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Nat D’Ercole, data transformation leader for AI and data at Deloitte Canada In the final episode of In The Channel’s three-part series from SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas, we sit down with Nat D’Ercole of Deloitte Canada for the practitioner perspective on enterprise AI transformation – what it looks like from inside the organizations actually doing the migration and governance work. The conversation opens on the reality of Viya migrations at enterprise scale. Deloitte’s approach starts with a scan of the client’s current environment – understanding which workloads are actually running the business versus which haven’t been touched in years – before building a roadmap that addresses cost structure, change management, and what a future-state architecture actually needs to look like. A central theme is data governance maturity as the key determinant of AI readiness. Nat introduces the concept of human hallucination – multiple versions of the truth produced when ungoverned data is accessed and wrangled without standards across an organization. His point is that the organizations that have already done the hard work of data governance are the ones genuinely positioned to move fast on AI. Those that haven’t are still stuck solving the foundation problem first. On OSFI E-21, Nat echoes what SAS Canada’s Ryan MacDonald described earlier in the series – regulation as a useful catalyst rather than a burden – and addresses the risk and fraud use cases where the Deloitte-SAS partnership is seeing the most active investment, including procurement integrity and financial scenario modeling. The episode closes on SAS AI Navigator as a complement to Deloitte’s own trusted AI framework, the use of AI-augmented engineering to accelerate migration timelines, and a thirty-year observation about the 80/20 problem – and why this might finally be the moment it gets flipped. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello, and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. This is our third and final episode from last week’s SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas. And if you’ve been following along, you’ve heard the view from SAS Canada leadership – the AI maturity story, the governance urgency, what the mid-market channel opportunity looks like – and then the global channel strategy conversation with John Carey, the build-out of the indirect motion, the TD SYNNEX partnership, and where the channel goes from here. What we haven’t heard yet is what it actually looks like from inside a real enterprise engagement. That’s what this episode is. My guest is Nat D’Ercole, data transformation leader for AI and data at Deloitte Canada. Deloitte is one of SAS’s major global systems integrator partners, and Nat works with the kind of large Canadian enterprises that are right in the middle of the AI transformation conversation – Viya migrations, data governance strategy, OSFI E-21 readiness, risk and fraud modernization. The practitioner reality, not the roadmap. We talk about what it actually looks like to walk into a client and untangle 20 or 30 years of SAS implementation. We get into data governance maturity as the thing that most determines whether an organization is ready for AI. We talk about what Nat calls human hallucination, and why it’s not as different from the AI kind as you might think. And we close on a concept that Nat has been waiting 30 years to see become real – the 80/20 flip. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Nat D’Ercole. Nat, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Nat D’Ercole: Pleasure to be here. Robert Dutt: Obviously, you guys are one of SAS’s major global partners, but for an audience that’s primarily VARs and MSPs – that kind of partner – the Deloitte AI and data practice might be a bit of a black box. Can you tell us a bit about what it looks like day to day? Who are your clients? What are they typically asking you to solve today? Nat D’Ercole: Of course. Our clients are facing complex issues in terms of how to manage their data, manage their models, and obviously working in an age of AI and sorting all that out in terms of where they are today, what are they using today, the cost of running all that today, to where they need to get to – both from a data, tech, people, and process perspective. So being a professional services firm focused on helping our clients with both advisory, implementation, and supporting our clients’ systems are key areas that our clients look to us for support. Robert Dutt: A little earlier, I talked with Ryan Macdonald, who leads SAS Canada. The subject of hidden SAS came up – in so much as a lot of customers end up finding they’re running SAS software, running key business functions on SAS software, and not necessarily even aware of it, because it’s just become such a part of the underpinnings. It’s just there. It’s invisible even to themselves. When you walk into a client that engages Deloitte on, say, a Viya migration, is that something that you often see? And what does that journey kind of look like? Nat D’Ercole: Great question, Robert. And that comment from Ryan really makes sense to me. Our clients have been using SAS for many, many years – some 20, 30 years, and maybe even longer. And so SAS is used for everything from data management, modeling, analytics, reporting, data wrangling, and so on and so forth. And it’s a web of solutions that organizations across departments have implemented. And so understanding what they currently have in place is a challenge. And so we do help them with that in terms of providing them with a scan of their current environment and helping them understand what workloads are actually running their business versus workloads that haven’t been touched in years. And with that, we’re able to help them with a roadmap to address those workloads and determine what is fit for purpose in terms of moving to a future state. Robert Dutt: You guys are dealing with big projects and pretty high-stakes stuff, and not the simplest thing – like a Viya migration at enterprise scale is clearly not a simple concept. What do you see as the real cost and complexity pressure points for customers? And how do you help clients navigate those without the project stalling out? Nat D’Ercole: You know, I think what’s really important is to understand – just building on my previous answer – understanding what is running their business and the cost structure associated to that. So obviously there’s technology licensing, there’s training on existing solutions, target solutions, change management, upskilling, etc. in terms of some of the key cost drivers. And let’s also refer to storage as well as another area of cost. So analyzing our clients’ environments and really taking a closer look at each of those buckets to help them figure out where are they now, and what are the opportunities, what are the options for them moving forward. Robert Dutt: Governance – obviously a big topic here – and the idea of governance and trust becoming inseparable from the AI conversation has been a big theme here and elsewhere. Curiously, what are you seeing in that, and is it changing what you’re being hired to do? Are clients coming to you with a technology problem, or are they coming to you with a governance and risk problem that has a technology component to it? Nat D’Ercole: Yeah, so clients are hiring us to solve a business problem that is enabled by technology, enabled by change. And to address your specific question around governance – governance comes in the form of data governance, AI governance, model governance, etc. We do find that the level of preparedness in organizations around data absolutely varies from immature to mature. So those organizations that have addressed data governance are those that are most prepared for the AI age and being able to take the next step. Now, not everything requires structured data and highly clean data. So depending on the use cases, it is quite possible to apply AI and begin to see benefit. However, more and more I do see organizations invest in things like master data management, invest in data governance, and invest in operating models. And those operating models are also AI-ready. So we’re starting to see the need for roles such as prompt engineers, AI engineers that are interrogating results of models, ensuring that there’s a continuous feedback loop – and where models are drifting or hallucinating or so on and so forth, that there’s a human loop catching that. So these are new roles that are being created and need to be part of an overall governance strategy. Robert Dutt: What role do you see yourselves playing in leveling up those organizations who haven’t gone far enough in governance thus far to get the most out of the AI future? Nat D’Ercole: I’m actually working with a client right now where they haven’t addressed data governance and they’re stuck with legacy solutions where very much it’s been the wild wild west – if I could use that term – in terms of accessing data, enabling analysts across the organization to wrangle that data and develop outputs that their leaders consume. And so when that happens without governance, you get things like what I refer to sometimes as human hallucination, where there’s multiple versions of the truth. Organizations do see that today. And to me, that’s the human side of these hallucinations that we’re seeing with AI. So for those organizations, in terms of leveling up, it is certainly approaching it from a people perspective first – ensuring leadership is in place, necessary roles around domain ownership, necessary standards and policies are in place. And really, what is the motivation for elevating data governance in the organization, ensuring that that messaging is clear from the executive level down. Robert Dutt: So if human-in-the-loop is the solution to AI hallucinations, is AI-in-the-loop the solution to human hallucinations? Just kidding. Moving on to the regulatory environment – first thing that comes to mind, especially because SAS is so big in regulated industries, is finance and OSFI E-21 in particular. When you’re working with organizations that have to meet that bar, do you see it creating real urgency in the conversations you’re having? Or are clients still finding ways to buy time or building out how they respond to some of the regulations that we see? Nat D’Ercole: Well, there’s nothing like having a catalyst in place to motivate – exactly. So yeah, I think that’s where regulation provides guidance, direction, standards. These are areas that organizations can look to in order to inform how they need to move forward as well. So that’s very much welcome, I would say, in terms of helping organizations steer their investments so that obviously they comply – and no one wants to be facing penalties. Robert Dutt: Sticking with financial services – risk and fraud is highlighted as an area of strength for the Deloitte/SAS partnership. Where are you seeing the most active investment and I guess the most interesting use cases right now? Nat D’Ercole: I would say in terms of risk and fraud, procurement integrity are areas that are horizontal across organizations. You can go from a fraud perspective – not just procurement, but other types of fraud within organizations. And then from a risk perspective, there are areas around financial risk where organizations need to ensure that they have proper scenario modeling in place to understand what stresses they need to address from an organization and modeling perspective. So I would say those are common use cases – asset liability management, treasury – just being more versatile, more accelerated in terms of running these scenarios. So solutions like SAS do provide capabilities to address that speed of process. Robert Dutt: In general terms, as you’ve been here this week at the event – whether it’s a specific announcement, whether it’s an area of conversation, whether it’s what the leadership at SAS is thinking about – what’s caught your eye, caught your ear, and made you think, “Oh, I need to learn more about that”? What’s been your headline of the event? Nat D’Ercole: The keynote – the interview that Jen Chase did with Mel Robins really hit home for me, and how she applied it to AI. And for me, ensuring that leaders are leaning in and providing the change that they want – or being the change that they want to see in the organization, living the change – and also helping organizations from a leadership perspective, executive perspective, to be comfortable. Many employees, I would say, across industries and organizations – some as Mel referred to – are afraid of what AI’s potential can do to their jobs. That’s a real human reaction. And so from a leadership perspective, creating the right environment for people to begin to lean in. I’ve said many times that, “Will your job be replaced?” – and oftentimes the answer to that is, “Yes, it’ll be replaced by those folks that are embracing AI.” So now is the time to lean in and begin to learn how to use it. So Mel’s comments definitely resonated. I looked around a large room – over probably 300 tables – and many people nodded with some of those remarks. So for me, that really resonated. Robert Dutt: Pulling on that leadership thread a little bit – from where you’re sitting, what does good leadership look like in terms of guiding that AI discussion? Because that can be everything from really understanding it, making the case for it, making clear communications – not pushing, but being behind the organization’s efforts – to the kind of stereotypical thou-shalt-from-on-high, “The board tells me I have to do AI. Everyone’s talking about AI, make it happen.” Nat D’Ercole: I think from an executive perspective, beginning to make investments in AI and ensuring that there’s a path forward for the organization – as individuals, departments, and then the enterprise. So that path forward, typically when we work with clients, we look to understand where the low-hanging fruit might be, both from an efficiency perspective and effectiveness. By effectiveness, being able to get insights faster, being able to run through processes faster, but at the same time ensuring – back to our previous comment – ensuring that the human is in the loop. Executives are also looking for ROI in use cases. And I would say that ROI should be looked at most definitely, but be somewhat lenient in terms of the payback timeframe. Some may be one year, some may be two years. The important thing is to start and begin to learn from the experiences, and have a set of – or journey roadmap of – use cases that will enable the organization to be more efficiently effective as a whole. Robert Dutt: One of the bigger announcements here – and certainly the ones that got a lot of the attention and a lot of stage time – was SAS AI Navigator, built around governing AI use cases, models, and agents all at scale. Does a tool like that change what you guys deliver, or does it slot into something you’ve already been building? Does it kind of augment manual processes for you? Nat D’Ercole: Yes, I would say it complements our trusted AI framework. I really like the visuals around the AI Navigator, and it really showed how AI could be green, could be yellow, and then could be red – and then ensuring that there’s a human loop addressing those red drift areas. So it certainly complements. And knowing how to bring the two together is, I would say, areas where clients will need help, and certainly what to prioritize first. Robert Dutt: In talking to Ryan, the idea of clients increasingly looking at engagements that involve the scale of a GSI such as yourselves alongside niche industry-specific partners in the same engagement – and kind of creating that ecosystem approach. Curious if that’s something that you’re seeing and building for, or still more of an exception than rule in Canada. Nat D’Ercole: I would say, going back to a previous question, we do lead from a business perspective and clients are coming to us to ensure that the technology investments that they are making make sense from an overall business perspective. And so how those investments are realized, we will often be an orchestrator of our alliances – both technology alliances and potentially industry-specific – where there’s expertise that we need to pull in as part of solutioning for our clients. So not abnormal, I would say. Where it’s justified, certainly our ecosystems and alliances are a key value driver for our success. Robert Dutt: What’s the common genesis of that? I’m curious how often it’s you guys pulling in another party because they add something to the engagement, versus customers having an incumbent or someone they want to work with alongside you. How does that start, basically? Nat D’Ercole: It really starts with having the conversation with the client – what are they thinking, and how can we help them best, bringing the best resources and capabilities to their problems. Clients may also have biases in terms of what they’re comfortable with. So it’s understanding that and advising them on whether that makes sense or doesn’t, and why. Robert Dutt: Let’s get meta with AI a little bit here. There’s a lot of conversation in consulting about using AI to deliver AI projects faster. Is that something that you guys are doing in this practice? And what does it look like if it is? Nat D’Ercole: Oh, absolutely, Rob. These are demands that our clients are requesting – that whenever there’s any engineering in place, whether it’s custom engineering or custom build solutions, custom build models, what have you, or migrations for that matter – migrating from legacy code, legacy reporting solutions, legacy SAS to SAS Viya, etc. – leveraging AI to accelerate time to value, lower the cost of delivering. And so to that end, we have developed accelerators. We do leverage AI and AI-assisted development engineering – AI-augmented engineering, if you will – to deliver overall lower total cost of implementation. Robert Dutt: What does the team that you’re building to do this work in Canada look like? I’m curious especially what the skills you’re most looking for are, and what are the skills that are hardest to find or most need to be developed because they’re brand new. Nat D’Ercole: Certainly data scientists, engineers, domain expertise in an industry that understands the business problems, understands the business language, change management – these are core consulting skills. I would say it just gets further augmented in the area of AI, and ensuring that resources have or are building experience or getting upskilled in the areas of AI to solution our clients’ problems. So I would say those are the key areas. And the last one is that trusted AI area as well – where our risk practice is focused on that. So from overall servicing a client, being able to pull from all facets of our multidisciplinary capabilities across the firm are key aspects in terms of why clients are coming to us to support them, because it’s not a technology problem. Robert Dutt: Last one for me – what does success look like for a Canadian organization that’s, let’s say, 18 months into this kind of a transformation? And what’s the one thing that most often determines whether they get to success or not with an AI project? Nat D’Ercole: I would say having clearly defined upfront business rationale – what does the future state look like from a business economics perspective? I’m not just talking about financial return. I’m talking about what does it mean for their people, and being able to sell that. Having that vision in place and actively working to chip away at building that out with the organization, within the organization – upskilling them so that they have the necessary skill sets to move forward, take on more themselves, et cetera. So you definitely need to have the persistence, the top-level leadership to continue to drive, and I would say celebrate successes, advocate for better ways of working, and the benefits that it’s driving for the organization. So just continuing to sell the benefits, continuing to provide that vision for employees so that they understand what this means for them as they move forward. Those use cases where AI is replacing just the redundant tasks that employees are working on to get a report out – these are all areas where AI can improve the efficiencies, improve the quality, improve the trust, so that employees can focus on those higher-order, higher-value areas, strategic thinking – things that they’ve been hired to do. I’ve been in this business for over 30 years and there’s always been that 80% of the time people are pushing data around, preparing data, and 20% is being spent on value-added activities. So AI really provides now the opportunity to flip that – finally. But obviously it does require safeguards, it does require executive support and leadership. So yeah, it’s a great time to be in, to be consulting, and to be working with clients to help them realize better ways of working. Robert Dutt: All right. Well, good luck in making that flip. It is a long time coming, as you say. I hope Innovate finishes strong for you, and thanks again for taking the time. Nat D’Ercole: Thank you, Robert. Robert Dutt: There you have it – Nat D’Ercole from Deloitte Canada. I’d like to thank Nat for his time, and that wraps up our three-episode run from SAS Innovate 2026. Thanks for listening. Few things I’m taking away from this one. First, the human hallucination concept. When organizations haven’t addressed data governance, you end up with multiple versions of the truth – different teams, different numbers, different answers to the same question. Nat’s point is that this is the human-side equivalent of what we’re trying to prevent with AI governance, and that the organizations that have already solved the data governance problem are the ones that are actually ready for AI. Not the ones with the best AI strategy – the ones with the cleanest data foundation. Second, the 80/20 flip. Nat’s been in this business for over 30 years. For most of that time, people have spent 80% of their time pushing data around and 20% actually doing value-added work. AI has the potential to flip that. That’s not a new observation, but hearing it from someone who’s been watching it not happen for three decades really gives it some weight. And third, Deloitte positioning as the orchestrator. They’re not just the big GSI anchor in these deals. They’re the ones pulling in niche specialists, aligning technology alliances, and making sure the business case holds together across all of it. That ecosystem John Carey described from the vendor side – this is what it looks like from the delivery side. Hope you enjoyed this special coverage from SAS Innovate 2026. As fate would have it, we’ll have a new series starting later this week – more on that to come, but safe to say I’m currently on my way to Las Vegas. If you found this one useful, follow or subscribe to the ChannelBuzz.ca podcast. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most of the major directories. Ratings and reviews are greatly appreciated and really help others in the channel find the show. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: Integris, a managed AI and IT services firm backed by OMERS Private Equity, has announced its intent to acquireFirst Focus, the largest managed service provider serving small and midsize businesses across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. The deal, subject to regulatory approval, is designed to extend Integris’ geographic reach while accelerating delivery of AI-enabled managed services across regions. For the channel, the transaction is a clear expression of the platform MSP consolidation trend playing out globally through private equity – and for Canadian observers, the OMERS connection is notable: the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is the PE backer driving this international build-out. Cybersecurity vendor NeuShield has announced a partnership with Ontario-based MSP Data Guards to deliver instant ransomware recovery services to clients. In a documented real-world use case, the companies reported restoring more than 6.2 terabytes of encrypted data in just fifteen minutes – a recovery window NeuShield says would have taken more than five days using traditional backup methods. By integrating NeuShield Data Sentinel into its managed security stack, Data Guards can offer one-click recovery of corrupted data and storage-layer protection against ransomware and file tampering, reflecting a broader market shift as solution providers move beyond prevention and detection to guarantee client data remains continuously recoverable without system rebuilds. ThreatLabs Europe, the research arm of ThreatDown, has discovered threat actors weaponizing AI agent skills to deliver the GachiLoader infostealer. Attackers are using a fake OpenClaw AI agent skill as a lure to inject the Rhadamanthys infostealer directly into memory, leveraging the Polygon blockchain for command and control to bypass traditional perimeter defenses. The malware harvests cryptocurrency wallets, browser credentials, Telegram messages, and password manager contents. The discovery is a direct warning for the channel: as non-human identities proliferate in client environments, identity and access management practices must now account for the vulnerabilities introduced by AI agents – not just human users. In brief: Sublime Security has launched its first formal channel partner program and announced a move to a 100 percent channel sales model, with dedicated reseller and MSSP tracks. The agentic email security platform uses a rules-plus-AI approach it says catches attacks that signature-based tools and generic AI products miss. Konica Minolta has announced the spring 2026 launch of the AccurioPress C5080 Series, a new line of digital production presses designed for high-volume commercial printing environments. Forescout has launched Mission:Possible, the company’s biggest channel partner tour in 25 years, spanning more than 90 cities globally between May and September. The immersive events are built around hands-on IT, OT, IoT, and industrial security challenges, with the goal of sharpening partner positioning around zero trust and continuous threat exposure management. Microsoft 365 E7 goes generally available today at $99 per user per month, bundling Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Entra Suite, and advanced compliance capabilities in a single commercial tier. Microsoft’s Q3 earnings this week confirmed Copilot has crossed 20 million paid seats – E7’s launch signals the next phase of the AI licensing conversation for solution providers. Read Full Transcript Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Friday, May 1, 2026, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. Integris, a managed AI and IT services firm backed by OMERS Private Equity, has announced its intent to acquire First Focus, the largest managed service provider serving small and midsize businesses across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is designed to extend Integris’ geographic footprint while accelerating delivery of secure, scalable AI capabilities across regions. For the channel, it’s a clear example of the platform MSP consolidation trend playing out globally – and for Canadian observers specifically, it’s worth noting that OMERS, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, is the private equity backer driving this international build-out. Cybersecurity vendor NeuShield has announced a partnership with Canadian MSP Data Guards to deliver instant ransomware recovery services to clients. In a real-world use case that highlights the collaboration, the companies reported successfully restoring more than 6.2 terabytes of encrypted data in just fifteen minutes. According to NeuShield, this compares to more than five days that would have been required using traditional backup methods. By integrating NeuShield Data Sentinel into its managed security stack, Data Guards can offer one-click recovery of corrupted data and protection at the storage layer against ransomware and file tampering. The partnership underscores a broader trend in the market, as solution providers increasingly move beyond prevention and detection to ensure client data remains continuously recoverable without the need to rebuild systems from scratch. ThreatLabs Europe, the research arm of ThreatDown, has discovered that threat actors are now weaponizing AI agent skills to deliver the GachiLoader infostealer. According to the company, attackers are using a fake OpenClaw AI agent skill as a lure to inject the Rhadamanthys infostealer directly into memory. The attack utilizes the Polygon blockchain for command and control instructions, allowing it to bypass many traditional perimeter defenses to harvest cryptocurrency wallets, browser credentials, Telegram messages, and password managers. As malicious actors increasingly exploit the expanding footprint of non-human identities, the discovery serves as a clear warning to the channel. IT professionals must ensure comprehensive identity and access management practices account for the vulnerabilities introduced by AI agents operating within client environments. In Brief –  Sublime Security plans to go 100 percent channel Konica Minolta has announced the spring 2026 launch of its AccurioPress C5080 Series for digital production environments.  Forescout goes on Mission:Possible partner tour And finally, today's the day for the launch of Microsoft 365 E7  Full details and links in the show notes or the blog post. Later today on In The Channel, we continue our coverage from SAS Innovate 2026, as we talk to SAS global channel chief John Carey about four years building out the channel program for the analytics company, the increasing role of MSPs, and how his own goals for the partner portion of the company's revenues are evolving. And if you haven’t heard it yet, yesterday’s episode featured my chat with SAS Canada leader Ryan MacDonald on the state of the AI opportunity in Canada, the role of partners, and why the value of SAS may be hidden to some customers. That’s how we’re seeing the headlines today. I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, thanks for listening. Have a great day.

