Community Spotlight - Catherine Warren

0:02My name is Catherine Warren. I am president of FanTrust and we are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year of innovation related to entertainment and economic development. And I'd say for about the past 10 years innovation has tended to mean things like artificial intelligence, sustainability, equity, diversity and inclusion. And in [music] a lot of ways this is the uh BC AI ecosystem defined. [music] And so this is what we're trying to do here as community builders. And I've known Kris Krüg for about [music] 25 years as well since the very early days of founding FanTrust. Uh we've done uh work together, we've attended conferences together and this is just a logical extension of that work to see

0:55what he's built here for the community. I'm currently producing a talk show on the topic of artificial intelligence in entertainment. It's called Truth and Consequences: Documentary in the Age of AI and it's going to be broadcast on Telus Optik [music] TV and YouTube channels starting this fall. The important thing about an ecosystem is that it brings together strange bedfellows. [music] So we have researchers, we have academics, we have industry [music] folks, artists, musicians, creators and innovators. And through that diversity and interdisciplinary thinking we're making it all happen here in BC.