Calgary Business Podcast

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Irfhan Rawji, the founder and CEO of Mobsquad, an innovative idea to attract software engineers and match them with their clients with local and “near-shoring” capacity. This is a link to the company website: https://www.maverickscalgary.io/mobsquadcafe. This is a link to the Venture Capital firm in which Irfhan is a partner: http://relayventures.com/

In this episode, Brad Donaldson shares his views with Allen Wazny on how SAIT, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, prepares graduates to work in the current world. In his view, SAIT’s industry linkages are critical “…we are moving from industry telling educators what they want in graduates to now asking for us to help them figure it out…”.  This is a link to Professor Donaldson’s Linked...

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Allan Marston, a Calgary entrepreneur who has moved from the corporate boardroom to a technology-focused company he founded, Zenoshi Inc. This is a link to Allan Marston’s LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/allanmarston. To learn more about Zenoshi Inc, visit the company website: http://Zenoshi.io

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Brian Kroeker, CEO of Little Rock Printing and learns about the secret sauce to make this Inglewood, Calgary based printing business thrive in an era of PDF’s and digital documents.  NOTE: Subsequent to this episode, Brian was featured in a Calgary Herald article for the innovation and leadership that Little Rock Printing showed during the early days of...

In this episode, Allen Wazny had the unique opportunity to learn about the key issues faced by Yuen Ip in his role of Chief Operating Officer with CPA Alberta, formerly known as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta.  §§§ To learn more about CPA Alberta, follow this link: https://www.cpaalberta.ca/  Yuen Ip LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/yuenip §§§ Chartered Account...

In this episode, Allen Wazny had the opportunity to meet with Gary Davies, the President of events management company, e=mc2 events, Gary is also the founder of the “Best of Calgary”, a survey platform that has grown from 3000 annual participants to what is expected to reach 30,000 or more this year. To learn more about the e=mc2 events, follow this link: https://emc2events.com/ LinkedIn profile o...

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Allan Fogwill, the President and CEO of the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) to gain his perspective of the current business climate in Calgary and the effects on the oil and gas industry. Allan Fogwill shares his thoughts on the innovation and creativity that has come out of the sector over a long period of time — not just the past few years. To le...

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Allan Fogwill, the President and CEO of the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) to gain his perspective of the current business climate in Calgary and the effects on the oil and gas industry. Allan Fogwill shares his thoughts on the innovation and creativity that has come out of the sector over a long period of time — not just the past few years.

In this episode, Allen Wazny speaks with high school principal, Jason Arrell, and manages to draw out his unique thoughts on the importance of secondary education in preparing students for their future in the Calgary business community

In this episode, Allen Wazny shares his enthusiasm for the energy and atmosphere that is felt when visiting the Apple Store

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with David Allwright, Dean of the Business and Technology Department at Bow Valley College in downtown Calgary.

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Neeraj Gupta, a dynamic founder / co-founder of several tech companies here in Calgary. Allen learns the origin story of Lawcubator Technologies, which Neeraj founded in 2016 and two other companies which he co-founded, FormulateIP (in 2007) and Chapter. AI (in 2018).  Subsequent to recording of this podcast, Neeraj took on several strategic roles acros...

In this episode, Allen Wazny manages to speak with Steve Wheatcroft, the Founder and CEO of ULS Maintenance and Landscaping, a local Calgary business established in 1989 with 250+ employees and an operating fleet of 100+ maintenance vehicles. Website | https://urbanlifesolutions.com Calgary landscaping | Canadian landscaping | YYC commercial landscaping | YYC lawn care | Landscaper | Industrial la...

In this episode, Allen Wazny meets with Terry Rock, the President and CEO of Platform Calgary. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that the entity has been in operation for nearly 40 years providing Calgary founders a base in which to grow and scale their business.  Links to Platform Calgary  Website: https://www.platformcalgary.com/ Instagram | @platformcalgary LinkedIn | https://www.li...

In this episode, Allen seeks to understand the origin story of the Entrepreneurial Program at Haskayne’s School of Business at the University of Calgary. The interview with Oleksiy goes a long way to accomplishing this task as he expands on what got him started as a professor, what changes has he seen since commencement and what key issues does he feel will impact the program in the coming years....

In this episode, Allen Wazny speaks with Adam Pekarsky, the founding partner of Pekarsky & Co, a search and recruiting firm in Calgary. Allen seeks to find out what prompted a law student to enter the field of recruiting. And I have to say the photo of Gordie Howe on the conference room shelf caused goose bumps on my arm! Legendary.

In this episode, Allen Wazny speaks with Professor Bob Schulz in what can only be described as “electric” and informative

In this episode, your host ALLEN WAZNY chats with Uber driver to find our more about the issues he faces in the Calgary community.

In today’s episode, Allen Wazny meets Jaana Woiceshyn, Professor at the University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Faculty of Management. Allen seeks to understand the changes that Jaana has seen over the last 30 years since he graduated in 1989. This is a link to Jaana’s business articles posted on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/376JSog This is a link to her book “How to be Profitable and Mora...

In this podcast, your host Allen Wazny seeks to gain a small business lawyer’s perspective on the Calgary business community. Darrell talks a little bit about what got him into law. He also shares his ideas on the differences between the downtown office core and the “Belt Line”. Terrific insight!

Your host, Allen Wazny, seeks to learn about what Craig has done since returning to Canada after a long career in Russia and Azerbaijan. Craig shares his wisdom of working in the capital markets for the past 10 years and how the markets tend to reward “cash flow” for oil producers. Craig provides some further insight as to where oil prices will head in the future.  §§§ Pipestone Energy websit...

In this Episode, your host Allen Wazny speaks with Calgary retailer, Gord Hobbins, owner and operator of Gord’s Running Store. Allen and Gord discuss what got him started, how long he has been in business, what are the changes he has seen over the years and what he views as important in the future. As many Calgary fitness folks will know, visitors to the store always ask "Is Gord In?" when they fi...

Thank you for listening to the Calgary Business Podcast. I started the podcast in September 2019 to understand the community that had changed dramatically after living and working abroad for nearly 18 years. Since then, I have completed 261 podcasts to date and one initiative that stands out represents my chat with three Grade 12 students from Western Canada High School here in Calgary. The studen...