Sarah Blyth, Simon Haworth, a backyard full of scientists, and whether all this clever software can make itself useful on East Hastings.
Tag: bc ai
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Joel Hansen put me in front of the League of Innovators and North House founder cohorts for an hour. I skipped the panel and showed them the thing I actually do every day, then the room…
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Futureproof Festival of AI is the room Vancouver has been rehearsing for, three days of art, technology, argument, and better questions at the Space Centre.
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How a scrappy Vancouver meetup became a grassroots BC AI movement rooted in ceremony, community, practical learning, and relationships before transactions.
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Canada does need AI infrastructure. But without consent, climate discipline, Indigenous governance, and community benefit, bigger just means faster extraction.
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Canada launched its AI for All strategy this week, and the applause economy switched on within the hour. Here is the difference between cheering for a strategy and actually delivering one.
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A practical operating model for routing AI work through canonical skills, explicit gates, and evidence loops instead of treating every task like a one-off prompt with a fancy hat.
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Why BC + AI built the Responsible AI Professional Certification: practical governance, real artifacts, and a community-grounded way to make better AI decisions before deployment.
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An ~80-minute STORYHIVE On Location sit-down with Jordan Dack at Haus of Owl in Victoria — territory acknowledged, facts-or-fiction warm-up, both hands full on broadcast, Vancouver AI as infrastructure, and why human rooms still matter when…
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A Web Summit Vancouver open letter asking who sovereign AI is really for; the neighbourhoods, host Nations, artists, builders, and citizens expected to carry the load.
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A refreshed skeptical guide to Canada’s June 4, 2026 AI for All strategy: what Carney and Solomon promised, what later coverage added, and where the public should keep asking for receipts.
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Futureproof has been rattling around in my head for years. The difference now is that Vancouver has the people, the trust, and the room to make it real.
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I made AI protest signs for a Vancouver data-center fight, signs that refuse to pick a side. On water, compute, sovereignty, and holding both hands full.
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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…
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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This is our moment to decide what we want this technology to be. Do we let it become another tool of digital feudalism, or do we grab the reins and steer it toward something more equitable,…