Flagship community
Vancouver AI
The flagship monthly room where builders, artists, researchers, founders, students, educators, public servants, skeptics, and curious neighbours meet in person.
Communities
Regional chapters and special interest groups
From one Vancouver meetup to a province-wide AI community.
BC + AI became a nonprofit because the work had grown bigger than one room. The communities below are the pillars: local chapters, creative labs, education circles, policy rooms, and philosophical deep dives where people can learn, argue, build, and belong.
Vancouver AI
CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
AI Film Club
Mind, AI, and Consciousness (MAC)
Ed + AI: Education Meetup
AI Ethical Futures Lab
Life Sciences & AI
Origin
Vancouver AI created the pattern: a big-tent room for builders, artists, educators, researchers, founders, and civic voices.
Vancouver AI created the pattern: a big-tent room for builders, artists, educators, researchers, founders, and civic voices.
Shift
The nonprofit formed because new circles kept springing up underneath the main meetup.
The nonprofit formed because new circles kept springing up underneath the main meetup.
Shape
Each community has its own cadence, questions, hosts, culture, and next step.
Each community has its own cadence, questions, hosts, culture, and next step.
Featured communities
Focused rooms for a bigger ecosystem.
Regional chapter
CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
A practical, neighbourly room for people who want the AI conversation close to home.
Creative practice
AI Film Club
A monthly room for filmmakers and creative technologists who want to make the work, show the work, and argue honestly about what AI changes.
Deep inquiry
Mind, AI, and Consciousness (MAC)
A reading-led room for people exploring mind, embodiment, agency, consciousness, and what humans may owe to uncertain forms of intelligence.
Learning and equity
Ed + AI: Education Meetup
A consent-first learning circle with Ethos Lab for educators, youth, parents, builders, and neighbours who care about agency, access, and power.
Civil society and policy
AI Ethical Futures Lab
A facilitated community lab where people in BC discuss AI's impacts, compare lived experience, and turn public-interest questions into practical next steps.
Life sciences and healthcare
Life Sciences & AI
A cross-silo table for people working where AI meets biology, chemistry, biotech, healthcare, drug discovery, health data, and commercialization.
Regional chapter
Surrey AI
A Fraser Valley chapter for founders, practitioners, educators, and AI-curious neighbours building the conversation outside Vancouver.
Applied practice
Applied & Industrial AI
A working track for the people applying AI to manufacturing, resource sectors, clean energy, operations, and the hard systems that keep BC moving.
Creative practice
AI Creativity + Design
A forming space for designers, artists, builders, and creative technologists exploring AI as a medium, a collaborator, and a design material.
Trust and infrastructure
Data & Security
A forming room for people who care how AI systems handle data, identity, infrastructure, privacy, governance, and trust.
Regional chapters
Place-based community
Regional chapters keep AI grounded in the people, venues, questions, and relationships of a place.
Special interest groups
Focused inquiry and practice
Special interest groups turn the big AI conversation into sustained rooms for creative practice, education, ethics, and consciousness.
Start or join a room
AI community grows when people decide to host the conversation they wish existed.
RSVP for an event, become a member, follow the regional chapter closest to you, or reach out if you want to help organize a new local or topic-focused group under the BC + AI umbrella.