Vancouver AI Community Meetup: 09/24
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Event: Vancouver AI Community Meetup: 09/24
Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
Location: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Vancouver British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada ChIJX-DfNzNyhlQR76LZl5hs5bc IEAD2DC7360C328D1
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Vancouver AI warmly welcomes all members of the community passionate about shaping the future of AI – researchers, creatives, tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, professionals, students, and beyond!
Technology isn’t neutral and neither are we. Vancouver AI is assembling the brain trust of BC’s AI ecosystem… researchers with revolutionary vision, artists with computational minds, and builders who question what they’re building.
Our keynotes aren’t corporate retreads…they’re field reports from the edge, raw transmissions from explorers who’ve gone beyond the algorithm and returned with something worth sharing.
Bring your projects, your questions, your wild ideas—this is where the future gets built together.
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We’re the intersection where diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and interests converge to explore our shared humanity in the age of AI. All welcome, no gatekeeping.
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The machines are learning. Are we? Join the conversation that matters.
Remember Your Teachings: Listening Across Species: Interspecies Translation with Care
Manuel Axel Strain is a 2-Spirit artist from the lands and waters of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Simpcw, and Syilx peoples.
Their practice braids family memory, land-based ceremony, and anti-colonial aesthetics to re-imagine how we relate across beings and systems.
THE SPACE
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St. The place with the UFO-looking roof that makes you feel like you’re discussing AI in the appropriate sci-fi setting. Fully accessible. Parking available for your carbon-producing vehicles. Transit nearby.
THE SPONSORS
- Dimitri Schwartzman: Real estate guy who funds community stuff instead of just buying yachts
- SEGEV LLP: Lawyers who can talk about tech without reading from Wikipedia
- METACREATION Lab: Researchers who understand AI should make art, not just surveillance tech
- RIVAL Technologies: Modernizing research by making it conversational, AI-powered, and mobile-first.
THE PARTNERS
- HR MacMillan Space Centre: Letting us use their cosmic dome
- BC + AI Ecosystem: Multi-modal, multi-cultural, radically local, and future-facing
- Creative Mornings Vancouver: Morning people who somehow still have good ideas
ABOUT VANCOUVER AI
Vancouver AI is a neural network of curious humans mapping the terrain between technology and consciousness.
Since 2023, we’ve been building a different kind of tech community: one that questions as much as it creates, that bridges art galleries and research labs, corporate towers and garage workshops.
We run monthly gatherings where you’ll find the unexpected: AI researchers jamming with musicians, developers debating ethics with philosophers, and entrepreneurs finding inspiration in indigenous wisdom. Together we’re co-creating understanding.
No outsiders calling the shots, no Silicon Valley hypercapitalist agenda… just a self-organizing system of people who give a damn about where this technological revolution is taking us and who gets to steer.
ABOUT VANCOUVER AI & THE BC + AI ECOSYSTEM
Vancouver AI was just the start. BC’s AI Ecosystem continues to grow, with new community hubs emerging in Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna, and beyond—each contributing unique perspectives to a thriving, interconnected network.
BC + AI represents a collective, province-wide effort to democratize AI knowledge, innovation, and opportunity.
THE FINE PRINT:
- Limited to 200 human bodies
- Will sell out, just like every other VAI event
- Bring stickers to trade. Yes, we’re serious. Analog connection in a digital world.
- Photography & video will happen. Your mug might end up online. If you’re in witness protection, wear a fake mustache.
The machines are watching. Let’s give them something worth the bandwidth.
🖤❤️✊🔥🏴
About BC + AI Ecosystem Association
BC + AI is the province-wide layer: a community-driven, nonprofit industry association built to create public-interest infrastructure for AI in British Columbia.
Not a corporate lobby. Not a think tank. A commons where meetups turn into working groups, prototypes turn into shared tools, and community values turn into governance.
Join / support: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
