Fraser, Donald

Trent University Chancellor Dr. Don Tapscott's latest book has just been published by Penguin Random House. BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World is co-authored by his son Alex Tapscott.\n\nIt is the first book to explain why blockchain technology – a truly open, distributed, global platform – will fundamentally change what we can achieve online, how we do it,and who can participate.\n\nIt is a fascinating follow-up to several groundbreaking works in which Dr. Tapscott explores the economic and social impact of technology, including Macrowikinomics; New Solutions for a Connected Planet (2010); the bestseller Paradigm Shift (1992); and Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success (2013). His book Wikinomics was the best selling management book in the United States in 2007. In 2014, the 20th Anniversary Edition of Dr. Tapscott's hit The Digital Economy was released with a new foreword by Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, and 12 new essays addressing the original topics of the book.\n\n#TrentVoices sat down with Tapscott at the Rotman Centre School of Management at the University of Toronto for a special interview that focused on Blockchain Revolution, the bisecting futures of technology and the global economy, as well as on his ongoing relationship with Trent University.\n\nDr. Tapscott is one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. He is an Adjunct Professor of Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, and the inaugural Fellow at the Martin Prosperity Institute. In2013,he was appointed Chancellor of Trent University. This month, his position of Chancellor was renewed for a further 3 years.

2015 Ph.D. grad Andressa Lacerda is in mid-career stride, despite being only 26. She's a founding partner and the CFO in Noble Inc., a company that will manufacture and distribute filtration systems to remove nanosilvers from wastewater as well as introduce pharmaceuticals that will cure cancer and diseases that are caused by virus'. Her partner in this is Adam Noble, a whiz-kid who has set both the Trent community and world on fire with research that he accomplished in the labs at the university when he was just a high school student. \n\nAndessa helped mentor Adam into becoming one of Canada's "20 Under 20" in 2014. Together they have just signed on as cornerstone tenants of Trent University's new Research and Innovation Park, with a $20 million, 50,000-square-foot production facility to be built soon.\n\nAndressa's own research has shed new light onto neurological disorders – in particular how mutations of LITAF protein cause the genetic Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. \n\nIt's a fascinating discussion – and one where another of Andressa's talents shine: the ability to take complex ideas and make them relatable to students and laypeople.,Original location: http://trenttalks.podbean.com/e/trent-voices-episode-31-andressa-lacerd…

With tales that take us through an awkward Much Music debut with Bon Jovi to a strange encounter with Diana Ross' hair to a Robert Plant dinner that takes a turn to the strange, Christopher Ward offers an hour of entertaining talk.\n\nWard has written songs for Diana Ross, Hilary Duff, Wynonna Judd, The Backstreet Boys, Meredith Brooks, Tina Arena, Amanda Marshall, Roch Voisine and many others. His best-known song is the worldwide # 1 hit for Alannah Myles, 'Black Velvet'.\n\nPreviously, Ward was a member of the 'Second City Touring Company', based in Toronto. In 1984, as Canada's first 'VJ', he helped launch MuchMusic, where he interviewed artists as diverse as Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Tina Turner.\n\nDuring his time at Trent, Christopher helped launch Trent Radio.,Original location: http://trenttalks.podbean.com/e/trent-voices-radio-show-episode-11-musi…