Interviews

Gabriel Miller

2026-06-25

One of the most encouraging things over the past 12 months has been seeing universities respond actively to the moment and to the government’s agenda. Universities offer the country’s most scalable platform for rapidly expanding talent, innovation, and sovereign capability. But in several areas, you can see how quickly the sector has mobilized.

Jean-Francois Marcoux

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

White Star Capital

2026-06-25

Many of the entrepreneurs behind Canada's biggest success stories are immigrants themselves. Talent will always be competitive, but Canada's values, quality of life and openness continue to make it an attractive destination for people from around the world.

Richard Porges and Maya Lange

President and CEO and Vice President of Global Marketing

Destination BC

2026-06-25

Tourism also shapes first impressions of a place. We tell a story that attracts not only visitors, but also potential investors, international students and immigrants. There is clear evidence that tourism leads to greater immigration, investment and international student enrolment, creating benefits beyond direct visitor spending.

Krishna Rangasayee

Founder & CEO

SiMa.ai

2026-06-24

The biggest shift in the last year and a half or two years is that, for the first time, we are beginning to build reasoning-based architectures. Today’s flavor is large language models, but it is becoming multimodal. Whether it is 2026 or 2027, we are near a tipping point, and I believe physical AI will be a much larger construct than cloud AI.

Dustin Olson

CEO

PureCycle Technologies

2026-06-23

Two hundred billion pounds of brand new polypropylene is made every year. Probably less than 5% of this is recycled but the percentage is growing at 3% to 4% a year – six to eight billion pounds of recovered materials. What are you going to build with it, the same old stuff? Or are you going to start building the future with PureCycle?

Giovanni Corder

Acting Director-General & Senior Director of Global Policy

European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA)

2026-06-23

Chemical engineering and materials are among the key enabling layers of semiconductor manufacturing – essential and most powerful when combined with innovations in equipment, design, process integration and packaging. They are fundamental to hundreds of manufacturing steps, such as deposition and etching. Without key materials like photoresists, polymers and pure glass, you have no chips, no electronics.

Ross Berntson

President & CEO

Indium Corporation

2026-06-23

Nobody knows exactly which technologies, architectures, or supply chains will win. As a materials company, we need to stay connected to all options as we push forward on multiple fronts. Our philosophy is simple: keep engineers working directly with customer engineers, develop viable products quickly, and iterate together. This will allow us to adapt as markets evolve.

Peter Cowan

President & CEO

Innovate BC

2026-06-19

More broadly, if companies own what they create, they retain the economic benefits that flow from it.

James Helliwell

CEO

Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals

2026-06-19

Our patients need our drug. We're not going to wait. We're going to go where there is the least amount of friction to getting the job done.

Dr. Shawn Qu

Chariman & CEO

Canadian Solar

2026-06-19

The first word would be local. We want Canadian Solar to be part of the communities where we operate. We want people to see us as a local company, a local employer and a local community member.

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