Every gathering, shown whole.
The Luma covers our community makes are square, so this page reads them like negatives on a contact sheet, nothing cropped off the top or bottom. Past gatherings hang as matted prints from the rooms we’ve already filled.
For registration, head to bc-ai.ca/events, or start with the AI in BC guide.
39 gatherings · 2024 → now
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Upcoming · 9
Full calendar ↗Square frames, straight from the Luma catalog: read across, then down.
3:00 p.m.Responsible AI Professional Certification: 8/7
(Starts August 7, 2026) Every organization is deploying AI. Most are doing it without governance frameworks, without ethics training, and without asking the hard questions early enough. RAP is a four-week Responsible…
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6:00 p.m.BC + AI Life Sciences Meetup
6151 Collingwood Pl, Vancouver, BC V6N 1V2, Canada
We started at a dinner table. Life Sciences Meet-up 2: - Viewpoint: What's AI ever done for me? Artificial Intelligence in my life science research - past, present and future. - Debate: Does AI help or hinder doctors…
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6:30 p.m.AI Film Club: 08/13
375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada
Monthly screenings, technical deep-dives, and creative experiments with AI tools transforming film and media production. Join us for the 2026 launch of BC + AI Film Club a community-driven space where filmmakers, VFX…
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6:30 p.m.AI, Creativity + Student Agency with Philippe Pasquier
Ethọ́s Lab, 177 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7, Canada
August has that strange edge: still summer, but September is already in the room. ED + AI is gathering educators, students, parents, youth workers, builders, and curious neighbours to bring the real questions before t…
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4:00 p.m.AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters
FriendsQuarters, 116 W Hastings St Unit 200, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada
AHH FQ: AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters, August AHH FQ is a monthly 3rd-Friday drop-in at FriendsQuarters for the BC + AI community. Come through after work, grab the drink that comes with your ticket, and talk to th…
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6:00 p.m.Vancouver AI Meetup #32: August 26 at the Space Centre
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada
August 26 at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre: Vancouver AI Meetup #32 under the dome, with a featured community conversation with Taleeb Noormohamed. Theme cue: Keep Your Agents Alive.
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6:30 p.m.AI Ethical Futures Lab #7
Parker Street Studios, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4B9, Canada
AI Ethical Futures Lab 7 For September, we will turn back-to-school and back-to-work energy into a practical ethics session. The focus is how AI shows up in institutions, classrooms, studios, teams, and public service…
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3:00 p.m.Responsible AI Professional Certification: 9/18
(Starts September 18, 2026) Every organization is deploying AI. Most are doing it without governance frameworks, without ethics training, and without asking the hard questions early enough. RAP is a four-week Responsi…
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6:00 p.m.AI Animation & Filmmaking Accelerator: Cohort 4
BC + AI Ecosystem presents our Cohort 4 AI Animation & Filmmaking Accelerator, where you'll build a complete animated short using the AI-powered production pipeline from Tiny Ghost Studios. Led by Luke Minaker and May…
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Series
- Deep dive · 8 sessions · 2025
Mind, AI & Consciousness
Eight months of evening deep dives: panpsychism to embodiment. Recaps, dossiers, glossary, quiz, exercises, and 28 interactive widgets.
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Vancouver AI Meetup
The monthly hub of the BC AI scene. Researchers, founders, artists, and curious humans show up. We feed everyone, four-to-five people give short talks, and the after-mingle is where the real network gets built.
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BC + AI Film Club
A screening + conversation series for the AI film and motion-graphics community. We watch new work, including short films, music videos, and art pieces, then dig into what the tools can and cannot do for storytelling, with the artists in the room.
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Surrey AI
The South of Fraser cousin to Vancouver AI Meetup. Same format with short talks, food, and mingling, but a different crowd. Surrey’s AI community has its own gravity; we’re building the trellis.
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Past gatherings · 39
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CV + AI Community Meetup #4: Backyard BBQ
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AI Ethical Futures Lab #6: AI Transparency, Power & Trust
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Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup #31: July 2026
50 photos · by Michael Caswell and Tristan Brand
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AI in Education Meetup #11
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AI Happy Hour
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BC + AI Film ClubAI Film Club: 07/09
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
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AI Ethical Futures Lab #5
Recap
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup #30: June 2026
24 photos · by Michelle Diamond
BC + AI Film ClubAI Film Club: 06/11
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: May 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: April 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
BC + AI Film ClubAI Film Club: 04/09
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: March 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
BC + AI Film ClubAI Film Club: March 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: February 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
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AI Film Club: 2/12
7 videos
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup - January 2026
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
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AI Film Club: 1/08
9 videos
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup & The Squatchie Awards: December 2025
20 photos · by Various photographers
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: November 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: October 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: September 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Surrey AISurrey AI Meetup: September 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: August 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Surrey AISurrey AI Meetup: August 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
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Calm Before the Storm #SIGGRAPH
1 video
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: July 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup - June 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Surrey AISurrey AI Meetup: June 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: May 2025
20 photos · by Aaron Hockenstein
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: April 2025
20 photos · by Aaron Hockenstein
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: March 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond and Aaron Hockenstein
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: February 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: January 2025
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
Vancouver AI MeetupSynthesis: Vancouver AI Community Meetup Afterparty #NeurIPS
20 photos · by Tristan Brand
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: November 2024
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond
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1 video
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: May 2024
20 photos · by Peter Holst
Vancouver AI MeetupVancouver AI Meetup: February 2024
20 photos · by Michelle Diamond