Bob Mackin asked if AI would sway B.C.’s civic elections. Council had already answered by punting the data centre past the October 17 vote. Two days later, every party in town had a position.
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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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Business in Vancouver got the thesis right: AI lands inside every profession. Here is the connective infrastructure B.C. still has to build and what BC + AI is already doing.
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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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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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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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A public Vancouver AI talk about refusing the lazy binary. AI is compromised and powerful, harmful and useful, exhausting and creatively explosive.
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I started day three with my neck out, published “Sovereign AI for Whom?”, a critical piece on the federal data centre announcement, my name and face on it, and spent the rest of the day finding…
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Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy. I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest…
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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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A monthly open-source mixtape of BC AI knowledge, culture & collective intelligence from the bleeding edge of the Pacific Cascadian AI underground.
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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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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…
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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
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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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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.
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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,…