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From One Room to Province-Wide Infrastructure

On July 3, 2026, the BC + AI public site quietly crossed a threshold.

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Vancouver AI Meetup #30 Brings the Local AI Ecosystem to the Space Centre

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29 Months, 200 Pounds of Meat, and the AI Commons: Vancouver AI Meetup #29

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Tofu Isn't Failed Meat: Rachel Horst's Anti-Slop Machine and Why Process Beats Product

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A Trillion Pages and a $5K Summer: Internet Archive Canada Meets Vancouver AI

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Calling Us All In

What set me off wasn't the centres. It was the process. A two-week online Q&A with the federal purpose buried in it. A downtown site with no public file at all. Land acknowledgments on a stage instead of named Nations on a contract. That's not consultation. That's permitting.

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Sovereign AI for Whom?

Look. I'm not on Team Pom Pom and I'm not on Team Pitchfork. Neither is anyone I work with.

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Welcome to Web Summit. Now Show Us the Numbers.

Web Summit Vancouver lands again in a city that was already alive with AI energy.

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Comox Valley AI Is Becoming Its Own Thing

After two gatherings in Courtenay, Comox Valley AI is no longer a satellite of Vancouver. It is becoming its own regional node, with farmers, teachers, mayors, software people, parents, artists, sponsors and island makers asking better questions about artificial intelligence than most boardrooms.

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Why We Built the Responsible AI Professional Certification

Last October, I watched a room full of 250 people at the Vancouver Planetarium lean forward when our speaker asked: 'How many of you are deploying AI systems at work right now?' Nearly every hand went up.

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The AI Values Gap

First-order research from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside challenges global AI alignment assumptions about whose values get counted.

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Launch of Comox Valley AI Community Meetup: CV + AI

Comox Valley AI launches with local builders, multimodal evaluation work, compute questions, and a new regional node for BC + AI.

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BC + AI’s Ethics Community Responds to Canada's Nation AI Task Force Consultation

The result? A report containing 'conflicting recommendations reflecting sharply different visions' with no clear implementation priorities.

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BC + AI's Ethics Community Responds to Canada's Nation AI Task Force Consultation

The BC + AI ethics community responds to Canada's National AI Task Force with competing visions and grounded implementation concerns.

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Dispatches from Canada's First AI + Culture Summit

I feel like I'm in the right place at the right time.

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Dispatches from Canada's First AI + Culture Summit

Dispatches from Canada's first AI + Culture Summit, where artists, institutions, and technologists met the cultural shift directly.

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What We Learned Running the First AI Animation Accelerator

Lessons from running the first AI Animation Accelerator, what creative teams needed, and why the program is coming back.

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BC's Response to the Canada’s AI Task Force

Last year, 645 British Columbians participated in Canada's AI Task Force consultation. That's 20.6% of everyone who responded nationwide, second only to Ontario.

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BC's Response to the Canada’s AI Task Force

British Columbia's response to Canada's AI Task Force shows unusually strong local participation and clear regional priorities.

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Both Hands Full: What Creatives Actually Need to Know About AI

A practical argument for creatives to hold critique and curiosity together while learning what AI changes in cultural work.

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Launching the BC + AI Film Club

BC + AI Film Club launches as a home for cinematic experiments, creative practice, and community screenings in the AI era.

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Community AI Pathways for BC’s Look West Report

Community AI pathways for BC's Look West strategy, connecting major projects, skilled workers, AI, and quantum to local capacity.

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Canada Budget 2025 × BC + AI

Canada Budget 2025 creates a path for public-sector AI demand, reference customers, and stronger scale-up conditions for BC companies.

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Community Spotlight: Dean Shev

Community Spotlight profiles Dean Shev, tracing the path from engineering survival to music, AI, and creative reinvention.

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Data for Good Keynote: The Story of BC + AI

A Data for Good keynote telling the story of BC + AI, the movement behind it, and the civic questions now on the table.

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BC + AI’s Platform for Canada’s AI Task Force

BC + AI's platform for Canada's AI Task Force argues for governance, front-line perspective, and regional ground truth.

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Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure for What Comes Next

A look at sovereign AI infrastructure, Indigenous protocol, and the local systems needed for what comes next.

