BC + AI Life Sciences Meetup
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Event: BC + AI Life Sciences Meetup
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Location: 6151 Collingwood Pl Vancouver British Columbia CA Vancouver, BC 6151 Collingwood Pl, Vancouver, BC V6N 1V2, Canada ChIJ_6SkE0NzhlQRofiruzLPWnA
We started at a dinner table.
Last month, Simon Haworth and Kris Krüg pulled together a small group — drug discovery researchers, health analytics leads, clinicians, interoperability architects, venture folks, and data-for-good practitioners — for a no-presentations, no-pitches supper at Simon’s place.
What happened was what usually happens when you put genuinely different life-sciences perspectives in the same room with good food and honest framing: the conversation went places a conference panel never would.
We talked about where AI is actually working in life sciences (drug discovery has moved fast — one-third of new pharma development now involves AI) and where we’re still in the early innings (the biology frontier is harder than the chemistry wins suggest).
We talked about why Canada’s health data fragmentation is a governance problem as much as a technology problem. About when patient records function as institutional IP versus a shared resource patients themselves should be able to mobilize. About why some clinicians immediately see AI as a workflow tool while others experience it as noise — and what changes that.
It was a good night. We want to keep it going.
June 2nd: the circle widens.
This is Meetup #2. Same DNA cross-silo, concrete, community-first with a slightly wider table.
If you work anywhere in the life sciences and AI space in BC: biotech, pharma, clinical research, health informatics, medical devices, health policy, patient advocacy, venture, or academia — this is your gathering.
We won’t be pitching products or debating AI hype. We’ll be talking about what BC can actually build and ship: adoption, training, governance, and network density in a global landscape that’s moving fast.
What to expect
6:00 PM: Doors open, informal mingling
6:30 PM: Short framing from Simon and Kris: where we are, what the series is building toward
6:45 PM: Open conversation and working discussion
8:00 PM: Close (hallway conversations welcome to continue)
No formal presentations. No pitch session. Bring your honest read on what’s actually happening in your corner of the field.
Who this is for
You work at the intersection of AI and life sciences in BC or you want to.
You care about getting this right more than getting there first. Y
ou’re willing to say what’s actually hard, not just what’s exciting.
About the series
The BC + AI Life Sciences community is a special interest group inside the BC + AI ecosystem, co-led by Simon Haworth (CEO, Intellomx; InvestBC Life Sciences Coordinator) and Kris Krüg (BC + AI). The supper series is building toward a full Life Sciences track at BC + AI Festival Week this October — but we’re growing the community the right way: one table at a time.
BC + AI is BC’s independent AI ecosystem, focused on ethical, community-accountable adoption of AI across sectors. No hype, no boosterism — just the work.
About BC + AI Ecosystem Association
BC + AI is the province-wide layer: a community-driven, nonprofit industry association built to create public-interest infrastructure for AI in British Columbia.
Not a corporate lobby. Not a think tank. A commons where meetups turn into working groups, prototypes turn into shared tools, and community values turn into governance.
Join / support: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
