Collisions YYC

Collisions YYC is a Calgary-centred business conversation series with a strong interest in how change moves through real organizations and real communities. It is not narrowly about one sector. Energy investing, industrial automation, digital ethics, career systems, early learning, AI, and transformation strategy all sit inside the same larger question: what does progress look like when people have to live with it? The show’s interviews usually start close to the ground. A guest explains a company, a role, a tool, or a recent shift, and the conversation gradually opens into a broader pattern about Alberta, Canada, work, leadership, or trust. That cumulative movement gives the series its shape. It likes definitions, examples, and follow-up questions. It also likes the human friction inside business change. Automation is discussed through co-bots, payback cycles, and discomfort with replacing repetitive work. AI is framed not only as a productivity tool, but as a possible way to remove work that drains people and create better careers around new systems. Energy investing appears through uncertainty, tariffs, institutional buyers, and the difficulty of making decisions when policy keeps moving. Digital transformation is treated as a people problem as much as a technology problem. The Calgary and Western Canadian lens matters throughout. The show repeatedly notices the value of being one introduction, one coffee, or one phone call away from someone who can help. That local closeness is not romanticized as perfect, but it is presented as a practical advantage when people actually follow through. The tone is warm, reflective, and civic-minded, with enough business vocabulary to stay useful and enough looseness to feel like a working conversation. The closing conversation with Kevin Crowe gives the archive an added layer, describing how the show began from a need to connect problem-solvers who were working near each other but not always talking. After 533 episodes, Collisions YYC reads as both a map of a regional innovation ecosystem and a record of one interviewer’s sustained curiosity about how people build through uncertainty.