John Carey, senior vice president of global channels at SAS Institute Recorded on site at SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas, this week’s In The Channel features John Carey, senior vice president of global channels at SAS Institute, in a conversation that covers the full arc of his four years building SAS’s channel program from the ground up. When Carey joined in 2022, SAS had a history with partners – advisory engagement, project delivery – but limited co-sell and no resell motion. His mandate was to change that. The conversation traces that journey: the introduction of a clear market segmentation (enterprise above the line, channel below the line), the decision to route transactions through partners while keeping end-user contracts with SAS intact, and the live project underway right now to migrate direct customers to indirect. A central theme is the distribution partnership with TD SYNNEX, which Carey frames as a leverage mechanism – moving from thousands of customers to hundreds of partners to one distributor – giving SAS the financial and operational flexibility it needs while giving partners financing terms, invoicing support, and credit options a software vendor is not built to provide. On the competitive landscape, Carey draws a sharp line between SAS and the AI tools crowding the market. Others turn up with an easy button and a black box. SAS turns up with a transparent box and a governance framework – and with SAS AI Navigator now tracking agent behaviour across the Viya platform, that framework is getting sharper. The episode closes with a candid look at the partner economics model – an inverted approach that makes it easy to start selling and lets services investment follow the book of business – and a direct invitation to Canadian solution providers with data, security, and infrastructure skills to get into the conversation now. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello, and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel community for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. Still coming to you this week from Grapevine, Texas, from SAS Innovate 2026. If you caught our last episode with Ryan Macdonald, leader of SAS Canada, you heard the view from the Canadian perspective: the AI maturity story, OSFI E-21, and the mid-market channel opportunity. This time I’m going a level up. My guest today is John Carey, senior vice president of global channels at SAS Institute. John’s about four years into the role, and he came in with a specific mandate: to rethink what partnering looks like for a company with a long history of advisory and delivery through partners, but limited co-sell and essentially no resale motion. Four years later, the picture looks pretty different. There’s a clear market segmentation model, a distribution partnership with TD SYNNEX, an active project underway right now to migrate direct customers to indirect, and a 30% channel revenue target that’s already evolving into something even more ambitious. We talk about all of it: what he found when he arrived, how the direct-to-indirect transition is actually landing with customers, what the partner economics look like for a new SAS partner in 2026, how this week’s AI Navigator and agentic AI announcements change the channel opportunity, and what he thinks the SAS channel looks like in three years if things go well. Let’s get right into it. My chat with John Carey. John, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. John Carey: Appreciate it. Good to be here, Robert. Robert Dutt: You’re about four years into leading channels for SAS if memory serves and I’m able to do the math—both of which are somewhat suspect. Can you tell me a little bit about what you found when you got here and the quick version of the journey in building the channel from your point of view? John Carey: Got it. Well, first of all, you absolutely did get it right. It is, come June, four years since I joined SAS. Now, the first thing—I was brought in by the ELT, with an ELT remit to rethink partnering for SAS’s future. So we had a history of partnering. If you think about where SAS came from, a lot of advisory engagement, a lot of delivery through partners, but not necessarily a lot of co-sell and certainly no resell. So one of the remits coming in was to assess the business, understand what the opportunities were, and build a program that allows us to create a growing business that is driven by partners and owned by partners. And we get the acceleration and the leverage of the partner community that all software vendors are seeking and hope to take advantage of. When I came in, I would say we lacked maturity in our partnering in some areas. We were definitely mercurial in a way that wasn’t helpful. Partners didn’t have consistency, and we weren’t persistent in holding ourselves and our partners accountable. There was a lot of, “If only… it’s not me, it’s them.” So phase one: get to a single source of truth. So we introduced undisputed channel revenue. Let’s agree and measure together the value of the channel in our business. The other thing we did is we segmented, for the first time, our market. We had historically looked at our install base as a quadrant, an ABCD, thinking about propensity for growth and saturation. And we moved to the more traditional pyramid, but with a binary segmentation. So above the line: enterprise; below the line: channel. And that allowed us to prioritize routes to market. So in the enterprise, it’s very much a co-sell partner delivery model. GSIs are a very strong focus. Technology partners are a very strong focus up there. And then certain regional boutique consulting partners continue to be high value, particularly in our vertical industries—FSI, public sector, life sciences. Below the line, the story was: how do we give this business to the partners, give partners autonomy, and allow them to determine their own future? So that was really about taking business that was historically direct and making it indirect. Actually, this year, we have a whole project where we are moving our channel direct install base to indirect. So, communicating with the customer about why it’s good for them, communicating to the partner of what they need to do to be ready, and then putting that fuel into an engine that we’ve been building over the last few years with partners with strong SAS skills, but who were traditionally services partners and have had to build something of a resale muscle. We’re also starting to recruit some more traditional high-powered solution providers, as well as really focusing on managed service provider opportunities with partners who not only can sell the solution, but they host and operate the solution for the customer. And the nexus of this was finding ways to bring the enterprise value of SAS to the non-enterprise client base, and to do that through our local superpower, which is our partner community who understand those customers and their pain points in a way that we just don’t have the resources to do, and to make sure they’re empowered with the kind of tools and the right cost structure to be able to give that enterprise value at a non-enterprise price point. Robert Dutt: How has that direct-to-indirect transition gone? How does that land with customers? It’s got to be a bit of a communication challenge because you want to make sure you’re not positioning it as “we’re stepping away from you,” even if you’re introducing a partner into the mix. John Carey: Yeah. So this is what we’re going through right now. So first of all, there’s the angst as a vendor of saying, “I’m about to go to a customer and say our transactional relationship is going to change.” But really, our contractual relationship remains intact. The contract between the end user and the vendor stays in place. We are responsible for delivering on the value of the platform or the solution provided. What we’re doing is we’re rerouting the transaction through a partner, which means we can support more currencies. We can support different pricing conditions and payment terms that, as an enterprise, we’re just not able to entertain for anyone but the largest customers. And so our positioning is: it gives our customers far more flexibility and more intimate engagement than being part of a long tail of customers for a large enterprise that end up in this pool that you call “programmatic”—which we all use the words, but none of us like those words. And a way of avoiding that is to say, “This isn’t programmatic. This is channel-managed,” because this is where the partners are stepping in to make sure that that customer feels like the most important customer of that partner, rather than the not-most-important customer of a large vendor. Robert Dutt: Can you tell me a little bit more about the managed services motion and how you see that evolving, especially as SAS overall has become much more open in terms of the whole structure there—getting into MCP and acknowledging that a lot of times customers are going to be consuming SAS’s insights and abilities through the chatbots and other channels, for want of a better word? John Carey: Well, look, first of all, I’ve certainly lived through enough inflection points to recognize one as it comes along. And this is an inflection point where there’s opportunity and risk. When I think about the philosophy from the channel, certainly with channel customers, I want those customers hosted by partners. Why? Because a big part of their TCO challenge is just giving them access to software doesn’t mean they can afford the resources to operate and maximize return on that software. If they can be supported by a managed service provider, by a solution provider who’s hosting on their behalf, now they have access to actual educated, certified SAS resources who are dedicated to making sure they maximize the return on that investment. And so with that underpinning, you then think about the integration of the chatbots—the Anthropic’s, Copilot, Gemini integration. It’s pretty scary for mid-sized customers to be thinking about this. I mean, do most people know that if you put your data up on those things that it’s no longer privileged? Do most people know that there’s an element here which feels like social media, that we’ve since learned who’s being monetized here? This feels free, but actually I’m feeding this model all of my proprietary data to get a presumed efficiency which may or may not turn up, in the hope that it doesn’t hallucinate. Well, when I look at that and I think about SAS making data ready for the AI lifecycle, SAS having a governance infrastructure that allows us to identify bias, to make sure—now, as you heard announced yesterday, the AI Navigator that allows us to track these agents and ensure that we understand whether agents are behaving in a way that is copacetic with the intention of the business user. And if one fails or starts to behave in a way that is not aligned with the organization, you’re able to flag that. You’re able to communicate that to other connected agents so that you can source the problem and solve the problem. I think when we think of it in that way, this is a real opportunity for the channel to step in. These moments of “How do I bridge the technology into value?” is the perfect space for resellers, service providers, solution providers to step in, navigate that complexity for the customer, give the customer confidence with the technology choices that they’re making—that they are safe and secure with SAS. As I frame it, we’re a 50-year-old vendor who’s been in the most regulated industries. Others out there turn up with an easy button and a black box. We turn up with a transparent box and a governance framework that means we acknowledge nothing’s easy, but once you engage in this, you will survive audit. You will be able to understand where problems occurred and why, and you will be able to remediate. Robert Dutt: A few years ago, maybe about three, you guys signed on TD SYNNEX. I think that’s the first major global distribution partner for you guys. What was the hypothesis behind that move, and how has it worked out? John Carey: So the general hypothesis was—and again, I’ve been in the industry a long time. I think every year we hear the headline, “This is the year distribution is no longer relevant.” I actually did a column on that not too long ago. Robert Dutt: There you go. John Carey: And meanwhile, they continue to provide new and incremental value. One of the hypotheses was as we moved to indirect, there is obviously—from going from thousands of customers to hundreds of partners, going from hundreds of partners to one distributor allows us to get that leverage effect through quotes, transactions, credit. Something that provides a security to us as a vendor that allows us to lean in, but also provides structure and options at the partner level that they need, but are not a priority for us as a vendor. So TD SYNNEX offers financing terms. They will invoice on behalf of the partner. They will put together creative fiscal options that allow customers to stretch. They’ll even offer to assess credit based on the end user’s credit rather than the partner’s credit. Those are fantastic services that just, frankly, as a vendor, aren’t our core business. So what we’re able to do is to address more customers through more partners and do the thing that we’re really good at: solve their data and AI problems through Viya and our solution stack and bring value to those businesses. Robert Dutt: Given all that, a while ago the goal was set for 30%, I think, of revenues through channels. Where does that sit today? What’s the momentum looking like? And what do you see as sort of remaining obstacles along the way to that goal? John Carey: Yeah, so great progress. So if I think about segments—the channel segment, which is 100% indirect, is between 10% and 15% of our business. In the enterprise, there’s a lot of channel fulfillment and engagement. And so overall, we are very close to that 30% of the total business being with or through a partner. But we want to—the new goal is, as all goals change: I want to be 30% of the overall business with that channel segment. With that segment of customers that are exclusively partner, and therefore be a strong contributor into the enterprise accounts with partner co-sell, partner fulfillment, and partner delivery. So future’s bright. All goals, as they need to, change over time and the bar increases. And we are doing a great job of forcing that bar up every year so that we have to ask more of ourselves and our partners so that we make sure we focus on delivering value to our customers. Robert Dutt: Let’s talk about what it looks like to be a SAS partner today in terms of the economics and all that kind of good stuff. What does success look like economically for a partner today? And how is that story changing as the product portfolio and the goal shifts? John Carey: As you say, goals are made for changing. And especially in this industry, things change fast. So maybe a good way of thinking about this is: what’s the conversation with a new partner that we’re onboarding? And one of the things we’ve tried to do is to say, “Hey, look, we will have the packaging so that you can focus on sales readiness first and build a book of business with us.” So that’s where we leverage package service offerings from our SAS consulting organization that are resellable by partners. We are rationalizing our product portfolio for the SMB market to be far more prescriptive. We know what works, but we still have the full enterprise list of offers, and frankly, it doesn’t add value. It adds something of a confusing layer of options that aren’t really relevant for many of the use cases and customers that we and our partners specifically deal with. So phase one: build an annuity business on the resale model. As you become—and as it makes sense in your business—to invest in services headcount, then those package service offerings get replaced by your own services. And it is a services-rich business. The great thing about a data and AI platform is once you start answering questions and you’ve built that trust with the client, more and more questions occur. And models need to be refined; models need to be promoted. And as a partner, if you are doing this in a regular cadence, you are building a scenario where that customer trusts you as their trusted advisor and comes to you for those service elements. So the baseline is—and we pay more on New than we do on Renew. There’s an annuity business build out there that is driven by sales enablement and sales focus and strong investment in demand generation on our channel marketing center platform, where you can run co-branded campaigns and drive real top-of-the-funnel demand. We’ll work with you on getting that down into closed business, and we know how to do that very well. As it becomes reasonable for you to make investments in technical resources where you know you have a book of business, you can apply those resources too. That’s where we ask partners to lean in. And at that point, they are now attaching services, and that grows their—and we know that services are more profitable than the resale. So it’s table stakes: build a book of business that’s got an annuity associated, and then use that to catalyze investment in more profitable services over time, which is something of a sea change. When I came in, there was a lot of investment required before a partner was allowed to sell. And we’ve inverted that to say, “I want it to be easy for you to sell and we’ll support you.” And when you’ve got the right amount of business behind you, then it makes logical sense for you to invest. And that investment is the outsized return for you as a partner. Now, for our existing partners, it’s the inverse, right? They were already doing a lot of delivery. They know how to do the services. This now gives them a vehicle to attach those services to that’s more autonomous and less dependent on a SAS seller to pull them in after. And so with that, they’ve made great investments in sales functions within their organizations for product sale and attaching their own services straight out of the gate. Robert Dutt: Big announcement week this week with AI Navigator on governance, the new agentic AI capabilities across the board, the industry accelerators. From a channel strategy standpoint, do these announcements change who you’re looking for in terms of partners, or is it an opportunity to do more and different things with the base? John Carey: I think the honest answer is both. If I think about our GSIs, the accelerators, the models, the agentic capabilities are incredibly attractive to our global systems integrator partners. And it gives them a reason to lean in even more with us around account telemetry, account planning, and moving out of that advisory engagement into delivery engagement with them. And we are now a very modern platform that has been very considerate of where our customers are. We’re a company who reflects the personality of our founder. I think of that Teddy Roosevelt quote: “Walk quietly, but carry a big stick.” Well, we walk quietly, but with our platform and our solutions, that’s a very big stick. It makes a lot of noise. And I think what you saw at this Innovate was kind of something we’ve known for a while, but now the market is starting to recognize is that there’s a lot of significant growth value there for existing customers as they move to Viya and the Viya solutions with the agentic AI integrations, with the accelerators. So that’s happening, I think, on the other side. We are now at a point of inflection where enterprise capabilities are expected at non-enterprise accounts. And how we execute on that is through partners and through prescription and optimization, so that when we engage, we give those customers a very clear message of what they can do and what they can achieve and what it’s going to cost them. And that is all within their budgetary expectation, and we execute on that relentlessly and consistently with our partners. Robert Dutt: When I chatted with Ryan Macdonald, who heads up the Canadian operations, a bit earlier, he talked about—especially in competitive situations—what he called a “hidden SAS situation,” where organizations will find that they’re running business-critical decisions on stuff, on SAS, that they’ve almost forgotten about. It just kind of sits there, it just works. And the conversation becomes about: how do you upgrade and grow from that foundation? How do you find that conversation showing up in the partner community? And if it is, in fact, a partner conversation, how are you equipping partners to realize that opportunity? John Carey: Yeah, so I think that’s very much a conversation with our established enterprise industry accounts. And so how I think that shows up is our conversations with our global systems integrator partners. They’ve made investments in assessment tools and accelerators and migration pathways that help a customer understand how they are currently using their SAS estate and what critical functions are being run on that estate, so they can help a customer understand the actual relevance. It’s like, I live in Florida, right? I only notice the air conditioning when it doesn’t work. But you don’t switch off the air conditioning unless you’ve got an alternative ready to go. And their job is to make sure customers, when making strategic decisions, understand the impact of decisions they may make. And that, I think, creates an opportunity for how we’re talking about: “We’re going to actually upgrade you so that you have better climate control, right? You have new options. It can be more cost-effective as it scales and it can meet more of your needs. And you don’t lose the critical foundation that you’ve been building your business on.” I think there’s some of that recognition that we’re a relatively humble organization, but I’m starting to hear more of our customers acknowledge, more of our partners talk about, “Hey, let’s not shy away from the fact you’re running your business on SAS.” This is critical functionality. We hear billions being managed. When we think about our price book, we talk about billions of assets under management. I mean, that’s the order of magnitude of what we’re managing from a risk or a fraud perspective. And we want to make sure that we can meet customers where they are and make sure they make decisions that are good and solid for their business. Robert Dutt: Another one that came up with Ryan was the idea of increasingly seeing GSI plus niche specialist partner and kind of the ecosystem play. I’m curious if that’s a deliberate strategy. Is it something you’ve observing and adopting to? John Carey: For me, I think it’s always been there. I think GSIs have always really effectively subcontracted in specific expertise and niche value as needed when doing delivery. I think what’s happening now, again, with disruptive inflection points—what I believe we see happening is things that were already happening become very visible. So I think what we’re seeing right now is, rather than that being a subcontract relationship, it’s a more explicit contract with GSI, contract with boutique partner with very specialized expertise. And it’ll settle over time, and it may even go back to more of a subcontract model. But I think that’s great. We’re all acknowledging that there is value in industry expertise, and even within industry expertise, there is real value in some very niche expertise that requires that level of investment. And you should be paying to make sure you get the right value resource working on your project. Robert Dutt: If I’m a Canadian reseller or a system integrator who hasn’t worked with SAS to date listening to this and thinking, “All right, they have an interesting story, they’re in an interesting place.” What’s the right profile for a partner for you right now? What are you looking for? What do you actually need more of in the market? John Carey: I would say I’m looking for solution providers. So I’m looking for partners who can address mid-market organizations’ needs across data and AI. With a strong relationship with TD SYNNEX, great credit, skills in infrastructure, security, data, who are looking to an adjacent expansion where bringing in SAS as a way to modernize that data for the AI lifecycle and turn that data now into insight and from insight into workflow integrated with agentic capabilities. If that’s your bag, don’t just knock on the door, knock our door down. We want to talk to you. Robert Dutt: Fair enough. Final question: what does the SAS channel look like in three years if things go well and there aren’t additional changes along the way? What would you point to and say, “That’s the thing we’re building towards”? John Carey: I think the service provider in the mid-market and below will become a far more dominant motion. I think in the enterprise, we’ll see even more integration of partners from a fulfillment perspective as customers start to push vendors to engage with them through the advisors who have guided them through this transformative period. And I think as a vendor, you just have to acknowledge that the customer is going to tell you who they want to buy from. The customer is going to tell you who they want to work with. And as a vendor, what you want to say is, “Well, if they have the skills, we should lean in. If they don’t have the skills, we should be really honest about the fact that we think you could be better served by a partner that looks with this profile and skills, and here are some we would recommend.” But again, the customer is ultimately going to make the trade-offs. But I would say managed service providers are increasing, and partners building their own value on top of the Viya platform in industries where we have yet to unlock use cases are becoming more and more the norm. Robert Dutt: Especially since so much of the audience is in that MSP space, I think that’s going to be one that hits home. Well, John, I appreciate you taking the time on what I’m sure has been a very busy week. John Carey: I appreciate it, Robert. Thank you for the time. Robert Dutt: There you have it—John Carey from SAS Institute. I’d like to thank John for his time and thank you for listening. Few things I’m taking away from this one. First, the framing I kept coming back to is the transparent box versus the black box. Others turn up with the easy button and a black box. SAS turns up and says nothing is easy, but when you engage with us, you’ll understand where problems occurred and why, and you’ll be able to remediate. In an environment where AI governance is moving from a theoretical concern to an operational requirement, that’s a differentiated position and for channel partners, it means the conversation is not just about selling software. It’s about being the guide that helps the customer make confident technology choices. Second, the direct-to-indirect migration is live right now. The contract between the end user and SAS doesn’t change. What changes is the transaction route, and the pitch to customers is that instead of being part of a long tail at a large enterprise, you become the most important customer of a partner who’s dedicated to your success. It’s a strong repositioning and the kind of opening that partners who have not been in the SAS conversation before should be paying attention to. Third, John was pretty clear about where the next three years go. Managed service providers building up their own value on top of the Viya platform in industries where use cases are still being unlocked. If you’re an MSP with deep vertical expertise and data, security, or infrastructure skills, this episode makes the case for why you should be knocking on SAS’s door. We’ll be back on Monday with more from SAS Innovate as we hear the practitioner side of the story: my conversation with Nat D’Ercole from Deloitte Canada on what AI transformation actually looks like from inside a major Canadian enterprise engagement. If you found this one useful, follow or subscribe to the ChannelBuzz.ca podcast. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most of the major directories. Ratings and reviews are greatly appreciated, especially when they have five stars. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers. ChannelBuzz.ca is on site at this week’s SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas. Here’s some of the major news from the event. SAS announced a Viya MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at Innovate 2026, enabling external AI agents to invoke SAS capabilities – fraud detection models, statistical engines, forecasting tools – without being inside the Viya platform. Integrations with Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic’s Claude are live now, with additional LLMs coming later this year. It’s a significant architectural shift: SAS Viya becomes a callable intelligence layer inside any enterprise AI workflow, rather than a destination platform customers have to enter directly. SAS AI Navigator is the company’s new AI governance tool, a SaaS solution designed to help organizations compile a complete AI inventory and govern AI use cases, including the models and agents that power them. Navigator is coming to Azure Marketplace in both public and private configurations – lowering the entry point for governance conversations to well below a full Viya deployment. SAS’s vice president of AI ethics, governance and social impact Reggie Townsend frames the shift plainly: governance is no longer a compliance checkbox, it’s a competitive differentiator. SAS Studio is being rebranded as SAS Data and AI Studio, arriving later in 2026, alongside expanded native support for open table formats and the governed orchestration for building, deploying, and scaling trusted analytics and AI across the enterprise. A free, open-source Agentic AI Accelerator for is available now on GitHub, along with a free course to learn how to build Agents in SAS Viya. In conversation at the show, SAS chief operating officer Gavin Day offered the most candid enterprise AI market read of the week: productivity gains are real – SAS internally cut its own development lifecycle by roughly 60% using AI techniques – but for high-stakes use cases the precision problem remains unsolved. “If I ask an LLM the same question ten times, I don’t get the same answer ten times. If I’m working on anti-money laundering, that’s never gonna be okay.” Day also confirmed that as of Q3 2025, SAS automated inbound partner lead routing to go directly to qualified partners without SAS in the middle – and said the partner board acknowledged it at their meeting this week. Full interviews with SAS senior vice president of global channels John Carey and SAS Canada’s Ryan MacDonald are coming to the In The Channel feed. Elsewhere in the news: Microsoft reported fiscal Q3 2026 results after the bell on Wednesday, beating expectations on both revenue and earnings. Azure grew 40% year-over-year, ahead of the 39% consensus, and the company’s AI business crossed a $37 billion annualized revenue run rate, up 123%. Microsoft 365 Copilot now has over 20 million paid commercial seats, up from 15 million in January, with Satya Nadella noting weekly engagement is now at the same level as Outlook. For solution providers, the more immediate data point: M365 E7 at $99 per user per month goes generally available today, bundling Copilot, Entra Suite, and advanced compliance capabilities into a single commercial tier – and Microsoft is guiding for Azure growth of 39 to 40 percent next quarter at constant currency. Lenovo has acquired the firmware BIOS business, intellectual property, and engineering team of Phoenix Technologies, the company whose firmware runs on over one billion devices globally, in a deal that ends a 20-plus year vendor relationship by converting it into vertical ownership. The acquisition covers four Phoenix product lines – FirmCare, SecureCore, ServerBMC, and OmniCore – and Lenovo is framing the deal around faster security patch delivery, tighter firmware integration across its ThinkPad and commercial PC lines, and cost efficiencies. For Lenovo resellers, the practical implication is a more consistent firmware and security update story across the full portfolio, without the coordination lag that comes with a third-party BIOS vendor relationship. Canadian network management platform Auvik launched Auvik Aurora, a suite of AI agents embedded directly into its platform for MSPs and IT teams. Drawing on Auvik’s network data lake of real-world device topology, relationships, and vulnerability insights, the agents proactively flag issues, prioritize alerts, and surface device-specific command recommendations before problems escalate. CEO Doug Murray frames Aurora as the “Do” layer of Auvik’s “See, Tell, Do” framework – and notably, the agents are designed to identify devices in need of patching or replacement, surfacing revenue opportunities MSPs can bring to clients proactively rather than reactively. Cloud networking vendor Aviatrix launched AgentGuard, positioning it as the first agentic AI security platform built around containment rather than detection and remediation. The premise: most enterprises have no architectural constraints on where a compromised AI agent can move, making the blast radius of an AI agent breach effectively the entire environment. AgentGuard discovers agents across VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless functions – including shadow agents – maps their connections, and enforces communication governance. CEO Doug Merritt was direct about the channel opportunity: “There’s a significant services revenue stream about to be unleashed for channel partners who understand AI containment.” Aviatrix operates 100 percent through the channel. Read Full Transcript Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Thursday, April 30th, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. A special edition today. I’ve spent the last couple of days at SAS Innovate 2026 in Washington, and there’s enough here to warrant its own episode before we get to the rest of the week’s news. Product announcements, some candid conversations with SAS leadership, and an honest read on where the enterprise AI market actually stands right now. Let’s get into it. The headline from the show floor is that SAS is opening up the Viya platform in a way it hasn’t before. They’ve launched a Viya MCP server – Model Context Protocol – which means SAS capabilities, whether that’s a fraud detection model, a forecasting engine, or a statistical analysis tool, can now be called directly by external AI agents. If your client is running Claude or Microsoft Teams as their AI interface, they can now reach into a SAS Viya model and invoke it as a tool, without being inside Viya at all. Microsoft and Anthropic integrations are live now, with more LLM support coming later this year. Alongside that, SAS Studio is being rebranded as SAS Workbench, arriving later this year, and SAS is also expanding native support for open table formats – which they’re framing as finally making cloud migration financially viable rather than painful. And for partners and developers interested in building on top of all this: an Agent AI with SAS Viya certification is available now, and a free open-source Agent AI Accelerator framework is up on GitHub. SAS has been making governance noise for a few years. This week, the company introduced AI Navigator, a SaaS solution designed to help organizations compile a complete AI inventory and govern AI use cases, including the models and agents that power them. Agent sprawl is real, and this is a direct response to it. Navigator is coming to Azure Marketplace in both public and private configurations – meaning you don’t need to be a Viya customer to have a governance conversation. I sat down with Reggie Townsend, SAS’s vice president of AI ethics, governance and social impact. His framing is worth repeating: governance is no longer a compliance checkbox – it’s a competitive differentiator. In his words, the AI debate is no longer innovation versus trust. He also told us that the Navigator product grew directly out of an internal SAS problem – they discovered five different business units were using five different AI models to respond to RFPs. They consolidated to one champion model, one challenger. That specific use case became a product feature. The most useful conversation of the week was with Gavin Day, SAS’s chief operating officer, who oversees all revenue-generating functions including channel. He gave the most honest market read I heard at the show. On AI ROI: productivity gains are real. SAS internally cut their development lifecycle by roughly 60% using AI techniques. But for high-stakes, mission-critical use cases, the precision problem remains unsolved. His line: if you ask an LLM the same question ten times, you don’t get the same answer ten times – and if you’re working on anti-money laundering, that’s never going to be okay. That’s the gap. He also confirmed what a lot of people in this industry are probably already sensing: behind closed doors, CIOs are telling him that IT budgets are being quietly redirected to AI experimentation. Nobody says it out loud. But the investment is real, and the ROI conversation is still very much open. Day confirmed that as of last summer, SAS automated their inbound partner lead routing – leads that fit a partner profile now go directly to that partner without SAS in the middle. Small operational detail, real signal about where their head is at on the partner motion. He also flagged something worth watching on pricing: his prediction is the industry is moving toward outcome-based models, where customers start paying when the technology is implemented and actually delivering value – not on a multi-year implementation runway. That’s a shift worth tracking. In addition to this episode of the Buzz, tune in later today for an In The Channel episode where I sit down with Ryan MacDonald, country manager for SAS Canada to find out about top opportunities for the company's partners back home, and tomorrow I'll bring you an interview with John Carey, who has signficantly ramped up the company's partnering efforts over the last four years. Of course, there’s plenty going on beyond SAS Innovate this week. Here are a few headlines that caught our eye – and for more detail on any of them, check the show notes or blog post for this episode. “Microsoft beat Q3 expectations last night – Azure up 40%, Copilot crosses 20 million paid commercial seats – and M365 E7 launches tomorrow.” “Lenovo has acquired Phoenix Technologies’ firmware business, bringing in-house the firmware running on over a billion devices worldwide.” “Auvik has launched Aurora AI agents, embedded directly into its platform for proactive MSP network management.” “And Aviatrix is out with AgentGuard – an agentic AI security platform built around containment, delivered entirely through the channel.” That’s how we’re seeing the headlines today. I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, thanks for listening. Have a great day.

