Jun 5, 2026
AI for All Has To Mean All of Us
Canada's AI for All strategy only matters if creators, communities, civil society, and Indigenous data sovereignty are truly in the room.
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Jun 5, 2026
The Island Has Its Own Shape: Comox Valley AI Meetup #2 Recap
A recap of CV + AI Community Meetup #2, where Steve Jones hosted Craig Whitton, Mel DiPietro, and Colin Fitzgerald in Courtenay on June 4, 2026.
Jun 4, 2026
Vancouver AI Meetup #30 Brings the Local AI Ecosystem to the Space Centre
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Jun 1, 2026
Aligning BC AI: Turning Canada’s AI Strategy Into Trusted Local Adoption
Canada's next AI strategy will only matter if it reaches SMEs, creators, workers, educators, and community leaders through trusted regional delivery. BC + AI is ready to help…
Jun 1, 2026
From Prince of Wales to Worlds: Youth Robotics, BC + AI, and FIRST Tech Challenge
BC + AI's youth robotics sponsorship story, from Prince of Wales POWER to Furious Frogs at FIRST Championship.
Jun 1, 2026
29 Months, 200 Pounds of Meat, and the AI Commons
Vancouver AI Meetup #29 recap: Rachel Horst's anti-slop machine, Andrea Mills and Internet Archive Canada, the AI Builders Fellowship, Gabriel George's opening, and the community runway.
Jun 1, 2026
A Trillion Pages and a $5K Summer
Andrea Mills on a trillion archived pages, AI scraping as DDoS, and the AI Builders Fellowship with Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI.
Jun 1, 2026
Tofu Isn’t Failed Meat: Rachel Horst’s Anti-Slop Machine
Dr. Rachel Horst's Vancouver AI keynote on slop, fungibility, 8-agent fiction systems, process traces, and why LLMs are not failed humans.
May 13, 2026
Sovereign AI for Whom?
For all of us. That’s the answer. We can have clean, green, sovereign tokens, where inclusion happens, consent is respected, and the power goes toward the future we…
Apr 18, 2026
What We Learned Running the First AI Animation Accelerator
(And Why We're Doing It Again)
Apr 14, 2026
The AI Values Gap
April 7. Sunny day in Vancouver. Two BC + AI members just published first-order research from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that should make every alignment lab uncomfortable.
Apr 9, 2026
Launch of Comox Valley AI Community Meetup: CV + AI
He's been doing multimodal AI evaluation work for almost two years now. 'Access to compute is really the trick,' he said. 'You could buy off-lease enterprise grade hardware…
Apr 1, 2026
BC + AI’s Ethics Community Responds to Canada’s National AI Task Force Consultation
The result? A report containing 'conflicting recommendations reflecting sharply different visions' with no clear implementation priorities.
Mar 16, 2026
Dispatches from Canada’s First AI + Culture Summit
I feel like I'm in the right place at the right time.
Mar 1, 2026
Both Hands Full: What Creatives Actually Need to Know About AI
'Both Hands Full' challenges creatives to reject both uncritical AI hype and pure resistance, instead walking forward holding critique in one hand and curiosity in the other.
Feb 6, 2026
BC’s Response to the Canada’s AI Task Force
Last year, 645 British Columbians participated in Canada's AI Task Force consultation. That's 20.6% of everyone who responded nationwide, second only to Ontario.
Dec 29, 2025
Launching the BC + AI Film Club
It’s here. After two years of late-night brainstorms, cinematic experiments, and a community that’s evolved from “what if…” to “let’s fucking go,” we’re officially launching the BC +…
Nov 24, 2025
Community AI Pathways for BC’s Look West Report
British Columbia just dropped Look West a 10-year bet on major projects, skilled workers, and strategic sectors like AI and quantum.
Nov 4, 2025
Community Spotlight: Dean Shev
Dean learned early that passion doesn't pay bills. Growing up in a family of engineers where everything was math and logic, music was a dream. Engineering was survival.
Nov 4, 2025
Canada Budget 2025 × BC + AI
Love the direction. A government that actually uses Canadian AI creates real demand, reference customers, and a pathway to scale for BC startups and researchers.
