Hey friends,

AI is already part of life in the Valley.

It’s showing up in classrooms, studios, small businesses, hiring, health care, local government, creative work, family conversations, and the daily decisions people are trying to make with incomplete information.

So this Thursday, we’re getting people in a room to talk about it clearly.

Craig Whitton from North Island College / Authentic Consulting is coming back to talk about AI and education beyond the lazy “is it cheating?” loop.

Mel DiPietro from FlocknFir is bringing the human side: teams, wellbeing, judgment, uncertainty, and how people make decent decisions while the tools keep changing.

Colin Fitzgerald from Tree AI is bringing the practical side: what happens after the demo, when AI has to be useful in the real world with real people counting on it.

No sales pitch. No doom theatre. No fake certainty.

Just locals trying to understand what’s changing, what’s useful, what’s risky, and what we want to build here.

Thursday, June 4
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Filberg Centre, Courtenay

Free for BC + AI members. $20 otherwise.

And honestly, if you’re planning to come to a few of these, membership is the move. It helps us keep building spaces like this across BC: local meetups, practical workshops, better public conversations, and an AI community that isn’t owned by vendors, hype cycles, or whoever has the loudest LinkedIn account.

Come if you’re curious, skeptical, building with it, avoiding it, worried about it, or just ready to have the conversation without anyone trying to sell you the future.

See you there,

Kris Krüg (KK)
Executive Director
BC + AI Ecosystem

Join the non-profit → bc-ai.ca/membership/
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