Current work, living systems, and useful experiments
A portfolio of AI culture, community infrastructure, keynote systems, and long-haul visual storytelling.
I build things that help people meet the future without losing the plot: public AI communities, practical training, talks that become reusable portals, and story systems that make technology feel human again.
Featured work
The center of gravity right now is AI, creativity, place-based community, and helping teams build practical confidence without flattening the weird human parts.
BC + AI Ecosystem
A province-wide community and industry association for responsible, inclusive, place-rooted AI in British Columbia.
AI Keynotes
Talks and workshops on AI mindset, creative rebellion, human agency, archives, culture, and leadership after the point of no return.
The Upgrade AI
Training, workshops, and applied AI sessions for creative professionals, organizations, community builders, and leadership teams.
Public artifacts
Some talks become working websites: scripts, exercises, prompts, resource libraries, and field notes that keep moving after the room empties.
Both Hands Full
A World AI Film Festival keynote portal for filmmakers and creative workers navigating synthetic media, authorship, taste, and responsibility.
Punk Rock AI
A CreativeMornings Vancouver keynote rebuilt as a maker-first portal about agency, taste, and refusing to become a content machine.
Developing an AI Mindset
A practical AI adoption resource for teams that need shared language, demos, and a humane first step into the tools.
KrisKrug.co
The long-running archive, publishing engine, proof layer, and connective tissue for the work across AI, media, community, and culture.
How the work shows up
Same operating system, different surfaces: stages, training rooms, associations, media systems, and fieldwork.
AI education and adoption
Workshops, keynotes, demos, and custom sessions that help people build confidence without flattening the ethical and creative questions.
Community infrastructure
Convening, association-building, sponsorship, event design, and systems that help networks become durable instead of merely loud.
Photography and media
Decades of documentary, conference, portrait, festival, and movement storytelling across technology, culture, and social change.
Social impact and culture
Work spanning Indigenous-led community projects, youth media, climate gatherings, UN convenings, documentary fieldwork, and civic technology.
Archive highlights
The back catalog matters. It shows the pattern: cameras, communities, weird rooms, culture, civic technology, and enough miles on the road to know when an idea is real.
UN Global Youth Summit on HIV, Bamako
Keynote and youth activist media mentoring work with UNAIDS in Mali, bringing online organizing and movement storytelling into a global room.
COP15 and climate storytelling
Hosted conversations and produced media around open culture, climate action, and digital community at major international gatherings.
WE Day, conferences, and impossible rooms
Photography and video work in rooms where politics, celebrity, activism, and youth culture all collided.
Founders, networks, and the social web
Years documenting and convening the early social internet, startup communities, conferences, and the people who shaped the platforms.
Festivals, artists, and pop-cultural fieldwork
From Grammys corridors to festival fields, the work has always followed the living edge of culture.
PopTech, SXSW, TEDx, and idea circuits
Speaking, hosting, photographing, and learning inside the strange, generative spaces where culture and technology cross-pollinate.