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UNITE SUMMIT | CALGARY | SEPT 20-22
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Energy Trailblazer 04 - Seth Godin
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the change behind our clean energy future. This week, we talk to Seth Godin, an entrepreneur teacher, narrative strategist and advocate for a better story on global warming. In this exciting and broad-ranging conversation, Seth covers the topics of why climate change is a marketing problem, breaking through cultural norms, leadership, empowerment and the pleasures and perils of being a trailblazer. Seth's inspirational truth-telling encourages everyone to make the changes they want to see in the world, and gives them the tools they need to do so.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazer 05 - Kirsty Gogan & Dr Rita Baranwal
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the change behind our clean energy future. This week our trailblazers are two inspirational powerhouses creating a new set of possibilities around nuclear. Holly joins Kirsty Gogan, cofounder of Energy for Humanity and Managing Partner at LucidCatalyst, and Dr. Rita Baranwal, former Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy, and now VP of nuclear at the Electric Power Research Institute to talk energy access, decarbonisation challenges and gender equality in the nuclear industry.
In this compelling and utterly optimistic discussion, two formidable nuclear energy experts explain why nuclear is so often left out of the conversation and, more importantly, why we have no choice but to include it in the mix of transition fuels to get us to a net-zero future.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
In this compelling and utterly optimistic discussion, two formidable nuclear energy experts explain why nuclear is so often left out of the conversation and, more importantly, why we have no choice but to include it in the mix of transition fuels to get us to a net-zero future.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazer 06 - Craig Knight
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the human change behind our clean energy future. This week on Energy Trailblazers we meet hydrogen innovator and CEO of Hyzon Motors, Craig Knight. Craig is an entrepreneur dedicated to taking hydrogen technologies out of the lab and into real-world applications.
As CEO of Hyzon Motors, Craig believes the future energy system is a distributed system, enabled by self-generated hydrogen - a technology he describes as the great energy leveller. We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
As CEO of Hyzon Motors, Craig believes the future energy system is a distributed system, enabled by self-generated hydrogen - a technology he describes as the great energy leveller. We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazer 07 - Margaret Heffernan
This week on Energy Trailblazers we meet Dr Margaret Heffernan, a formidable educator, fierce entrepreneur and seasoned CEO reshaping the way we live, work and lead. Margaret proposes that climate change will not be solved by governments, but by people who start where they are, with what they have, and take small actions that become bigger than themselves.
Margaret says climate change is driven by people being too busy to care, and working too hard to have the conversations that matter. We believe these conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and Margaret agrees, it starts with you.
Margaret says climate change is driven by people being too busy to care, and working too hard to have the conversations that matter. We believe these conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and Margaret agrees, it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazer 08 - Anika Molesworth
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the human change behind our clean energy future. This week our trailblazer is former young farmer of the year and cofounder of Farmers for Climate Action Anika Molesworth. Anika lives and works in the arid-dry heartland of Australia.
It was living through a ten-year drought on the family farm that ignited Anika’s concern about climate change and passion for food security and clean energy. Anika says farmers are some of the most resourceful, innovative people on the planet but they need help to drive change in the face of heightened climate threat. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
It was living through a ten-year drought on the family farm that ignited Anika’s concern about climate change and passion for food security and clean energy. Anika says farmers are some of the most resourceful, innovative people on the planet but they need help to drive change in the face of heightened climate threat. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazer 09 - Chris Voss
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the human change behind our clean energy future. This week our trailblazer is Chris Voss, the former lead FBI negotiator for international kidnapping, crisis, and hostage situations.
Today the best-selling author of Never Split the Difference is bringing his many years of high-stakes negotiations to global conversations including climate change. Chris walks us through the application of tactical empathy, curiosity, and getting to “destination yes” amidst the divided public discourse pertaining to our clean energy future.
We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Today the best-selling author of Never Split the Difference is bringing his many years of high-stakes negotiations to global conversations including climate change. Chris walks us through the application of tactical empathy, curiosity, and getting to “destination yes” amidst the divided public discourse pertaining to our clean energy future.
We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Holly Ransom named in Top Five Speakers - Aug 2021
Spice magazine is full of fresh ideas and techniques for those who make events happen with first-hand advice on what’s working and what’s not from those in the know. Spice magazine covers all types of functions, from special events to product launches, incentives, conferences and exhibitions.
