, scientists, operators, and policy leaders at the forefront. Listen for a clearer understanding of the tech and innovation shaping Canada and the world—and practical insights to help you make sense of what’s coming next.

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The New Energy Race: Batteries, Bills and Canada's Grid

2026-11-10 · 26 min · Season 11, episode 9

Battery storage is accelerating across North America. Energy entrepreneur Jigar Shah, former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office, joins John Stackhouse to explain why solar, wind and…
Space Race: Getting Canada to Orbit

2026-10-28 · 21 min · Season 11, episode 8

Canada builds world-class satellites, but it still relies on other countries to launch them. Recorded live at SpaceBound in Gatineau, Quebec, John Stackhouse talks with Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg about what a global…
Clear Skies: Direct air capture and Canada's advantage

2026-10-21 · 18 min · Season 11, episode 7

Deep Sky CEO Alex Petre joins John Stackhouse at Deep Sky Alpha in Alberta to ask whether direct air capture can scale, and whether Canada can turn carbon removal into an export industry.
Permission to Fail: A case for youth entrepreneurship

2026-10-14 · 23 min · Season 11, episode 6

Canada needs more entrepreneurs, especially young ones. Ronnen Harary explains why your 20s are the optimal decade to start a business—when energy, fresh perspective, and permission to fail converge. From Earth Buddies…
Digital Refineries: Data centres as Alberta’s new resource

2026-10-07 · 25 min · Season 11, episode 5

Alberta's technology minister on attracting AI data centres without subsidies, and the grid rules that make it work.
Canada's Biotech Challenge

2026-09-29 · 26 min · Season 11, episode 4

China is industrializing drug discovery and AI is reshaping it. A serial biotech founder on where Canada stands and what it needs to do.
Two Middle Powers. One AI Bet

2026-09-23 · 20 min · Season 11, episode 3

Live from ALL IN 2026 in Montreal, three German business leaders join Disruptors to talk about what's driving the biggest Canada-Germany tech push in years.
Canada's AI Potential

2026-09-16 · 15 min · Season 11, episode 2

Two kinds of uncertainty met in Toronto this week: one in the bond market, one around AI. At the Milken Institute's Global Dialogues Toronto, timed to the Canada Investment Summit, AI Minister Evan Solomon, RBC CEO Dave…
David, Goliath, and Drones: The New Map of Geo-Technology

2026-09-09 · 26 min · Season 11, episode 1

Economist Noah Smith joins John Stackhouse to break down "geo-technology," China’s grip on the electric tech stack, and why drone warfare is redefining global power and middle-power strategy.
REBOOT: The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer

2026-08-18 · 37 min · Season 10, episode 18

The world is investing billions in data centres and compute. Canada’s edge isn’t bigger boxes—it’s Trust: rules enforced at home, private information secured under Canadian jurisdiction, and a clear path for enterprise…

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Publisher details

Owner: Royal Bank of Canada
Oldest episode in feed: 01/2018 · over 8 years
Typical length: 28 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords: rbc, business, technology, royal bank of canada, innovation, canadian tech, canadian innovation, artificial intelligence

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