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What We Learned Running the First AI Animation Accelerator
Lessons from running the first AI Animation Accelerator, what creative teams needed, and why the program is coming back.
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The AI Values Gap
First-order research from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside challenges global AI alignment assumptions about whose values get counted.
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EventsLaunch of Comox Valley AI Community Meetup: CV + AI
Comox Valley AI launches with local builders, multimodal evaluation work, compute questions, and a new regional node for BC + AI.
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PolicyBC + AI's Ethics Community Responds to Canada's Nation AI Task Force Consultation
The BC + AI ethics community responds to Canada's National AI Task Force with competing visions and grounded implementation concerns.
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Creative AIDispatches from Canada's First AI + Culture Summit
Dispatches from Canada's first AI + Culture Summit, where artists, institutions, and technologists met the cultural shift directly.
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Creative AIBoth Hands Full: What Creatives Actually Need to Know About AI
A practical argument for creatives to hold critique and curiosity together while learning what AI changes in cultural work.
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PolicyBC's Response to the Canada’s AI Task Force
British Columbia's response to Canada's AI Task Force shows unusually strong local participation and clear regional priorities.
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Creative AILaunching the BC + AI Film Club
BC + AI Film Club launches as a home for cinematic experiments, creative practice, and community screenings in the AI era.
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PolicyCommunity AI Pathways for BC’s Look West Report
Community AI pathways for BC's Look West strategy, connecting major projects, skilled workers, AI, and quantum to local capacity.
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CommunityCommunity Spotlight: Dean Shev
Community Spotlight profiles Dean Shev, tracing the path from engineering survival to music, AI, and creative reinvention.
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PolicyCanada Budget 2025 × BC + AI
Canada Budget 2025 creates a path for public-sector AI demand, reference customers, and stronger scale-up conditions for BC companies.
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ResearchDocumenting the BC + AI Ecosystem Movement
UBC's BC Studies Journal documents the Vancouver AI Community and the BC + AI ecosystem movement as an emerging regional case study.
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CommunityData for Good Keynote: The Story of BC + AI
A Data for Good keynote telling the story of BC + AI, the movement behind it, and the civic questions now on the table.
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PolicyBC + AI’s Platform for Canada’s AI Task Force
BC + AI's platform for Canada's AI Task Force argues for governance, front-line perspective, and regional ground truth.
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EventsWhen Trees Talk Back: Vancouver AI Community Meetup September 2025 #VAI21
VanAI #21 asks who gets to decide how Indigenous knowledge enters AI systems, and what changes when permission comes first.
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Creative AIWhen a Healthcare Data Analyst Drops an AI Album That Makes You Cry
Dean Shev's AI-assisted album reframes what creative tools can unlock when technical practice meets lived emotion.
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EventsAugust 2025: Vancouver AI Commnity Meetup Recap: VanAI #20
A recap of VanAI #20, from Gabriel George's opening ceremony to the nonprofit launch and community demos shaping BC + AI.
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InfrastructureRocks, Racks & Rights: Canada's Blueprint for the AI Energy Wars
Canada's AI energy debate meets minerals, data centers, rights, and the hard infrastructure choices behind sovereign compute.
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InfrastructureHow to Build an Agentic Coding Pipeline
A field guide to agentic coding pipelines: scoped agents, clear handoffs, constraints, and the workflow discipline that lets them run.
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CommunityCommunity Spotlight: Loki Jorgensen
Community Spotlight profiles Loki Jorgensen, from physics and simulation to the larger questions AI raises for people and systems.
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PolicyCanadian Plan for Regenerative AI
Three proposals for regenerative AI investment that balance federal priorities with local context, shared risk, and shared outcomes.
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StartupsWhy Build Your AI Company in Vancouver?
A practical case for building an AI company in Vancouver, drawn from the local ecosystem's talent, research, infrastructure, and community.
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CommunityBC Launches New AI Industry Association
BC + AI launches as an industry association to connect builders, researchers, creatives, companies, and public-sector partners.
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PolicyCanada Appoints AI Minister Evan Solomon
Canada appoints Evan Solomon as AI minister, raising urgent questions about digital infrastructure, public services, and national capacity.
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BC + AI backs Hinton’s call for regulation.
BC + AI responds to Geoffrey Hinton's call for stronger AI regulation and the public appetite for practical safeguards.
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CommunityBC's AI Crossroads
BC's AI Crossroads brings together policy, industry, and community questions at a moment when the province has to choose its path.
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InfrastructureBuilding Sovereign AI Infrastructure for What Comes Next
A look at sovereign AI infrastructure, Indigenous protocol, and the local systems needed for what comes next.
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CommunityVancouver AI: Building BC's AI Future
Vancouver AI gathers neuroethics, builders, researchers, and civic leaders around the question of how BC builds its AI future.
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ResearchState of the BC + AI Economy
A map of BC's AI economy as a small but connected ecosystem of researchers, founders, creatives, infrastructure builders, and civic actors.
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Creative AIAI & Real-Time Content Creation: Behind the Scenes with Kevin Friel
Kevin Friel shows how real-time generative tools can change live interviews, performances, and the creative production stack.
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CommunityPLAYLIST: Vancouver AI Community Spotlights
A playlist of Vancouver AI community spotlights featuring the people, projects, and local stories shaping the ecosystem.
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What's Happening in BC in AI and ML?
A field scan of what's happening in BC AI and machine learning, from local innovation to the province's distinct way of solving problems.
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BC + AI Report 2024
A snapshot of British Columbia's AI ecosystem, its strengths, gaps, and the opportunities ahead for builders, researchers, and communities.
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