Flagship festival · Presented by BC + AI
Futureproof Festival
Oct 28–30, 2026 · H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
The most honest AI conversation happening anywhere this year. No hype. No panic. Just real people shaping what comes next — artists, engineers, researchers, founders, educators, skeptics, filmmakers, builders, students, policy people, and community leaders, in the same arc: opening night, two program days, film, demos, live performance, and the kind of conversation AI deserves.
Who belongs here
You do not need a polished opinion about AI.
Futureproof is for artists, engineers, educators, ethicists, filmmakers, founders, students, healthcare workers, researchers, investors, policy people, organizers, skeptics, and curious citizens. Come excited. Come skeptical. Come unsettled. Come with the question you keep asking after the demo ends.
This is year one, so it stays simple: one opening night, two program days, one shared arc, and a focused founding room. The point is not another generic AI conference — it's the foundation for a different kind of festival: human, specific, useful, public, and honest enough to hold critique beside curiosity.
Three days
What the festival looks like.
Wednesday, Oct 28
Opening night
Live performances, talks, immersive art, demos, creative AI culture, and the first gathering of the founding Futureproof Festival community.
Thursday, Oct 29
Where we are
Talks, demos, working conversations, and the 2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival inside the AI festival.
Friday, Oct 30
What we build
Hackathon Demo Day hosted by Rival Technologies, community voting, the Squatchies, the Year Two reveal, and the AI Film Festival closing party.
Built from the community already showing up
This did not appear overnight.
Futureproof grows out of the rooms already forming around AI in British Columbia: Vancouver AI Meetups, film nights, hackathon stages, ethics conversations, creative experiments, and people who keep showing up before the answers are tidy. It's an extension of a thriving creative technology community already gathering, questioning, building, teaching, experimenting, and debating together in public.
Partners already in the room
Presented by BC + AI.
BC + AI membership
Active members save 25% on festival passes.
BC + AI membership supports the community infrastructure around the festival: in-person events, scholarship seats, documentation, and the work that keeps people connected after the ticket lands.
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.