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Jul 7, 2026
Canada's $3 Trillion Blind Spot: Kendra MacDonald on the Ocean Economy
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Anthony TaylorHOST
Do you wanna fill in any blanks, tell us about you, tell us about the Supercluster, and we'll get into some questions?

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
I spent a lot of that time really in technology, so I had the opportunity to start my career in telecommunications, and then you saw lots of evolution in technology over that time.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
Uh, and then I continued in technology, and over the last kind of five or six years I was at Deloitte really tried to push innovation.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
And so how do you look at these new technologies like AI when AI was not as, you know, well-known [chuckles] as it is today? Imagine a decade or so ago.
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Kendra MacDonald Steers to the Blue Economy at Canada's Ocean Supercluster
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12:25Mitch RatcliffeHOST
Where do you find that it becomes more difficult? What are the big challenges you're facing right now?

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
So collaboration is, I would say, like any other relationship, [laughs] right? Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I would say the devil is in the details.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
So if you think about, you know, your personal relationships or for me with my husband, did we spend enough time in advance talking about how we wanted to raise our kids or where we wanted to live or whose career priority, all of those things.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
So that plays into now you're probably not signing on for life when you're, you're, um, collaborating at a business level, but you need to spend the time really looking at is what we're trying to achieve consistent, right? How we incent the teams.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
Are we going to get to a common outcome? Um, in when we collaborate with other governments, for example, you look at political cycles are different, IP sharing, so are we very clear on background IP that we're bringing, foreground IP, how that IP is being shared or held going forward? We are co-funding, so we fund a portion, the companies fund a portion.

Kendra MacDonaldGUEST
Are we clear on who is funding what? What happens if it starts going over budget? What happens if we're not achieving the outcomes on the timelines that we intended? What happens if we're not ach- one company is achieving their outcomes but the other one's not? And so it really does require a lot of discussion, and we will see.
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