Ryan MacDonald, country leader for SAS Canada Recorded on site at SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas, today’s In The Channel features Ryan MacDonald, country leader at SAS Canada, in a wide-ranging conversation about what the week’s major announcements mean for Canadian organizations – and where SAS sees its channel and partner opportunity growing. The conversation opens on the energy at SAS Innovate, which marks the company’s fiftieth anniversary, and what the announcement lineup – including the new SAS AI Navigator for AI governance and the expansion of agentic AI capabilities across the Viya platform – means for the Canadian market specifically. MacDonald describes Canadian enterprise AI maturity as strong in intellectual capital but still building toward consistent economic output, with the governance and trust framework a necessary foundation before organizations can scale. He draws a direct line between Canada’s regulatory environment – OSFI E-21 in particular – and the practical operational pressure organizations are feeling as model validation volumes have grown from two a week to multiple per day. On the competitive landscape, MacDonald addresses the challenge from Microsoft Fabric and Databricks with an argument about SAS’s existing footprint in business-critical decisioning layers – often invisible infrastructure organizations don’t always realize they’re sitting on, and an upgrade path through Viya designed to deliver incremental value rather than a rip-and-replace. The conversation also covers the evolution of SAS’s channel strategy, the managed services opportunity in a data sovereignty environment, and the MCP-based openness that is letting external AI agents call SAS analytics directly. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello, and welcome to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor of ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. This week, I’m coming to you from Grapevine, Texas, where I’ve been on the ground at SAS Innovate 2026. It’s a significant week for SAS Institute on a couple of fronts. The company is marking its 50th anniversary this year, and the announcement lineup has been one of the more substantive in recent memory, with major moves in AI governance, agentic AI across the Viya platform, and a meaningful shift in how the platform opens up to external AI agents and frameworks. My guest today is Ryan Macdonald, country manager [CHECK: title recorded as “country manager” – should be “managing director” if you want to punch in] for SAS Canada. Ryan’s been with SAS Canada for about a decade, and has just stepped into a role leading the country this year. He has a front row seat to some significant strategic changes – the move to Viya, the expansion of the partner and channel program, and now what I think is a genuinely important moment as AI governance moves from theoretical concern to practical operational requirement, particularly in Canada’s regulated industries. We cover a lot of ground – what this week’s announcements mean for Canadian organizations, where Canadian enterprise stands on AI maturity right now, the OSFI E-21 story, how SAS is thinking about its channel ecosystem and the mid-market opportunity, and a candid conversation about managed services and data sovereignty. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Ryan Macdonald. [MUSIC] Robert Dutt: Ryan, thanks for taking the time, and what I’m sure is a busy week for you. Ryan MacDonald: Yes, of course. Thanks for having me, Robert. Robert Dutt: You guys turned 50 this year, and it feels like one of the bigger product lineup announcements at Innovate in a while. Curious what you felt from the room. What’s the energy, what’s the vibe that you’re getting from this year at Innovate, especially given that 50 years of SAS framing? Ryan MacDonald: I agree with the energy you’re feeling. Certainly a ton of energy around our 50th and just what we’re seeing in terms of AI tooling and where we fit into that ecosystem. So lots of conversations about the data estate, how that’s evolving, and then just really looking for the reality check on where practical value lives in the new AI ecosystem that’s being framed around, especially for enterprise technology stacks. Robert Dutt: Look at the announcement stack this week. You’ve got Navigator for AI governance. You’ve got the agentic AI expansion in Viya, the various industry solutions. Curious – and I’m sure you’ve seen some of these before they were announced to the public and been following their development – what is kind of activating your Spidey senses in terms of, “ooh, that’s going to play well at home right now.” What are we seeing as sort of the big early day opportunities out of those innovations? Ryan MacDonald: Certainly in Canada, the regulatory domain around model risk management and model management and lineage and explainability is front of mind for everybody. I think that’s the major limiting factor in terms of proliferating cost of AI, in terms of actually calculating a per unit cost of running a model or introducing intelligence to something that was maybe traditionally rules-based. And so I think not only is there a regulatory driver, but people are seeing that as a practical constraint. So a lot in the governance and trust domain is certainly a hot topic. Robert Dutt: And that kind of speaks to where I wanted to go next, actually, which is you guys have been in Canada across verticals for a long time, obviously. Curious how you would describe the overall kind of AI maturity of the Canadian market right now. Are we kind of leading, lagging? Or is there something distinctly Canadian to it? Ryan MacDonald: Yeah, great question. This is close to home. We have the benefit of working with thought leaders in AI, folks like Ajay Agrawal. And just knowing the pedigree of intellectual property around this conversation in Canada, we have so much there. Of course, Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever and the folks at U of T have just delivered so much to this community. I think that said, enterprise adoption and converting this into economic output is still something that we’re figuring out. So I think our investments generally, relative to peer groups around the world, we’re still a little behind. I think we’re doing some advanced things. There are some exceptions to this, where use cases are at the forefront of what’s being delivered globally. But generally, I think the data estate and this trust dynamic and the need for establishing a scalable framework for trust and governance – it’s a responsible thing to do. But relative to other geographies, it’s setting a foundation before we really run away with some use cases and deliver. Robert Dutt: One thing we’re tracking – I’m sure a lot of people are – is the idea of AI initiatives that get a start and a lot of fanfare and then fizzle out before hitting production or certainly proving their worth. I’ve heard a lot of the framing of the idea of trust and governance as kind of the growth driver, rather than the compliance tax. How is that hitting in Canada? And is that any different than what you’ve seen in terms of reactions and feeling and overall motion in the states or elsewhere? Ryan MacDonald: I think there are certainly differences in the tone of this conversation. For me, the purview is mostly north and south of the border – the US and Canada. But I think in Canada, we have a regulatory domain that is really prioritizing these things. So it’s not optional for a lot of – especially in a regulated market, this isn’t really a luxury you’d have to say, do I comply with this or not? But I think it’s also putting a per unit cost parameter on this for folks that is important. We’re seeing a huge proliferation of AI. Everything – your microwave, your lawnmower, everything has some sort of AI enablement component to it. Is it necessary? Are you getting the appropriate uplift? And these teams that are validating and pushing these models through the organization – what we’re hearing from them – this went from two a week, to a month, to two a day, five a day, ten a day. And so the systems – it’s not just a luxury or a question really of the ethics. Are we doing the right thing? Is this responsible? It’s a framework that’s required for the validation process, even just table stakes, to really scale through the organization. Robert Dutt: To that point, in Canada we’ve got financial services, and particularly we’ve got OSFI E-21 coming up. That’s pretty scary – things attached to it if you’re not hitting the bar. Are you seeing that create urgency? Or are customers still in a wait and see kind of space around that? Ryan MacDonald: I think the regulatory conversations there are interesting. There’s a lot of assessment of what peers are doing. And I think OSFI, to their credit, really listens to the community. Rather than setting a standard blind lead, just based on their intellectual property and what they see as being a requirement, they really listen to the community and measure from where everybody is, taking stock of that. So I don’t believe there’s a lot of fear and panic. I think organizations – as we did a lot of work around E-21 [CHECK: transcript rendered as “E23” – confirm on playback] specifically in this space – they were really well prepared. They had some ideas on how to make this more efficient, really focus on the materiality of where the risk lives and develop a framework that’s consistent with the risk posture in other domains. And I think that’s really – nobody was suggesting, “hey, this isn’t a good idea. This is too much pressure. This is putting a cost burden on us.” That wasn’t really the dialogue. Robert Dutt: Beyond financial services and other regulated industries especially, what are you seeing in terms of how customers are wrestling with AI governance right now? Ryan MacDonald: I think the scale of maturity across industries just varies so greatly. You have some organizations that are really just getting started, and they’re acknowledging that. In some of the roundtables we’ve had the benefit of participating in, some folks are trying to find their first step in AI. What does this even mean? They’re trying to find the right resources that can guide them. They’re still building their technology estate. And then, conversely, you have folks that are, as we spoke about earlier, leading the world – the global community – in terms of things like automated decisioning frameworks and integrating what were previously siloed processes. We see this in risk and fraud domains merging together. So I think we’re seeing both ends of that spectrum in Canada, certainly. Robert Dutt: Analytics has become a crowded space lately – with Databricks, with Snowflake, with Microsoft Fabric getting in there, all in territory that you guys have been in for a long time. How do you make the case to Canadian organizations that have been told, especially by Microsoft, “hey, you can just have analytics as part of what you already have?” What’s the competitive message there? Ryan MacDonald: Yeah, that’s a regular conversation for us, of course. I think what we really offer institutions, especially given the scale of the organizations we support – and we work in almost every major industry, every major enterprise in Canada – we offer a very different risk posture in moving through this process. So they may have what were traditional analytics with SAS. Maybe we had dabbled in what was previously BI, something like that. But for a lot of institutions, we support business-critical payload. There is a core application to their business that’s being delivered with a component of SAS. And oftentimes, as our relationships diversify across the organization, maybe we have a specific technology sponsor that helped build this alongside their business counterpart. Maybe they’ve moved on. And that decisioning layer is sort of obfuscated. So we spend a lot of time identifying – hey, is this what looks like ETL work potentially, in a report or an assessment that’s performed? Is this really a decisioning layer in your organization? And that’s what we’re really finding is there. And what folks are really interested in is taking that framework – what was previously identified as legacy SAS – and seeing what we offer in terms of Viya. It’s scaling far beyond what the competition can offer in terms of decisioning frameworks and automating process and delivering core value. A lot of the AI discussion is focused now on where are you seeing ROI? How long do we have to wait? What is the roadmap to finally get something out of this? And I think that’s really the core difference. Yes, there’s a lot of tools. It’s a crowded space. The competition is fierce and they can do some very exciting things. I think what we offer organizations is really the opportunity to do those same things and more, and to take your current investments, your current intellectual property, through that framework – which delivers value incrementally rather than a build within a complete new paradigm. Robert Dutt: One of the announcements that really caught my eye this week was the addition of the MCP – in that essentially you guys are opening up the analytics engine to external AI agents like Claude to call it directly. It seems like a pretty significant shift in terms of thinking about openness, thinking about consuming SAS from wherever folks want to consume it. What does that motion mean for the Canadian organization and for your Canadian customers? Ryan MacDonald: I think this is an extrapolation of what we spoke about earlier, in the sense of we are providing these deterministic decision frameworks to these organizations today. And so we talk about this almost in the sense of the Apple/Android paradigm. This was a previously closed ecosystem. The SAS code base was proprietary. The compute infrastructure was proprietary. And the open source motion was the first move here – running Python and R and other code frameworks natively within SAS is something that we’ve supported now for years within Viya. And it’s an extrapolation of this – meeting our customers where they are. SAS did not endeavor to compete directly with the frontier labs and build LLM models. But we certainly see the benefit – this is providing the market the productivity increase, the creativity of use cases, and what this adds to decisioning frameworks. I think the shortcoming is still the deterministic component, where something can be built in a hard and trusted capacity, presented to a regulator with the appropriate lineage. That’s really where we see these worlds coming together. So I don’t think it’s a great strategic decision if SAS were to impose, “we have one specific framework, one partner in this space.” We’re seeing, in addition to the frontier labs, a lot of custom work in this space as well – enterprises that are building more small language models around their data sets. So imposing this integration framework, I think, allows us to really meet customers where they are. Robert Dutt: A few years ago there was a flurry of things going on on the channel side for you guys. You brought on TD SYNNEX as a distributor. I believe it was a worldwide, not Canadian-specific figure that you were going for – 30% of contribution through partners. Where’s the channel scene at for you today? How would you characterize where you’re at against those goals and others? Ryan MacDonald: I think we’re still making progress in that domain. The channel business is still growing very aggressively. It’s a big shift to turn, frankly, in terms of getting the allotment of customers we had when we segmented what work was going to the channel, how that was going to be developed. And we compare ourselves to our peers in the industry – they’ve been at this for a lot longer. So just the maturity continues to develop. I think we’re seeing great progress, great feedback from customers in terms of the way that the channel is able to support them. And we see proliferation of niche players here that have come out of the woodwork that are very industry-specific. So I think that’s really the opportunity – where we had a general technology-based approach for certain industry segments, what we’re seeing is these channel partners can really tie together these business outcome-driven discussions in a way that was much more expensive and difficult for SAS to scale to. Robert Dutt: What does the community look like today in terms of scale, profile of partners, what they’re doing, and where do you see that evolving over the near future? Ryan MacDonald: I think we’re seeing this change very quickly with the advent of AI in terms of what use cases are being prioritized. I think in Canada, a lot of organizations have hit a wall in terms of understanding their data foundations – they’re not necessarily ready to scale them towards all the outcomes they’re seeking to deliver. And so channel partners are that domain. What are our peers doing? And this is GSIs and niche consulting firms and everybody in between. So we’re really seeing those conversations take shape of almost a reset of the roadmap, a reprioritization of how they’re building out their target state ecosystem. And that industry expertise is, I believe, the real differentiator. There’s a lot of competition. It’s a crowded space in that sense. So having an outcomes-focused point of view, whether that’s from SAS directly or a channel partner, is really important. Robert Dutt: Is the changing nature of what you guys are focused on in terms of AI governance and all those kinds of things that we’ve been talking about changing the definition of who you’re working with as a partner? Or is that something that’s likely to happen in the near future? Ryan MacDonald: I don’t think it’ll necessarily change. We might add some things to it, but they’re really part of the same conversation. I don’t think you can have a conversation about scaling AI without a discussion about the governance framework. And in a lot of cases, model inventory work, and just being the core platform of delivering models in this decisioning layer, is something that SAS had a lot of experience and an existing footprint within. So I think it’s really germane to the way we’ve been working with these customers today. Robert Dutt: How does the service mix – how they actually bring this all to market as partners – change as kind of what you’re going after changes? Ryan MacDonald: I think there’s a lot more consultative work right now around these outcome-focused and prioritization discussions. So I think it certainly is changing. And if you’re seeing this sort of increased competition in the technology domain and more commoditization of certain tool sets, it just puts more weight on – how do I really navigate? It crowds the pathway and creates more obstacles in terms of delivering outcomes. And so I think just refocusing on outcome-oriented discussion – and a lot of times these are deep partnerships between a niche consulting vendor, or somebody that now is a channel partner to SAS, and these firms in sectors across Canada. So it’s not necessarily changing the way we’re working with them. It’s changing the prioritization of the discussion, putting consulting maybe ahead of technology. Robert Dutt: Before we sat down to record, just as we were getting to know each other, you mentioned that part of your path through SAS Canada was you had managed services, at least for a while – and I believe that to be internally. How has that shaped, and how does this moment shape, how you think about working with partners who are in that managed services kind of motion? Ryan MacDonald: Yeah, that conversation is changing everywhere in the world. The political landscape, of course, is relevant here – in terms of we’re seeing some location dictate where customers are willing to send or host data. We’re seeing geo-repatriation in that sense. We’re seeing movement to the cloud change the dynamics of the cost model, what folks are seeing in terms of stable applications that don’t necessarily need the scalability or proximity to data. We’re seeing them pull some things back on premises and build clouds internally with OpenShift and other technologies. So I think it’s a cycle like most things in technology, where we’ve had the gold rush of moving everything to the cloud. And I think especially enterprise customers are now deciding not only how do they divide that workload amongst hyperscaler partners, but what is appropriate for internal clouds, which are now growing in popularity. And I think in Canada, we’re not seeing a huge disruption in this space, but we’re seeing a lot more of our business grow in terms of managed services. And as we talk about more outcome-driven engagements – less just providing raw access to the technology – the managed service really bridges the gap in terms of the various integration points that need to be managed along the way. And so it’s not just simply providing the infrastructure and application support. We’re seeing the managed service domain, especially around SAS – where this is not a one-size-fits-all approach – really extrapolate into “can we help you really derive your outcome” with expertise in either transformations of data, or we’re providing models now in terms of a service offering, in addition to consulting work of building models custom to each application. So that’s really evolving quickly. Robert Dutt: One of the trends that we follow a lot is this move across the industry to look at partners less as a direct, straight-through channel and more as an ecosystem – a lot more multi-partner engagements, especially given where you guys sit in the complexity and custom nature of a lot of what customers are asking of you. How are you guys thinking about that ecosystem, multi-partner play? Ryan MacDonald: I think the list of partners is generally growing as we talk about extrapolating into channel and SAS’s ambition to have, as you stated, 30% of our revenue flowing through the channel in Canada. I think the customer really dictates the specific mix. And so customers in large enterprise have a preference of GSI and specific domains. And what we’re seeing more is the introduction of niche players alongside GSIs, where typically that was binary previously. They would typically – let’s say they work with Deloitte or EY, for example – that would be their preference to continue in that direction. And now we’re seeing them want to leverage the scale those organizations offer, but really like the thought leadership and expertise delivered by a niche partner, and want to bring us all together. So we’re seeing a lot more partners enter the conversation, which I think is very healthy for the competitive domain and just in terms of getting to specific outcomes very quickly. Robert Dutt: The traditional sweet spot for SAS has been clearly enterprise, and Canada’s a very SMB-heavy nation, obviously. But a lot of the stuff that’s going on right now between the Viya SaaS model and the stuff going up on GitHub and the move towards managed services suggests that there might be even more of a mid-market play than before. I’m curious what you see in terms of what a Canadian reseller can realistically and credibly pursue right now. Ryan MacDonald: That has been the way the economy has been structured in Canada for decades, of course, and something that I think our channel strategy really celebrates and prioritizes. SAS – it’s hard to work both ends of the spectrum. And so our legacy of working with enterprise customers, to explore some of the topics we’ve covered in the regulatory domain and how that takes shape, the reach to SMB customers has been something that we’ve candidly struggled with at times. The channel is really the resolution to that. So we’re seeing, as we talk about more entities in this space, the mix of consulting partners or partners in general proliferating – that’s really where we’re seeing it, down more towards the SMB segments, less on the enterprise side. Robert Dutt: Acknowledging that there’s going to be a wide range of things here, and it may even depend partner to partner, but looking at the channel as an aggregate – what do you need more of from your partners right now in terms of areas of focus, in terms of opportunities to be going at, in terms of skillsets? Ryan MacDonald: I think because we are trying to aggressively pursue this market in Canada and service this customer base – which, again, the channel is just better suited for, all around – to me, it’s the feedback loop. That’s something that we challenge, of course, our frontline in an enterprise setting. You have a consistent flow of communication that’s bidirectional. We’re getting feedback on what’s important to them, what they are doing with the platform at times in our tool sets. And having that flow through an additional intermediary is an additional step in the process in the channel segment. But I think that’s really important – just to make sure we’re collecting feedback not just from channel partners, but direct from customers – their experience with SAS, how our channel partners feel in terms of support and enablement, pricing and mechanics and the rest of it as well. Robert Dutt: Curious what you see success at SAS Canada looking like over the next 12 to 18 months. What are the conversations you want to be having that you aren’t yet? What are the measurements that you’re looking at? Ryan MacDonald: We have been growing the business – in terms of revenue, of course, is always important to us – but influence in the market, I think, is something else. SAS, having such a – as we celebrate 50 years – our legacy is something we’re incredibly proud of. It’s afforded us the opportunity to build these great partnerships in Canada, all across the country, various enterprises. I think at times the double-edged sword there is they may equate us to the way they had built with SAS previously and don’t necessarily take stock of some of the things you’re seeing us bring to market today and announcing here at Innovate. So I think that is really what we look for – not just in terms of revenue growth and are we delivering more outcomes and scaling the progress with these customers. Are we really – are they delivering within the new framework? Are we changing the narrative in terms of what they see from SAS and who we are to them? Robert Dutt: My last and definitely most important question – how many dinners did you have last night? Ryan MacDonald: I had one dinner. Robert Dutt: One? One dinner. Oh, that’s an accomplishment. I appreciate you taking the time, Ryan. Thanks. Ryan MacDonald: Thank you, Robert. Really, really nice to meet you here today. Thank you, I appreciate your time. Robert Dutt: There you have it – Ryan Macdonald from SAS Canada. I’d like to thank Ryan for his time. This was our first in-person recording with the new setup, and I think you can hear the difference. And thank you for listening. A few things I’m taking away from this one. First – the AI governance story in Canada is moving faster than it might look from the outside. Ryan’s framing stuck with me: the volume of models organizations are pushing through validation has gone from two a week to five to ten a day. The governance framework isn’t a compliance tax – it’s the operational infrastructure that makes any of this scalable. And for Canadian financial services firms, OSFI E-21 isn’t on the horizon anymore – it’s here. Second – SAS’s competitive argument is more interesting than the standard “we’ve been around longer” play. The pitch is that there’s already a business-critical decisioning layer in your organization that’s been built on SAS. And the real question is whether you’re going to upgrade and grow from that investment, or build something new from scratch alongside it. For a lot of Canadian enterprises, that’s a conversation worth having. And third – Ryan was candid that the direct sales model doesn’t reach the SMB, and the channel is the answer. What’s interesting is where the growth is coming from – niche, industry-specific partners alongside the big GSIs, with customers already wanting both in the room. If you’re a Canadian reseller or systems integrator with deep vertical expertise, SAS is worth a conversation. We’ll be back tomorrow with more from on the ground here at SAS Innovate 2026, as we chat with the global channel chief at SAS Institute, John Carey [CHECK: transcript rendered as “John Kerry” – confirm on playback before publishing]. If you found this one useful, follow or subscribe to In The Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca. We’re on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and most of the major directories. Ratings and reviews are always appreciated and genuinely help other people in the channel find the show. Until next time, I’m Robert Dutt for ChannelBuzz.ca, and I’ll see you in the channel.

