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The Future Isn’t a Roadmap — It’s a Dancefloor

Vancouver Web Summit Edition open-source Vancouver AI mixtape of knowledge, culture & collective intelligence from the bleeding edge of the BC + AI Ecosystem.

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Kris Krüg
May 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Not a conference. Not a brand activation. This is grassroots tech running on rebellion and sushi. Culture forged in real time. Signal over noise. Community over capital. And yeah, we just torched the whole damn scene.

We cracked open post-chat design futures with Allen Pike of Forestwalk Labs. 6000++ views and achieved escape velocity on YouTube.

We heard ancestral tech prophecy from Gabriel George of the Slə́lwəta̓ʔ Nation.

We got an academic deep dive on how this thing grew from 12 weirdos to 1000+ humans from Professor Patrick Parra Pennefather.

We watched hackers and artists remix data into AI-driven storytelling tools and crown a $2,500 winner.

MAY 28 — VANCOUVER AI x WEB SUMMIT

On May 28, in the middle of the marketing maelstrom of Web Summit Vancouver,
we're hosting a rally point for indie builders, radical researchers, and rogue tech leaders— the ones hunting signal through the noise.

Vancouver AI Community Meetup Web Summit Edition

Vancouver AI is assembling the brain trust of BC's AI ecosystem—researchers with revolutionary vision, artists with computational minds, and builders who question what they're building.

lu.ma/websummit-vancouver

Our community is a patchwork quilt of creative resistance. A field node. A local beacon. A gathering of misfits and makers co-creating an ecosystem built on trust.

👁️‍🗨️ GET YOUR TICKET →
Real humans. Real tools. Real talk.

Vancouver AI: May 28 #WebSummit · Luma

Vancouver AI warmly welcomes all members of the community passionate about shaping the future of AI - researchers, creatives, tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs,…

lu.ma/websummit-vancouver

VANCOUVER AI CORE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP

What powers this movement isn’t venture capital. It’s real people showing up with real care. Support the ecosystem. Get all-access earlybird tix. Unlock the fire private chat where new projects spark weekly.

Join Vancouver AI Community

So here it is: the Annual Community Membership for $480/year. Same price you'd pay for a years-worth of earlyworm tix anyway, plus your own OG Member Number and entry to our private CORE Members groupchat.

core.bc-ai.net

“We don’t do panels. We do portals.”

Kris Krüg, Founder Vancouver AI & BC + AI

→ "The next obvious thing." AI-powered UX beyond the prompt window.

→ Oral histories that foresaw the internet. "Webs across the world" as ancestral architecture.

→ Values, practice, and the humans who built Vancouver AI into a living system.

→ Multi-agent pipelines. Visual storytelling. Experimental media meets community data.

🎞️ All videos + transcripts: See the Full Drop →

Vancouver AI Meetup #16

A monthly open-source mixtape of BC + AI knowledge, culture & collective intelligence from the bleeding edge of the Pacific Cascadian AI underground.

kriskrug.co/2025/05/11/vancouver-ai-meetup-16-where-tech-creativity-and-community-collide

We’re not here to get famous.
We’re here to get free.
To build tech that holds soul.
To leave better tools for those who come next.
You feel that pull? That tug in your ribcage? That’s the future calling.

Answer it. Together.

PS. Want to help us build the next meetup? Bring gear? Speak? Sponsor? Holler.

BC + AI | Creativity across disciplines. Diversity across cultures. Innovation rooted in place. Futures shaped together.

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