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Monthly · Vancouver · Live in the room

Bring the thing you’re building.

Vancouver AI makes room for working prototypes, strange experiments, useful tools, and creative technology at our monthly meetups. No polished pitch required. Put it in people’s hands.

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Cadence

Every month

Format

Working things

Room

Questions welcome

Deck

Optional

What belongs here

Good demos have a pulse.

It can be polished, half-built, beautiful, awkward, useful, or gloriously weird. The test is simple: can someone see it work, try it, or understand what changed because you made it?

  1. 01

    A working prototype

    Software, hardware, agents, wearables, interfaces, or a workflow that people can actually try.

  2. 02

    Research in motion

    A model, experiment, student build, or thesis project that gets better when people ask hard questions.

  3. 03

    A creative instrument

    Interactive art, film, animation, music, performance technology, or a machine with a point of view.

  4. 04

    A practical tool

    Applied AI for a workplace, industry, community, or public-good problem. Early and imperfect is welcome.

Hands on

A demo is more than a talk.

Some demos happen onstage. Others take over a lobby table or gather a circle of curious people around a machine. The point is direct contact with the work.

Prajwal Prashanth, wearing JARVIS prototype hardware on a cap, works at a laptop while attendees watch at a demo table.
Prajwal Prashanth runs JARVIS at a meetup demo table. Photo by Peter Holst.
A robot dog stands on its hind legs while Vancouver AI attendees gather around it.
A robot dog draws a crowd at Vancouver AI in January 2026. Photo by Michelle Diamond.

From the demo archive

People who brought the work.

Past meetups have made space for computer vision, wearable AI, mental-health research, experimental hardware, generative lighting, and plenty that refused a tidy category.

  1. Lionel Ringenbach presents CompoVision in front of a live generative projection.

    Lionel Ringenbach

    CompoVision

    Computer vision cameras turned objects in the room into prompts and projected visuals.

  2. Prajwal Prashanth demonstrates the JARVIS wearable beside its live interface.

    Prajwal Prashanth

    JARVIS

    A wearable Raspberry Pi assistant with vision, audio, and a very visible prototype hat.

  3. Jericca Cleland speaks with Vancouver AI community members during a demo night.

    Jericca Cleland

    SAGE

    An exploration of video games and interactive storytelling for mental health support.

  4. Ed Kennedy shares a live circuit-bending and visual experiment on a monitor.

    Ed Kennedy

    Circuit bending

    Live hardware and visual experimentation, opened up for people in the room.

  5. Kevin Friel speaks during a colourful live AI and lighting demonstration.

    Kevin Friel

    AI DMX

    Generative tools connected to lighting and live visual control.

How the night works

Small footprint. Real contact.

Tell us what people will see or try. If it fits an upcoming meetup, we confirm the date, table space, power, and any unusual setup needs. You bring tested gear, a backup plan, and a plain-language way into the work.

Venue Wi-Fi is useful, not sacred. If your demo depends on a live service, bring an offline path or a recorded fallback.

Next monthly meetup

Let the room meet your work.

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Event photography by Michelle Diamond / Diamond’s Edge Photography and Peter Holst. For a photo correction or removal, email hello@bc-ai.ca.