Grab yer tickets: lu.ma/VAI18
Recap reel from the Web Summit afterburner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8dws19wh4c
The next chapter of BC’s AI isn’t being written by gatekeepers—it’s being cooked up on the back porch. Get in, trade stickers, and help shape what happens next. June 25. Space Centre. 6PM.
Why bother?
• $2,500 prize + feature slot June 25
• Chance to push BC’s open-source, community-first AI ethos onto the global stage
• Because culture is code, and code can heal—or haunt—our collective memory
Deadline: June 11, 11:59 p.m. PT
Dataset: canada.bc-ai.net
Build for the history books, not the judges. Let’s show the world how BC codes with conscience.
What makes a real AI community?
Presenting new research here’s Professor Patrick Parra Pennefather speaking truth from inside the Vancouver AI movement—on values, belonging, and building tech with people, not around them.
From warehouses to policy tables—this is BC’s grassroots AI story.
🎥 https://youtu.be/dE8HdDaVvAM
