Season 2 Trailer
On the ONSIDE podcast, we want to share the stories of our brightest innovators, to learn about their journeys along the way. The ups, the downs and to open a conversation around who's participating in and benefiting from our innovation economy. We want to think critically around the kind of innovation based ecosystem we want to build together. In our next season, which will focus on our culture of innovation and take deeper dives with our guests.
We'll be covering topics like diversity and inclusion, leadership, philosophy, women in our innovation, economy, and more. Some of our early guests will be Savior Joseph, president of Breathing Green Solutions - a leading cannabis company in Nova Scotia, and Marlon Thompson, CEO and founder of Future Capital.
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Season 1 Close Out
That's a wrap on the first season of the ONSIDE podcast! In this episode we look back on the first season, where we discussed innovation driven entrepreneurship through the lens of the persoanal journeys of many great entrepreneurs. We continue to wonder, is the entrepreneurial mindset cultivated or innate?
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Innovation Panel Livestream
An innovation panel co-hosted by Alex McCann, Executive Director at ONSIDE and Martha Casey, Chief Executive Officer at Volta. Including special guests Saeed El-Darahali, Founder, President & CEO at SimplyCast and Ross Simmonds, Founder & CEO at Foundation Marketing. We will be taking a deep dive into topics related to changes in funding & investing, EDI and overall reflections over the last year throughout the COVID pandemic.
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Tim Rice - Modernizing Crucial Information
Tim Rice, CEO of The Rounds, is a recognized leader in the Life Sciences sector and devotes his time modernizing how physicians consume and share crucial information. Tim leads a passionate team driven by the mantra that sharing knowledge saves lives.
Through his role, Tim focuses on establishing a sustainable and scalable business model for the organization, helping the company's rapid growth while positively impacting the community. With over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Tim has developed advanced skills in sales, medical education, marketing, and leadership roles.
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Darren Burke - Science-based Entrepreneurship & Upcycling
Dr. Darren Burke is a global leader in the upcycling movement. As a celebrated science-based entrepreneur focused on plant-based and social impact ideas to save the planet. He created Outcast Foods, a company using his proprietary technology and localized food supply chains to upcycle surplus fruits and vegetables into high purity, nutrient-dense, long shelf-life natural health products. Burke is also an award-winning business leader and a frequent presenter on the topics of nutrition, the circular economy and climate change solutions. This is just a snapshot of his accomplishments, tune in to hear more!
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Barbara Manning - Internet Pioneer and Social Activist from Whitney Pier, NS
Barbara Manning is the founder of Miller Manning and the past CEO and president of an award-winning international leader in digital advertising and software development, Genieknows. Barbara was making moves right here in Nova Scotia with her entrepreneurial spirit at the beginning of the internet, when most of the world had no idea what it was.
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Saeed El-Darahali - Innovation is about Impact
Saeed El-Darahali fell in love with computers as a child. At 16, he joined the Canadian Armed forces and after a tragic event, decided he would create a company that allows seamless and quick communication. In 2009, he founded SimplyCast, the only platform company in the world that combines communication, engagement, marketing and emergency response.
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Darren Rowles - Business Plan on the Back of an Envelope
Darren Rowles is the Chief Scientific Officer and President of Halifax-based Sona Nanotech. He has been entrepreneurial all his life and in this episode, he tells us about growing up in Wales, UK; writing a business plan on the back of an envelope and becoming the CSO and president of a nanotechnology life sciences firm; developing a COVID-19 antigen test, skyrocketing stocks and everything in between.
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Rhiannon Davies - IPO Roller Coasters, Venture Capital and Offshore Adventures
Rhiannon Davies has driven multiple businesses to profitability and acquisition, and led companies through successful multibillion IPOs. As a co-founder and managing partner of Sandpiper Ventures, the purpose-led entrepreneur is now changing tides in Atlantic Canada’s venture capital environment.
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Doug Jones - Inventing Bestselling Products
Doug Jones has developed and brought several sports products to market including an Amazon bestseller soft toss machine. The Founder and CEO of Ignite Labs is an acclaimed supporter of entrepreneurs and innovators based in rural Atlantic Canada. In this episode, Doug shares his own extraordinary entrepreneurship journey for the first time.
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Greg Wanger - Science and Entrepreneurship
Just hours before the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, we had a chat with one of the NASA scientists who worked on the mission. Greg Wanger, Founder and CEO of Halifax-based Oberland Agriscience, has been a scientist all his life. In this episode, Greg talks to us about the intersection between science and entrepreneurship, bug farming and of course everything Mars and Perseverance rover.
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Julia Rivard Dexter - Impact and Tech Entrepreneurship
Julia Rivard Dexter brings us on her awe-inspiring journey from her early childhood days in rural Northern Ontario, to becoming an Olympic athlete, to now blazing trails as an innovative tech entrepreneur focused on impact.
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Gabrielle Masone - Changing the Way we See
Coloursmith Labs Founder and CEO Gabbrielle Masone is changing the way we see through functional colour vision technology.
October 8, 2020
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Ohad Broide - The Successful Entrepreneur
A visionary entrepreneur originally from the dynamic tech hub of Tel Aviv, Israel, and now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ohad breaks down tech entrepreneurship, culture, and attitude.
September 1, 2020
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Ross Simmonds - Telling your Brand Story
Ross Simmonds, an internationally renowned marketing guru tells all about his entrepreneurship journey. In this episode, he shares useful tips on positioning and marketing for startups.
May 20th, 2020
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Chère Chapman - What is Collective Impact?
Entrepreneurship does not exist in a vacuum. It takes different players working together to create the conditions necessary for entrepreneurs to succeed.
May 4th, 2020
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Welcome to The ONSIDE Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of The ONSIDE Podcast. A podcast on innovation-driven entrepreneurship in Atlantic Canada. Join us on this journey as we amplify the power of disruptive ideas.
April 20th, 2020
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