What people say
Proof from the rooms, stages, and cohorts.
From Responsible AI classrooms and Vancouver meetups back through the photography and connector years — these are lines people put their names on. AI-era voices first; the archive stays honest about the path that got here.
Featured
The lines that carry the current era.
Recent voices from the Responsible AI Professional cohort and the BC + AI community — human-first adoption, rooms that hold wonder and scepticism, and a community people credit as real.
“Two things can be true at once. AI is here and I’m going to keep enabling it across our teams. And it can be done responsibly, with humans first, by people who treat that as the actual job rather than a disclaimer at the bottom of a deck.”
Kerris Hougardy, MBA · Responsible AI Professional, Cohort 1
“The BC + AI Ecosystem … is different than any other AI group I’m aware of — full of artists and creatives, filmmakers and indigenous voices, as well as deep tech experts and entrepreneurs. It holds space for both wonder and scepticism around AI without veering too far one way or the other.”
Landon Steele · Steele Consulting Group
“Kris Krüg has built something important for our community.”
Carly Steiman · Founder, Workbee Home Services
Talks & teaching
Stages, classrooms, and design rooms.
What happens when a keynote or guest session leaves people with language and moves they can use — not just a temporary spark.
“Kris helped shift how my design students see their future. In one hour, he demo’d building client prototypes in real-time, turned lectures into podcasts, and showed them how to be design orchestrators, not pixel pushers.”
Jai Djwa
“Kris’s talk and event design felt like a masterclass in community organizing.”
Ed Kennedy
“Visceral, real, and incredibly current. Truly authentic and up to date.”
Audience feedback
Programs
Responsible AI Professional — Cohort 1.
Four weeks of frameworks, hard questions, and a hands-on capstone. Graduates speaking in their own words about ethics, governance, and shipping without being reckless.
“So pleased to have completed this course, the guidance was amazing, and the final capstone was a chance to explore responsible AI. If you want to round out your understanding of ethics, and responsible AI, this is well worth the time.”
David Gloyn-Cox · Enterprise Architect
“The course delivers very important insights into risks of large scale AI deployments. … Highly recommended for anyone who has a stake in the responsible use of PII data, environmental impact, and good governance of AI projects.”
Fiann O’Hagan · Web analytics & performance
“Four weeks of asking the hard questions about deploying AI responsibly, applying real frameworks to real systems. Moving fast with AI without being reckless.”
Tavis Yeung · Digital Marketing Innovation
Community & rooms
Meetups, film club, and the people who show up.
The recurring rooms — Film Club denseness, ecosystem texture, monthly Vancouver energy — described by people who were in the seats.
“The room was packed and the program was a blend of entertaining films, short technical tutorials, and thoughtful discussion about where the industry is heading. … The room last night was full of people re-inventing themselves and their industries and looking for ways to rebuild better.”
Steve Jones, CFA · BC + AI Film Club
“Honestly Kris, if you are still uncertain about whether you have created something that matters — a movement, a community, a force in BC — then you need your eyes, ears, and all other senses tested.”
Simon Haworth · Vancouver AI Meetup #30
“The opening grounding … made the rest of the night feel that before anyone says ‘agentic workflow,’ remember whose land, whose water, whose stories, whose labour, and whose data we are standing on. … Rock on, Mr KK!”
Suzy Easton · Vancouver AI Meetup #30
Archive
Photography and connector years.
Older public lines from the camera-at-conferences and community-connector era. Kept as history, not as the lead proof for AI work today.
“Anytime I see Kris at a conference, camera in hand, my heart lifts a little… Seeing the event through Kris’ eyes is like doing it all over again… only better.”
Rob Cottingham
“A lesson in ‘getting stuff done’, kris is one of those people who seems to make the impossible possible – and manages to keep a few cards up his sleeve in the process.”
Joshua Dunford · BURNKIT
“Not pretentious but genuinely connected. Kris brings out the best in others and connects those around him.”
Benjamin Random
“Kris is many things to many people. He gives good friend. He gives good birthday. He gives good debate, good gnomedex, good podcast, good video, good advice, good vancouver, good sxsw, and good revolution. Some say Canada is the new black. I say it’s Kris.”
Corey Dennis
“Kris takes breathtaking, lyrical and gorgeous pictures.”
Claudine Co
“Kris is unstoppable, except by large objects too heavy to move.”
Stephanie Vacher
“A search for “Flaming Lips” brought me to KK, his friends and one of the best ever photos of the band. … Continue to live big Kris… the next generation is watching.”
Danie Peace
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