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11:40Neo Wang: Wemio — The All-in-One AI Filmmaking Tool | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
Overthinking your AI filmmaking pipeline? Neo Wang thinks you're using too many tools. "Two months ago a friend told me he was using 13 different tools just to…
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16:39Mark Achbar: A Filmmaker's AI Journey | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
"A legend in the house" — that's how Kevin Friel introduced Mark Achbar, the co-director of the award-winning documentary The Corporation. Mark and his…
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2:00:42The Corporation Director, AI Sound Design & Wemio: BC+AI Film Club April 2026 Full Recording
Full recording of the April 2026 AI Film Club meetup, featuring: Mark Achbar (co-director of The Corporation) on using AI to animate 50-year-old nuclear…
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40:29The Appetite Prompt Challenge: AI Films From the Community | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
"Contentedly full" is how Kevin Friel described this month's prompt challenge theme: Appetite. The community delivered. From gritty character studies to…
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27:28Kevin Friel: Context Is The New Art Form | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
"Context is the new art form." Kevin Friel opens with a quote from his storytelling mentor Bay Raid — the artist behind Gollum's facial rig and a master of…
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11:25Community Announcements: Project Jams, Volunteer Calls & What's Next | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
What happens when a community actually shows up for each other? This is the community announcements segment from BC+AI Film Club April 2026 — the part where we…
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5:23Building an AI Sound Design Pipeline Inside DaVinci Resolve | BC+AI Film Club April 2026
What if you could generate 70 tracks of sound design from a single video file — and drop them into your timeline timecode-accurate? Kevin Friel spent his spare…
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2:08:18AI Ethics Panel & Community: Vancouver AI April 2026 (Full Event)
What's inside: • Squamish Nation opening with Vanessa Gonzalez — creation legend, Unity Song, and a real conversation about what reconciliation means when you…
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1:28:26AI Ethics 101, Transmutarianism & Rawlsian Contracts: Full Panel | Vancouver AI April 2026
Three talks. Three frameworks. One room full of people who refuse to let AI be decided by 10 companies alone. Sarah Downey opens with a 10-minute driveby of…
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16:13Sev Geraskin: Ethics Isn't About Individuals | Vancouver AI April 2026
Sev met a guy named Phillip on the Downtown Eastside. Bloody nose, black eye, the pavement behind him drenched in blood. He asked what happened. Phillip just…
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15:54Martin Lapotka: Rawlsian AI for Fairer Contracts | Vancouver AI April 2026
What if you had to write a contract without knowing which side you'd end up on? Martin Lapotka (PhD ML, Mozilla alum) applied John Rawls' veil of ignorance to…
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15:37Sarah Downey: AI Ethics When There Are No Rules Yet | Vancouver AI April 2026
Ten companies control the models most of the world uses. The EU has an AI Act. The US just dismantled its AI Safety Office. Canada has nothing. Nobody is…
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26:18Community Announcements: Film Club, AI Burnout & Ethics Lab | Vancouver AI April 2026
The part of every Vancouver AI meetup where the community passes the mic — and tells you exactly what's brewing. Kevin on Film Club and the AI burnout paradox:…
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11:36Squamish Nation Opening & Unity Song | Vancouver AI April 2026
Meetup #28. Twenty-eight months in a row. Kris Krüg opens Vancouver AI April 2026 by welcoming his parents from Sacramento — they flew in for the second time…
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1:43:13Vancouver AI Community Meetup March 2026 Full Recording
Full recording of Vancouver AI Community Meetup March 2026. The event opens with a welcome from by Anthony Joseph of the Squamish Nation, who shares…
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14:54Mayumi: The Prompt Challenge That Built a Creative Movement | Vancouver AI March 2026
Mayumi runs AI Film Club with Kevin and Luke. What started as "20 people in pajamas with laptops" hit 200+. At our latest meetup, she showed us what happens…
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19:23I Taught a Robot to Listen: Live OpenClaw Demo Ft. Lawrence Okolo | Vancouver AI March 2026
