Sponsorship

Back the room.

BC + AI is a grassroots, member-supported community building practical, responsible AI capacity across British Columbia. Sponsorship is how the rooms stay open, the seats stay reachable, and the knowledge stays public. Not a logo on a slide: a stake in the ecosystem.

The companies backing the community

Monthly sponsor

Internet Archive Canada

Preserving open knowledge and public web history.

Internet Archive Canada is a Canadian independent digital library preserving public knowledge, web history, books, media, and cultural records for long-term public access. Their monthly support keeps Vancouver AI grounded in open knowledge, public-interest infrastructure, and the idea that the future should be archived, shared, and usable by everyone.

Visit internetarchivecanada.org

Program sponsor

Rival Technologies

Conversational research at scale.

Rival Technologies builds conversational research tools that help brands understand what real people actually think. They have backed the community since the early days, sponsoring the Data Storytelling Hackathon Series and showing up at meetups. Co-CEO Andrew Reid is a fixture in our community, and Rival’s team regularly shares their expertise with members.

Visit rivaltech.com

Program sponsor

Intellomx

Healthcare AI specialists, based in Vancouver.

Intellomx works at the intersection of healthcare and AI, building tools that help clinicians and healthcare systems make better decisions. Simon Haworth, who leads Intellomx, received the 2025 Squatchies Industry Builder Award for his work connecting AI innovation to real-world healthcare outcomes.

Visit intellomx.com

What your sponsorship does

Keeps events in person. Venues, food, AV, photographers, and the human work that keeps community rooms warm and worth showing up to.
Funds scholarship seats. Your support puts people in the room and in programs when cost would otherwise be the barrier.
Builds public knowledge. Recaps, talk videos, reading lists, the member directory, and practical guides are open to everyone, not just members.
Stays local. Local venues, local photographers, local hosts. Sponsorship circulates in British Columbia, not out of it.

Ways to show up

Events

Sponsor a night

Put your name behind a Vancouver AI meetup or a regional chapter night. These are the rooms where the community actually meets.

Programs

Back a cohort

Help run a certification or accelerator cohort, from the Animation Accelerator to Responsible AI Professional.

Access

Fund scholarship seats

Underwrite seats for students, newcomers, and folks for whom cost is the only thing in the way.

In-kind works too: venues, food, AV, swag, prizes. If it helps the room, let's talk about it.

Exhibit at Futureproof

Startup Exhibitor Package

CA$2,000

Most sponsorship here starts with a conversation. This one is already priced. Futureproof is our festival, and this package puts your startup in that room. The table is a working table: bring the demo, not just the banner.

Two full Festival Passes
A working table on Thursday and Friday

See the package on futureproof.website

Let's build something

Sponsorship here is a conversation, not a checkout.

Tell us who you are and what you care about, and we'll find the fit: a night, a cohort, a fund, an exhibitor table at Futureproof Festival, or something we haven't thought of yet.

Talk to us about sponsoring or exhibiting