Regional chapter
CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
A regional chapter for people in Courtenay, Comox, Cumberland, Hornby, Campbell River, and the wider Island who want real conversation about AI close to home.
Communities
Regional chapters and special interest groups
From one Vancouver meetup to a province-wide AI community.
BC + AI became a nonprofit because the work had grown bigger than one room. The communities below are the pillars: local chapters, creative labs, education circles, policy rooms, and philosophical deep dives where people can learn, argue, build, and belong.
Origin
Vancouver AI created the pattern: a big-tent room for builders, artists, educators, researchers, founders, and civic voices.
Vancouver AI created the pattern: a big-tent room for builders, artists, educators, researchers, founders, and civic voices.
Shift
The nonprofit formed because new circles kept springing up underneath the main meetup.
The nonprofit formed because new circles kept springing up underneath the main meetup.
Shape
Each community has its own cadence, questions, hosts, culture, and next step.
Each community has its own cadence, questions, hosts, culture, and next step.
Featured communities
Focused rooms for a bigger ecosystem.
Creative practice
AI Film Club
The creative AI filmmaking home for screenings, workflow demos, works in progress, and the road to the BC + AI Film Festival.
Deep inquiry
Mind, AI, and Consciousness (Mac)
Applied philosophy for the AI era: consciousness, embodiment, agency, mind, and moral consideration.
Learning and equity
Ed + AI: Education Meetup
A consent-first, equity-minded, place-rooted circle with Ethos Lab for educators, youth, parents, builders, and neighbours.
Civil society and policy
AI Ethical Futures Lab
The action-oriented civil society layer: policy monitoring, public consultation, practical toolkits, and laptops-out sessions.
Life sciences and healthcare
Life Sciences & AI
The domain-specific room for AI in biology, chemistry, biotech, healthcare, drug discovery, and life sciences commercialization.
Regional chapters
Place-based community
Regional chapters keep AI grounded in the people, venues, questions, and relationships of a place.
Special interest groups
Focused inquiry and practice
Special interest groups turn the big AI conversation into sustained rooms for creative practice, education, ethics, and consciousness.
Start or join a room
AI community grows when people decide to host the conversation they wish existed.
RSVP for an event, become a member, follow the regional chapter closest to you, or reach out if you want to help organize a new local or topic-focused group under the BC + AI umbrella.