CV + AI Luma hub
Public hub for the next Comox Valley RSVP links.
CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
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.
Visual: Published Comox Valley launch recap inline image
What this room is for
A clear place to show up.
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.
- Grounded local conversation without hype, panic, or sales pitches.
- A bridge from Vancouver's big-tent AI community into Island-specific relationships and practical experiments.
- A place for difficult but respectful conversations about schools, work, creativity, compute, culture, privacy, and community resilience.
Upcoming
The next gathering is being finalized. Follow the Comox Valley Luma hub for the latest RSVP link.
Watch the Luma hub for the next meetup, come to a gathering, or contact BC + AI if you want to help with the chapter.
What happens here
The public shape of the room.
- Neighbours introduce what they are actually seeing in work, school, art, civic life, and local business.
- The room keeps enthusiasm and concern in the same conversation instead of forcing people into camps.
- Regional organizers turn the energy into the next practical gathering, sponsor relationship, or local experiment.
Privacy-safe by design
Public signal in, private trust protected.
Public news asset already live; crowd is shown at room scale and the page avoids attendee identity.
Recent / upcoming signal
Public links with useful context.
Meetup #0 recap
The first public proof point: 75 registrations, 75 attendees, and local sponsor momentum.
Public context
Open the threads without exposing the private room.
Local themes
Education, open-source AI, professional disruption, local compute, privacy, community resilience, and the human-development question running underneath all of it.
How participation works
Start with the public Luma hub. Private group channels and organizer details stay off the public page and are shared through the chapter's in-person flow.
Privacy boundary
The page uses already-published event imagery and public recap language only. It does not publish private chats, contact details, or attendee-specific stories.
Story so far
How this community became one of the pillars.
CV + AI proves the BC + AI model travels. The first Comox Valley AI community meetup was meant to be a planning session. Instead, 75 people registered and 75 showed up.
The room had local compute builders, educators, creatives, civic leaders, parents, Natural Pastures bringing sponsorship energy, and people already wrestling with what AI means for work, school, culture, and human development.
The chapter keeps the core question simple and deep: what does it mean to be human in the age of AI?
Join
Watch the Luma hub for the next meetup, come to a gathering, or contact BC + AI if you want to help with the chapter.
BC + AI keeps the doors open through events, membership, and organizer-led channels. Start with the public event link, then join the appropriate group channel in person.
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