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2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival
A room full of people who make things with these tools, watching what the tools can actually do on a big screen.
Photo: Michelle DiamondFutureproof Festival 2026 · #FutureproofYVR
Futureproof Festival
October 28 to 30, 2026
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vanier Park, Vancouver
The most honest AI conversation happening this year.
Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
BC + AI members save 25% on all public ticket types. Get your member rate →
First-announced voices
People worth listening to. More on the way.
A selected look at the announced program. Additions and current speaker details live on the festival site.
The festival signal
Critique in one hand, curiosity 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 with artists, engineers, educators, filmmakers, researchers, and builders. Vancouver is the host city. The conversation is international.
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.
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
- 2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival, the Opening-Night Creative AI Live Set, and the AI Film Festival Closing Party.
Real rooms, real receipts
The archive is the proof.
Photos: Tristan Brand · Michael Caswell · Michelle Diamond
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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AI Film Festival Closing Party
Three days end the way every good meetup ends, in the room afterward with the people you just met.
Photo: Michael CaswellPartners 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
25%
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
Pitch a talk or 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.