How Canada Can Lead in Medical AI—Talent, Data, and Urgency

Healthcare is under enormous pressure. But at the same time, there may be more possibilities for how we create and deliver health than ever before. In this episode of Wired for Change, Amy Yee is joined by Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng and Dr. Matthew Bromwich for a candid, sometimes provocative and ultimately optimistic conversation about agency, innovation, prevention, technology—and what it really takes to create capacity for change in healthcare. Kwadwo brings the perspective of an ICU physician and health advocate who has increasingly turned his attention upstream: to prevention, health literacy and helping people take greater agency over their own health. Matthew brings the perspective of a surgeon and innovator who has spent his career turning problems encountered in clinical practice into new technologies and solutions—and confronting the much harder challenge of getting good ideas adopted and scaled. Together, they ask: Where does healthcare actually begin? If we designed healthcare today, would we build the same system? Why do proven innovations struggle to spread? What role can AI play in giving patients and clinicians greater agency? And if we already have many of the ideas and tools we need, how do we create the capacity to actually change? It’s a wide-ranging conversation about moving healthcare forward—not through one enormous transformation, but through better incentives, greater agency, thoughtful innovation and the willingness to act. CHAPTERS 00:00 – Healthcare under pressure—and full of possibility 01:00 – Meet Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng and Dr. Matt Bromwich 04:00 – From treating illness to preventing it 08:00 – Scaling impact beyond the doctor-patient relationship 15:00 – Great ideas aren’t enough: the challenge of adoption 19:00 – When is change worth the effort? 25:00 – Access, navigation and the changing role of the patient 31:00 – Where does healthcare actually begin? 45:00 – If we designed healthcare today, what would we do differently? 54:00 – What can we learn from healthcare systems doing things differently? 58:00 – What has to change for innovation to spread? 1:05:00 – Culture, risk and why organizations resist change 1:13:00 – Leadership, identity and the human side of change 1:21:00 – Do patients have more agency than they think? 1:26:00 – Creating capacity for change 1:33:00 – What Kwadwo and Matt are building next Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng’s latest book, The Opportunities in Healthcare: Redesigning Our Medical Systems in the Age of AI, Prevention, and Courageous Leadership, explores what we can do now to create a healthier future. Learn more: https://drkwadwo.ca/books Dr. Matthew Bromwich is CEO of CORE Innovation, which works to move health and healthcare innovations from invention to real-world adoption. Learn more: About Us | CORE Innovation

What does it take to sell something in a field where the product is complex, the risks can be difficult to explain, and the person you’re speaking to may see the problem very differently than you do? For Evgeniy Kharam, years in cybersecurity and technical sales led to an important realization: knowing your subject is only part of the equation. You also have to understand the person on the other side of the conversation. In this episode of Wired for Change, Evgeniy joins Amy Yee to explore what cybersecurity sales can teach us about communication, connection, and the skills that help turn expertise into action. They discuss learning to speak your customer’s language, building credibility and trust, using stories and analogies to make complex ideas understandable, and why curiosity and active listening matter. The conversation also explores communicating cyber risk inside an organization, the impact of AI on how we think and communicate, the power of voice, and Evgeniy’s own experience overcoming accent anxiety. Whether you’re selling a cybersecurity product, making the case for an investment, communicating risk, or simply trying to connect more effectively, this conversation offers practical lessons from a career spent at the intersection of technology, sales and communication. Evgeniy is the author of Architecting Success: The Art of Soft Skills in Technical Sales. Learn more: Architecting Success — softskillstack.com Evgeniy Kharam — evgeniykharam.com

