Vancouver AI Meetup #30 lands at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, from 6 to 10 PM. The update brings together public-sector AI perspective, local creative and technical practice, Indigenous community presence, food, and the BC + AI ecosystem’s usual mix of curiosity and shared work.
Why Mission #30 Matters
Thirty gatherings in, the Vancouver AI meetup has become less of a one-off event and more of a local signal: AI is not just something being shipped from elsewhere. It is being questioned, tested, remixed, refused, taught, and built here too.
The date card is simple, but the room is bigger than the poster. Mission #30 is about public learning, creative practice, education, small businesses, institutions, and the people who will live with these systems long after the demo ends.
Space Centre Frame
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre gives this edition a venue with the right mix of public science, imagination, and civic learning. We are talking about technology and futures, but with both feet planted in Vancouver.
Rick Glumac Joins As Featured Community Speaker
The Honourable Rick Glumac, Minister of State for AI and New Technologies, joins Mission #30 as a featured community speaker. The goal is not ceremony or endorsement. It is a chance to connect the public-interest AI conversation with the local people doing the day-to-day work of learning, building, organizing, teaching, and asking better questions.
Rick is joining as a featured community speaker. This is not a sponsorship, government endorsement, or policy announcement.
The Community Lineup
Anthonia Ogundele brings the Ethos Lab lens: youth, culture, community leadership, and technology as something people should be able to shape, question, and use on their own terms.
Creative Studio Practice
Mayumi Rollings brings the Tiny Ghost Studios creative-production and AI animation lane to the meetup, grounding the AI conversation in how tools change the way artists and teams actually make things.
Technical Practice
Kushal Goenka brings a software engineer’s builder lens: practical systems thinking, implementation choices, and a focus on what makes AI tools useful in the real world.
Local Grounding
Anthony Joseph and Jonny Williams join from Squamish Nation, adding local, place-based presence to a meetup about culture, protocol, community, and technology.
Hospitality
Aliza Schwartzman and Noa Titiesky from Slapd Treats bring the food-and-community layer that helps these nights work.
BC + AI Host
Kris Krüg hosts the evening as part of BC + AI’s grassroots work to connect artists, researchers, builders, students, founders, skeptics, teachers, organizers, and curious neighbours across British Columbia.
Register Or Get Involved
Come deep in the field or just getting started. Bring demos, doubts, questions, experiments, and people who should be in the conversation. Register on Luma, or explore BC + AI membership if you want to volunteer, speak, sponsor, bring a demo, or support the community beyond this one night.
QR cards in this package were decoded and verified on June 4, 2026. Both point to https://bc-ai.ca/.