Lawrence Akello has been building toward this moment. From student volunteer to featured speaker, he's now running OpenClaw on actual hardware—and we got to…
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12:50Time is Our Greatest Asset: Indigenous Wisdom for the AI Age | Vancouver AI March 2026
At Vancouver AI Meetup, we opened with something different: A land acknowledgment that meant something. Squamish Nation counselor Anthony Joseph didn't just…
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19:57Community Announcements: MAC, AI Film Club & The Road Ahead | Vancouver AI March 2026
What happens when a community actually shows up for each other? This is the community announcements segment from the Vancouver AI March 2026 meetup, the part…
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32:43We Trained AI on Stolen Work... And I'm More Creative Than Ever | Vancouver AI Meetup March 2026
Let's be real: the AI conversation is exhausted. On one side, you've got the boosters who act like AI will solve all our problems overnight, trained on stolen…
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29:10Diane Laidlaw: Story Over Spectacle: AI, Representation & Human Emotion｜BC +AI Film Club
Diane Laidlaw (Afro Futcha) is a UK-based creator whose work stands out because it's not another fight scene or Marvel frame. It's human emotion. Quiet.…
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1:45:15AI Burnout, Punk Rock & Community: BC + AI Film Club March 2026
Full recording from BC AI Film Club March 2026 at Multimodal Media Lab. Featuring: Kevin Friel on "That Escalated Quickly" — four weeks of AI film chaos, the…
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8:55"I've Always Been an Architect" - Suzy Easton on Building Her Own AI Platform｜BC +AI Film Club
Suzy Easton turned a hackathon-by-accident into a revelation. With a Tuesday deadline and an idea for an "esoteric ASMR video about geography," she started…
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4:53Intro and Matt Jones Tribute｜ AI Film Club Meetup Feb 2026
💥 Join the movement Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: Smash that Subscribe & 🔔 so you don’t miss future Spotlights. Drop a comment: What’s one…
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13:34Community Announcements – Platforms, Jobs & a GDC Win｜AI Film Club Mar 2026
What happens when a community stops waiting and starts building? A professional AI filmmaking platform with DaVinci Resolve integration—built for teams, not…
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25:47ASMR AI Film Prompt Challenge - BC + AI Film Club
We ran a challenge. You made things. The brief: create something ASMR-inspired using AI tools. The results? Weird, wonderful, and completely unexpected. From…
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21:47AI Burnout & The Punk Rock Future of Film - Kevin Friel｜BC +AI Film Club Mar 2026
Kevin Friel unpacks four weeks of AI film chaos—new models, new editors, new agents—and the first medical diagnosis of AI burnout. The paradox? The people…
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2:11Event Recap: AI Film Club: 2/12
Join us for a cinematic recap of our latest Vancouver AI community gathering, where technologists, creatives, and founders come together to explore how AI is…
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37:57Audio 101 with Kevin Friel: Pro Sound & AI Audio for Indie Films｜BC + AI Film Club Feb 2026
Veteran film maker Kevin Friel shares a fast, practical “Audio 101” for indie and AI-assisted filmmakers. Drawing on 25+ years of experience in animation and…
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12:07AI‑Generated Toilet Paper Ads?! | BC AI Film Club Prompt Challenge
AI Film Club Community prompt challenge! This is where creators used generative video tools to make 15–20 second toilet paper commercials. Luke and Mayumi open…
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16:26Tertiary Artifacts, Soundtrap, and AI‑Powered Karaoke Workflows w/ Joel Flynn｜BC + AI Film Club
Joel Flynn, a singer, remixer, and media researcher, explains how he uses AI‑driven audio tools, karaoke tracks, and custom playlists as a framework for…
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22:03Solo Unreal Engine Action Film on a 3070 Ti – Jakub Kuczynski｜AI Film Club Feb 2026
Jakub Kuczynsk showcases Hardcore, a 4–5 minute action short made solo in Unreal Engine on an RTX 3070 Ti. He explains how the film began as lighting and asset…
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1:52:12Mind, AI & Consciousness: Vancouver AI Community Meetup MAC Takeover - 2/26
Mind, AI & Consciousness takes over Vancouver AI for a special February 2026 edition exploring what it means to be aware in an age of large language models,…