What does it really take to create lasting change? Whether you're leading a company, transforming healthcare, navigating public policy, or building new technologies, meaningful change rarely begins with the system itself. It begins by changing minds. In this episode of Wired for Change, Amy Yee sits down with engineer, entrepreneur, Executive Chairman of Baylis Medical Technologies, former Member of Parliament, and actor and filmmaker Frank Baylis for a thoughtful conversation about leadership, adaptability, innovation, and what it takes to move people—and systems—forward. Together, they explore why leaders must evolve as organizations grow, why bringing people with you matters more than forcing change, how engineering shapes the way we solve complex problems, and why adaptability may be one of the defining leadership skills of our time. The conversation also wanders into entrepreneurship, politics, healthcare innovation, filmmaking, and artificial intelligence—not as separate subjects, but as different lenses on the same challenge: helping people and organizations navigate change. This isn't simply a conversation about business, healthcare, or technology. It's a conversation about how people make decisions, how organizations evolve, and why lasting change begins with understanding people. About Frank Baylis Frank Baylis is an engineer, entrepreneur, Executive Chairman of Baylis Medical Technologies, former Member of Parliament, and actor and filmmaker. Throughout his career, he has worked across healthcare innovation, business, public policy, technology, and the creative arts, bringing a unique perspective on leadership, systems thinking, and creating lasting change. Chapters 00:00 Why Change Is So Difficult01:43 Following Opportunity Instead of a Plan08:15 The Engineer's Mindset16:42 Building Something That Lasts27:10 Why Leaders Have to Evolve37:45 The Art of Compromise48:30 Stories Change Minds56:55 Learning Through Failure1:07:20 AI, Healthcare & Canada's Future1:17:10 Final Reflections

Scaling Beyond Your First Win: Leveraging One Adoption to Unlock Many For many health technology companies, landing that first customer feels like crossing the finish line. In reality, it's often where the real work begins. In this episode of Wired for Change, Amy Yee is joined by Matt Head, Innovation Adoption Lead at CORE Innovation at the CHEO Research Institute, and Blake Daly, Director of Innovation at Bruyère Health and lead of the CAN Health Long-Term Care Innovation and Scaling Network, to explore what it really takes to move from a single adoption to meaningful scale. Together, they discuss why healthcare adoption is fundamentally different from other industries, the role of clinical champions and trusted partnerships, why promising technologies often stall after early success, and how founders can better understand the realities of organizational readiness, procurement, and implementation. The conversation also looks beyond individual organizations to ask a larger question: How can healthcare systems learn from one another so successful innovations spread faster—and more effectively—across the ecosystem? Whether you're building a health technology company, leading innovation within a healthcare organization, or working to strengthen Canada's health innovation ecosystem, this conversation offers practical insights into the people, processes, and partnerships that turn promising ideas into lasting impact. In this episode, you'll hear about: Why the first customer is only the beginning Building trust through partnership, not just technology Clinical champions and organizational readiness Moving beyond pilots toward sustainable adoption Measuring outcomes that matter Why innovation ecosystems are essential to scaling healthcare solutions This episode was recorded as part of the Advancing MedTech Together: From Idea to Impact series in partnership with CORE Innovation at the CHEO Research Institute and Velocity at the University of Waterloo.

Recorded on location in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, this episode of Wired for Change explores what resilience looks like when communities help build and own the infrastructure that shapes their future. Amy Yee sits down with Indigenous entrepreneur Lyle Fabian, founder of KatloTech Communications, to discuss a vision for strengthening Canada's North through infrastructure ownership, digital sovereignty, fiber networks, and decentralized data centres. Drawing on decades of experience across telecommunications, energy, and Indigenous economic development, Lyle argues that the next frontier for the North is not simply connectivity—but ownership. The conversation explores how Indigenous communities can move beyond being customers or beneficiaries of critical infrastructure projects to becoming builders, investors, and owners. Together, Amy and Lyle discuss the realities of connectivity in the Northwest Territories, the importance of redundancy and resilience, the challenges of building infrastructure across vast northern distances, and a bold vision for a decentralized network of fiber and modular data centres designed specifically for northern conditions. This is a conversation about more than technology. It is about sovereignty, long-term thinking, stewardship, economic participation, and the role infrastructure can play in shaping stronger and more resilient communities. Whether you work in technology, public policy, economic development, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, cybersecurity, or Indigenous relations, this episode offers a unique perspective on what it means to build resilience from the ground up. Recorded in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Chapters: 00:00 Trailer: A Northern Blueprint for Resilience 02:02 Recording in Yellowknife 03:05 From Customers to Owners 05:05 Learning the Value of Fiber 08:00 Building KatloTech 09:05 The Infrastructure Gap in Canada's North 11:00 Self-Determination and Economic Participation 14:45 A Different Model for Data Centres 16:00 Why Redundancy Matters 18:05 The Dream: A Connected North 19:50 Decentralized Infrastructure and Data Sovereignty 22:20 Making the Investment Case 24:05 What Comes Next 24:40 A Final Message