How Indigenous Knowledge Can Revolutionize the Economy

What happens when Indigenous wisdom meets artificial intelligence? Carol ANne Hilton — founder of the Indigenomics Institute and visionary behind the global #Indigenomics movement — steps onstage at the Vancouver AI Community Meetup during Web Summit to lay down a keynote that’s part ceremony, part revelation, part masterclass.

In this unforgettable talk, Carol Anne calls us back to the source — to the original language models (Indigenous languages), to the land as teacher, and to economy as ceremony.

She shares the journey of embedding AI inside the Indigenomics framework, building an Indigenous Economic Intelligence Platform, and using AI to analyze the Indian Act through a lens of human harm and healing.

This is not just a keynote. It’s a reckoning. A call to shift from extractive metrics like GDP to the sacred recognition of Indigenous-created value.

What you’ll witness:
How Indigenomics uses AI as a tool for deconstruction, reclamation, and design

A live breakdown of feeding the Indian Act into ChatGPT and analyzing its persona using a global mental health diagnostic

The architecture of the Indigenomics AI Engine — a groundbreaking model of economic intelligence rooted in Indigenous worldviews

Why intelligence has been stolen and how we can build AI that reflects our humanity,

Stay to the end for Carol Anne’s reflections on intelligence as vibration, leadership as presence, and economy as sacred movement.

Filmed live at the Vancouver AI Community Meetup during Web Summit Vancouver 2025 |hosted by Kris Krüg and the BC + AI Ecosystem.