Media + podcasts
AI commentator, podcast guest, and event host.
Bring me in when your audience needs AI to sound human, useful, and alive. I can speak as a creative technologist, photographer, community builder, AI educator, and host who has spent years inside the rooms where technology becomes culture.
What I bring to the mic
Clear AI language
I can explain fast-moving tools without flattening the ethical, creative, and political questions that make them matter.
Field stories
BC + AI, Vancouver AI, creative AI classrooms, keynotes, media rooms, and two decades documenting technology culture.
Good friction
I am comfortable with the messy questions: authorship, labor, trust, consent, community, taste, and power.
Host energy
Warm, curious, fast on the uptake, and happy to help the room find the real question underneath the question.
Formats I am set up for: interviews, keynotes, workshops, hosting and moderation, and plain-language commentary. Topics run to responsible AI, creative practice, community infrastructure, AI literacy, taste, trust, and the weird human edge of technology.
Interview sample
Watch Kris in a real conversation
Jordan Dack hosted this long-form STORYHIVE On Location conversation at Haus of Owl in Victoria. It is a useful producer sample because the interview moves from creative practice and personal history into AI ethics, authorship, community, consent, and the questions underneath the questions.
Produced by Haus of Owl for TELUS STORYHIVE On Location. Read the companion article or see more media appearances.
Producer quick facts
Name
Kris Krüg. Please keep the umlaut in on-screen credits and show notes.
Short bio
Kris Krüg is a creative technologist, photographer, AI community builder, speaker, and founder/operator inside the BC + AI ecosystem.
Booking route
Everything goes through kriskrug.co/contact. Send the audience, topic or goal, format, timing, location or platform, and any links worth reading first.
Before you schedule
An inquiry is the start of a conversation, not a confirmed date. Dates, travel, and turnaround get agreed per booking rather than promised here.
Approved downloads
These four assets are cleared for press and editorial use. Keep the credit line attached wherever the image travels. Anything not listed here is not cleared for redistribution, so please ask rather than lifting it from the site.
Wordmark
PNG with transparency, 468 by 229. Suitable for web use; ask if you need print resolution.
Credit: Courtesy KrisKrug.co.
Close portrait
JPEG, 1707 by 2560. Crops well to portrait, square, and 4:5.
Credit: Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Full-length portrait
JPEG, 1707 by 2560. The personality-led companion to the close portrait.
Credit: Photo: Michelle Diamond.
On stage
JPEG, 1600 by 1066, from Vancouver AI Meetup 30 at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Community hosting, not a paid keynote.
Credit: Photo: Michelle Diamond, Diamond’s Edge Photography.
Brand at a glance
Everything below is read from the live Aurora theme, so a card built from it will match the site rather than drift from it.
Voice
Human, curious, warm, sharp, weird, useful. Explain the tool through people and consequences. Name authorship, labor, trust, and consent directly. Leave the audience with something to do on Monday.
Refuse
Clinical product-demo language, guru posture, corporate cheerleading, contrarian theatre, and weirdness without a point.
Core colour
Surface #efe6d2. Primary ink #171310. Accent #9a2f14. Structure line #d9cdb0.
Supporting colour
Sunk surface #e6dcc2. Secondary ink #3d342c. Muted ink #5c5044.
Type
Space Grotesk for display, DM Sans for body, JetBrains Mono for code. System sans is the fallback in each stack.
Using the marks
Keep the accent for emphasis rather than large fills, and keep display type for headings rather than body copy.
Usage and credit
Before you publish
Keep the photographer credit with the image. Do not add “courtesy of” or a reuse licence beyond what is written above. Do not describe the stage image as a paid keynote. If you need an asset that is not on this page, including a vector wordmark or a print-resolution stage frame, ask and I will sort it out.
Brand values on this page are read from Aurora theme version 1.6.9. Asset clearances were last reviewed on 2026-09-02. This page is maintained by hand, so treat the live site as the final word if the two ever disagree.
Book Kris for media
Send the topic, format, timing, audience, recording logistics, and any links I should review before we talk.