
The Climate Cycle
Canada’s climate tech podcast.
Conversations with the founders, investors and change-makers building climate solutions in Canada.
Oliver David (OD) Krieg is the President of Intelligent City, a Vancouver-based company redefining how we build housing using mass timber, advanced manufacturing, and parametric design. Intelligent City is working to solve Canada’s climate and housing crises.
Arman Mottaghi is the CEO of Properate. They’re building better infrastructure for home retrofits, including software to help governments deliver tailored, high-impact retrofit programs, clear upgrade plans for homeowners, and updated tools that contractors can use on-site to assess and generate energy models in real time.
Nyla Ahmad is the COO at Alvéole, a company helping commercial real estate go nature-positive, starting with rooftop beehives. What began as a tool for tenant engagement has evolved into a scalable biodiversity monitoring platform, combining physical infrastructure with environmental data collection.
Alex Deslauriers is the founder and CEO at FireSwarm Solutions, a startup revolutionizing wildfire suppression. FireSwarm is developing AI-powered swarm algorithms that enable heavy-lift drones to fight wildfires.
Marc-André Forget is the founder and CEO of dcbel, a startup transforming our relationship with energy at home.
Mike Kelland is the co-founder and CEO of Planetary Technologies, a carbon removal startup that’s aiming to draw down gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by accelerating the ocean’s natural, carbon absorbing abilities.
At this year’s Carbon Removal Day in Ottawa, we caught up with experts working across the life cycle of carbon removal to discuss the state of carbon removal, keys to scaling up, and Canada’s leadership potential.
Matt Loszak is the co-founder and CEO of Aalo Atomics, a company building factory mass-manufactured nuclear power plants, purpose built for AI data centres.