Nov 1, 2025
Documenting the BC + AI Ecosystem Movement
UBC's BC Studies Journal has published a case study on the Vancouver AI Community and BC+AI Ecosystem.
Oct 22, 2025
Data for Good Keynote: The Story of BC + AI
Premier David Eby’s response to criticism? 'If voters don't like it, they can vote me out next year.'
Oct 1, 2025
BC + AI’s Platform for Canada’s AI Task Force
On paper, it's a pivot moment. In practice, it's already drawing fire. Too much weight on scaling, not enough on governance. Too many boardrooms, not enough frontlines. Too…
Sep 25, 2025
When Trees Talk Back: Vancouver AI Community Meetup September 2025 #VAI21
We gathered to talk about something most tech conferences won't touch: who gets to decide how Indigenous knowledge enters AI systems, and what happens when you actually ask…
Aug 30, 2025
When a Healthcare Data Analyst Drops an AI Album That Makes You Cry
You know that moment when someone completely redefines what you thought was possible? That happened to me… and 250 other people… when Dean Shev stepped onto our stage…
Aug 28, 2025
August 2025: Vancouver AI Commnity Meetup Recap: VanAI #20
Carol Ann stepped to the mic after Gabriel George’s Eagle song ceremony, carrying forward the sacred space set through traditional opening. This was the official launch of the…
Aug 24, 2025
Rocks, Racks & Rights: Canada’s Blueprint for the AI Energy Wars
So what kind should we choose?
Aug 12, 2025
How to Build an Agentic Coding Pipeline
Your agents aren’t “AI gods.” They’re specialists you brief like adults and constrain like toddlers. Give them a lane, a rulebook, and a baton pass. They’ll run all…
Aug 10, 2025
Community Spotlight: Loki Jorgensen
Loki came up through the precision world of physics — crunching numbers, simulating systems, mapping reality one equation at a time. But somewhere along the way, the numbers…
Aug 5, 2025
Canadian Plan for Regenerative AI
We offer three proposals designed to advance federal priorities while respecting local context and sovereignty. Each is crafted as a co‑investment model—shared risk, shared outcomes.
Aug 1, 2025
Why Build Your AI Company in Vancouver?
Here's the pitch, stitched from the underground wisdom of BC's ecosystem documents, the voices in the trenches, and the vibes in Mount Pleasant coffee shops.
Jul 15, 2025
BC Launches New AI Industry Association
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Jul 1, 2025
Canada Appoints AI Minister Evan Solomon
Let's be straight: Canada's slide from 3rd to 47th in global e-government rankings isn't just a statistical blip. It's evidence of a systemic failure to recognize digital infrastructure…
Jun 27, 2025
BC + AI backs Hinton’s call for regulation.
BC public opinion lines up with him:
Jun 5, 2025
BC’s AI Crossroads
Wolves, Welders & the Wicked Problems of AI — the Peter Dhillon Centre's 10-year birthday bash morphed into a rolling debate on 'The Promise & Peril of AI.'
May 8, 2025
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure for What Comes Next
Dennis Thomas opened in his traditional language and laid down the 'take only what you need' algorithm.
Mar 1, 2025
Vancouver AI: Building BC’s AI Future
Dr. Illes, trailblazing neuroethicist, is Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Distinguished University Scholar, UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada:…
Mar 1, 2025
State of the BC + AI Economy
The British Columbia Artificial Intelligence ecosystem isn't some massive corporate machine - it's more like a mycorrhizal network in the forest, you feel me? Small but mighty, connecting…
Feb 24, 2025
AI & Real-Time Content Creation: Behind the Scenes with Kevin Friel
AWS Community Day Vancouver showcased innovative AI-driven content creation tools, enhancing interviews and artistic performances with real-time generative technology.
Feb 23, 2025
PLAYLIST: Vancouver AI Community Spotlights
Community Spotlight Videos showcase Vancouver AI members sharing their work, insights, and impact across the BC + AI Ecosystem. These conversations highlight the diverse voices building human-centered AI…
Jan 15, 2025
What’s Happening in BC in AI and ML?
That's BC innovation. We don't just solve problems—we reinvent how problems get solved.
Dec 15, 2024
BC + AI Report 2024
To provide a comprehensive snapshot of BC's AI ecosystem, identifying its unique strengths, challenges, and opportunities.