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Keynote
Plain-English stage sessions on AI, taste, and human agency. Custom-scoped for creative, civic, and executive rooms.
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AI keynote speaker · Creative technologist · Community builder
The model is the message.
Kris Krug builds public-interest trust infrastructure for the age of generative intelligence. On stage, inside BC + AI, and at Futureproof Festival.
Stages with receipts
Rooms where the work got said out loud.
Linked talks, not logo wallpaper. Pick a stage, watch or read what happened.
Working archive
From the contact sheet.
Current work
BC + AI. Futureproof. The stage.
Community
BC + AI
Province-wide network for responsible AI. Meetups, certification, and people who show up. 250+ members, 94+ events, 3,000+ through the door.
Festival
Futureproof
Pacific Northwest festival where builders, artists, and civic folks share one week. Frontier tech without the hype deck.
Tour
Keynotes 2026
Plain-English stage sessions on AI, taste, and human agency. No doom sermon. You leave with a frame you can use Monday morning.
Creative Labs
The labs around the work.
Vancouver AI, Punk Rock AI, Both Hands Full, and AI Garden. Live projects you can walk into. Not a portfolio wall.
Vancouver AI
The monthly meetup where BC’s AI people show up in person.
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Punk Rock AI
Tools, prompts, and stage receipts. Make culture, not content.
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Both Hands Full
A portal for filmmakers facing synthetic everything. Critique in one hand, agency in the other.
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AI Garden
Experiments and notes from the practice. Live, public, unfinished on purpose.
Visit ?Clients
The logos are the receipts.
Teams that hired the work. Hover or focus a mark for the one-line note.
Hover or focus a logo.
Services
Strategic intervention.
Three ways to work together, from a single keynote to ongoing advisory. Scoped in writing. No bait-and-switch.
II.
Workshop
Hands-on sessions for creative teams and leadership offsites. Everyone leaves having built something they can use Monday.
Work with me ?III.
Ecosystem
Community infrastructure, sponsorship strategy, and public rooms where BC’s AI practice actually meets.
Work with me ?What people say
The rooms talk back.
Quotes from stages, convenings, and programs. Attribution stays attached. These lines are already public on the testimonials archive.
Stages
Kris helped shift how my design students see their future. In one hour, he demo’d building client prototypes in real-time, turned lectures into podcasts, and showed them how to be design orchestrators, not pixel pushers.
Rooms
Kris’s talk and event design felt like a masterclass in community organizing.
Practice
Visceral, real, and incredibly current. Truly authentic and up to date.
Writing
Essays from the edge of AI, creativity, community, tools, taste, and what happens after the demo.
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Futureproof Festival of AI
Futureproof Festival of AI is the room Vancouver has been rehearsing for, three days of art, technology, argument, and better questions at the Space…
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Keep the Machine Strange: Technological Resistance in the Age of AI
Neil Postman did not predict AI. He left us something more useful: a discipline for refusing to treat any technology as the weather. Here…
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Both Hands on the Power Cord: AI, Energy and Who Gets Canada’s Future
I marched through Vancouver in a crowd chanting ‘Fuck AI.’ Then I went home and used AI to organize my notes. That contradiction is…
