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The BetaKit Podcast Channel features weekly podcasts discussing both Canadian tech and innovation, as well as global tech from a Canadian perspective.
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Cory Doctorow on using AI without letting AI use you
"I am Tron-pilled: I fight for the user. I want people to be in charge of their technology, not the other way around."
Award-winning Canadian sc...
How Dominion Dynamics is building Canada's first line of Arctic defence
"The Arctic is the hardest operational environment on Earth for anybody. For any country."
Dominion Dynamics CEO and BetaKit Most Ambitious hono...
Minister Evan Solomon on Canada's AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media
"Either we build the innovation here with our entrepreneurs, or we buy it from someone else. And either we make the rules here, or we follow someone e...
Cohere's Nick Frosst on sovereign AI and Star Trek
"If your entire technology is coming from a single country, and that country decides that every now and again they're going to shut off access to you,...
Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"You guys have done what you've done with the wind in your face. Imagine if you had the wind at your back. Wow."
Couldn't attend BetaKit Most Am...
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
"Everywhere I go, BetaKit is there. They grill me. Every time I say something, I say 'I wish I didn't say that' because BetaKit recorded it."
Co...
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada's largest grassroots tech event
"You could start your day paddleboarding on Lake Ontario, then you could go to a workout class, then you could go to a session on what VCs want to hea...
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
"I know people with amazing ideas, but they don't have the right investment to take their idea to the prototype stage. At the prototype stage, they do...
Evaluating Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy
"There's a lot in this document… Do we feel the urgency and the threats are covered here?"
After months of waiting, the Defence Industrial Strat...
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
"With AI, it should bring down the barriers to how you quickly adopt new software without having to become masters of the software."
When StackA...
How to fix Canadian VC
"We have a collective action problem. Somebody has to take the first step and say, 'Hey, we're going to deploy a lot of capital here in Canada. We're...
How to fix Canada's Start-up Visa
"Speed is of the essence. This is a super dynamic marketplace. Canada is losing entrepreneurs, we're losing the next generation of founders, and we ne...
Is BDC too big to change?
"BDC is powerful in the sense that it can make or break a fund… And a lot of people are trying to close funds right now."
In 2022, the federal...
An insider's take on Canada's AI task force report
"If we don't get our AI ducks in a row at some point and we miss that boat to shore up our industries right now, it's not really going to matter what...
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
"It's important for the success of Y Combinator to see people investing at a very, very early stage. And if it means, to keep them happy so that they'...
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can't clean up
"You have just seen control of one of the most popular social media platforms in one of the most influential countries in the world switch from one fo...
The Canadian company solving AI's latency problem
"How do I create the 'wow' moment for my end user? And slowness never creates the wow moment."
PolarGrid founder and CEO Rade Kovacevic believes...
The future is a four-day workweek
"The workweek will continue until morale improves."
Jared Lindzon and Joe O'Connor's new book, Do More in Four: Why It's Time for a Shorter Wor...
The biggest tech questions of 2026
"Maybe we will see the robots that we want in our lives in 2026. But be prepared: they will definitely be controlled by people in India with Xbox cont...
The biggest tech stories of 2025
"2025 is the year that we committed to the bit, and all pretences went away."
Special guest star Rob Kenedi (Decelerator) joins for The BetaKit...
Canada's job market sucks for Gen Z
"Can you imagine a quarter—25 percent—of Canada isn't sure if they'll be employed next year? That is a wild statistic."
Kevin Kliman, president...
Rogers v. Rogers is Canada's real-life Succession story
"It seems irrational, and irrational behaviour is where drama lives, it's where comedy lives. It's where all the fun is."
A communications tycoo...
Canada's AI ambitions with Minister Evan Solomon
"It used to be that Silicon Valley was the kind of Mecca of the entrepreneur. What's happening is everyone has got the tools that used to be crowded i...
How OpenText went all-in on AI
"The technology is there, and everyone loves cool technology, but it doesn't need to be a party trick. It needs to be something that's driving a meani...
It's 'Valley or Bust' for Canada's young entrepreneurs
"In the beginning, we were like, 'this must be a scam' because with the way things move in Waterloo and Toronto, it seemed way too fast."
A chan...
Dominion Dynamics CEO thinks defence is a "generational opportunity" for Canadian entrepreneurs
"Too many American subs dominate this market. Eighty percent of what we buy is from American companies. We wanna reverse that. We wanna make 80 perce...
Budget 2025: "cautiously optimistic"
It's a power-packed post-Budget panel podcast featuring a plethora of Canadian policy wonks! Vass Bednar (Canadian SHIELD Institute), Benjamin Bergen...
What the AWS outage reveals about Canada's digital sovereignty
"We were sleepwalking our way into this new economy, and we've had a bit of a wake-up call."
Ian Rae, CEO of Aptum and a member of Minister Evan...
Why Canada doesn’t buy Canadian tech
"If you're a founder in Canada, you have a playbook, which is: try to get outside of the country as soon as possible. Try to sell outside of the count...
Can Canada build its own social network?
"It's one thing to say 'let's do this in a sovereign way.' It is a whole other to actually do it."
Gander Social is attempting to do something t...
Are Canadian entrepreneurs willing to let their old companies die?
"Don't talk to your customers because your customers will keep you in the place that you used to be."
AI adoption is now an industry-wide mandat...
Tailscale’s CEO has an idea “worth billions” for AI startups
"That's the literal term several CISOs have used with me unprompted: 'ticking time bomb.' There's no world in which this doesn't explode the way it's...
Why Canada’s defence tech sector is suddenly exploding
"It actually allows us an opportunity to build sovereign capability and leapfrog to get our armed forces where they need to be by taking advantage of...
Amber Mac wants parents to know their kids are talking to AI
"There's a really good chance that a young person's parents—or even their friends—don't even know that this individual is building a relationship with...
Are Canadians ready for AI-powered life insurance?
"We're going to find in the next year or two that the amount of leakage actually goes up quite a bit because I think the focus on AI is just moving re...
AI is changing startup math with Ripple Ventures’ Matt Cohen
" That's also quite daunting as an investor to be able to put money into something that is perfect for now, but will it last three to five years? Will...
The former Meta employee trying to stop Canada’s AI brain drain
"A win for AXL is that, ten years from now, instead of nine of the top ten biggest and most successful companies in the world being on the West Coast...
What can talking to AI teach us?
"How is this thing—running in a data centre with Nvidia GPUs—understanding what I'm saying with such nuance and such depth?"
Former DarwinAI CEO...
How Canada can be a leader in space (and save the world)
" This isn't just about doing something cool because space is the next frontier. This is a key domain for economics, for national security, sovereignt...
The living history of Canadian tech with Phil Telio
"History never stops. It's a living reality."
In celebration of Startupfest's 15th anniversary, founder Phil Telio joins to discuss the origins...