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11:28From Panpsychism to Consciousness｜Michel Leblond at Vancouver AI Meetup Feb 2026
Michel Leblond from Mind, AI & Consciousness walks the audience through big questions the group has tackled: panpsychism and whether consciousness suffuses…
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19:07Automatic Video‑to‑Music Scoring for Creators - Daniel Moon｜AI Film Club Feb 2026
Daniel Moon, co‑founder and CEO of Tide Theory AI, presents an AI platform that analyzes video to automatically design and generate bespoke music. After…
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11:21Something Big is Happening: Kling 3, SeeDance 2 & the Orchestration Era｜AI Film Club Feb 2026
AI video just crossed a new threshold. In this BC AI Film Club session, we explore why “something big is happening” in 4K AI video, agentic workflows, and…
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17:15BC AI Film Club Feb 2026 Community Announcements: AI Film, Storytelling & Vancouver Creators
Four community projects at the intersection of AI, film, and storytelling: – Belcim shares how being bedridden led her to create an AI avatar as a lifeline for…
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48:19Love & AI｜The Age of Artificial Intimacy - Tanya Slingsby
Is human love and identity at risk as romantic relationships rapidly shift from human-to-human to the human-machine dyad? Learning to love is a fraught path…
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1:40Event Recap: Vancouver AI MAC Takeover Feb 2026
What happens between a burst of sound waves and the feeling of “being you”? And how is that mystery being reshaped by artificial intelligence? This Mind, AI &…
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16:28The Mirror Test｜Fiann O’Hagan at Vancouver AI Meetup Feb 2026
Philosopher and researcher Fiann O’Hagan joins the community tonight to unpack what it means for a being to recognize itself, and how ideas from psychology,…
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12:07What is Consciousness When AI is Everywhere?｜Loki Jorgensen at Vancouver AI
Loki Jorgensen opens the session by brining sound from the past. He then pose real philosophical questions: What is consciousness when artificial intelligence…
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12:54Vancouver AI Meetup Feb 2026 Community Announcements
Quick rundown of February 2026 Vancouver AI events, projects, and opportunities to get involved in the local AI community. -------- 💥 Join the movement Join BC…
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11:32Honouring Land, Language, and AI｜Vancouver AI Meetup Feb 2026 Intro
Squamish Nation community leaders Venessa Gonzales her daughter Makaidea Gonzales ground the Vancouver AI gathering on Skwxwú7mesh territory. They speak about…
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14:36Using the Tools Available｜Vancouver AI Meetup Jan 2026 Intro
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: -------- A powerful Indigenous welcome to the Vancouver AI community from Squamish Nation counselor and carver Anthony…
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16:49Human-Centered AI Product Design with Figma Vibe Coding｜Maya Bruck at Vancouver AI Meetup Jan 2026
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: -------- Product designer Maya Bruck shares how she uses AI and “vibe coding” in Figma to deliver high-end enterprise…
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15:30Soft Violence in AI Art Discourse｜Vancouver AI Meetup Jan 2026 Erica Deconstructs Anti‑AI
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: -------- In this Vancouver AI community meetup talk, artist Erica Lapadat Janzen shares how a single AI-assisted art…
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17:50Community Updates, Events & Sponsors｜Vancouver AI Meetup Jan 2026 Community Announcements
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: -------- Stay in the loop with what’s new in the Vancouver AI community this January 2026. In this session, members of…
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1:06:04Vancouver AI Community Meetup & The Squatchie Awards
It's dark December in Vancouver. The solstice approaches. Two years ago, we started gathering trying to figure out what AI meant for the work we make and the…
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2:16:57Creative Power vs. Planetary Limits: Vancouver AI Community Meetup November 2025
AI's Real Cost Creative Power vs. Planetary Limits The machines are thirsty. While AI transforms how we create content, it's consuming water like never…
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37:24Luke Minaker Uses AI Animation to Realize Art-School Dream | BC +AI Film Club:
Luke Minaker of Tiny Ghost Studios sharing how he’s using hybrid AI+3D pipelines to reclaim creative “art school” freedom, dramatically cut production time and…
