Kris Krüg | Generative AI Tools & Techniques
Empowering Events & Organizations for the AI Age
Vancouver Tech Journal is hosting “#VTJTalks: Grading Vancouver’s Innovation Economy in 2025” on December 10th. Here’s what you need to know: The company running this show is led by a former BC Premier who had the RCMP raid his house on live TV. Their playbook involves firing journalists who refuse to promote sponsors. And they Read More …
Registration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge. If you’re skeptical? Even better—every alumni in these quotes started right there. Read More …
Stop waiting for the perfect tool or policy. This is what’s working now.
Get your hands dirty—or get comfortable being obsolete. Read More …
You thought you were safe in “knowledge work?” The machines ate that script. The future is ordinary life now. Want to survive? Build community, get weird, stay human. #AIcommunity #NowNotNext Read More …
We just launched Canada’s first grassroots AI industry organization. Not because we love meetings, but because someone has to ask the hard questions while everyone else is busy printing money on artificial intelligence. Like: Who gets to decide what “intelligent” means when you live on unceded territory? Read More …
A monthly open-source mixtape of BC AI knowledge, culture & collective intelligence from the bleeding edge of the Pacific Cascadian AI underground. Read More …
“Industry associations” claim to represent AI in BC. Meanwhile, our grassroots community built something they couldn’t: an ecosystem where humans matter more than profit. They’re selling AI. We’re living it. Read More …
Behind the press kits and panels, Vancouver’s tech underground is staging a protocol shift—one rooted in justice, joy, and gentle refusal. Read More …
Reimagine what economics can be when we measure what truly matters—community well-being, environmental stewardship, cultural wealth, and intergenerational sustainability. Read More …
AI don’t need hype. It needs healing. We opened the night with ceremony, not code. Spirit first. Systems second. That’s how you realign the future. Read More …
Most digital systems are designed for neurotypical productivity zombies. What if you built one optimized for your actual thought patterns instead? Inside: how I transformed fleeting ideas into completed projects by embracing digital chaos instead of fighting it. Read More …
How will you connect worlds that have never spoken to each other? Which voices will you amplify? What values will guide your choices? The future isn’t written in code yet—it’s being written by those brave enough to navigate digital chaos with bold authenticity, one unexpected connection at a time. Read More …
Forget boring data decks. I just sat down with Rival Technologies CEO Andrew Reid to plan Vancouver’s most ambitious AI hackathon yet. We’re challenging 40+ teams to reinvent how humans experience data – starting with the eternal question: “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” Read More …
Data is the new land, algorithms are the settlers, and we’re all just unpaid labor feeding the machine. Every prompt, every input, every “free” tool is a fresh vein of digital gold being mined for corporate empires.
And the kicker? They’re selling our own reflections back to us—our words, our art, our creativity—wrapped in a polished, machine-generated sheen. AI isn’t neutral; it’s power-coded. And unless we start rewriting the rules, we’re just passengers in someone else’s history. Read More …
Forget Silicon Valley playbooks—we’re writing new rules where data speaks truth and machines amplify humanity.
This is AI with soul, purpose, and swagger. #DataStorytelling #VancouverAI Read More …
Where the real work gets done. No gatekeepers, no hand-holding—just a crew of builders, thinkers, and misfits shaping BC’s AI future. Watch what we’re making. Read More …
Sales sensei Shane Gibson reveals how combining AI tools with a martial artist’s mindset creates unstoppable sales professionals. Like mastering a fighting form, Shane’s approach to AI in sales requires discipline, consistent practice, and the willingness to embrace discomfort.
Discover how his custom AI coaching tools function as a digital dojo, enabling incremental improvements that compound into exponential sales results. Read More …
For 15 months, I’ve been mapping a network of creators and builders creating AI on their own terms. From basement studios in East Van to Indigenous tech labs on unceded territories, this isn’t Silicon Valley’s AI revolution. It’s messier, more alive, and probably what the future actually looks like. Read More …
From hackers to poets, legal minds to artists, our community-driven AI revolution is rewriting the rules. Dive into our one-year anniversary celebration and see how we’re making AI open, ethical, and creative. Read More …