Events I build, host & speak at
I don’t just attend the AI conversation. I host the room.
From a monthly Vancouver meetup to film-club screenings, weekly office hours, and keynote stages from São Paulo to Whistler. These are the rooms where BC’s AI community actually shows up, argues, makes things, and leaves braver. Most run on Luma; come find the next one.
Upcoming
On the calendar.
Stages, festivals, and the next rooms. Register and come say hi.
Friday, Sept 25 · 11:30am-1:30pm · BOSA Theatre, Capilano University
World Tourism Day: AI, Tourism & Human Touch
AI keynote and panel for TRECSA (Capilano University’s Tourism & Outdoor Recreation Student Association) on World Tourism Day – how AI and the digital agenda are reshaping tourism in BC, with Paula Amos (Indigenous Tourism BC), Jason Williams (YVR) and Amber Papou (Tourism Industry Association of BC).
Wed, Sept 30 · Space Centre
Vancouver AI Community Meetup
Next Vancouver AI Community Meetup on Wednesday, September 30. Hosted monthly at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.
Oct 28–30 · H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Futureproof Festival
Inaugural Futureproof Festival at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Oct 28–30, 2026. The rooms, screenings, and conversations BC + AI has been building toward.
Monday, Nov 23 · 11am–12pm PST · Online
AI for Magazines Without Losing the Plot
One hour in AMPA’s Strategies for Canadian Magazines series, hosted by Joyce Byrne, for publishers, editors and creative leads on small teams. Where AI can buy back time in a magazine workflow without handing over editorial judgment, creative voice, source relationships or reader trust. Delegate the mechanics, keep the meaning.
Archive
Past rooms.
Every Vancouver AI meetup edition plus dated stages that have rolled off Upcoming.
Wednesday, Sept 2 · North House · Vancouver
League of Innovators × North House: AI Show & Tell
Read the recapSaturday, Aug 15 · 10:15–11:15am · Orchard Commons, UBC
Mensa Canada AG: AI Ethics in the Wild
Recap / detailsThursday, Aug 13 · 9–11am · Thermador Experience & Design Centre
Coffee Conversations #1: The Impact of AI
Recap / details
July 2026 · SFU · Panelist
SFU AI panel
Panel conversation on AI at Simon Fraser University.
July 2026 · Vancouver · Host
AI Ethical Futures Lab w/ Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Hosted an AI Ethical Futures Lab session with Morten Rand-Hendriksen, LinkedIn Learning instructor.
April 2026 · Alibi Room, Gastown · Host
YVR AI Welcome Salon (TED2026 week)
Welcome salon at the Alibi Room in Gastown for AI folks in town during TED2026 week. TED-adjacent, not TED-affiliated.
March 2026 · Squamish · Workshop lead
Sea to Sky Gondola AI-ethics workshop
Staff workshop on AI ethics and responsible use at the Summit Lodge in Squamish.
Feb 2026 · Vancouver · Workshop lead
Vibe Working Workshop
Hands-on Vancouver AI workshop on vibe working: AI-assisted work practices and workflows.
Sept 2025 · Virtual · Workshop
AMD Media CoPilot AI Workshop
Led a virtual AI workshop for AMD’s global communications team, delivered with The Media Copilot’s crew of veteran journalists. Private corporate engagement, no public listing.
Sept 2025 · EA HQ Burnaby · Keynote
Electronic Arts Creative Innovation Keynote
Ninety minutes with about 50 senior Electronic Arts executives on AI as Mirror: AI tools, hackathons as catalysts, and training models on your own creative assets. September 2025, exact day approximate.
Dec 2024 (day approx) · Wosk Centre, Vancouver · Host
Dialogue on Technology (DoT) Summit
Recap / details
Series I produce & host
The rooms I build and keep building.
Not one-off panels. Recurring rituals with their own crowds, collaborators, and momentum.
Monthly · Vancouver
Vancouver AI Community Meetup
The flagship night I host and curate: builders, artists, founders, and the curious in one room every month. Demos, talks, arguments, and the occasional Squatchie Award. The heartbeat of the local scene.
Weekly · Online
BC + AI Office Hours
Every Friday, an open working session for the BC + AI ecosystem: questions, show-and-tell, and practical help moving real AI work forward. The connective tissue between the big monthly rooms.
Monthly · Multimodal Media Lab
AI Film Club
Co-led with Kevin Friel and Luke Minaker: monthly screenings and hands-on accelerators for filmmakers staying human while the tools get good at everything. Building toward the 2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival in October 2026.
Ongoing · BC + AI
The special-interest groups
The deeper-end rooms inside the ecosystem: Mind, AI & Consciousness (MAC) deepdives, the AI + Education SIG, and the AI Ethical Futures Lab, plus regional chapters spinning up beyond Vancouver.
Stages I speak on
Keynotes, festivals, and the rooms that travel.
A few recent ones, several with the full talk on tape.
São Paulo · Keynote
World AI Film Festival Brasil
Opening keynote: "How to keep our souls intact when the machines get really good at making everything." The Both Hands Full framework for filmmakers, students, and creative technologists.
Vancouver · Keynote
LaSalle College
"Both Hands Full: what creatives actually need to know about AI." A graduation-season keynote on staying human, useful, and employable as the tools accelerate.
Whistler · Speaker series
Whistler Institute Global Speaker Series
"Inside Vancouver's AI Boom": the local scene as a case study in building AI culture that's practical, ethical, and alive instead of hype-driven.
Conference · Keynote
ChannelNext
"The future of humanity: chaos & creativity", a keynote that ends in a live, on-stage AI synthesis of the whole conference. The kind of risk that only works live.
Web Summit Vancouver
Calm Before the Storm
The community night I host on the eve of the big conferences (Web Summit, SIGGRAPH), so the locals own the room before the circus arrives.
Signature moments
The nights people still talk about.
The Thinking Game premiere
A documentary night at the Space Centre theatre with the AI Salon: big screen, bigger conversation.
The Squatchie Awards
The community's tongue-in-cheek year-end recognition: Vancouver AI's answer to an awards show.
Holiday Social / BC + AI Festivus
The end-of-year gathering where the whole ecosystem (and a birthday or two) collides.
Bring me to your stage, or your city
Come to a room, or let's build one.
Follow along on Luma for what's next, or bring a keynote, workshop, or community build to your event.