16 meetups, workshops and conferences in Vancouver, British Columbia, researched and checked against each organizer. 8 still to come.
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Explore AI through conversations, creative work, and practical discovery with builders, artists, educators, and community members.
A working session to separate real AI risks from noise and turn concerns into practical next steps, with shared notes and small groups.
A monthly screening night where filmmakers and creative technologists show and discuss AI-assisted film and video work.
Educators take stock of a term with AI: what it saved in workload and attention, and what it cost in craft.
A monthly after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community to meet, share what they are building and talk shop.
A year-end civic lab gathering recurring AI themes such as accountability, labour, privacy and public trust into a map for 2027 work.
The last education and AI session of the year, sorting the year's experiments into what to keep for 2027 and what to drop.
A year-end after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community, themed around what people actually shipped this year.
BC + AI Ecosystem Association, BC + AI and Ethos Lab, MAC Group / BC + AI, BC + AI Events / Kris Krüg, IDC Canada, Voxel51 and Nebius and BC + AI Ecosystem Association / Kris Krüg. Recent sessions have run at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Parker Street Studios, Paradox Hotel Vancouver and FriendsQuarters.
Educators discuss authorship and assessment when students use AI: what they are asked to produce and how that work gets judged.
Work through physical AI and computer-vision examples, including datasets, model training, and evaluation, alongside local practitioners.
A monthly after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community to meet and talk; this edition's theme is separating AI hype from reality.
Explore organizational AI adoption, governance, and trustworthy deployment with business and technology leaders.
A monthly meetup on applying AI to life sciences and local healthcare in BC, with a founder talk and project updates.
A laptops-open civic policy session on public-interest AI, looking at governance, rights and civic imagination through small-group work.
Discuss British Columbia’s contribution to Canada’s AI transparency consultation and meet people working across technology, education, culture, and public service.
A reading-group deep dive into recent interpretability research on a global workspace inside language models, and what it suggests about machine minds.
Researched and checked on September 22, 2026. This is a curated snapshot, not a guarantee of every AI event in Vancouver. Dates, prices, and availability change — always confirm with the organizer before you travel or pay. Running an AI event in Vancouver? Tell us.
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