Creative power vs. planetary limits.

Friends,

Every prompt costs water. Every image generation burns coal somewhere. We've been building in the cloud pretending it's ethereal, but the cloud has a ground truth and it's thirsty as hell.

Nov 26 we're getting specific about solutions.

Liz Marshall - Documentary filmmaker investigating AI’s water and energy footprint and the human-planet health link, from Great Lakes data center buildouts to right-to-water movements.

Kei Baritugo - Montreal AI Ethics Institute strategist highlighting power gaps and pushing for AI as an assistive tool, transparency, and policy that protects creative labor.

Kevin Friel - AI filmmaker advancing ethical, local-first production workflows, from edge compute to heat reuse, and championing accountable tools like carbon impact tracking.

Amanda Silvera - Amanda founded the Society for Original Biometric Identity Rights (SOBIR) and Sobir Technologies (SOBIRTECH), two initiatives focused on protecting human voice identity and building ethical frameworks for biometric rights.

Catherine Warren (moderator) - Entertainment and innovation leader with climate physics roots, former CEO of Vancouver Economic Commission, and founder of Fan Trust, steering ethical AI and sustainability across media.

Earlyworm $50 (9 left) | Standard $60 | BC + AI Members save 25%

This isn't another panel where everyone agrees AI is "transformative." This is about reconciling the creative revolution with planetary reality.

Bring your questions, your skepticism, and your ideas for what we build next.

Kris
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