Choose your track

BC + AI training portfolio

Pick the program that matches the work in front of you: governance decisions, AI-assisted production, or a full creative workflow rebuild.

Gabriel George Sr. speaks on stage to a seated Vancouver AI audience.

Governance and deployment judgment

Responsible AI Professional

For leaders, executives, and practitioners who need to make better calls about AI risk, ethics, accountability, and rollout.

Next cohorts
Online Cohort 2 starts Aug 7. Online Cohort 3 starts Sep 18.
You leave with
Four governance artifacts plus a custom Ethics Practice Assistant

Explore RAP

AI Film Club launch night thumbnail for the future of film and animation.

AI-assisted animation pipeline

AI Animation Accelerator

For animators, filmmakers, and creative teams who want to direct a portfolio-ready animated short through the Tiny Ghost production pipeline.

Next cohort
July 27, Aug 4, Aug 10, 2026, live on Zoom
You leave with
A 30-40 second animated short and repeatable production workflow

Explore Animation

TheUpgrade logo.

Creative workflow rebuild

AI Upgrade for Creative Professionals

For filmmakers, designers, writers, marketers, and creative operators rebuilding their whole workflow with AI without losing their craft.

Status
Next BC + AI cohort dates to be announced
Proof
8 cohorts and 200+ creative professionals trained

Explore AI Upgrade

3 practical tracks
8 AI Upgrade cohorts
200+ creative professionals trained
4 RAP governance artifacts

Compare the programs

Program Best for Format Current status You leave with Primary CTA
Responsible AI Professional Leaders, governance leads, executives, senior practitioners Four-week online cohorts, Fridays 3:00-4:30 PM PT Cohort 2 starts Aug 7; Cohort 3 starts Sep 18 Personal AI Inventory, Ethics Assessment, Deployment Checklist, Ethics Impact Assessment, and custom assistant RAP page
AI Animation Accelerator Animators, filmmakers, creative teams, students Three live online sessions July 27, Aug 4, Aug 10, 2026 30-40 second animated short, Tiny Ghost-style pipeline, screening-ready capstone Animation page
AI Upgrade for Creative Professionals Filmmakers, designers, writers, marketers, creative operators Six-week live cohort and coaching Next BC + AI cohort dates to be announced A rebuilt creative workflow, AI stack, trained creative-DNA model, and peer network AI Upgrade page

What all three programs have in common

Artifact first

You do not leave with only a slide deck. You leave with a checklist, an assessment, a short film, a rebuilt workflow, a trained assistant, or a production method you can use again.

Taught by practitioners

The programs are built by people working with AI in real rooms: governance, creative production, community training, client work, and cohort facilitation.

Community after the cohort

BC + AI gives the work a place to keep moving: meetups, screenings, office hours, working groups, and a network of people trying to make AI useful in British Columbia.

Proof from the programs

RAP
Nearly 30 professionals

Cohort 1 brought leaders and practitioners into a practical responsible-AI governance room, organized around four artifacts they could take back to work.

Animation
17 of 20 paid seats

Cohort 1 drew students across Canada, the US, and Europe, screened shorts to roughly 200 industry attendees, and picked up a UK studio signal on day one.

AI Upgrade
8 cohorts, 200+ alumni

The six-week creative-professionals program has already trained a substantial alumni base through TheUpgrade and is ready for a BC + AI certification surface.

How to choose

Choose RAP if the risk is deployment judgment: policy, accountability, governance artifacts, and leadership decisions.

Choose Animation if the job is one finished creative production: a short, a pipeline, and a screening-ready capstone.

Choose AI Upgrade if the job is your whole creative operating system: tools, taste, automation, trained models, and repeatable workflows.

Choose the program that matches the work

Responsible adoption, AI-assisted production, and creative workflow reinvention are different jobs. The portfolio now treats them that way.