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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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AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters #5: Summer's End

FriendsQuarters, 116 W Hastings St Unit 200, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada

AHH FQ: AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters, September Edition. 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, a…

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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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Mind, AI & Consciousness (MAC) Deepdive #014

555 W Hastings St #1200, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N4, Canada

Thursday, September 24 in downtown Vancouver: Mind, AI & Consciousness Deep Dive #014 walks through Anthropic's finding of a global workspace inside Claude. Twenty prepared people, two hours, and a reading list that stands on its own.

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ED + AI #13: Where You Stand on the Future of Learning

Ethọ́s Lab, 177 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7, Canada

In August we asked what we wanted this school year to feel like. The year has its own opinions. A month in, the plan has met the students. Whatever your building decided about AI over the summer, it has now survived f…

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Vancouver AI Meetup #33: What BC Told Ottawa

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada

What BC told Ottawa: Sara T and Peter Van Garderen bring the AI Ethical Futures Lab’s federal AI transparency response to Vancouver AI Meetup #33, with an opening by Johnny Williams.

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CV + AI Community Meetup #6: The Local AI Commons

Comox Valley, BC, Canada

CV + AI Community Meetup 6: The Local AI Commons The useful question is not who owns the smartest model. It is what we can build together and keep local. The idea By October, the conversation needs to get more structu…

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AI Ethical Futures Lab #8

Parker Street Studios, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4B9, Canada

AI Ethical Futures Lab 8 For October, the lab looks at public-interest AI through the lens of governance, rights, and civic imagination. Bring examples, tensions, and tools you want to test with a careful group. AI Et…

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BC + AI Life Sciences: Monthly meet-up

6151 Collingwood Pl, Vancouver, BC V6N 1V2, Canada

October: patient-facing AI needs better boundaries On Tuesday, October 13, BC + AI Life Sciences turns to patient-facing tools, safety, and trust. Symptom checkers, health assistants, mental-health companions, and pat…

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AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters #6: Unmasking the Hype

FriendsQuarters, 116 W Hastings St Unit 200, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada

AHH FQ: AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters, October Edition. AHH FQ is a monthly, 3rd-Friday drop-in at FriendsQuarters for the BC + AI community. Come by after work, grab the drink that comes with your ticket, and talk…

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ED + AI #14: What Counts as Their Own Work?

Ethọ́s Lab, 177 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7, Canada

The first big assignments are coming back. Underneath every AI rule is one question nobody has settled. Assessment is where this gets real. Every AI policy in every school is, underneath, a claim about authorship. Wha…

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Responsible AI Professional Certification

1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4B9, Canada

A two-day, in-person certification for leaders and practitioners who govern AI at work. Apply global frameworks to real scenarios and leave with four artifacts, ending with a governance statement in your own words.

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AI Animation & Filmmaking Accelerator: Cohort 5

375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada

One focused day. Three hands-on studio blocks. Leave with a finished 10–15 second animated micro-short. Bring a laptop and arrive with the requested creative AI accounts configured. Plan for approximately CA$50 in par…

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AI Ethical Futures Lab #9

Parker Street Studios, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4B9, Canada

AI Ethical Futures Lab 9 For November, we will use the room to separate real risk from noise and turn concern into practical next steps. Expect a laptops-open session with shared notes, small-group work, and useful sy…

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CV + AI Community Meetup #7: Trust The Room, Question The Machine

Comox Valley, BC, Canada

CV + AI Community Meetup 7: Trust The Room, Question The Machine Local trust is old technology. AI is about to test whether we still know how to use it. The idea By November, the machine gets slipperier. Agents click…

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BC + AI Life Sciences: Monthly meetup

6151 Collingwood Pl, Vancouver, BC V6N 1V2, Canada

November: the unglamorous systems decide whether care moves On Tuesday, November 10, BC + AI Life Sciences turns to healthcare operations: billing, scheduling, documentation, triage, referral routing, and the practica…

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AI Film Club with Kevin Friel | Nov 12

375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada

Bring what you're making. Watch what everyone else is. The Film Club is back at 375 Water St. It's the monthly room for filmmakers, VFX artists, editors, writers, and creative technologists to screen each other's work…

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ED + AI #15: What It Gave Back, What It Took

Ethọ́s Lab, 177 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7, Canada

A whole term in. What did it actually give you back, and what did it quietly take? The novelty has worn off. So has the panic. By the third month of a school year you know things you did not know in September. You kno…

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AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters #7: Heads Down, Look Up

FriendsQuarters, 116 W Hastings St Unit 200, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada

AHH FQ: AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters, November Edition. AHH FQ is a monthly, 3rd-Friday drop-in at FriendsQuarters for the BC + AI community. Come by after work, grab the drink that comes with your ticket, and tal…

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Vancouver AI Community Meetup: 011/25

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada

Vancouver AI welcomes the full spectrum: builders, artists, researchers, students, public servants, founders, the AI-curious, and the beautifully confused. This is a monthly room to swap notes, demo work, and argue pr…

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AI Ethical Futures Lab #10

Parker Street Studios, 1000 Parker St, Vancouver, BC V6A 4B9, Canada

AI Ethical Futures Lab 10 For December, we will close the year by gathering the patterns that keep coming back: agency, accountability, creativity, labour, privacy, sovereignty, and public trust. The aim is to leave w…

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CV + AI Community Meetup #8: Both Hands Full

Comox Valley, BC, Canada

CV + AI Community Meetup 8: Both Hands Full We end the year the way this chapter began: curious, critical, and in the same room. The idea December is for taking stock without pretending the story is tidy. This year, C…

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BC + AI Life Sciences: Monthly meetup

6151 Collingwood Pl, Vancouver, BC V6N 1V2, Canada

December: regulation meets the people doing the work On Tuesday, December 8, BC + AI Life Sciences turns to regulation and responsible adoption. What should people building, buying, evaluating, and using AI in health…

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AI Film Club with Kevin Friel | Dec 10

375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada

Bring what you're making. Watch what everyone else is. The last Film Club of the year, back at 375 Water St. It's the monthly room for filmmakers, VFX artists, editors, writers, and creative technologists to screen ea…

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ED + AI #16: What We're Carrying Into Next Year

Ethọ́s Lab, 177 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC V5T 1C7, Canada

The last room of the year. What are we taking with us, and what are we finally putting down? Some of this year was worth it. Not all of it. We have spent a year in this room comparing notes while the ground moved. Too…

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Vancouver AI Community Meetup: 12/16

H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, Canada

Vancouver AI welcomes the full spectrum: builders, artists, researchers, students, public servants, founders, the AI-curious, and the beautifully confused. This is a monthly room to swap notes, demo work, and argue pr…

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AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters #8: What Actually Shipped

FriendsQuarters, 116 W Hastings St Unit 200, Vancouver, BC V6B 1G8, Canada

AHH FQ: AI Happy Hour at FriendsQuarters, December Edition. AHH FQ is a monthly, 3rd-Friday drop-in at FriendsQuarters for the BC + AI community. Come by after work, grab the drink that comes with your ticket, and tal…

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