If you are booking the public-facing version of an AI conversation, this is the lane.
Keynotes and workshops are the obvious shape of my speaking work. But a lot of the most useful work happens in formats where the job is conversational: podcast guesting, broadcast commentary, produced video, panels, live interviews, hosting, moderating, and emceeing.
This is the media and appearances side of my AI work: making machine intelligence understandable, practical, creative, and culturally literate for real people without pretending the weird parts are not weird.
For producers and bookers, the fast path is the Podcast Guesting EPK. For stages, workshops, and custom sessions, start with AI Keynote Speaking.
Broadcast Explainers
The clearest mainstream proof point is CBC Radio Early Edition’s AI Sandbox with Kris Krüg.
The premise is simple: take the fast-moving AI conversation and make it safe enough for public testing. Not safe as in sanitized. Safe as in honest, curious, critical, and useful for listeners who are trying to understand what this technology means for their jobs, families, communities, and creative lives.
Related IndigiGenius / CBC coverage with Michael Running Wolf belongs in this proof stack because it connects AI commentary to data sovereignty, ethical innovation, and community-centered technology. That thread matters a lot. Responsible AI is a culture, governance, rights, and community question, not a software question alone.
Recent Press and Quoted Commentary
The camera and mic are only half the trail. The work also shows up when reporters need somebody who can connect AI infrastructure, creative labour, public policy, and what people are actually feeling.
- Business in Vancouver: B.C. groups push to build a stronger AI ecosystem (2026): clean energy, Indigenous-owned data centres, and an AI economy that lands inside every profession.
- The Tyee: Who gets a say in AI adoption? (2026): data centres as heavy industry, public bargaining, and consultation that can still change the outcome.
- Business in Vancouver: AI-driven shakeups in legal work (2026): how legal AI could democratize parts of practice, while training and culture decide what actually gets adopted.
- Pique Newsmagazine: We can’t abdicate this future (2025): public agency and refusing to leave the future to governments or tech bros.
- CBC News and The Early Edition: Meta, Instagram, and platform power (2025): with Jovian Radheshwar and Stephen Quinn on how embedded tech has become in the economy and governance.
- BC Studies: Building a Grass Roots AI Community of Practice (2025): co-authored with Patrick Pennefather and David Gaertner, documenting the Vancouver AI Community as a grassroots use case.
For the broader written trail, older interviews, citations, and photography history, see Press and Publications.
Produced Video Interviews
The first stop is STORYHIVE On Location: Victoria with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl. It is eighty minutes of creative practice, AI, authorship, consent, community, and the both hands full frame without the safe little résumé parade. Read the cited companion article.
The Horizons AI Models series is the polished produced-video version of this work.
Across short clips, the series covers AI as a human experience, AI in daily workflows, and next-generation innovation. It is useful producer proof because it shows I can bring the same ideas into a compact, high-production format without turning generic.
The E-ChannelNews interview from ChannelNext Central 2025 adds another lane: AI for business audiences, managed service providers, practical adoption, and organizational readiness. That is a different room than an art school, a festival, or a public radio audience. The through-line is still the same: make AI usable without pretending the risks are fake.
Watch the Work
Two rooms, two different versions of the same question: who gets power, and what do we do with it?
Recent Video Interviews and Talks
The current work moves between public policy, creative survival, systems thinking, and the stubbornly human parts of living through an AI shift.
- AI Is Kicking Down the Door: Creativity, Jobs & BC’s Future | Kris Krüg: Recorded at LLLSummit, this talk moves from assistants and agents into creative disruption, environmental cost, and the choices British Columbia still gets to make.
- Live With Curiosity: AI, Creativity & Staying Human | Kris Krüg on Human Biography: Sharad Kharé and I get into photography, creative practice, AI ethics, and the stubbornly human value of curiosity. Read the companion article.
Earlier Video Receipts
This did not start with the current AI cycle. The archive holds nearly two decades of interviews about open source, citizen media, photography, culture, and who gets to make the future.
- Byte Club: What Is Generative AI? (2024), with Nessa Palmer.
- OHEY Podcasts: Are We Done Yet? Kris Krüg on AI-Volution (2024), with Rob Anthony.
- Citizen media and activism during the Vancouver Olympics (2010), with Justin Ruckman.
- W2 Culture + Media House launch interview (2010), from Techvibes.
- The Lab with Leo Laporte: Drupal, Bryght, and Raincity Studios (2008).
Long-Form Podcast Conversations
The deeper podcast appearances show a wider range:
- Human Biography with Sharad Kharé: curiosity, AI, creativity, art, photography, and ethics.
- Rachel Thexton Connects: AI, digital life, photography, technology, and heart.
- The Kurty D Show: photography, beauty, internet culture, AI, creative process, and putting work online.
- Teen2Life Experience: entrepreneurship, Future Proof Creatives, photography, and creative life.
Those conversations matter because a good podcast guest does more than deliver talking points. They bring stories, tensions, examples, and enough presence to make a long conversation feel alive.
Hosting, Community, and Live Video
Vancouver AI Pods, MOTLEYKRUG, and the Vancouver AI community archive show the hosting side of the work.
These are archives of a community learning in public: meetups, experiments, interviews, creative technology, AI ethics, Indigenous tech futurism, and the weird cultural edge where the future first becomes visible.
One useful example is the Vancouver AI Meetup talk, We Trained AI on Stolen Work… And I’m More Creative Than Ever. It is part keynote, part community provocation, part creator-rights argument, and part permission slip for artists to keep making ambitious work in the AI era.
Formats I Can Bring
I can show up as a:
- keynote speaker
- workshop leader
- podcast guest
- broadcast explainer
- produced-video interview subject
- panelist
- moderator
- host
- event emcee
The strongest topics are AI for creatives, responsible AI, human-centered tools, Vancouver and BC’s AI ecosystem, creator rights, creative technology, community building, media futures, and the emotional reality of living through a technological shift this big.
Book Kris For A Podcast, Interview, Or Hosted Event
If you need the media-kit version, use the Podcast Guesting EPK. If you are planning a stage, training, or custom event, use the Speaking page. For the broader picture of current projects, start with Work or About.
For booking, use Contact.
This is a selected proof stack, not the whole archive. For the wider publication, citation, and interview trail, visit Press and Publications.