Vancouver AI Meetup #30
June 24, 2026, at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, with Rick Glumac, community ceremony, demos, and the local AI ecosystem.
Vancouver AI
Flagship community
The flagship room for people building and questioning AI in Vancouver.
The flagship monthly room where builders, artists, researchers, founders, students, educators, public servants, skeptics, and curious neighbours meet in person.
Vancouver AI Meetup #30 public event artwork.
What this room is for
A big-tent monthly meetup with both hands full and eyes open.
The flagship monthly room where builders, artists, researchers, founders, students, educators, public servants, skeptics, and curious neighbours meet in person.
- A monthly flagship meetup for people who want the local AI conversation to be practical, human, and public.
- A big-tent room where technical builders, artists, educators, researchers, policy people, students, founders, and AI-curious neighbours can meet without pretending the field is simple.
- A launchpad for the wider BC + AI ecosystem: special-interest groups, regional chapters, Festival Week, demos, recaps, partnerships, and member-led experiments.
Upcoming
Next highlighted event: Vancouver AI Meetup #30, June 24, 2026, at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.
RSVP for the next meetup, bring a grounded question or demo, and help keep the Vancouver AI room useful.
What happens here
What to expect.
- The room usually includes arrivals, food, community updates, talks, demos, and unstructured time for people to compare notes.
- Speakers and participants bring different lanes: research, public service, creative practice, Indigenous presence, education, startups, open knowledge, policy, and community infrastructure.
- The point is not to clap for every new model. The point is to learn in public, share what is real, and build relationships with people who care where AI goes.
Room trust
Real community beats pitch-deck networking.
Vancouver AI keeps the room practical, public, and grounded: demos are welcome, hype is not the point, and people can ask serious questions without needing to fit one professional lane.
Recent / upcoming
Start with the next room, then catch up on the archive.
29 Months, 200 Pounds of Meat, and the AI Commons
The May 2026 recap package shows the room's mix of public memory, builder work, and community care.
Past Vancouver AI events
Browse the archive for monthly meetup recaps, galleries, talks, and prior rooms.
Context
What makes Vancouver AI the flagship room.
Flagship rhythm
Vancouver AI is the main monthly BC + AI room in Metro Vancouver, with enough continuity that people can return, bring friends, and watch the ecosystem change over time.
Who belongs
Builders, researchers, artists, educators, students, founders, public servants, civic organizers, skeptics, and curious neighbours all have a lane if they are willing to be specific and generous.
Why it matters
The meetup turns AI from a feed of headlines into a local room: people can ask better questions, find collaborators, learn what is actually happening, and notice who is missing.
Story so far
From one monthly meetup to the nonprofit pattern.
Vancouver AI is the room that created the BC + AI pattern: a recurring, in-person meetup where the local AI conversation can hold builders, artists, researchers, students, founders, public servants, skeptics, educators, and curious neighbours at the same time.
The monthly meetup is intentionally bigger than a technical talk and more grounded than a product showcase. A good night can include demos, research, food, civic questions, creative practice, ceremony, and hallway conversations that turn into the next working group.
That pattern is why BC + AI became a nonprofit. Vancouver AI proved that the province needed more than one meetup; it needed a durable community layer where people could learn in public, compare what is real, and build relationships before the next wave of tools arrives.
Public links
RSVP, catch up, or join the ecosystem.
Join
RSVP for the next meetup, bring a grounded question or demo, and help keep the Vancouver AI room useful.
Come to the next Vancouver AI meetup, bring a grounded question or demo, and become a BC + AI member if you want to help keep the room open and useful.
Related communities
Other BC + AI rooms that grew from the same pattern.
Regional chapter
CV + AI: Comox Valley AI Community Meetup
A practical, neighbourly room for people who want the AI conversation close to home.
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.
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.