Jim Welsh, the strategist behind the Macro Tides and Weekly Technical Review newsletters, says that the market's underlying strength won't stop a short, fast decline of as much as 7%, but it will provide strong resistance to a full-blown correction or bear market. Welsh notes that people fear that the economy will be severely disrupted because they remember oil shocks creating recessions in the 1970s, but oil prices have much less ability "to tip the economy into recession now," so he thinks the impact of current events will be less than most investors fear. Welsh has been forecasting a secular bear market — a long reversal of fortune for the stock market — for a few years now, and he still sees one coming, but he doesn't think that starts until "the next recession" creates a situation that stalls growth and disrupts the market. Amid all of those market worries and concerns, Ryan MacDonald, portfolio manager for the Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund, says that private real estate is "uniquely boring, in a good way." MacDonald, who also serves as chief investment officer at Bluerock, says that three painful years of interest rate changes have driven values down to where they are attractive. "Entry point is the single biggest driver of future value for private real estate returns" and, on an inflation-adjusted basis, the market is now approaching valuation levels "not seen since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis." Jaime Seale discusses the 2026 home renovation trends survey from Clever Real Estate, which showed that half of all homeowners say their home is facing necessary repairs or renovations that they can't afford given current economic and personal conditions. Nearly six in 10 homeowners have nothing saved for emergency repairs , which is particularly alarming because 85 percent of homeowners spent money last year on an unplanned repair.

