
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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Lessons from running the first AI Animation Accelerator, what creative teams needed, and why the program is coming back.
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First-order research from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside challenges global AI alignment assumptions about whose values get counted.
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Comox Valley AI launches with local builders, multimodal evaluation work, compute questions, and a new regional node for BC + AI.
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The BC + AI ethics community responds to Canada's National AI Task Force with competing visions and grounded implementation concerns.
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Dispatches from Canada's first AI + Culture Summit, where artists, institutions, and technologists met the cultural shift directly.
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A practical argument for creatives to hold critique and curiosity together while learning what AI changes in cultural work.
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British Columbia's response to Canada's AI Task Force shows unusually strong local participation and clear regional priorities.
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BC + AI Film Club launches as a home for cinematic experiments, creative practice, and community screenings in the AI era.
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Community AI pathways for BC's Look West strategy, connecting major projects, skilled workers, AI, and quantum to local capacity.
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Community Spotlight profiles Dean Shev, tracing the path from engineering survival to music, AI, and creative reinvention.
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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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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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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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BC + AI's platform for Canada's AI Task Force argues for governance, front-line perspective, and regional ground truth.
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VanAI #21 asks who gets to decide how Indigenous knowledge enters AI systems, and what changes when permission comes first.
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Dean Shev's AI-assisted album reframes what creative tools can unlock when technical practice meets lived emotion.
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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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Canada's AI energy debate meets minerals, data centers, rights, and the hard infrastructure choices behind sovereign compute.
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A field guide to agentic coding pipelines: scoped agents, clear handoffs, constraints, and the workflow discipline that lets them run.
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Community Spotlight profiles Loki Jorgensen, from physics and simulation to the larger questions AI raises for people and systems.
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Three proposals for regenerative AI investment that balance federal priorities with local context, shared risk, and shared outcomes.
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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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BC + AI launches as an industry association to connect builders, researchers, creatives, companies, and public-sector partners.
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Canada appoints Evan Solomon as AI minister, raising urgent questions about digital infrastructure, public services, and national capacity.
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BC + AI responds to Geoffrey Hinton's call for stronger AI regulation and the public appetite for practical safeguards.
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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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A look at sovereign AI infrastructure, Indigenous protocol, and the local systems needed for what comes next.
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Vancouver AI gathers neuroethics, builders, researchers, and civic leaders around the question of how BC builds its AI future.
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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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Kevin Friel shows how real-time generative tools can change live interviews, performances, and the creative production stack.
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A playlist of Vancouver AI community spotlights featuring the people, projects, and local stories shaping the ecosystem.
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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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A snapshot of British Columbia's AI ecosystem, its strengths, gaps, and the opportunities ahead for builders, researchers, and communities.
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