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Talks from engineers, artists, and rebels.
A hackathon anyone can join. Real money. Real questions. A dome full of signal.
Kris Krüg
July 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
To everyone building the future with one hand and flipping the bird with the other…
The Space Centre thinks it's hosting a meetup. Really, we're conducting a séance for the future Vancouver that could exist if we stop outsourcing our imagination to venture capitalists.
Meet Your Disruption Dealers
Lionel Ringenbach returned from Montreal carrying numbers that hurt. His VS Code extension is a confession booth for coders… every prompt tagged with its water bill, every model run stamped with its carbon receipt. He built a mirror that shows us what convenience actually eats.
Michael walks us through what it really looks like to explore a dozen AI ideas, stand up real products, and make sharp calls about where to go deep. Expect tactical takeaways, code-level thinking, and a mindset that balances intuition with iteration. What makes a world-class builder isn’t code. It’s discernment.
Peter Bowles thinks meditation apps are bullshit. So he built one. Then he'll birth it live on our stage and immediately feed us to it like digital lab rats. No beta test. No safety net. Just raw human consciousness meeting fresh machine logic. What could go wrong?
Peter is fusing AI-tailored meditations with stage-lighting artistry to unlock human potential.
Michelle Diamond will be there. She’s straight up the most badass photographer in our city... putting our faces and our futures down on the permanent record.
1,000 British Columbians told us what they really think about AI. Not the polished version. The 3AM version. The ‘I don’t know if my job survives this’ version. Now we need you to make sense of it. Turn fears into insights and hopes into prototypes.
Full dataset and details: hackathon.bc-ai.net
Here's the deal:
$2,500 prize for the best submission
Hack from home on your own schedule
Never done a hackathon? Perfect. Start here.
Free GitHub workshop next week
Deadline: August 13
You don't need to be a coder. If you can open a spreadsheet and have an opinion, you're qualified.
A website. An app. An interactive story. A data visualization. A game. A tool. Whatever makes the truth impossible to ignore.
Step up and show off your hacker ingenuity, creative coding chops, and data storytelling prowess in a no-holds-barred challenge that’s all about community, open-source maker culture, and real, tangible innovation.
The Real Infiltration Strategy
Space Centre thinks we’re hosting a networking event. We’re actually running a mycelial intelligence op… smuggling radical futures past the firewall of “AI for business.” Nurses teaching empathy to machines. Indigenous youth resurrecting languages in neural networks. Teenagers building games that run on REM cycles instead of RAM.
The heartbeat of BC’s AI community: Vancouver AI gatherings and every people-powered breakthrough across the province. Multi-modal, multi-cultural, radically local, and future-facing.
Wednesday’s Transmission Protocol
Every tech revolution starts with people in a room refusing to accept the official story. That's us. That's BC + AI…. we're building antibodies to the future they're selling.
Everyone's racing to build AI products. We're building AI culture.
One that speaks in our accent, dreams our dreams, and knows that efficiency without ethics is just automated colonialism.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. July 30. 6-10pm. Come ready to summon something better…
KK
P.S. If you’ve never been to an “AI event,” good. This one’s for you. Hackathon deadline is August 13. No coding experience needed. No excuses accepted.
Co-conspirators: Dimitri Schwartzman (funds the unfundable), SEGEV LLP (legal cover for rebels), METACREATION Lab (where machines learn to dream), TheUpgrade.ai (corporate rehabilitation services)
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