Ryan MacDonald, Portfolio Manager for the Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund, says that in a world teeming with market worries and broad geopolitical concerns, private real estate is "uniquely boring, in a good way." He says the market has taken its pain over the last three years through interest rate changes and the market cycle, but now values have receded creating a solid entry point. MacDonald, who also serves as chief investment officer at Bluerock, says that "Entry point is the single biggest driver of future value for private real estate returns," and he notes that on an inflation-adjusted basis, the market is now approaching valuation levels "not seen since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis."

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In this episode, host Jordan Dillon sits down with Ryan MacDonald from Foster the City for an honest, practical conversation about adoption, foster care, and learning to love vulnerable children as a family and a church. Ryan shares his personal journey into adopting and fostering, how his family is shaped today, and why partnering with organizations like Foster the City matters. Jordan and Ryan talk through the biggest hurdles people face when considering foster care, how to discern if this is the right time for your family, and what healthy preparation looks like for parents stepping into this season. They also discuss the encouraging trends Ryan is seeing in the foster community, the concerns leaders should be paying attention to, and how everyday believers can stay connected and supportive even if they're not fostering themselves. Whether you're exploring foster care, supporting someone who is, or wanting to better understand the needs of vulnerable children, this episode offers grounded wisdom, lived experience, and hope for the future.

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Mark 2:13-17 | Ryan MacDonaldIn this sermon from Mark 2:13–17, Ryan MacDonald—our future Church Planter in Residence—unpacks the radical grace of Jesus, who came not for the righteous, but for sinners. As Jesus dines with tax collectors and outcasts, we see the heart of the gospel on full display: Christ is the Great Physician, and He seeks out the spiritually sick with compassion and authority. Ryan invites us to examine our own hearts, reminding us that true healing begins not with self-righteousness, but with repentance and a deep need for Jesus.

In Folge 129 schauen wir uns die Sache mit dem angeblichen Nachweis von Biomarkern auf dem Planeten K2-18b genauer an. Da war zwar jede Menge mediale Aufregung und durchaus coole Wissenschaft. Aber am Ende sind wir weit entfernt von einem Nachweis; es ist sogar fraglich, ob man da überhaupt was beobachtet hat. Außerdem gibt es Buchtipps und Evi erzählt von außerirdischen Yetis im Science Fiction Film. Wenn ihr uns unterstützen wollt, könnt ihr das hier tun: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PodcastDasUniversum Oder hier: https://steadyhq.com/de/dasuniversum Oder hier: https://www.patreon.com/dasuniversum

Canada stands at the forefront of a healthcare revolution, where AI has the power to transform patient care, ease provider burdens, and drive medical breakthroughs. As AI adoption accelerates, Canada must balance innovation with ethical governance, ensuring data accessibility, diversity, and security. Explore how AI can modernize healthcare, the role of responsible data sharing, and why Canada's leadership in ethical AI is key to shaping the future of medicine. Don't miss this insightful discussion, featuring Laurent Tillement, Director Partnerships, AI & Health at Mila - Quebec AI Institute and Ryan MacDonald, Director of Health AI Implementation at the Vector Institute, hosted by Justin Mallet, Healthcare System Partner at Roche Canada.Read the full interview and key takeaways: https://thefutureeconomy.ca/interviews/advancing-toward-canada-health-ai-revolution/Subscribe for exclusive previews of upcoming episodes and updates on new releases: https://bit.ly/3ri2IUu Follow us on social media: https://linkin.bio/thefutureeconomy.ca=====About TheFutureEconomy.ca=====TheFutureEconomy.ca is a Canadian online media outlet and thought leadership platform that produces interviews, panels and op-eds featuring leaders from industry, government, academia and more to define a strong vision for our future economy.Our content emphasizes our interviewees' insights and calls-to-action on what we must do now to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of Canada's future economy.Check out our website: https://thefutureeconomy.ca/

This last Sunday was Stand Sunday, a national initiative that creates an opportunity to start discussions on how church congregations can begin to make a meaningful difference and help children in crisis. Today, Ryan MacDonald from "Foster the City" came and talked about how to Lose your life to find it!Learn more about Ryan MacDonald and "Foster the City" here!Want to learn more about Watermark?Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/We would love to start a conversation with you!

Mark and Charlie were joined by two new guests, Watts from Boombox Music Talk and Star Wars cosplayer Ryan MacDonald aka @lordcade1 for a round table discussion about the good, the bad, and the Sithy for The Acolyte Season 1. Mark: @CaNERDian_JediCharlie: @theceethreeWatts: @boomboxmusictalkRyan: @lordcade1 Secret Friends Unite!: @SecretFriendsUWant to support the show? Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrLooking for a new Lightsaber? Visit Level Up Sabers and use our Affiliate Link!Join our Secret Friends Unite Patreon like our BFF Patreon producers: Sean, Stella and Henry NyhusVisit the Secret Friends Unite website www.secretfriendsunite.com Join the Secret Friends Unite! DiscordJoin the Secret Friends Unite! Facebook Group!Subscribe to Secret Friends Unite! on YouTube!

Mark and Charlie were joined by two new guests, Watts from Boombox Music Talk and Star Wars cosplayer Ryan MacDonald aka @lordcade1 for a round table discussion about the good, the bad, and the Sithy for The Acolyte Season 1. Mark: @CaNERDian_JediCharlie: @theceethreeWatts: @boomboxmusictalkRyan: @lordcade1 Secret Friends Unite!: @SecretFriendsUWant to support the show? Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrLooking for a new Lightsaber? Visit Level Up Sabers and use our Affiliate Link!Join our Secret Friends Unite Patreon like our BFF Patreon producers: Sean, Stella and Henry NyhusVisit the Secret Friends Unite website www.secretfriendsunite.com Join the Secret Friends Unite! DiscordJoin the Secret Friends Unite! Facebook Group!Subscribe to Secret Friends Unite! on YouTube!

You may have seen us talking about our brand new podcast Just Neighbors. Well today, we're sharing one of those conversations right here on The Forgotten Podcast! This was such a powerful episode, with challenging and honest takeaways for those who follow Christ in our complex world. Just Neighbors is a podcast for every believer who desires to live as Jesus lived – to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God and neighbor. My co-host, Ryan MacDonald, and I are joined by Dr. Krish Kandiah for this conversation about how to combine word and deed to provide belonging for our neighbors. Krish is the founder of The Sanctuary Foundation, a charity supporting refugees to find welcome, work, and worthwhile housing in the UK. His mission is to help solve some of society's seemingly intractable problems through partnerships across civil society, faith communities, government, and philanthropy. In this episode, Krish helps us understand the important work they are doing, the largest challenges he sees for people who are removed from their homes, and how Christ followers should respond to the complex conflicts happening across our world. Beyond that, he guides us in seeing that displacement is happening all around us, as children are placed in foster care, people move to a new city for their jobs, and people feel like they don't belong. Listen in! Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/krish-kandiah-240/

It's still thinking, and 25 years later, we still wanna talk about it! To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Japanese Dreamcast launch, we're joined by former game journalist Ryan MacDonald to talk about our memories of Sega's final home console, including Ryan's time covering it on the press side for GameSpot. Join us as we revisit the highs of its launch, the lows of its discontinuation, and all the weird, wonderful games that made Sega's last hurrah so special for so many people. (0:00:00) Intro (0:19:57) Main topic: Sega Dreamcast (0:37:55) Retro consoles and collecting (0:53:33) The games (1:28:07) What went wrong? (1:44:02) Aftermarket and legacy (2:00:21) Outro Amie Waters on Linktree Ryan's YouTube channel Sega CD CES demo General Chaos The Getaway: High Speed 2 Hidekazu Yukawa Commercial Compilation "It's Thinking" Commercial Compilation Mario 64 grading scandal Sega Heat.net E3 1995 - "$299" VM2 on IndieGogo

Today, guest speaker Ryan MacDonald from Foster the City teaches from Psalm 8 and tells us how "God wants our weakness"! To learn more about Foster the City, visit their website at: https://fosterthecity.org/Want to learn more about Watermark?Visit: https://watermarkoc.com/We would love to start a conversation with you!

Our guest was Dr. Ryan MacDonald from the University of Michigan regarding his exoplanet work, specifically with the TRAPPIST 1 System and the JWST. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.