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19:53AI Film Club: Pixel Wizard’s 98% AI-Generated Workflow Feat. DaVinci Resolve
Mr. Pixel Wizard Kevin Friel demonstrating his end‑to‑end workflow—from scripting and shot‑listing with Claude and V3.1, to generating visuals in…
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18:46AI Film Club: Michael Tippett on AI Crime short, and Future of Storytelling
Michael Tippett premieres a gritty micro‑episode from his “Westside City” series—set in a noir, AI‑imagined metropolis where buildings and machines commit…
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2:13:42AI Film Club: January 2026 Full Show
The world premiere of the BC + AI FilmClub, filmed live at the Multimodal Media Lab in downtown Vancouver. It welcomes the BC + AI and Vancouver AI community…
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8:37Hand‑Drawn AI Animation with Daniela Gamarra at BC + AI Film Club
Artist Daniela Gamarra “DAGA” shares her experimental pipeline for turning 3D AI animation into 2D, hand‑drawn‑styled frames using custom tools. --- 💥 Join the…
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8:44AI Film Club: Local Model Manager, AI bespoke Soundtracks & Game/Animation/Simulation Engine
This BC AI Film Club’s demo session features local builders showing off tools for automated bespoke AI soundtracks, standardized local model libraries for…
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12:14AI Film Club: John Mutter’s Generative AI Films
This BC AI Film Club’s session features visual effects artist John Mutter introduces “Strange Love,” an episodic, fully AI-visualized soap opera, a fake 1940s…
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20:13AI Film Club: MML’s Multimodal IP “Gambino,” Fashion Futures & ClearLED
The first BC + AI Film Club meetup kicks off a new monthly, in‑person gathering in Vancouver where filmmakers, animators, and creative technologists explore…
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2:04Community Spotlight: Matthew Schwartzman
Matthew Schwartzman first used AI to cheat on high school homework but now uses on tools like NotebookLM and Descript to automate editing his…
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1:21Community Spotlight: Dimitri Schwartzman
Dimitri Schwartzman is a longtime Vancouver AI community supporter and sponsor who uses AI tools in his real estate work to create multilingual, video‑ and…
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1:43AI Film Club: Launch Night – Future of Film, Animation, and Work.
The first BC + AI Film Club meetup kicks off a new monthly, in‑person gathering in Vancouver where filmmakers, animators, and creative technologists explore…
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5:37Vancouver AI Highlights: Peter Bittner on The AI Upgrade (Dec 2025)
Peter Bittner of The AI Upgrade shares how his cohort-based, six‑week online programs turn AI confusion into capstone‑level creations—spanning multimodal…
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12:17Vancouver AI Highlights: Community Announcements (Dec 2025)
Community Announcements: New multimodal lab venue, open collabs, reading groups, and 2026 dates. --- 💥 Join the movement Smash that Subscribe & 🔔 so you don’t…
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10:14Vancouver AI Highlights: Intro (feat. Gabriel George Sr.) (Dec 2025)
Kicks off meetup #24 with gratitude, humor, and a powerful welcome from Gabriel George Sr. of the Tsleil‑Waututh Nation, who shares ancestral history,…
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6:41Vancouver AI Highlights: Generative Carols by Patrick, Alex, Zaro (Dec 2025)
A holiday special warm intro to our Vancouver Al meetup, featuring Patrick Parra Pennefather, Alex Salvador Lopez, Gabriel Zaro. --- 💥 Join the movement Smash…
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2:51Community Spotlight: Sev Geraskin
TL;DR: Meet Sev Geraskin and his hackathon journey proving a hot dog is not a sandwich. Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: --- Longtime…
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16:48Vancouver AI Highlights: Intro (feat. Is'gh'li-ya: Anthony Joseph) (Nov 2025)
A warm intro to our Vancouver AI meetup, featuring Is’gh’li‑ya’s welcome and song. Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: --- 💥 Join the movement Smash that…
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12:44Vancouver AI Highlights: Community Announcements (Nov 2025)
Quick community updates, wins, and upcoming initiatives from our November Vancouver AI meetup Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: --- 💥 Join the movement…
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21:39Watt’s up with AI?: Saving Open Source | Lionel Ringenbach
