Vancouver AI Meetup & The Squatchie Awards: December 2025

The December 17 Vancouver AI Community Meetup doubled as The Squatchie Awards, reflecting on two years of community work through a full-room program, an opening featuring Gabriel George Sr., The AI Upgrade, generative carols, and announcements for 2026. Five videos and a 20-photo selection credited to Various photographers preserve the night.

The full event recording is the complete route through the Squatchie Awards program. Its public description centres the projects, demonstrations, and people present across two years of gatherings. The five-video archive names no award recipients and supplies no audience figures or measures of impact.

Opening the year-end record

A separate intro video features Gabriel George Sr. The recording provides the public context for the opening.

Peter Bittner presented The AI Upgrade. The archive names the speaker and program while leaving the presentation available in full for viewers who want its specific arguments and examples.

Generative carols and community plans

The generative carols performed by Patrick, Alex, and Zaro brought a seasonal experiment into the program. The video documents the performance as part of the meetup’s creative practice, beside the awards and year-end reflection.

The December community announcements covered the Squatchies night, the AI Film Club cadence, the multimodal lab, open collaborations, reading groups, and dates for 2026. That list shows several kinds of activity sharing the same update: recurring creative gatherings, access to lab work, groups organized around reading, and invitations to collaborate.

Taken as a set, the recordings give the night a clear structure. The intro establishes the opening, Peter Bittner’s session carries a named program, the carols preserve a community performance, and the announcements point forward. The full recording connects those parts to the awards format and the reflection on two years of gathering.

The photo ledger

The event page includes 20 images credited to Various photographers. The manifest uses that exact credit for every selected image and does not assign individual names. The wider public index contains 261 photographs.

The gallery supplies the room-scale record around the five videos: people on stage, people watching, and the setting where the awards, presentation, performance, and announcements took place. The images remain grouped as one public event record.