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When a Healthcare Data Analyst Drops an AI Album That Makes You Cry

Dean Shev's AI-assisted album reframes what creative tools can unlock when technical practice meets lived emotion.

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August 2025: Vancouver AI Commnity Meetup Recap: VanAI #20

A recap of VanAI #20, from Gabriel George's opening ceremony to the nonprofit launch and community demos shaping BC + AI.

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Rocks, Racks & Rights: Canada's Blueprint for the AI Energy Wars

So what kind should we choose?

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Rocks, Racks & Rights: Canada's Blueprint for the AI Energy Wars

Canada's AI energy debate meets minerals, data centers, rights, and the hard infrastructure choices behind sovereign compute.

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How to Build an Agentic Coding Pipeline

A field guide to agentic coding pipelines: scoped agents, clear handoffs, constraints, and the workflow discipline that lets them run.

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Community Spotlight: Loki Jorgensen

Community Spotlight profiles Loki Jorgensen, from physics and simulation to the larger questions AI raises for people and systems.

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Canadian Plan for Regenerative AI

Three proposals for regenerative AI investment that balance federal priorities with local context, shared risk, and shared outcomes.

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Documenting the BC + AI Ecosystem Movement

UBC's BC Studies Journal documents the Vancouver AI Community and the BC + AI ecosystem movement as an emerging regional case study.

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BC Launches New AI Industry Association

BC + AI launches as an industry association to connect builders, researchers, creatives, companies, and public-sector partners.

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Canada Appoints AI Minister Evan Solomon

Canada appoints Evan Solomon as AI minister, raising urgent questions about digital infrastructure, public services, and national capacity.

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BC + AI backs  Hinton’s call for regulation.

BC + AI responds to Geoffrey Hinton's call for stronger AI regulation and the public appetite for practical safeguards.

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BC's AI Crossroads

BC's AI Crossroads brings together policy, industry, and community questions at a moment when the province has to choose its path.

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Why Build Your AI Company in Vancouver?

A practical case for building an AI company in Vancouver, drawn from the local ecosystem's talent, research, infrastructure, and community.

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BC’s AI Crossroads

Dennis Thomas opened in his traditional langugage and laid down the 'take only what you need' algorithm: mini-robots teaching kids sustainable berry-picking; Inuit elders + AI sonar mapping fish runs lost to climate chaos.

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What Does the BC + AI Ecosystem Need?

What excites you most about the future of AI in BC?

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Accelerating BC’s AI Ecosystem

British Columbia has established itself as a 'national leader in applied and commercialized AI' with a thriving tech ecosystem and highly educated talent pool1.

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Vancouver AI: Building BC's AI Future

Dr. Illes, trailblazing neuroethicist, is Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Distinguished University Scholar, UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada: Photography by Michelle Diamond

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Vancouver AI: Building BC's AI Future

Vancouver AI gathers neuroethics, builders, researchers, and civic leaders around the question of how BC builds its AI future.

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PLAYLIST: Vancouver AI Community Spotlights

A playlist of Vancouver AI community spotlights featuring the people, projects, and local stories shaping the ecosystem.

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Why We Need to Double-Down

Picture a house of cards built atop a pyramid of champagne, flutes. Beautiful. Intricate. And terrifyingly fragile.

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What’s Happening in BC in AI and ML?

That's BC innovation. We don't just solve problems—we reinvent how problems get solved.

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What's Happening in BC in AI and ML?

A field scan of what's happening in BC AI and machine learning, from local innovation to the province's distinct way of solving problems.

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State of the BC + AI Economy

A map of BC's AI economy as a small but connected ecosystem of researchers, founders, creatives, infrastructure builders, and civic actors.

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BC + AI Report 2024

A snapshot of British Columbia's AI ecosystem, its strengths, gaps, and the opportunities ahead for builders, researchers, and communities.

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AI & Real-Time Content Creation: Behind the Scenes with Kevin Friel

Kevin Friel shows how real-time generative tools can change live interviews, performances, and the creative production stack.

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When Trees Talk Back: Vancouver AI Community Meetup September 2025 #VAI21

VanAI #21 asks who gets to decide how Indigenous knowledge enters AI systems, and what changes when permission comes first.

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