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Icebreakers: A conversation about Canadian and Eurasian business

CECC

Business

Frequency: 1 episode/34d. Total Eps: 23

Icebreakers is the only podcast exploring the intersection of Canadian and Eurasian business, culture, and personalities. Join Nathan Hunt as he hosts leaders, politicians, artists, and more as they reflect on the current state of Canadian and Eurasian cooperation and look to the future to speculate on what is to come. With each new episode, we discover new exciting stories, personal experiences and determine various opportunities to form a bilateral dialogue between our countries and people. Icebreakers is produced bi-weekly by the Canada Eurasia Chamber of Commerce, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. Learn more about CECC here: https://www.canadaeurasia.com/

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18/09/2024
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"Building Bridges from Canada to Kazakhstan" with Tim Gitzel

Season 2 · Episode 7

Thursday, May 18, 2023 • Duration 44:13

In today's episode, we're excited to chat with Tim Gitzel, the President and CEO of Cameco Corporation, the world's largest uranium producer. With over 25 years of senior management and legal experience in Canadian and international uranium mining, Mr. Gitzel has a wealth of knowledge and expertise to share with our listeners.

As the Honorary Council of Kazakhstan to Saskatchewan and a Board member of various prestigious organizations including the World Nuclear Association and the Kazakhstan - Canada Business Council, Mr. Gitzel provides valuable insights on the transformation of Kazakhstan's mining industry and what makes the country an attractive destination for foreign investors.

Related links to this episode:

Cameco

Kazakhstan Canada Business Council (KCBC)

Kazatomprom

Timeline:

00:00 Intro

00:36 - Introducing Tim Gitzel

1:56 Growing up in communities of Northern Saskatchewan

2:59 Hockey passion and a call that never comes

4:30 Breaking into the uranium industry

7:06 Uranium 2011: from ‘’sky-high” to “now what?”

10:44 Cameco, as the largest industrial employer of Indigenous people

13:14 Expanding to Kazakhstan market

16:07 Modernization of Kazakhstan’s mining sector

18:00 Adapting to JORC code principles

19:03 Cameco-Kazatomprom joint venture

21:46 Honorary Consul of Kazakhstan in Saskatchewan

24:33 Meeting with the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

27:49 Political leadership of the government of Kazakhstan

30:22 Mr. Gitzel’s advice on entering the Kazakhstan market

33:35 Kazakhstan-Canada Business Council (KCBC)

38:11 What made Tim Gitzel a leader?

40:09 What does the future hold for Tim Gitzel?

43:34 Outro

Icebreakers is produced by CECC, an independent non-profit organization that promotes bilateral trade and investment between Canada and Eurasia. www.canadaeurasia.com

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"Uzbekistan:New Heights in Higher Education" with Peter McCann

Season 2 · Episode 6

Friday, September 23, 2022 • Duration 38:00

In today’s episode we are joined by Mr. Peter McCann, a Management Consultant, an author of two business books, and now Advisor to the Rector at Tashkent Chemical Technologies Institute. Peter has over 30 years of experience in consulting small and large businesses in the USA & Canada, as well as taught and lectured in Finland, Germany, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Peter shares his firsthand experience in establishing his own business and new professional and social life in Central Asia, education reforms in Uzbekistan and large-scale projects in partnership with the world leaders in vocational training. How will applying the best international practices address the core challenges in education? What opportunities does this tremendous transformation open for Canada-Uzbekistan cooperation?

Related links to this episode:

Tashkent Chemical-Technological Institute

SAIT

'Strategy & Business Planning of Privately Held Companies' book by Peter McCann

'Turnarounds: Brains, Guts & Stamina' book by Peter McCann

Timeline:

00:40 – Introducing Peter McCann

1:40 – Radical transformation of the Tashkent Chemical Technologies Institute (TCTI)

7:30 – Growing up in Ottawa's rural northwest

9:20 – First career breakthroughs

12:32 – Turnarounds and Consultancy practice

'We - The North' with Valerii Maximov

Season 1 · Episode 13

Friday, December 3, 2021 • Duration 35:09

IceBreakers welcomes Valerii Maximov, Senior Trade Commissioner of the Russian Federation in Canada, former Minister of Economy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Advisor to the President of the Republic. Valerii will share the stories about the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - the world's largest administrative and territorial subdivision, a homeland for such known start-ups as InDriver and MyTona. We will also learn more about Yakut language and culture, success stories of cooperation with Canada and how the Canadian North is similar to that of Russia.

Related Links

Silver Bear

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Russian Trade Mission to Canada

Timeline

00:00 intro

00:42 Introducing Valerii Maximov

1:48 5 X France Territory

4:33 Career path

7:53 $100,000 question about Canada - Yakutia cooperation

9:46 The Sakha People

10:39 Why Canada?

11:52 The Nothern Forum

13:30 Canadians in Yakutia

14:36 Canada – Norway

16:29 Spring-like weather of -35 in Yellowknife

18:48 First Nations routes

21:52 Bisons don't mind the virus

The Valdai Story with Piotr Dutkiewicz

Season 1 · Episode 12

Friday, November 12, 2021 • Duration 35:53

Today we welcome CERBA's old friend and its National Board member - Mr. Piotr Dutkiewicz, to the IceBreakers Podcast. Piotr is a Professor of Political Science and former Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton University. He is also an author of 16 books and a current Valdai Club member, a group of forty world-renowned experts on Russia.

Piotr is sharing stories about his family, living and studying in Russia, moving to Canada, "Golden time" in Canada-Russia relations, teaching at Carleton University and the areas of prospective cooperation between our countries.

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