Proximity
Stop watching the future happen on LinkedIn. Membership gets you closer to the people, projects, rooms, and questions already shaping AI in BC.
BC + AI Membership
Stop trying to figure AI out alone.
If AI matters to your work, your company, your art, your classroom, your city, or your next chapter, you should not be standing outside this room.
Take a seat. Meet the people. Help keep the room open.
Hundreds
members have taken a seat
94+
events since 2023
25%
member savings on events and programs
4
BC regions and growing
Choose your seat
Pick the way in that matches how you show up.
Where most land
Individual
$340
CAD / year
A full seat in the community. Member events, Office Hours, coworking, backchannels, and a voice in the association.
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Micro Pack (5 Seats)
$850
CAD / year
Five assignable seats under one company admin. Seat setup is manual in native v1 and follows by email.
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Student
$115
CAD / year
The same full member access at a lower rate. Proof of enrolment may be requested.
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Growth Pack (12 Seats)
$2000
CAD / year
Twelve assignable seats and a stronger bridge into the BC + AI ecosystem. Team packs are set up personally — invoice, seats, and onboarding handled with you.
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Enterprise Pack (30 Seats)
$4250
CAD / year
Thirty assignable seats and a visible stake in the work. Team packs are set up personally — invoice, seats, and onboarding handled with you.
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The practical part
Take the seat before you buy the ticket.
Members get 25% off BC + AI events, Responsible AI Professional Certification, AI Upgrade for Creative Professionals, the Animation and Film Accelerator, and Future Proof Festival.
The discount stacks with Early Bird when available. So yes, membership supports the commons. But it is also just practical.
Member discount
25%
Applies across the things you are most likely to buy next.
- BC + AI eventssave 25%
- Responsible AI Professional Certificationsave 25%
- AI Upgrade for Creative Professionalssave 25%
- Animation and Film Acceleratorsave 25%
- Future Proof Festivalsave 25%
If you are taking a program, coming to the festival, or attending more than a couple of events, take the seat first.
What your seat opens
Come for the room. Stay for the people.
Orientation
Office Hours, working groups, recaps, and member updates help you keep your map current when the tools and the headlines keep shifting.
People
Builders, artists, researchers, founders, educators, public servants, students, and AI-curious humans compare notes without pretending anyone has it all figured out.
Momentum
Coworking, backchannels, member-first asks, and recurring rooms turn half-built ideas into collaborations that can survive the night.
Savings
Members save 25% on BC + AI events, major programs, certifications, accelerators, and Future Proof Festival. Stack that with Early Bird when available.
Voice
Paid members help shape the association priorities, programming, standards, and public-interest work. The room gets better when the right people take seats.
Real rooms, real receipts
The archive is the proof.
Photos: Michelle Diamond
Voices from the room
People are already saying the quiet part out loud.
The strongest proof is not a slogan. It is builders, artists, researchers, students, and curious people putting their names and faces on why they keep showing up.
Watch the public video archive
2:23Community Spotlight
Loki Jorgensen
Mind, AI & Consciousness
The hard questions get a room instead of a comment thread. Philosophers, scientists, artists, and builders stay in the same conversation.
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2:51Community Spotlight
Sev Geraskin
Founder, product builder, community regular
A founder brings playful demos and serious product questions into a room built for feedback, friendship, and real connection.
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2:04Community Spotlight
Matthew Schwartzman
Student organizer
Students and local organizers use the community to find a path into a fast-moving field, then help others find theirs.
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2:05Community Spotlight
Lionel Ringenbach
Creative technologist
A creative technologist brings forests, cameras, gestures, and open-source habits into the AI conversation.
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Why membership matters
This whole thing only works if the people who care help pay for it.
Membership keeps the rooms open, the notes public, the photographers paid, the scholarship seats possible, and the connective tissue alive between events.
Vancouver AI was the start. BC + AI is the member-supported association growing around it for people who want AI in British Columbia to stay practical, creative, responsible, and locally grounded.
Free updates
Not ready for a seat? Stay in the loop anyway.
The newsletter is public. Membership is the paid seat. If you are still deciding, get the signal first and come back when the math or the room makes sense.
Ready?
This is not a donation. Not a fan club. Not another login.
It is a seat.
If you are going to show up this year, take the seat first.