Lionel Ringenbach presents tools estimating AI energy, carbon, and water use, critiques opaque “closed” AI, and proposes incentives for token-saving to protect…
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12:43Vancouver AI Highlights: Amanda Silvera on AI Voice Theft and Protection (Nov 2025)
Amanda Silvera shares how her voice was cloned and abused, and urges policy, detection tech, and community action to protect biometric identity. Join BC + AI:…
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1:10:23AI & Climate Impact Panel (Nov 2025): Vancouver AI Community Meetup
Moderated discussion in Vancouver frames AI as a double‑edged tool for climate. The closing theme: accountability, transparency, and redesigning incentives to…
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11:21Applied AI Case Study: Scheduling Wins in Vancouver Manufacturing | BC Founders Day 25
Applied AI hits the factory floor in Vancouver. In this Founder’s Day Vibe Lounge chat, host Kevin Friel meets Pierre from Bridge to AI... a Lower Mainland…
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7:29Hot Dog Drama 2025 (Hackathon#1 Submission by Udbhav Kansal)
🔗 Download the dataset + submit: Data Storytelling Hackathon - Round 1: Is A Hotdog A Sandwich? ⸻ Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: 🚀 Level Up Your AI…
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6:55The Music of Us (Hackathon#4 Submission by Alvaro Peralta)
🔗 Download the dataset + submit: Data Storytelling Hackathon - Round 4: The Soundtrack of Us ⸻ Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: 🚀 Level Up Your AI…
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2:17:45Vancouver AI Meetup #22: 1st Annual AI Film Festival + Data Storytelling Hackathon Grand Finale
This historic episode captures Vancouver AI's biggest event yet: the debut of the First Annual AI Film Festival and the grand finale of the eight-month Rival…
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7:11Inside Cloud Summit: How Vancouver Built a Multi-Cloud, Community-First Movement (with Matt Carolan)
What happens when you invite every cloud, cut the hype, and donate the upside? At the Vancouver Orpheum, Matt Carolan explains Cloud Summit’s…
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1:36:49When Trees Talk Back: Vancouver AI Community Meetup #21
What happens when you merge 10,000-year-old Indigenous knowledge with cutting-edge AI? In this groundbreaking September 2025 meetup, the Vancouver AI Community…
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4:35Tell a Story with Data: $2,500 Vancouver AI Hackathon Round 2 - Canadian Identity + Data Ethics
What happens when you ask 1,000 Canadians what it really means to be Canadian—then drop the raw data into an open AI hackathon? Welcome to Round 2 of the…
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1:49:36Surrey AI Community Meetup: September 2025
From Classrooms to Clinics: How Surrey AI is Building BC's AI Future Join Matthew Schwartzman and the Surrey AI community for Meetup #8, where healthcare…
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5:31How Music Will Feel by 2030: Signals - The Future of Sound
(Hackathon#4 Submission by Darby Yule) 🔗 Download the dataset + submit: Data Storytelling Hackathon - Round 4: The Soundtrack of Us ⸻ Join BC + AI: Next…
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8:12Vancouver AI Highlights: Industry Voices on AI Filmmaking (Oct 2025)
AI’s role in creative tools and storytelling, this is what the people in industry thinks. Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: 📍 Chapters: 0:00 -…
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2:45Vancouver AI Meetup Recap: Consciousness, Creative Tools, and AI Films (Oct 2025)
A recap of our Vancouver AI Meetup #22, a discussions around human-first in the AI era and premieres of community-made AI shorts. Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver…
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18:35Vancouver AI Highlights: AI Film Festival (Oct 2025)
AI Film Festival from the Vancouver AI community. Recorded at our October 2025 meetup, this 15‑minute micro‑festival features rapid AI film experiments from…
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45:39Vancouver AI Highlights: AI Film Club Locals and Q&A (Oct 2025)
Meet veteran animator Luke and VFX artist Tim as they break down practical workflows, where AI shines, what are the current limits, and why human remain…
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5:07Mind, AI & Consciousness: Highlights from September 2025 Vancouver AI Community Meetup
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: Mind, AI, and Consciousness (MAC) is the meetup where participants explore philosophical and scientific perspectives on…
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12:32Jeff Clark on AI-Powered Beauty EdTech | BC Founders Day 25
