Ecosystem
BC + AI
Building British Columbia’s AI community with events, education, working groups, and a healthier local signal.
AI keynote speaker. Creative technologist. Community builder. Photographer.
Kris Krug builds culture at the edge of AI.
I help creative teams, institutions, and communities turn AI pressure into human agency, sharper taste, better stories, and practical momentum.
Photo: CreativeMornings Vancouver
Source: Punk Rock AI media archive
AI rooms that move
Keynotes, workshops, salons, and community infrastructure.
Projects with receipts
BC + AI, The Upgrade AI, keynote portals, and field notes.
Human taste, not AI sludge
Photography, critique, culture, and practical tools in the same frame.
Current fieldwork
Work that makes the future less abstract.
These are not mood-board projects. They are living rooms, tools, talks, and communities where the AI conversation becomes useful.
Ecosystem
Both Hands Full
A talk and resource world for filmmakers staying human while AI gets good at making everything.
Creative rebellion
Punk Rock AI
A maker-first argument for agency, taste, sovereignty, and culture with the tools.
Project network
AI education, community systems, photography, editorial strategy, and experiments that connect the dots.
Speaking and rooms
Keynotes that leave people more capable than when they walked in.
I do not do generic AI optimism. I build talks that are alive, culturally literate, practical, and allergic to boring inevitability narratives.
45-60 min keynote
Executive briefing
Creative team workshop
Keynote plus Q and A
Festival or association talk
Latest writing
Field notes on AI, culture, community, tools, taste, and what happens after the demo.
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You Can’t Drink Data
Kris Krug marches in Vancouver’s first anti-AI, anti-data-centre protest, and argues that ‘shut it all down’ and ‘more compute, trust us’ are the same…
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Make Culture, Not Content
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
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Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
Make the next room better
Bring the weird human parts with you.
Book a keynote, build an AI learning program, or explore the project network. The future needs better taste and better hosts.