#HotelMars: The Red Dwarf Trappist1 system and the search for atmospheres on rocky planets in the habitable zone. Ryan MacDonald, Univsersity of Michigan, NASA. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1b 1945 PETER WREN DESIGNED GREENWICH OBSERVATORY

Do you remember how you first became aware of the foster care community? Maybe someone close to you started fostering? Maybe your spouse invited you to pray about pursuing this? Or perhaps a certain statistic impacted your heart? Ryan MacDonald attributes becoming aware of the needs within the foster care community through his wife's passion for the topic and a class he took in school about how as followers of Jesus we can engage society. Ryan describes it as his wife pulling on one arm and the Lord pulling on the other. (Maybe you can relate?) He is now involved in the foster care community at a variety of levels—at work, through the church he pastors, and within his own family. Ryan is a follower of Jesus, husband, an adoptive, foster, and biological dad, pastor, and the Regional Director of Foster the City over Los Angeles and Orange County in California. He is a self-proclaimed coffee snob but believes there is a time and place for diner coffee. In his spare time, he loves spending time with his wife, all things theology, basketball, and playing with his kids. In this episode, Ryan shares openly about his experience as a foster parent, the importance of celebrating reunification, the reality that foster parenting is a skill you get better at over time, and so much more. This was one of my favorite conversations I've had on the podcast! Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/ryan-macdonald-194/ Join Team 3:10: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/team310/

Just as Jesus reconciled us to the Father, he restored our relationships with one another. When we were in need of a home, Jesus lovingly accepted us into his family. Similarly, caring for the fatherless often entails opening our home to children who need a secure and nurturing environment. As followers of Christ, how can we personally answer the biblical mandate to uphold and support orphans?In this episode of Glo, Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park discuss caring for orphans through foster care, adoption, and discipleship, no matter your season of life. Through prayer and faithful obedience to the Holy Spirit's leading, we can all do something to love and care for the fatherless.Episode time stamps:Aixa's family story of foster care and adoption (0:00)Spiritual adoption and spiritual orphans (9:25)Cross-cultural adoption and cultural diversity (13:45)How the church can broaden its view (15:24)Caring for the fatherless through discipleship (21:30)Spiritual fathers and mothers (24:46)Supporting families called to foster care and adoption (28:20)The Lord's grace and your unique calling (36:41)Recommended resources: Trusted organizations from the Christian Alliance for OrphansEveryone Can Do Something by Jason Johnson (book)"5 Ways Your Church Can Support Foster Care" by Ryan MacDonald (article)"Loving the Widow" by K. A. Ellis (message from TGCW18)

Join us for this special episode as the moms sit down with single father, Ryan Macdonald. The moms not only hear about life as a single parent, but what its like raising kids from a dad's point of view. Co-parenting, consistency in discipline, and winning Fortnite with his kids are all important aspects of Ryan's life and he balances it all with work and providing for his two kiddos. Be sure to tune in to this exciting and unique episode!

This episode features dance and music collaborators who without each other their piece would not exist. We will begin with the piece, Two, with dancer, Shura Baryshnikov and cellist Adrienne Taylor, long term collaborators, that have drawn upon their creative history together to build a process focused on deep listening, observation, and response. Next we have the work: IzumonookunI is a dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni, founder of the Japanese dance-drama form, Kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric, grassroots origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald re-imagine Okuni as a punk rock/sci-fi figure in a landscape of built objects, digital design and live synthesizer. The piece touches on the tensions between erasure and hyper visibility and is an ode to the women in Aoki's ancestry of whom little is known. Next we have the work: IzumonookunI is a dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni, founder of the Japanese dance-drama form, Kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric, grassroots origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald re-imagine Okuni as a punk rock/sci-fi figure in a landscape of built objects, digital design and live synthesizer. The piece touches on the tensions between erasure and hyper visibility and is an ode to the women in Aoki's ancestry of whom little is known.

Our 441st episode, which aired on October 9, 2022. Kenneth & Angus MacKenzie – Skylark's, Piob is Fidheall Donnie Campbell & Buddy MacDonald – Brew Of MacGillivary, Donnie & Buddy at the Gaelic College Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac – Boise Monsters, Seinn Cassie & Maggie – Nobleman's Wedding, The Willow Collection Interview with Ryan MacDonald of Cape Breton FM Doug MacPhee – Showman's Fancy/Jaunting Car, The Reel of Tulloch Beolach – Gypsy Dance, All Hands Colin Grant – Triplet Clog, Fun for the Whole Family Hauler – Love of Lost Sake, Hauler Dara Smith-MacDonald/Adam Young/Brent Chaisson – Birthday Jigs, Island Staran – Balcarres, Staran Theresa Morrison – Lament for Piper Peter Morrison, Laments & Merry Melodies from Cape Breton Island

To ensure that building Shopify apps provides the best experience for both merchants and developers, we're continuously working on new processes to improve app development. With our new theme app extensions, building apps for merchant's storefronts has never been easier. When building a Shopify app that interacts with the online store, one of the most difficult aspects that developers encounter is ensuring that their app integrates safely and easily with all themes, while still being straightforward for a merchant to install. Shopify's theme app extensions aim to remove this challenge by introducing a new streamlined method for apps to interact with themes, that improves the experience for both developers and merchants. Theme app extensions also ensure that apps integrate seamlessly with OS 2.0 themes, which we expect more merchants will continue to adopt throughout this year. “Merchants shouldn't concern themselves with code. Generally, they aren't technical and, even if they are, they need to spend their time on their business. We actually opted to delay our launch and migrated over to the new theme app extension framework.” App developers are already adopting theme app extensions and seeing the benefits. “Merchants shouldn't concern themselves with code. Generally, they aren't technical and, even if they are, they need to spend their time on their business,” Ryan Macdonald from Obsidian Apps says. “We actually opted to delay our launch and migrated over to the new theme app extension framework.” In this article, we'll unpack how apps work with Shopify themes, the advantages of using theme app extensions, and how to get started with this approach for your own app. We'll also learn how some Shopify app developers have implemented theme app extensions and what their experiences have been. How apps integrate with Shopify themes At Shopify Unite 2021, we released Theme App Extensions as part of Online Store 2.0 with a major update to how apps integrate with the storefront. Here's a high level look at how both the old and new approaches work. Without theme app extensions Without theme app extensions, apps use the Asset API which gives them full read/write access to theme files. They then proceed to add and modify any number of files to get their app integrated into the theme. There are a number of issues with this approach: Developers need to determine exactly where to insert their code into the theme, which can vary depending on the theme. Apps may inadvertently break themes or introduce performance degradation issues. When an app is uninstalled, the code that was added isn't removed, which leads to code running that is no longer needed or may no longer work. Shopify's theme update mechanism only works on themes without code edits, so this approach prevents merchants from receiving updates to their theme, potentially blocking them from the latest features for their online store. With theme app extensions With theme app extensions, all the issues outlined above are solved as app developers no longer need to modify theme files directly. Instead, Shopify provides a way to build blocks that are added to a theme by the merchant in the editor and injected at render time by the platform. This avoids any potential integration bugs, keeps the theme untouched and eligible for updates and the app is automatically removed from the theme when uninstalled, no further cleanup needed. Furthermore, all of your theme app extension assets (liquid, CSS, JS, SVGs) are hosted on the Shopify platform and delivered through our CDN for fast performance all over the world. What are blocks? To understand theme app extensions, you first need to understand what blocks are in themes and how merchants interact with them. Blocks are modules of content that can be added, removed, and reordered within a section. This allows merchants to have granular control over the look and feel of every aspect of their online store. To learn more about blocks in themes and...

Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal and Ryan MacDonald from Liquid Web discuss the value of benchmarking and testing for hosting services.

Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal and Ryan MacDonald from Liquid Web discuss the value of benchmarking and testing for hosting services.

On this episode of B-Side Ourselves, Josh and Danny are joined by Ryan Macdonald, VinylDad85 on tiktok to share some of our favorite songs of the screen and stage.

Hello and welcome to episode two of our podcast where we ask random people to tell us about their favorite episode of television. This week we asked my (Jacki, I'm the blog writer/marketer/plus sometimes you will hear pop in facts on the episodes) adopted brother, Ryan Macdonald, AKA VinylDad85 on TikTok!His favorite episode of television wasn't easy to find, as it has been removed from many streaming platforms, which is something we do touch on in this episode. However, Episode 14 of Season 2 of Community is available on Amazon Prime, as of the release of this episode. Watch it here. Here's just a little TV taste of what we covered:The 88's  impeccable theme songThe Study GroupIs Abed the main character of Community?Callbacks to Lord of the RingsChang stalking the study groupShirley's comebacksThe cast diversity of CommunityPlaying life-changing gamesFiascoThey do not follow the rules of D&DBottle episodesBequeathmentsThe pronunciation of "bagel"Fat Neil's NicknameHarmontown Dungeons & DragonsSweet Pierce momentsand more. We wanna know YOUR favorite episode of TV, either share it on our forum or send an email to iloveyourfavoriteepisode@gmail.com.We'll be coming back at you in a couple weeks with another episode, so smash that subscribe button for us, won't you?Support the show (https://cash.app/$JackiOh5)

Brought to you by: www.JesNaturals.com - code 'couch' for 20% off your first order Join Todd as he takes the podcast to our friendly neighbors to the north and chats about growing up an angsty teen only to find the light via Bruce Springsteen with lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Honest Heart Collective - Ryan MacDonald. Artists discussed in this episode: Every Time I Die, Architects, As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada, Protest The Heroes, The Killers, Kanye, Butch Walker (we gush), Taylor Swift (again), and many more! Learn more at honestheart.co Instagram: @honestheartco / @rmacdizzle Facebook: @thehonestheartcollective © From The Couch, LLC --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/todd-hurst/support

Ted Williams League co founder Steve Ferroli, talks with Dylan MacDonald, Ryan MacDonald and Mat Marini about the TWL 2022 layout, the league history and it's benefits. 

On this episode of "Hell Of A Sister," Nicole and Ashley discuss what has been going on in their lives the last three weeks that has kept them away from the pod. The sister's talk about stressors, adulting, new careers, mental health and much more. Tune in to catch-up with the sisters and to hear what's been going on with them. We are back sister gang and we wouldn't be happier, so grab your favourite beverage, find a cozy spot or get in the car and turn the pod up! Leave us a voice message https://anchor.fm/ashley-and-nicole-cadeau/message or send us a DM on our IG. Edit by Ryan MacDonald @lionheartsoundco

Ryan MacDonald is an MMA fighter and UFC veteran with a professional record of 11-2. He is also the owner and coach of 6910N1 MMA & Fitness in his hometown of North Platte, Nebraska. Ryan is coming off an impressive finish last week at Art of Scrap 3 against fellow UFC veteran Willie Gates. Ryan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mainevent_mac Ryan on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maineventssb 6910N1 MMA & Fitness: https://waysofharmony.wixsite.com/6910n1mma –––– Support the podcast and join the Honest Offense community at https://honestoffense.locals.com​​​​​​ Other ways to support the podcast: https://www.ericcervone.com/support​ Follow Eric on Twitter and Instagram @ericcervone

On this episode of "Hell Of A Sister," Nicole and Ashley discuss what society says is normal, where they should be in life and where they would rather be. The sister's talk about normalizing their 20's, get a little off topic-ish about society norms of marriage, being kind to one another, and much much more. Grab your favourite beverage of choice, turn the pod up and let the sister's know your thoughts on society norms! Leave us a voice message https://anchor.fm/ashley-and-nicole-cadeau/message or send us a DM on our IG. Edit by Ryan MacDonald @lionheartsoundco

This week's episode, Nicole and Ashley talk all things TURKEY! They share past thanksgivings stories, family traditions, favourite memories, and discuss what they are thankful for this holiday. They also ask listeners what they are thankful for this Thanksgiving? Leave us a voice message https://anchor.fm/ashley-and-nicole-cadeau/message or leave a comment on our IG post! We hope you had a great Thanksgiving sister gang! Edit by Ryan MacDonald @lionheartsoundco

On this episode of “Hell Of A Sister,” Nicole and Ashley answer all the questions sent in from our listeners. Tune in for some belly aching laughs, perspectives, and getting to know us a little bit more. We absolutely love hearing from you, keep sending in all your questions, whether they are clean or not HAHA, we will still answer them! Grab your favourite beverage, get in the car or find your cozy spot and turn the pod up! Edit by Ryan MacDonald @lionheartsoundco Leave us a voice message https://anchor.fm/ashley-and-nicole-cadeau/message

WHERE are the ALIENS? And more importantly, will we recognize them when we find them? Dr. Ryan MacDonald, theoretical astrophysicist with Cornell University, is one of the scientists trying to answer this question. He studies exoplanets and determines the types of atmospheres they have. Will one of these exoplanets have the right atmosphere for aliens to live on it? Listen to this fascinating episode to find out! 

This week, Nicole and Ashley discuss one of the most asked questions they get as siblings. The sister's open up about their perspective on having babies, how society makes it seem that woman's value and worth is based on whether they're married or have procreated. Find a cozy spot, or jump in the car and turn the pod up! Edit by Ryan MacDonald @lionheartsoundco Leave us a voice message https://anchor.fm/ashley-and-nicole-cadeau/message

Changing the narratives of what our kids learn is not only disruptive, but it's a long overdue change.   On top of that, changing the system to adapt to the individual needs of kids is the way to guarantee that future generations can move forward.   Ryan MacDonald and Rebecca Wolfe are working hard to change how things are being done for the better. 

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by Screencastify. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles (@AKRebecca) sits down with Rebecca Wolfe (@rewolfe13), Vice President of Impact and Improvement at Knowledgeworks and Ryan MacDonald, Senior Program Associate on the Student-Centered Learning team at the Council of Chief State School Officers.  They discuss the updated version of the Educator Competencies for Personalized, Learner-Centered Environments, a new customizable toolkit and a district usage map. Listen in to hear more about the competency toolkit, the pandemic's impact on SEL and equity and what's coming next. 

How did Ryan get his first guitar? As an actor would Ryan rather be the Witcher or the bard? What's his favourite hot sauce? Is hot sauce like Ketchup for grown ups? It's my honour to have connected with Ryan today! I truly enjoyed hearing what motivates Ryan and the work it takes behind the scene for The Honest Heart Collective! We spoke about the songs “Lonely Bones” and “Fine", harmony and opinions. It's good! Ryan told me stories how he got involved with music, his first written song, the creation process. The 2019 versus 2020. The travelling from coast to coast in the US and Canada within one year versus the 2020 journey. What live performance really means to him. How is it possible to “see” audio and listen to what you see. Thank you so much for being on Ryan!

Ryan MacDonald, VP of Revenue & E-Commerce, with Palm Holdings, joins Jason from his home in Toronto, Canada. Ryan says GMs are the unsung heroes, from folding laundry, making breakfast bags, checking people in, everything within Operations. And, being prepared for travel's full comeback could prove tricky. Staff that stayed-on throughout the pandemic have not been busy and are out of practice, and trying to find staff that are willing to come back could be tough as well. Ryan will rely on their internal belief that 'everybody is responsible for revenue management at Palm,' and not hire right away, once demand reaches healthy levels, but stresses there's going to be a learning curve for frontline employees out of practice.

NBA PREVIEW POD 2020 (with Ryan Macdonald)

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Why do some research findings collect dust, while others drive real organizational change? Ryan MacDonald thinks it has less to do with how well they're presented, and more to do with everything that happens before the research even begins.

Ryan MacDonald joins me from Toronto, Canada. He is the VP of Revenue Management and E-Commerce at Palm Holdings. Palm is a collection of hotels: branded in the U.S. and Canada, and independent in the U.K. Key takeaways: -U.K. hotels had to close, but North American hotels stayed open. But, now, are open. -The branded properties provided the necessary strict safety protocols early, so that helped formulate the policies for the independents. -A lot more focus has been put on revenue management. These are long term strategies that don’t happen in 48 hours, rather a couple of weeks. -Communication lines between front-line, operations, revenue, and sales is becoming better—100%! -Promoting safety standards above and beyond branded hotel standards with e-blasts and text messaging. And, keeping websites, 3rd party sites, and vanity sites updated. Cleanliness and safety are the top priorities for travelers. Some hotels booking government business, one property working with a homeless shelter and extended stay are doing very well. -Advice for hoteliers going through the pandemic. Stay strong. And, lower rates will not increase demand!!

Growing up in North Platte, Nebraska, UFC fighter Ryan MacDonald refused to let a small town mindset hold him back. He had dreams, hopes and a no quit attitude. He was going to succeed and he was going to show his community that they could do it to.Remember team life is too short to live any other way than ON PURPOSE. See you all next week!Connect with Ryan:Twitter @MainEvent_MacInstagram @mainevent_macConnect wtih us:theonpurposepodcast.comSubscribe to our Patreon:patreon.com/theonpurposepodcast

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COVID-19, SELF QUARANTINEEING/SOCIAL DISTANCING, CRAZY NFL DAY, WILL KD/KYRIE RETURN, LIL UZI VERT ALBUM (feat. Ryan Macdonald & Michael Kronick)

NBA TRADE DEADLINE, THE BABE RUTH 2.0 TRADE (MOOKIE), DELUSIONAL MINNESOTA SPORTS TALKS, SUPER BOWL RECAP (FEAT. OJ, D-MART, RYAN MACDONALD)

CRM and loyalty technology are hot now, but are they working? According to our guest, Ryan MacDonald, the advances in technology is allowing hoteliers to get in front of a larger demographic to convert them to loyalty members, primarily those Millennial corporate travelers. Hear how Palm Holdings is managing loyalty and what else is working for hoteliers. Guest: Ryan MacDonald, VP of Revenue Management & E-Commerce, Palm Holdings Time: 33 min Sponsors: apeleo and cendyn

Jeter/Eli Retirement, Baseball Cheating Scandal, Giants Hire Freddie Kitchens, Why The Infirmary is Turning Into a Totalitarian Dictatorial Regime At Camp + More (feat. D-Mart, OJ & Ryan Macdonald)

CSC Varsity Basketball takes on Coral Glades in the Panther Den! Listen to the first half as Ryan MacDonald and Moises Rivera call the action LIVE!

