Vancouver AI Meetup
Vancouver AI Meetup — September 2025
Videos from this event
Selected recordings matched from YouTube titles, descriptions, and captions.
When trees talk back: Vancouver AI Community Meetup #21
Full event recording
Full September 2025 archive on Indigenous knowledge, plant communication, and community alternatives to Silicon Valley AI narratives.
Watch on YouTubeArtificial intelligence for interspecies communication
Manuel Axel Strain
Manuel Axel Strain’s September 2025 talk on Indigenous data sovereignty, plant communication, mycelium networks, consent, and ethical ecological AI.
Watch on YouTubeAI, language, and Squamish culture
Jonny Williams
Jonny Williams shares Squamish language, ceremony, cultural advisory work, and ways AI can support cultural documents, education, and youth innovation.
Watch on YouTubeIndigenous AI, plant communication, and community power
Vancouver AI
Opening segment with Johnny Williams and a lived story about Indigenous knowledge, AI, and plant communication.
Watch on YouTubeVancouver AI Community Announcements: September 2025
Community announcements
Community updates from the September 2025 meetup.
Watch on YouTubeMind, AI & Consciousness: highlights from September 2025
Vancouver AI
Highlights on mind, AI, and consciousness from the September 2025 Vancouver AI Community Meetup.
Watch on YouTube
What this is
Vancouver AI Meetup — September 2025 is a BC + AI community event recap with photos, recordings, and details from the Vancouver AI ecosystem.
Who it is for
AI builders, researchers, policy people, creatives, educators, students, and citizens looking for practical local AI community.
When and where
September 25, 2025.
How to join
Browse upcoming Vancouver AI events, RSVP on Luma, or become a BC + AI member to support the association behind the gatherings.
See upcoming eventsPhotos from this meetup
Captured by Michelle Diamond. Click any photo to view full size — the lightbox lets you download and share.
Event recap
Another full house at the Vancouver AI Meetup. Builders and researchers, artists and founders, students who came alone and left with three new friends — the room held what BC + AI has always been about: real people, working with real tools, in a city that's quietly become one of the most interesting places in the world to do this work.
What stood out this month was how mixed the crowd felt. Someone showing a research demo next to someone shipping product next to someone still figuring out where they fit. That's the texture we keep aiming for. A meetup that's useful whether you're three weeks or three years into the work.
Photos by Michelle Diamond, who's been documenting this community since the beginning. A curated set is below — the full ~300 are a click away.