BC + AI Membership

Become a BC + AI member.

Join 300+ people building, questioning, teaching, and organizing across British Columbia. Membership gives you somewhere to keep showing up: Office Hours, coworking, working groups, community channels, and more.

Many recurring community gatherings are included with membership. Members get at least 25% off all BC + AI-produced events. Individual membership is $340 CAD / year.

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300+

members of the nonprofit

94+

events since 2023

BC regions and growing

What changes when you join

You stop starting from scratch every time you walk into a room.

Public meetups are an easy place to start. Membership gives you somewhere to return: weekly Office Hours, coworking, working groups, member channels, and people who remember what you are working on.

Move between local chapters and focused communities, bring real work into the room, meet collaborators through the directory, and help shape what BC + AI does next.

What membership includes

Year-round access to the rooms and the people.

Weekly Office Hours

Bring a question, a stuck project, or a tool you are testing to a working session.

Coworking and community channels

Share half-built ideas, ask for help, and compare notes between events.

Communities across BC

Included member places are available across gatherings such as Film Club, Ethical Futures Lab, Life Sciences, and Comox Valley events.

Working groups

Work through shared questions with builders, artists, researchers, founders, educators, public servants, students, and AI-curious humans.

Member directory

Find people by place and practice, and choose whether you want to be found too.

A voice in the association

Help shape the association priorities, programming, standards, and public-interest work.

Choose your membership

Pick the plan that matches how you show up.

Prices are CAD. Individual, Student, and Micro plans check out online. Growth and Enterprise plans are set up with us.

Cost should not block participation. Ask us about a sliding scale, and see how the Youth Access Fund makes scholarships possible.

Personal memberships

Individual

$340

CAD / year

For one person joining on their own.

Full member access: weekly Office Hours, coworking, working groups, community channels, many community gatherings included, and member event rates.

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Student

$115

CAD / year

For current students.

The same full member access at a lower rate. Proof of enrolment may be requested.

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Organization memberships

Micro Pack (5 members)

$850

CAD / year

For small teams.

Five assignable memberships under one company admin. Complete checkout online, then we’ll follow up by email to set up the seats.

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Growth Pack (12 members)

$2000

CAD / year

For growing teams.

Twelve assignable memberships. We’ll set up the invoice and seats with you.

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Enterprise Pack (30 members)

$4250

CAD / year

For larger organizations.

Thirty assignable memberships. We’ll set up the invoice and seats with you.

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The practical part

Come back often. Try more rooms.

Membership gives you more ways to take part all year, from a private weekly working session to the biggest nights on the calendar.

Public meetups remain open. Membership is what helps you keep going once you have found your people.

What opens up

Weekly Office Hours: Member-only
Many community gatherings: Included
BC + AI-produced events: 25% off or better
Futureproof Festival: 25% off

Included member places span Film Club, Ethical Futures Lab, Life Sciences, and Comox Valley gatherings. Subject to capacity and approval on Luma. For other BC + AI-produced events, choose the member ticket or member rate on the event registration page. If it is not shown, email us and we will sort it out. For Futureproof Festival, the current member code is in your account. Use it at the festival ticket desk.

From recent gatherings

The people and places behind the membership.

The full room gathers on stage for Meetup #31's closing group photo.

Two attendees connect over refreshments during Film Club arrivals, photo 003.

Surrey AI Meetup: September 2025: photo by Michelle Diamond

An Indigenous welcome performer holds a hand drum wide on the Vancouver AI Community stage.

Photos: Tristan Brand · Michelle Diamond · Michael Caswell

Voices from the room

People are already saying the quiet part out loud.

The strongest proof is not a slogan. It is builders, artists, researchers, students, and curious people putting their names and faces on why they keep showing up.

Meet everyone in the room