Join us as we talk death with a special guest: Ryan MacDonald, writer (Here, here, and here), producer, and overall amazing human. We recently lost a special person in our lives and we come together to help heal, meditate on mortality, analyze grief, and provide encouragement to ourselves and others.

Today we sit down with Ryan MacDonald, front man of Thunder Bay's 'The honest heart collective'.

Season 2 is kicked off with guest Ryan 'Main Event' MacDonald and his life's story thus far. Ryan is a professional mixed martial artist with an exceptional mindset and outlook on life; he has fought demons on and off the mat, all of which that have shaped him into the man he is today. Ryan and Johnny discuss a variety of topics that range from martial arts to video games, while also chatting about the ups and downs that come with the journey of life.

NETS-TWOLVES + CELTICS-76ERS Recap (feat. Ryan Macdonald)

NFL WEEK 7 RECAP + TRADES (feat. Ryan Macdonald)

Ryan MacDonald is an encourager and a visionary to the ministry of God. He speaks life into every person he comes in contact with. For our All Elim Chapel, Ryan exhort us to pray for unity within the church. He states that we need each other. When we are together we can show God's love to the world in a better way. Psalms 133:1 says "behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity". We invite you to listen to this message!

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson, along with our lovely co-host, Stephie Haynes. The format of the show is to announce each fight as they go, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two. This week’s topics are as follows: * UFC Vancouver Review - Here's a look at the fight card results and updated fighter records from the event - UFC on ESPN+ 16 MAIN CARD: Justin Gaethje (21-2) DEF. Donald Cerrone (36-13), KO/TKO, Hooks & Uppercuts, 4:18 of R1 Glover Teixeira (30-7) DEF. Nikita Krylov (26-7), DEC-Split Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2), No Contest-Accidental Eye Gouge at 4:03 in Round 1 Tristan Connelly (14-6) DEF. Michel Pereira (23-10), DEC-Unanimous Uriah Hall (15-9) DEF. Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-4), DEC-Split Misha Cirkunov (15-5) DEF. Jimmy Crute (10-1), SUB-Peruvian Necktie ESPN+ PRELIMS: Augusto Sakai (14-1) DEF. Marcin Tybura (17-6), KO/TKO-Punches at 0:59 R1/3 Miles Johns (10-0) DEF. Cole Smith (7-1)-DEC-Split Hunter Azure (8-0) DEF. Brad Katona (8-2), DEC-Unanimous Chas Skelly (18-4) DEF. Jordan Griffin (17-7), DEC-Unanimous Louis Smolka (16-6) DEF. Ryan MacDonald (10-2), KO/TKO-Hooks at 4:43 R1/3 Austin Hubbard (11-3) DEF. Kyle Prepolec (12-7), DEC-Unanimous * UFC on ESPN+ 17 - Mexico City PREVIEW - C/DC PICKS - At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then two of our trio — Eugene & Stephie, go about predicting UFC Mexico’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main showcasing Carla Esparza vs Alexa Grasso, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event Featherweight Bout between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. The event will be taking place this Saturday, September 21st, 2019, from the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico. Here's a look at the fight card (bout order subject to change): UFC on ESPN+ 17-MEXICO MAIN CARD | Sat Sep. 21 - 8PM/5PM ETPT Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens at 145 lbs - 39:52 Carla Esparza vs. Alexa Grasso at 115 lbs - 39:00 Askar Askarov vs. Brandon Moreno at 125 lbs - 38:21 Irene Aldana vs. Vanessa Melo at 135 lbs - 37:48 Martín Bravo vs. Steven Peterson at 145 lbs - 37:36 ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM/2PM ETPT Jose Quiñones vs. Carlos Huachin at 135 lbs - 37:14 Polo Reyes vs. Kyle Nelson at 145 lbs - 36:10 Angela Hill vs. Ariane Carnelossi at 115 lbs - 35:40 Sergio Pettis vs. Tyson Nam at 125 lbs - 34:52 Vinicius Moreira vs. Paul Craig at 205 lbs - 34:38 Sijara Eubanks vs. Bethe Correia at 135 lbs - 33:24 Claudio Puelles vs. Marcos Mariano at 155 lbs - 33:14 _______________________________________________ Off Topic - * When and where did you lose your virginity? Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson and on The Show Stomper!, Stephie can also be followed @CrooklynMMA, and on @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod. If you enjoyed our show, "heart" us here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Podcast Channels: YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoX81d3fNHrcUckyQdRzLQ iTunes & Apple TV: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blood…&i=1000421882228 Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#…m6qmvqn4yqvivru74 iHeartRadio: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-Blood…Presents-30639274 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/55S2dpKYVqn…ESkWZigLNnEg1ugn Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/bloody-e…esents?refid=stp TuneIn: tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Re…-Presents-p1190843/ OverCast: overcast.fm/itunes984162015/bloody-elbow-presents Player FM: player.fm/series/bloody-elbow-presents ... whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents; that way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings. For previous episodes of the show, check out our playlists on all of our BE Presents channels.

Zane Simon and Eddie Mercado are here to breakdown this event with hot takes, possible next fights, as well as reactions to the overall event. This Saturday’s, Sep, 14th., UFC on ESPN+ 16, Fight Night 158 event from Vancouver, BC, Canada, featured a co-main that went the distance between Glover Teixeira and Nikita Krylov, ending in a split decision going Glover’s way & we had an all too brief main event featuring top-ranked lightweight strikers, the living legend - Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone - the underdog for this fight vs. Justin ‘The Human Highlight’ Gaethje. Being not only fan favorites, but friends, made it hard for Justin to keep going hard at Cerrone when he was down, until the ref called the stoppage at 4:18 in round 1 via KO/TKO. We also had a round 1 no contest - due to an accidental eye gouge with Todd Duffee vs Jeff Hughes, decisions on Connelly vs Pereira and Hall vs ACJ. Our opener on the main event ended in a Peruvian Necktie Sub at just 3:38 in round 1 with Misha Cirkunov just killing Jimmy Crute in short fashion. The undercard had four decisions and two finishes. Overall, a decent night of fights. Here’s a look at the fight card RESULTS & UPDATED FIGHT RECORDS: UFC on ESPN+ 16 - Vancouver MAIN CARD | 8PM/5PM ETPT 155 lbs - Justin Gaethje (21-2) DEF. Donald Cerrone (36-13), KO/TKO, Hooks & Uppercuts, 4:18 of R1 205 lbs - Glover Teixeira (30-7) DEF. Nikita Krylov (26-7), DEC-Split 265 lbs - Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2), No Contest-Accidental Eye Gouge at 4:03 in Round 1 170 lbs - Tristan Connelly (14-6) DEF. Michel Pereira (23-10), DEC-Unanimous 185 lbs - Uriah Hall (15-9) DEF. Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-4), DEC-Split 205 lbs - Misha Cirkunov (15-5) DEF. Jimmy Crute (10-1), SUB-Peruvian Necktie FIGHT OF THE NIGHT: Tristan Connelly vs. Michel Pereira PERFORMANCES OF THE NIGHT: Misha Cirkunov, Justin Gaethje ATTENDANCE: 15,114 GATE: CAD $1,774,585.00 USD $1,334,931.56 ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM ET 265 lbs - Augusto Sakai (14-1) DEF. Marcin Tybura (17-6), KO/TKO-Punches at 0:59 R1/3 135 lbs - Miles Johns (10-0) DEF. Cole Smith (7-1)-DEC-Split 135 lbs - Hunter Azure (8-0) DEF. Brad Katona (8-2), DEC-Unanimous 145 lbs - Chas Skelly (18-4) DEF. Jordan Griffin (17-7), DEC-Unanimous 135 lbs - Louis Smolka (16-6) DEF. Ryan MacDonald (10-2), KO/TKO-Hooks at 4:43 R1/3 155 lbs - Austin Hubbard (11-3) DEF. Kyle Prepolec (12-7), DEC-Unanimous Be sure to follow Zane - @TheZaneSimon, Dayne - @TheDayneFox and follow @BloodyElbow & @MMAMania for all the latest in MMA happenings. SBN MMA is a mixed martial arts channel presented to you by SB Nation MMA websites: BloodyElbow & MMA Mania, Share & Subscribe to get the latest in MMA News, Video Features, Live Play-by-Plays of UFC events, Post-Fight Shows & More! If you enjoyed our show, "heart" us here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Podcast Channels: YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoX81d3fNHrcUckyQdRzLQ iTunes & Apple TV: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blood…&i=1000421882228 Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#…m6qmvqn4yqvivru74 iHeartRadio: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-Blood…Presents-30639274 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/55S2dpKYVqn…kESkWZigLNnEg1ugn Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/bloody-e…esents?refid=stp TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/Bloody-Elbow-Presents-p1190843/ OverCast: overcast.fm/itunes984162015/bloody-elbow-presents Player FM: player.fm/series/bloody-elbow-presents ... whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents; that way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings. For previous episodes of the show, check out our playlists on all of our BE Presents channels.

This week we break down the results of UFC Fight Night 158 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and headlined by lightweight fan-favorites Justin Gaethje and Donald Cowboy Cerrone. We discuss the phenomenal night of fights, the detriment of prioritizing theatrics over fundamentals, referee stand-ups, future matchups and more. We also preview Fight Night 159 from Mexico City, Mexico, headlined by featherweights Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. We also talk hazy IPA's, my trip to New York including a visit to Renzo Gracie Academy and an appearance on episode 82 of the MMA and Beyond Podcast. We even discuss Tyson Fury's win over undefeated heavyweight boxer Otto Wallin. Cheers! UFC Fight Night 158: 155 lbs.: Donald Cerrone vs. Justin Gaethje 205 lbs.: Nikita Krylov vs. Glover Teixeira 265 lbs.: Todd Duffee vs. Jeff Hughes 170 lbs.: Michel Pereira vs. Tristan Connelly 185 lbs.: Antonio Carlos Junior vs. Uriah Hall 205 lbs.: Misha Cirkunov vs. Jim Crute 265 lbs.: Augusto Sakai vs. Marcin Tybura 135 lbs.: Miles Johns vs. Cole Smith 135 lbs.: Hunter Azure vs. Brad Katona 145 lbs.: Jordan Griffin vs. Chas Skelly 135 lbs.: Ryan MacDonald vs. Louis Smolka 155 lbs.: Austin Hubbard vs. Kyle Prepolec UFC Fight Night 159: 145 lbs.: Yair Rodriguez vs. Jeremy Stephens 115 lbs.: Carla Esparza vs. Alexa Grasso 125 lbs.: Sergio Pettis vs. Tyson Nam 135 lbs.: Sijara Eubanks vs. Bethe Correia 125 lbs.: Brandon Moreno vs. Askar Askarov 115 lbs.: Angela Hill vs. Istela Nunes 135 lbs.: Jose Quinonez vs. Carlos Huachin 135 lbs.: Marion Reneau vs. Irene Aldana 205 lbs.: Paul Craig vs. Vinicius Moreira

Zane Simon & Connor Ruebusch are back to breakdown this Saturday's Sep. 14th., 2019, UFC on ESPN+ 16 event out of Vancouver, BC, Canada. With ESPN+ Prelims starting at 5PM/2PM ETPT and the Main Card starting at 8PM/5PM ETPT. The guys are here with picks and analysis for the undercard bouts, from Augusto Sakai vs. Marcin Tybura in the Featured Prelim bout, right on down to Kyle Prepolec vs. Austin Hubbard in the Prelims Opener. In our separate MAIN CARD post at 2pm today, Thursday, Sep. 12th., 2019, they will also go over all the bouts on the main card right here on this channel. The MMA Vivisection is brought to you by Combat Wombat, makers of combat sports themed artwork featuring MMA’s legendary fighters and legendary fights. Visit chrisrini.com for the latest pieces and commissions. Get your Combat Wombat themed Vivi t-shirts today! cottonbureau.com/products/dr-wombat Here's a look at the fight card (bout order subject to change): UFC on ESPN+ 16-Vancouver MAIN CARD | Sat Sep. 14 - 8PM ET 155 lbs - Donald Cerrone (36-12) vs. Justin Gaethje (20-2) 205 lbs - Glover Teixeira (29-7) vs. Nikita Krylov (26-6) 265 lbs - Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2) 170 lbs - Michel Pereira (23-9) vs. Tristan Connelly (13-6) 185 lbs - Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-3) vs. Uriah Hall (14-9) 205 lbs - Misha Cirkunov (14-5) vs. Jimmy Crute (10-0) ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM ET 265 lbs - Augusto Sakai (13-1) vs. Marcin Tybura (17-5) - 2:28, Odds 9:30 135 lbs - Cole Smith (7-0) vs. Miles Johns (9-0) - 10:35, Odds 16:50 185 lbs - Marvin Vettori (13-3) vs. Andrew Sanchez (11-4) - 17:56, Odds 23:52 - Fight has been cancelled 135 lbs - Brad Katona (8-1) vs. Hunter Azure (7-0) - 24:46, Odds 30:32 145 lbs - Chas Skelly (17-4) vs. Jordan Griffin (17-6) - 32:00, Odds 38:54 135 lbs - Louis Smolka (15-6) vs. Ryan MacDonald (10-1) - 41:42, Odds 47:37 155 lbs - Kyle Prepolec (12-6) vs. Austin Hubbard (10-3) - 47:56, Odds 54:17 Be sure to follow Zane on twitter @TheZaneSimon, follow Connor, @BoxingBusch, and follow @BloodyElbow for all the latest in MMA happenings. If you enjoyed our show, give us a "heart" here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Channels: YouTube, iTunes & Apple TV, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, TuneIn, OverCast, or Player FM – whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice.

Zane Simon & Connor Ruebusch are here to breakdown this Saturday's, Sep. 14th., UFC on ESPN+ 16 event from Vancouver, BC, Canada - with Prelims starting on ESPN+ at 5PM/2PM ETPT and the Main Card culminating at 8PM/5PM ETPT. The guys will have picks, odds & analysis for every fight on the MAIN CARD, starting with the Main Event featuring a Lightweight Fight with Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone vs. Justin 'The Highlight' Gaethje and our Co-Main between Glover Teixeira and Nikita Krylov. In our separate PRELIMS POST broadcast today, Thursday, Sep. 12th., 2019, they go over all the bouts on the preliminary card right here on this channel. The MMA Vivisection is brought to you by Combat Wombat, makers of combat sports themed artwork featuring MMA’s legendary fighters and legendary fights. Visit chrisrini.com for the latest pieces and commissions. Get your Combat Wombat themed Vivi t-shirts today! cottonbureau.com/products/dr-wombat Here's a look at the fight card (bout order subject to change): UFC on ESPN+ 16-Vancouver MAIN CARD | Sat Sep. 14 - 8PM ET 155 lbs - Donald Cerrone (36-12) vs. Justin Gaethje (20-2) - 4:15, Odds 19:10 205 lbs - Glover Teixeira (29-7) vs. Nikita Krylov (26-6) - 20:53, Odds 26:21 265 lbs - Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2) - 29:30, Odds 32:52 170 lbs - Michel Pereira (23-9) vs. Tristan Connelly (13-6) - 33:41, Odds - none 185 lbs - Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-3) vs. Uriah Hall (14-9) - 41:55, Odds 49:14 205 lbs - Misha Cirkunov (14-5) vs. Jimmy Crute (10-0) - 50:10, Odds -skipped ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM ET 265 lbs - Augusto Sakai (13-1) vs. Marcin Tybura (17-5) 135 lbs - Cole Smith (7-0) vs. Miles Johns (9-0) 135 lbs - Brad Katona (8-1) vs. Hunter Azure (7-0) 145 lbs - Chas Skelly (17-4) vs. Jordan Griffin (17-6) 135 lbs - Louis Smolka (15-6) vs. Ryan MacDonald (10-1) 155 lbs - Kyle Prepolec (12-6) vs. Austin Hubbard (10-3) Be sure to follow Zane on twitter @TheZaneSimon, follow Connor, @BoxingBusch, and follow @BloodyElbow for all the latest in MMA happenings. If you enjoyed our show, give us a "heart" here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Channels: YouTube, iTunes & Apple TV, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, TuneIn, OverCast, or Player FM – whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice.

