Stuart McNish invited Dr. Randy McIntosh to join him for a Conversation That Matters about the vast new world of brain research that allows scientists to boldly go where no neurologist has gone before.

Stuart McNish invited Dr. Zandstra to join him for a Conversation that Matters about the role his research has played in finding cures for debilitating chronic diseases and the greater life sciences and biomedical community in Vancouver and British Columbia.

Stuart McNish invited Karl Pringle, the CEO of GenXys Health Care Systems, to join him for a Conversation that Matters about the promise of designer medication and when it might just arrive in your doctor’s office.

Stuart McNish invited Will Cadell to join him for a Conversation That Matters about the power of accurate time-, space- and velocity-based intel.

Stuart McNish wanted to ask someone who actually does this type of work, what they do, why they do it, and can we trust them and the foods they produce. He invited Larry Gilbertson of Bayer Crop Sciences to join him for a Conversation That Matters about innovations in plant biotechnology.

Stuart McNish invited Henry Greely to join us for a Conversation That Matters about human germline editing.

Stuart McNish invited Wendy Hurlburt, the President and CEO of LifeSciences BC, to join us for a Conversation That Matter about the remarkable intellectual assets we have in BC and why we need to support them to the benefit of all of us.

We invited Nick Saik to join us for a Conversation That Matters about GMOs and what we need to know about them if we hope to feed the world of 2050.

We invited Murad Al-Katid, the 2017 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year, the man Professor Sylvain Charlebois calls the “Wayne Gretzky of pulses,” to join us for a Conversation That Matters - Food For Thought episode about the limitless possibilities in Canadian agriculture.

We invited John Jamieson, the CEO of the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the safety and integrity of Canada’s food supply.

We invited Dr Stein Emil Vollset, the lead author of the extensive report on global populations, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the significance of huge population swings on countries around the world.

We invited the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Vice President for Salmon, Jason Hwang, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the state of salmon.

We invited Dominic Vogel and Christian Redshaw, hosts of the new podcast Cyber Security Matters, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about keeping your cyber secure.

We invited volcanologist Glyn Williams-Jones of SFU’s Earth Sciences Department to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the program he and a complex web of other scientists are putting in place that will be an early warning system when Mount Meager decides to change its shape again.

We invited Geordie Rose of Sanctuary AI to join us for a Conversation That Matters about artificial intelligence – why, what, when, where and how soon.

We invited Bethany Edmunds to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how technology is accessible to us, all coupled with the path to a career for all of us non-nerds – a path she says is within our reach.

We invited Marc Rauch to join us for a Conversation That Matters about a why ethanol gets so little respect as a fuel and why we need to learn to love it.

We invited NASA astronaut Captain Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper to join us for a Conversation That Matters about what going to space is like and why she wants her career in space to inspire young women to achieve their dreams.

We invited distinguished scientist Marco Marra, the Director of Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the BC Cancer Agency, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the remarkable legacy of Dr. Michael Smith.

We invited Lynn Mueller of SHARC Energy Systems to join us for a Conversation That Matters about how wastewater helps reduce our carbon footprint, reduces the massive volume of warm water that spills back into oceans and saves consumers money.