Energy Trailblazers Promo
Energy Trailblazers is a podcast and video conversation series hosted by renowned interviewer Holly Ransom and created by the founders of Energy Disruptors: UNITE. The Calgary-based initiative has been awarded for its in-person conferences designed to accelerate global clean energy and climate solutions by uniting the world’s boldest trailblazers.
In collaboration with EY, the team is rallying the most inspirational entrepreneurs, business leaders and global thinkers in energy, finance, investment, technology, automotive, public policy, and creative sectors to move the conversation forward and understand how we catalyze the human change necessary for clean energy adoption.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges.
We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
In collaboration with EY, the team is rallying the most inspirational entrepreneurs, business leaders and global thinkers in energy, finance, investment, technology, automotive, public policy, and creative sectors to move the conversation forward and understand how we catalyze the human change necessary for clean energy adoption.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. Only audacious creativity and unprecedented collaboration between diverse groups will ensure we evolve fast enough to outpace our global energy and climate challenges.
We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazers Muhammad Yunus
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the human change behind our clean energy future. This week our trailblazer is Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance crusader Professor Muhammad Yunus.
We take you beyond a conversation about the cars we drive, the tech we build, the food we eat, and the economy we power. We’re talking about breaking through barriers in the way we think, work and live. We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
We take you beyond a conversation about the cars we drive, the tech we build, the food we eat, and the economy we power. We’re talking about breaking through barriers in the way we think, work and live. We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
Energy Trailblazers
Get ready to meet the trailblazers driving the human change behind our clean energy future. This week our trailblazer is Alejandro Agag: the pioneer of Formula E and Extreme E racing.
A Spanish-born entrepreneur and bold visionary, Alejandro is disrupting the billion-dollar motor-racing industry at the intersection of sport, science and climate action. Meet this self-proclaimed 'practical environmentalist' who is tearing up the motor-sport rulebook in the name of equality and the environment.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
A Spanish-born entrepreneur and bold visionary, Alejandro is disrupting the billion-dollar motor-racing industry at the intersection of sport, science and climate action. Meet this self-proclaimed 'practical environmentalist' who is tearing up the motor-sport rulebook in the name of equality and the environment.
We believe conversations about our clean energy future should be as relevant around a kitchen or classroom table as they are around boardroom or political tables. We’re here to fuel a new energy conversation and it starts with you.
The Leading Edge by Holly Ransom
Leadership is within everyone’s reach, everyone’s ability and everyone’s power.
The Leading Edge is written for those who wake up every morning caring about being a better human, building a better world. It’s for those who are done with the status quo, who feel restless for a new tomorrow, today.
The answers aren’t simple. The Leading Edge is the culmination of years of research and interviews with luminaries like Susan Cain and Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell. Diverse leadership stories construct a framework for future leadership.
Through three principles – mindset, method and mastery – you’ll discover how to first lead yourself, then others. With the right tools, anyone can lead the change they care enough to make.
The Leading Edge breaks open the notion that leadership is exclusive. It’s not. And in today’s world more than ever we simply cannot afford for it to be. ‘Leading from the edge’ means harnessing the state of mind, the processes and the artistry that will arm leaders like you for impact. Become the leader the world needs you to be.
The Leading Edge is written for those who wake up every morning caring about being a better human, building a better world. It’s for those who are done with the status quo, who feel restless for a new tomorrow, today.
The answers aren’t simple. The Leading Edge is the culmination of years of research and interviews with luminaries like Susan Cain and Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell. Diverse leadership stories construct a framework for future leadership.
Through three principles – mindset, method and mastery – you’ll discover how to first lead yourself, then others. With the right tools, anyone can lead the change they care enough to make.
The Leading Edge breaks open the notion that leadership is exclusive. It’s not. And in today’s world more than ever we simply cannot afford for it to be. ‘Leading from the edge’ means harnessing the state of mind, the processes and the artistry that will arm leaders like you for impact. Become the leader the world needs you to be.
Malcolm Gladwell to headline second annual 'Energy Disruptors' summit
Journalist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell is among the high-profile speakers coming to Calgary later this month for a summit that aims to become one of the world's leading "future of energy" conferences.
