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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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Vancouver, BC · Kris Krug
Friday, July 24, 2026
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.
Recent stages
TED
SXSW
Adobe MAX
Web Summit
FITC
MIT Media Lab
CreativeMornings
UN
Working archive
From the contact sheet.
Current work
What Kris is building now.
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Community
BC + AI
Province-wide trust layer for responsible AI: meetups, certification, policy rooms, and practical adoption.
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Festival
Futureproof
Pacific Northwest gathering where frontier tech, creative practice, and civic trust share one public room.
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Tour
Keynotes 2026
Stage sessions on authored judgment, human agency, and the operating conditions for responsible AI.
Services
Strategic intervention.
Three ways to work together — from a single keynote to ongoing advisory. Scoped in writing. No bait-and-switch.
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Workshop
Hands-on sessions for creative teams and leadership offsites. Everyone leaves having built something they can use Monday.
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Ecosystem
Community infrastructure, sponsorship strategy, and public rooms where BC’s AI practice actually meets.
Work with me →Writing
Essays from the edge of AI, creativity, community, tools, taste, and what happens after the demo.
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I AM NOMAD: Nine Cuts, One Melting Whale, and a Very Patient AI Editor
How Kris Krüg and Suzy Easton turned the AI Film Club’s one-word Retro challenge into a 53.5-second 4K film, a psychedelic WebGL airport, and…
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Watch Who’s Smiling
The AI Doc is beautifully made and worth your two hours. It’s also a comfort machine, and the cheeriest voices in it are the…
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Artists Learn. Machines Extract.
Morgane Oger asked the good version of the copyright and AI question: if artists learn from artists, what makes machine training different? The answer…