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Two Program Days
Talks and conversations with the people shaping what AI becomes, and time to actually meet them.
Photo: Michelle DiamondFutureproof Festival of AI · #FutureproofYVR
Futureproof Festival of AI
October 28 to 30, 2026
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vanier Park, Vancouver
Come curious. Leave with your people.
Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
This is Vancouver's Futureproof Festival of AI, presented by BC + AI at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. It is not a US wealth-management conference.
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Festival Pass
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Three days at the Space Centre for CA$950. Opening night, two program days, and the closing gathering.
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CA$950
Standard Festival Pass
Speakers
People worth listening to. More on the way.
- 01
Amber Case
Founder
Calm Tech Institute
- 02
Ana Serrano
President & Vice-Chancellor
OCAD University
- 03
Lynda Brown-Ganzert
CEO
RxPx Inc
- 04
Zaro
Community Futurist
Electronic Arts
- 05
Founder & Festival Director
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
- 06
Mayumi Rollings
CEO & Co-Founder
Tiny Ghost Studios
- 07
Peter Bittner
AI Trainer & Consultant
Independent
- 08
Kevin Friel
Festival Director
BC + AI Film Club
- 09
Brewster Kahle
Founder & Digital Librarian
Internet Archive
- 10
Jos Duncan-Asé
Founder
Love Now Media
- 11
Sara Blenkhorn
Director of Innovation
Buckminster Fuller Institute
- 12
Brett Gaylor
VP Creative
Hololabs
- 13
Sarah Downey
Founder
Sarah Downey Consulting
- 14
Philippe Pasquier
Professor & Director
Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University
- 15
Simon Haworth
CEO
Intellomx
- 16
Loki Jorgenson
CTO & Director, Innovation
Circle Innovation
- 17
Alexandra Samuel
Technology Journalist & Author
Independent
- 18
Sev Geraskin
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering
PolarGrid · Economy of Wisdom Foundation
- 19
Stephanie Dick
Assistant Professor
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
- 20
Taleeb Noormohamed
Member of Parliament
Vancouver Granville
- 21
Michael Running Wolf
Chair, Board of Directors
IndigiGenius
- 22
Shane Gibson
Founder & Keynote Speaker
Professional Sales Academy
- 23
Kristen Delphos
Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs
UL Research Institutes
- 24
Kerris Hougardy
Senior Vice President, People
Ting Internet · Tucows
- 25
Raj Parmar
HR Leader and Business Partner
Tucows
- 26
Dean Shev
CTO and co-founder
VHT.ai
- 27
Suzy Easton
Musician and technologist
Independent
- 28
Ashley Smith
AI Visibility Strategist
Show Your Proof
- 29
Ben Shneiderman
Emeritus Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science
University of Maryland
- 30
Lane Becker
President, Wikimedia Enterprise
Wikimedia Foundation
- 31
Andrew Zolli
Chief Impact Officer
Planet
- 32
Charles Bicari
Systems Designer and Integrator, Research and Innovation Lab
Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Montréal
- 33
Toshi Anders Hoo
Principal, Possibility Spaces
Former Senior Research Director, Institute for the Future
- 34
Dr. Angelica Lim
Associate Professor, School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University · ROSIE Lab
All 34 announced speakers. Additions and current speaker details live on the festival site.
The festival signal
Curiosity in one hand, care in the other.
What this is
You did not attend this into existence. You built it.
Futureproof Festival is an international AI culture and ideas festival. It grows from the BC + AI meetups, hackathons, and film nights into three shared days for executives, senior professionals, and decision-makers shaping how AI changes organizations, creative practice, and society, alongside the artists and builders doing the work. Vancouver's AI community is the host, and friends come from everywhere.
Nobody planned this in a boardroom. It started as a monthly Vancouver AI meetup that kept outgrowing its room. Then hackathons. Then a film festival. Then years of people showing up because the stakes are real and the gathering is not boring. The festival is that work, put in front of the world. This is the year it gets a stage.
Why national AI rooms matter before Futureproof Vancouver What Kris is bringing home from ALL IN Montréal
Three days in Vancouver
A festival, not a pile of sessions.
- When
- October 28 to 30, 2026. Three shared days.
- Where
- H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vanier Park, Vancouver
- Program
- The opening-night creative AI live set, two program days of talks and conversation, and the closing party.
Real rooms, real receipts
The archive is the proof.
Photos: Michelle Diamond · Tristan Brand · Michael Caswell
Across the three days
Three strands, one gathering.
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Opening-Night Creative AI Live Set
Opening night is a live creative AI set. The gathering starts the way the community does, with people performing the work rather than talking about it.
Photo: Michael Caswell
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Closing Party
Three days end the way every good meetup ends, in the room afterward with the people you just met.
Photo: Michelle DiamondPartners already in the room
Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
- Data for Good Vancouver
- DAMA-Vancouver
- SFU Metacreation Lab
- BC + AI Film Club
- Multimodal Media Lab
- CreativeMornings Vancouver
- H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
- Ethọ́s Lab
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Your member rate
Members come at the member rate.
Active BC + AI members save 25% on all public ticket types. The same membership supports the meetups, film nights, and the people who keep the work moving all year. Sign in to your account to apply your rate at checkout.
Plan your three days
The practical part.
Venue
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9.
Travel
Coming from out of town? The festival site carries hotel, transit, and arrival details as they firm up.
Accessibility
We are building an inclusive, welcoming three days. Questions or access needs? Tell us and we will sort it.
Tickets
Passes are on sale through the festival site.
Sponsorship & exhibiting
Partner with the festival and the year-round community behind it, or bring your work to the floor with an exhibitor table.
Participate
Lend a hand across the three days.
Vancouver · October 28–30
Three days. One room the size of a city.
Kris Krüg is the Festival Director and Founder / Executive Director of BC + AI. He runs the Vancouver AI meetups and has been building Futureproof Festival from the physical community first.