Alistair Croll in conversation with Public Digital’s Emma Gawen and James Stewart. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. The world’s governments are the biggest buyers of information technology in the world. And unlike the private sector, where code is …

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Alistair Croll in conversation with Lane Becker, author of Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work For You and Your Business. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. Why do some organizations thrive, while others slumber? Are they …

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Alistair Croll in conversation with Technation’s Angela Mondou. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. Technation—formerly ITAC—represents Canada’s private sector. We sat down with Angela Mondou, Technation’s president and CEO, to recap a tumultuous year and understand what her experiences …

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A conversation with Microsoft Canada’s John Weigelt and Natural Resources Canada’s Vik Pant. The rapid pace of innovation has given us a world yesterday’s sci-fi authors could scarcely predict: The sum of human knowledge in our pockets; instant video communication around the world, basically for free; robots and algorithms taking on work that was once …

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Alistair Croll in conversation with Sam Roberts, Natalia Domagala, and Gosia Loj from the DN. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. In 2020, Canada hosted the Digital Nations, a coalition of 10 progressive governments who share best practices and …

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A conversation with AWS’ Coral Kennett. Cloud computing unlocked digital experimentation. That sounds like a broad statement, but the advent of on-demand, pay-what-you-use computing resources fundamentally altered how we buy and use information technology. Instead of applying for a budget for servers, waiting for them to arrive, installing them, we can now spin up computing …

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A conversation with Infomocracy author, Malka Older. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. If you could build a perfect governmental model, from scratch, what would you do? On that very long task list, the top one would be figuring …

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A conversation with IBM’s Lucy Baunay. From the first time we used a lever to lift something our arms couldn’t, or drew on a cave wall to share hunting tips, technology had us hooked. In a few thousand years, our use of physical tools has gone cognitive, changing how we think and work, and even …

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Alistair Croll in conversation with Jackie Lu. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. DTPR is one of the most exciting ideas I’ve heard about in a long time. The standard, Digital Trust for Places and Routines, makes the invisible …

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Alistair Croll in conversation with Martha Lane Fox. All opinions expressed in these episodes are personal and do not reflect the opinions of the organizations for which our guests work. Martha Lane Fox has quite the history in technology. After a career in tech startups, she founded Doteveryone to tackle the widening digital divide between …

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