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Q&A: Disruption coming to energy world — and quickly
CBC News
Calgary conference seeks silver lining in changing energy markets
The Leading Edge
The Leading Edge by Holly Ransom
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Innovative Energy Tech Company to Speak at Energy Disrupters Conference for First Time
Eavor™ (pronounced “Ever”) is an Alberta-based tech company that will be presenting at the Energy Disruptors Conference in Calgary, one of the most anticipated energy conferences of the year.
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell doesn't believe in job interviews, sees 'enormous hope' in young workforce
Gladwell’s appearance as part of an onstage interview and panel discussion concluded the Energy Disruptors conference, with the bestselling author and journalist sharing his perspectives on everything from the American post-secondary education system to his opposition to in-person job interviews.
Disrupting energy – Three takeaways from Energy Disruptors Unite
Calgary recently was host to the Energy Disruptors Unite conference – a two-day event that brought together people from all corners of the energy industry to discuss what the energy future looks like and how we will get there.
CTV Calgary interview
Graeme Edge, Co-Founder and Chief Instigator of the Energy Disruptors Event series, talks to CTV Calgary about why we decided to extend an invite to Malcolm Gladwell for #EDU2019
Disruption, Denial, and Transition (Perspectives from an energyphile) | Peter Tertzakian | EDU2019
This is a story about the forces of change at work in our energy world. Like all energy stories it’s sometimes happy, sometimes harsh, but never, ever dull. Most importantly, it examines the benefits of looking at our energy past to help explain the present and prepare us for our energy future.
CALGARY An insight into the future of energy in North America | Mark Little - CEO Suncor Energy | EDU2019
Mark Little is president and chief executive officer of Suncor Energy Inc.
Mark joined Suncor in 2008 as senior vice president, Strategic Growth and Energy Trading before becoming the senior vice president of integration following Suncor’s merger with Petro-Canada. Mark has also served as senior vice president, International and Offshore; executive vice president, Oil Sands; executive vice president Upstream; president, Upstream; and chief operating officer. In these roles, Mark’s accountabilities have spanned from operations in the Wood Buffalo region to operations in offshore East Coast Canada, the North Sea, and international onshore operations in Latin America, North Africa and the Near East, where he oversaw significant improvements in efficiency and performance, as well as portfolio growth. Mark has over 34 years of international energy industry experience, including 23 years at Imperial/Exxon.
A previous member of the Accenture Global Energy Board and formerly the Chair of Syncrude Canada, Mark is a current member of the board of governors of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) where he also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and the Oil Sands CEO Council.
Born and raised in Calgary, Mark holds a science degree from the University of Calgary and an applied petroleum engineering technology degree from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). He is also a graduate of the advanced management program at Harvard Business School. From 2003 to 2007 he served as Honorary Colonel for the 409 and 441 Tactical Fighter Squadrons at 4 Wing Airforce Base in Cold Lake, Alta., a role that reflected his commitment to the relationship between the Air Force, the community and industry.
Mark joined Suncor in 2008 as senior vice president, Strategic Growth and Energy Trading before becoming the senior vice president of integration following Suncor’s merger with Petro-Canada. Mark has also served as senior vice president, International and Offshore; executive vice president, Oil Sands; executive vice president Upstream; president, Upstream; and chief operating officer. In these roles, Mark’s accountabilities have spanned from operations in the Wood Buffalo region to operations in offshore East Coast Canada, the North Sea, and international onshore operations in Latin America, North Africa and the Near East, where he oversaw significant improvements in efficiency and performance, as well as portfolio growth. Mark has over 34 years of international energy industry experience, including 23 years at Imperial/Exxon.
A previous member of the Accenture Global Energy Board and formerly the Chair of Syncrude Canada, Mark is a current member of the board of governors of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) where he also serves as a member of the Executive Committee and the Oil Sands CEO Council.
Born and raised in Calgary, Mark holds a science degree from the University of Calgary and an applied petroleum engineering technology degree from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). He is also a graduate of the advanced management program at Harvard Business School. From 2003 to 2007 he served as Honorary Colonel for the 409 and 441 Tactical Fighter Squadrons at 4 Wing Airforce Base in Cold Lake, Alta., a role that reflected his commitment to the relationship between the Air Force, the community and industry.
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