In this exclusive SBN MMA Feature, our top interviewer, Shakiel 'Shak' Mahjouri' speaks with top-ranked UFC stars Urijah Faber, Vicente Luque, Josh Emmett, Felicia Spencer and more, to break down the Fight of the Year candidate between Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone and Justin 'The Highlight' Gaethje at UFC Vancouver. Timestamps: 0:20 - Urijah Faber 1:38 - Vicente Luque 2:09 - Josh Emmett 3:29 - Felicia Spencer 3:58 - Scott Holtzman 4:07 - Khama Worthy Here's a look at the fight card (bout order subject to change): UFC on ESPN+ 16-Vancouver MAIN CARD | Sat Sep. 14 - 8PM ET 155 lbs - Donald Cerrone (36-12) vs. Justin Gaethje (20-2) 205 lbs - Glover Teixeira (29-7) vs. Nikita Krylov (26-6) 185 lbs - Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-3) vs. Uriah Hall (14-9) 205 lbs - Misha Cirkunov (14-5) vs. Jimmy Crute (10-0) 185 lbs - Marvin Vettori (13-3) vs. Andrew Sanchez (11-4) ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM ET 265 lbs - Augusto Sakai (13-1) vs. Marcin Tybura (17-5) 265 lbs - Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2) 135 lbs - Louis Smolka (15-6) vs. Ryan MacDonald (10-1) 135 lbs - Cole Smith (7-0) vs. Miles Johns (9-0) 155 lbs - Kyle Prepolec (12-6) vs. Austin Hubbard (10-3) 135 lbs - Brad Katona (8-1) vs. Hunter Azure (7-0) 145 lbs - Chas Skelly (17-4) vs. Jordan Griffin (17-6) If you enjoyed our feature, be sure to give us a "thumbs up", subscribe and share. Thanks for watching! SBN MMA is a mixed martial arts channel presented to you by SB Nation MMA websites https;//blodyelbow.com & https;//mmamania.com; Give us a "Thumbs Up", share & subscribe to get the latest in MMA News, Video Features, Live Play-by-Plays of UFC events, Post-Fight Shows & More! #DonaldCerrone #JustinGaethje #UFCVancouver

It’s time for another of our infamous and patented Care/Don’t Care Previews, with your talent: the astounding Eugene S. Robinson, along our lovely co-host, Stephie Haynes. The format of the show is to announce each fight as they go, commenting on which fights are hot and which fights are not, as well as introducing an off-topic discussion point or two. This week’s topics are as follows: UFC 242 - Abu Dhabi REVIEW - 1:06 Belal Muhammad DEF. Takashi Sato - 8:32 Muslim Salikhov DEF. Nordine Taleb - 9:13 Zubaira Tukhugov DEF. Lerone Murphy - 9:58 Jo Jo Calderwood DEF. Andrea ‘KGB’ Lee - 10:28 Diego Ferreira DEF. Mairbek Taisumov - 11:56 Curtis Blaydes DEF. Shamil Abdurakhimov - 12:50 Islam Makhachev DEF. Davi Ramos - 14:00 CO-MAIN: Paul Felder DEF. Edson Barboza - 14:12 MAIN: Khabib Nurmagomedov DEF. Dustin Poirier - 3:32, 16:27 Ottman Azaitar DEF. Teemu Packalen - 22:51 UFC on ESPN+ 16 - Vancouver PREVIEW - C/DC PICKS - 24:20 At this point in the show we offer you our ‘disclaimer’ and then our two of our trio — Eugene & Stephie, go about predicting UFC Vancouver’s entire bout sheet, leading their way up to the Co-Main showcasing Glover Texeira vs Nikita Krylov, and wrapping up the C/DC quick-picks preview portion of the show with a Main Event Lightweight Bout between Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone vs. Justin Gaethje. The event will be taking place this Saturday, September 14th, 2019, from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Here's a look at the fight card (bout order subject to change): UFC on ESPN+ 16-Vancouver MAIN CARD | Sat Sep. 14 - 8PM ET 155 lbs - Donald Cerrone (36-12) vs. Justin Gaethje (20-2) - 45:29 205 lbs - Glover Teixeira (29-7) vs. Nikita Krylov (26-6) - 44:02 185 lbs - Antônio Carlos Júnior (10-3) vs. Uriah Hall (14-9) - 39:07 205 lbs - Misha Cirkunov (14-5) vs. Jimmy Crute (10-0) - 36:20 185 lbs - Marvin Vettori (13-3) vs. Andrew Sanchez (11-4) - 34:40 ESPN+ PRELIMS | 5PM ET 265 lbs - Augusto Sakai (13-1) vs. Marcin Tybura (17-5) - 33:18 265 lbs - Todd Duffee (9-3) vs. Jeff Hughes (10-2) - 29:23 135 lbs - Louis Smolka (15-6) vs. Ryan MacDonald (10-1) - 29:08 135 lbs - Cole Smith (7-0) vs. Miles Johns (9-0) - 28:53 155 lbs - Kyle Prepolec (12-6) vs. Austin Hubbard (10-3) - 27:55 135 lbs - Brad Katona (8-1) vs. Hunter Azure (7-0) - 27:16 145 lbs - Chas Skelly (17-4) vs. Jordan Griffin (17-6) - 25:54 _______________________________________________ OFF TOPIC - 51:54 *Teacher that had the most impact on you? Be sure to follow Eugene on twitter @EugeneSRobinson and on The Show Stomper!, Stephie can also be followed @CrooklynMMA, and on @MookieNCrookie, AND @LevelChangePod. If you enjoyed our show, "heart" us here on SC, or give us a “like”, share & subscribe over on one of our other BE Presents Podcast Channels: YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCFoX81d3fNHrcUckyQdRzLQ iTunes & Apple TV: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/blood…&i=1000421882228 Google Play: play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#…m6qmvqn4yqvivru74 iHeartRadio: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-Blood…Presents-30639274 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/55S2dpKYVqn…kESkWZigLNnEg1ugn Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/bloody-e…esents?refid=stp TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Sports--Recreation-Podcasts/Bloody-Elbow-Presents-p1190843/ OverCast: overcast.fm/itunes984162015/bloody-elbow-presents Player FM: player.fm/series/bloody-elbow-presents ... whichever one happens to be your listening platform of choice. While you’re there, don’t forget to subscribe to Bloody Elbow Presents; that way you’ll always be the first to get all of BE’s daily MMA offerings. For previous episodes of the show, check out our playlists on all of our BE Presents channels.

On this episode, Bob Irving previews the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' game in Edmonton, and also has some thoughts on the NFL game in Winnipeg. Pole vaulters Ryan MacDonald and Emily Blackner explain why they're excited about the Praire Pole Vault Festival. And the Power Parlay returns with Week 11 CFL picks!

Ryan MacDonald joins John Hyon Ko of Kumite TV leading into his clash with Louis Smolka at UFC on ESPN+ 16 in Vancouver, Canada on September 14. The UFC bantamweight prospect talks about his upcoming opportunity against Louis Smolka, recalling the circumstances surrounding his debut, having a full training camp, adding more gi jiu-jitsu, and more. Subscribe to Kumite TV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjj... Fighter Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Follow John Hyon Ko on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JHKMMA/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jhkmma/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JHKMMA

Ryan is a theoretical astrophysicist based at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. His work involves examining the atmospheres of distant planets with the ultimate goal of finding signs of life. Obsessed with space exploration since he was a child, Ryan followed his dream of going to mars by enrolling in the Mars One mission selection process. He’s in the final 100 applicants. Ryan is an avid scientific communicator, regularly giving talks, appearing on the radio & TV and also runs a successful YouTube channel Martian Colonist You can find him on twitter @MartianColonist or visit his website https://distantworlds.space/ This podcast was produced by Fascinate Productions @FasProd

Head Coach of Factory X Muay Thai in Colorado Marc Montoya joins Sean Lennon host of The Fightlete Report to discuss his fighters competing at UFC Fight Night Nashville Saturday March 23rd. Maycee Barber fights JJ Aldrich and Chris Gutierrez fights Ryan MacDonald. We also discussed UFC fighters who train at Factory X in Eryk Anders, Ian Heinisch, Zak Cummings, Devonte Smith, Anthony Smith's fight with Jon Jones and more!

UFC Nashville Thompson vs Pettis breakdown and predictions We breakdown the card and give our predictions. Stephen Thompson (Jon Will) vs. Anthony Pettis (1:11:11) Curtis Blaydes (Jon Will) vs. Justin Willis (1:07:00) John Makdessi (Jon Will) vs. Jesus Pinedo (1:04:14) Deiveson Figueiredo (Jon) vs. Jussier Formiga (Will) (1:00:20) Luis Pena vs. Steven Peterson (Jon Will) (55:38) J.J. Aldrich (Jon) vs. Maycee Barber (Will) (51:36) Bryce Mitchell vs. Bobby Moffett (Jon Will) (47:42) Frankie Saenz vs. Marlon Vera (Jon Will) (44:46) Alexis Davis (Jon Will) vs.Jennifer Maia (42:13) Angela Hill vs. Randa Markos (Jon Will) (39:25) Chris Gutierrez (Jon Will) vs. Ryan MacDonald (34:54) Jordan Espinosa vs. Eric Shelton (Jon Will) (32:13) Last week's picks score: Jon 9-3 Will 7-5 Assisting with advice on making you all some £$€ is Will's Bets (1:17:06) Let us know who you are betting on and if you won. Please feel free to LIKE, SHARE or COMMENT below. MMA Huddle is a podcast which is looking to spread the word of MMA to everyone and share in our passion of the sport while also maybe learning along the way. We encourage fans old and new to join in with questions and opinions on what we discuss. To subscribe to our channel please click below https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbsxsvYQa4rZUSOC5Etp73g?view_as=subscriber We are also on iTunes so jump on and listen on the go via: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mmahuddle/id1281364404?mt=2 Fancy listening to the audio and downloading then follow us via Soundcloud and click the link below https://soundcloud.com/mmahuddle We are also on Facebook and Twitter all the links are below, come interact with us: https://www.facebook.com/mmahuddle/ https://twitter.com/MMAhuddle?lang=en #UFCNashville

Chris Gutierrez joins John Hyon Ko of Kumite TV heading into his second appearance in the Octagon at UFC Nashville. The 27-year-old American talks about his battles outside the cage throughout the past couple years, his trust in Marc Montoya, focusing on himself since the opponent can change anytime, watching the division, and more. Chris “El Guapo” Gutierrez will face Ryan MacDonald in a bantamweight contest at UFC on ESPN+ 6 on March 23 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Subscribe to Kumite TV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjj... Fighter Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Follow John Hyon Ko on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KumiteTVOfficial/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jhkmma/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JHKMMA Visit The Body Lock: https://thebodylockmma.com/ Follow The Body Lock on social media. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebodylock/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebodylockmma Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebodylock/?hl=en

In this week's questions show, I explain why SLS is still happening, if we can rule out contamination when we finally find life, and wonder why China is sending spacecraft to the Moon. Support Universe Today Podcast

In this week's questions show, I explain why SLS is still happening, if we can rule out contamination when we finally find life, and wonder why China is sending spacecraft to the Moon.

The Republic of Football is back to recap the Week 2 slate. DCTF contributor Ryan MacDonald joins Shehan to recap what was an astonishing performance from Texas A&M against No. 2 Clemson. Plus, Texas struggles in its home opener against Tulsa, and e former high school superstar makes his mark in his first action against an FBS opponent. Please subscribe to the Republic of Footbal, follow @ShehanJeyarajah on Twitter and tell your friends if you enjoy the show.

College football is back! Shehan and DCTF college contributor Ryan MacDonald review Jimbo Fisher's first game at Kyle Field. Plus, North Texas puts Conference-USA on notice with a dominant performance against SMU, and Texas drops a disappointing season opener to Maryland for the second straight season.

Bill's preseason preview with Ryan MacDonald 

Mars One captured the world's attention when it announced its intentions to colonize Mars by 2023. But since that milestone announcement back in 2012, the organization has faced funding difficulties, delays, and accusations of fraud and misdirection. Meanwhile, the Mars 100, the hundred candidates currently hoping for a seat on the first mission, are left waiting and wondering. Cambridge University PhD student and Mars 100 candidate Ryan MacDonald joins Jake to discuss his experience, the money situation, and Mars One's future. We Discuss Mars One Original Mars One Press Release (March 2012) All Mars One Press Releases Ryan's Application Video The Mars One Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign MIT Press Release for Feasibility Study Elmo Keep's Piece on Josh Richards Elmo Keep's Piece on Joseph Roche Rae Paoletta's Piece on Mars One Mars One Revenue Projections Document Follow Ryan Twitter (@MartianColonist) YouTube (MartianColonist) Past coverage of Mars One Episode 1: The Waxing Interest in Mars (January 2016) Follow Jake & WeMartians Website (www.wemartians.com) Patreon (www.patreon.com/wemartians) Learn about the Orbiter Level ($1/month) Learn about the Lander Level ($3/month) Learn about the Rover Level ($5/month) WeMartians Shop (shop.wemartians.com) New InSight design GOOD VIBES Twitter (@we_martians) Jake’s Twitter (@JakeOnOrbit) WeMartians music is “RetroFuture” and “On My Way” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week on The Green Woodworker Podcast, I have the pleasure of chatting with Rob from StoneCityWoodworks.ca. Rob is a full time furniture builder in Ontario Canada. He recently steeped up his game by moving from a two car garage into an 1100 square foot commercial space. Rob is an incredible builder that has commented himself 100 percent to being a self employed through hard work and family sacrifices. Listen in today as Rob shares where he started and how he got there on The Green Woodworker Podcast. Be sure to visit Rob on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and check out his site, StoneCityWoodworks.ca for your next furniture piece! Also check out the folks Rob mentioned on today's episode like Jay Bates, Ryan MacDonald, Pete Dettorre, John Malecki, IsoTunes.com, Mark Rason, LighthouseWood, BeachtodesertWoodworking, MrFixItDIY Don't forget this weeks featured maker, handcrafted_by_auns on Instagram. Please head over and give them a follow! If you want to keep up with the podcast, check us out on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter If you'd like to support the podcast by grabbing a sweet tee, send me a message here! You can also help support the podcast by becoming a patron over on Patreon.com. Thanks for all the support everyone!

Ryan MacDonald of macnwood is today's guest on The Green Woodworker Podcast. A rising star on Instagram, Ryan is a Canadian maker with a story of triumph that is sure to inspire. Husband and father of two, Ryan shares his thoughts on what it means to be successful today on TGWPodcast. Be sure to give Ryan, aka macnwood, a follow on Instagram and subscribe to his Youtube channel where he's working on his videography skills.   Be sure to follow TGWPodcast on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube

Ryan MacDonald is one of 100 candidates for the Mars One project, that hopes to set up a human community on Mars. If it all goes to plan, Ryan will be leaving Earth in 2031 - and never coming back! We call up Ryan to find out more about his ambitions. We also learn about some of the sea life that was alive in the age of the dinosaurs, meet a tiny creature with a big sting and wonder if humans could turn ever invisible - and whether that's a good idea or not! Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plusSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The number of stars in space is huge, so why is it so chilly? Felicity Bedford spoke to Ryan MacDonald from the Cambridge University Institute of Astronomy to find out more... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Can Mars One succeed? Neil Tyson gets a mission briefing from CEO Bas Lansdorp. In studio, Mike Massimino and Eugene Mirman are skeptical, candidate Ryan MacDonald calls in, and Bill Nye explains why he wants to send real astronauts.

How would you feel about taking a one way trip to planet Mars - and never return? These people are ready. In today's episode we will hear from Dianne McGrath, Christian Ohlendorff Knudsen and Ryan MacDonald. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're happy to have Matt Webb from Marianas Trench on this week's episode, discussing both his upcoming solo release and high-profile main project with Mike in our feature interview. We'll also speak with Ryan MacDonald from on-the-rise Halifax rock outfit Alert the Medic, who are set to travel to Toronto in the coming weeks to record their second full-length album - and first in five years - with producer and former Our Lady Peace guitarist Mike Turner at his Pocket Studios. CM Academy this week will feature Pipe & Hat Records founder Tim Jones offering tips on topics like album release parties, track order, album art, and a lot more. As always, happy to have you with us.