Toronto Talks

Building AI-Fluent Organizations: Where AI Becomes a Superpower, with Candice Faktor

What does it actually take to build an organization that doesn't just use AI, but thinks with it?
In this episode of Toronto Talks, host Jon Worren sits down with Candice Faktor, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Disco to unpack what AI fluency means and why most organizations are getting AI adoption backwards.
Candice breaks down the three types of people inside every organization (catalysts, converts, and anchors), why "work that can be done by AI will be done by AI," and what changes when leaders stop treating AI as a software purchase and start treating it as a superpower their people can grow into.
Recorded against the backdrop of Toronto Tech Week, the conversation also takes stock of our city's tech ecosystem nearly a decade after Toronto was first called the next big AI hub.
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Can Toronto’s Transit Stay on Track When the World Comes to Town?

Toronto is about to welcome the world. One of the largest sporting events on the planet is coming to the city this summer, and getting millions of visitors to and from the waterfront is no small feat. With match days expected to be bigger than Game Seven of the World Series, Toronto’s transit system is about to face its biggest test. Recorded live at the Board’s Home Field Advantage event, Giles Gherson sits down with Mandeep Lali, CEO of the TTC, and Michael Lindsay, President and CEO of Metrolinx, to talk through the plan, the pressure, and what it all means for downtown employers.

Driverless Trains Are Coming to Toronto, with Transdev’s Arthur Nicolet

Shovels are in the ground on the biggest transit build-out the Toronto region has seen in a generation. Who actually runs what gets built is a question most riders never think about. Giles Gherson talks with Arthur Nicolet, CEO of Transdev Canada, about why it matters, what an operator brings to a project before a track is even laid, how the Ontario Line will reset the standard for North American transit, and what it will take for our region to finally move as one.

We Need to be a Country of Business with CIBC’s Lisa Raitt

Canada is not a country of business. Not at the moment. On the latest episode of Toronto Talks, Giles Gherson speaks with Lisa Raitt, Vice-Chair in the Office of the CEO at CIBC, about why Toronto's productivity gap with ten major US metros has grown to nearly $100,000 per worker, what's driving the outflow of talent and capital, and what it will actually take to start thinking and acting like a country of business.