Civil society and policy
AI Ethical Futures Lab
Policy, consent, and the practical toolkits side of the AI conversation — the closest sister room to a data-and-security subgroup.
Topical subgroup · Forming
Data & Security
A new BC + AI room for the people who care how AI systems handle data, identity, infrastructure, and trust — privacy engineers, security practitioners, data stewards, governance leads, and the curious in between.
Status
This subgroup is being shaped right now.
We’re gathering a small host team and a real first agenda before opening a public meetup. If you build, operate, or govern data and security systems in BC and you’d like in early, drop us a line.
What this room is for
A clear place to show up — when it opens.
BC has banking, healthcare, public-sector, climate, indigenous data sovereignty, and a fast-growing AI startup scene all running on the same provincial infrastructure. The conversations about how AI systems handle that data — how they’re trained, secured, audited, and governed — deserve their own room.
- Practical security and privacy patterns for AI systems, not abstract debate.
- The intersection of AI risk, data governance, compliance, and lived practice in BC organizations.
- A bridge between security/privacy engineers, data stewards, founders, and the broader BC + AI ecosystem.
- Respect for indigenous data sovereignty, sector-specific regulation, and the public interest.
Help shape it
Who we’re looking for first.
Founding hosts, sponsors who care about the work (not the logo), and first-cohort participants who’ll show up to a small, working session before this room ever runs a public meetup.
In the meantime
Where the data-and-security conversation already shows up.
BC + AI’s other subgroups are already touching parts of the data-and-security question — the AI Ethical Futures Lab on policy and consent, ED + AI on student data, Vancouver AI on the engineering practice. Until this room opens, those are the best places to plug in.
Related communities
Other rooms you might belong in.
Industry · Think-tank track
Applied & Industrial AI
The companion concept-paper track — including a proposed Indigenous Data & Governance Hub and a Responsible-AI Sandbox.
Flagship
Vancouver AI
The flagship monthly gathering — where the data-and-security conversation comes up in practice every month.