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CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
Regional chapter
AI conversation, close to home.
A practical, neighbourly room for people who want the AI conversation close to home.
Photo from the CV + AI launch recap.
What this room is for
Local people, real questions, grounded conversation.
A practical, neighbourly room for people who want the AI conversation close to home.
- Grounded conversation without hype, panic, or sales pitches.
- Island-specific relationships, local partnerships, and practical experiments.
- A place to talk about schools, work, creativity, compute, privacy, and resilience like actual neighbours.
Upcoming
The next gathering is being finalized. Follow the Comox Valley Luma hub for the latest RSVP link.
Watch the Luma hub for the next meetup, come to a gathering, or contact BC + AI if you want to help with the chapter.
What happens here
What to expect.
- People name what they are actually seeing in work, school, art, civic life, and local business.
- The room keeps enthusiasm and concern in the same conversation instead of forcing everyone into teams.
- Organizers turn the energy into the next gathering, sponsor relationship, or local experiment.
Room trust
Good local trust beats hot takes.
CV + AI is built around public meetups, local relationships, and respectful follow-through. People choose what personal stories or contact details they want to share.
Recent / upcoming
Ways to follow CV + AI.
Meetup #0 recap
The launch recap covers the first gathering and early community interest.
Context
What the chapter is working through.
Local themes
Education, open-source AI, professional disruption, local compute, privacy, community resilience, and the human-development question running underneath all of it.
How participation works
Start with the Luma hub, come to a public meetup, and connect with organizers in person when you want to get more involved.
Community care
The chapter is built for neighbourly conversation, clear consent, and local relationships that can grow over time.
Story so far
How a planning session became a real room.
CV + AI started with a simple bet: the Comox Valley did not need a watered-down version of the Vancouver conversation. It needed its own room, its own pace, and its own people asking what AI means here.
The first meetup was supposed to be a planning session. Then 75 people registered, 75 people showed up, and the room made its case before anyone had to pitch it.
That is the heart of the chapter: local compute builders, educators, creatives, civic leaders, parents, sponsors, skeptics, and curious neighbours figuring out the future in a place where you still run into each other at the grocery store.
Join
Watch the Luma hub for the next meetup, come to a gathering, or contact BC + AI if you want to help with the chapter.
Start with the Luma hub, come to a gathering, and meet other people in the Valley who are working through the same questions.
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Civil society and policy
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