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Matthew Walls

Matthew Walls

Dr. Matthew Walls is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary, specializing in Arctic archaeology and the deep history of human-environment relationships.

Sep 1, 2026

3:45
And are there any examples that stand out to you of an EA who drove that appreciation culture?
3:53
I've been blessed to have so many great executive assistants that I partner with.
3:57
And candidly, most of them did a phenomenal job of recognition.
4:01
Part of it is they also need to be given the license to have that type of culture.
4:06
So I think it starts as much with their business partner as anything.
4:09
And we were just talking this morning about how I was able to promote somebody today, which was like, I'm fired up to be here.
4:15
I was even more fired up to give them a promotion.

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12:01
What advice do you have for administrative professionals who are great at celebrating others but don't know how to advocate for their own appreciation at work?
50:20
What would that journey have been like for them?
50:23
Yeah, so there's a, a few ways of estimating that, but, but we think it, it, you know, at minimum, it would have been a trip of about 15 to 18 hours of very difficult paddling.
50:32
Uh, you'd have to know an awful lot about the weather, uh, in order to be able to do that, um, uh, because if conditions change when you're halfway across, uh, you could be in significant trouble, uh, being blown off course into Baffin Bay.
50:44
And we know a little bit about the watercraft from the period because there are a couple sites in the Arctic where you just get small fragments, so these tend to be pieces of wooden frames that, uh, would have had a skin covering that you can seal with fat.
50:57
Um, so something very similar to kayaks and umiaqs that, uh, uh, later Inuit communities used.
51:02
So it, it probably would have been something fairly similar that they're using to travel out there.
52:18
Did these ancient Inuit impact the islands in any way?
52:23
Yes, I think, I think in probably a number of different ways.
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that's a quick operational summary
8:28
i'm now going to walk through and give you some of the headlines in a bit more detail in each of those areas and what we can expect not only this year but into the future um so this is the portfolio so gradually going green in terms of all of that is regulatory approved in line with those areas at the top there you can see the fda is amber as we prepare to put the final submission in The other areas in green are all regulatory approved.
8:52
So that's clinically approved regulated products for polygenic risk assessment, mainly in cardiovascular disease.
8:59
And then the ROCA test at the bottom.
9:02
Important to note, you don't see this, but it's the backbone infrastructure by which we deliver our tests into the European, UK and US market.
9:11
It's a system called CITAB.
9:15
When we set the company up in 2018, we acquired the right to use this system from Ferro Pharmaceuticals.

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we're moving through.
12:08
What's it like there? Paint
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me a picture.
12:11
Well, it's an incredible experience.
12:13
When we went, I had spent many months looking at them through satellite imagery and things like that.
12:18
And so I had sort of expected them to be kind of empty and barren.
12:23
But actually, they're very busy places during the summer.
12:26
So there's a nesting colony of thick-billed muir.
16:38
Can you tell me how the presence of paleo-Inuit people back then altered their environment?

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