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: Jeff is building an AI‑powered edtech platform for the beauty industry, watch to find out why product transparency…
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4:47The Music Survey (Hackathon#4 Submission by Scott Larson)
🔗 Download the dataset + submit: Data Storytelling Hackathon - Round 4: The Soundtrack of Us ⸻ Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: 🚀 Level Up Your AI…
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13:18Margaret Dibor on AI, Privacy & SMB Security | BC Founders Day 25
Margaret Dibor on AI, Privacy & SMB Security | BC Founders Day 25
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4:26$2,500 for Winners: Inside Vancouver’s AI Hackathon
TL;DR: The Van AI Hackathon—Vancouver’s biggest, most creative AI build-day. Over $7,500 given already, the Van AI Hackathon entered round 4. Join BC + AI:…
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2:55Community Spotlight: Dean Shev
TL;DR: Meet Dean Shev, founder of VHT. His AI platform uses your entire health history to provide personalized, data-driven preventive healthcare advice. Join…
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12:38BC AI Ecosystem: Highlights from August 2025 Vancouver AI Community Meetup
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: -------- Experience the highlights from the August 2025 Vancouver AI community meetup! This gathering marks the launch…
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14:52Ryv Valiquette on Surrey AI Community Meetup | BC Founders Day 25
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: Surrey AI is a tiny-but-mighty circle inside the wider provincial mycelium, focused on hands-on learning, kitchen-table…
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10:36AI, Language & Squamish Culture: Jonny Williams at Vancouver AI Meetup
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: VanAI September: How is AI shaping culture and leadership in BC? Host Kris Krug welcomes Johnny Williams from the…
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28:56Vancouver AI Community Announcements: September 2025
Vancouver AI’s September community announcements: events you can actually show up to, research wins, sponsors, and a new Discord to stitch our brains together.…
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1:42Indigenous AI, Plant Communication & Community Power | Vancouver AI Community Meetup #21
Join BC + AI: - Next Vancouver AI meetup: ------------- We opened in a good way with Johnny Williams (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) song, welcome, and a lived AI story:…
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15:02AI in Everyday Life: AI Hackathon Submission - BC + AI Ecosystem
A poetic, story-driven film exploring how AI quietly shapes daily choices, privacy, and humanity in British Columbia. This short film by SAR’s Hackathon team…
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37:08Artificial Intelligence for Interspecies Communication | Manuel Axel Strain at Vancouver AI
At Vancouver AI, artist‑researcher Manuel Axel Strain proposes ethical AI systems for plant communication and mycelium networks, guided by Indigenous data…
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10:29AI Healthtech Diagnostics: Smarter Home Test Kits | BC Founders Day Vancouver
Join BC + AI: - Next Vancouver AI meetup: Vancouver AI at BC Founders Day: how do human relationships power startups in a world of AI? Host Kevin Friel chats…
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7:27Stable Diffusion AI VFX & No‑Code Game Engine: SIGGRAPH Vancouver Report
SIGGRAPH Vancouver mini report: generative VFX spoof and a no‑code game engine that builds worlds in one click. Which demo surprised you more—the Stable…
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2:10:17Love in the Code: AI Ethics, Advocacy & Community — Vancouver AI Meetup #20
Featuring Love Now Media’s Jos Duncan on AI ethics; advocacy, Peter Bitner on the future of work, and Rival’s data storytelling hackathon winners. Plus: BC +AI…
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11:42AI in Canadian Manufacturing — Sam Pirzadeh (Pioneera Ventures) | BC Founders Day Vancouver 2025
Join BC + AI: Next Vancouver AI meetup: AI in Canadian manufacturing at BC Founders Day, Vancouver. How do we modernize legacy factories—analytics, automation,…
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27:52Peter Bittner on the Future of Work, Upskilling & AI Adoption
Join the BC AI Ecosystem Association: Next Vancouver AI meetup: What actually changes at work when the AI buzz fades? Peter Bittner maps the future of work: AI…
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36:21Vancouver AI Hackathon Winners: Data Maps, Real-Time AGI Interfaces & a Community Album
Join the BC AI Ecosystem Association: - Next Vancouver AI meetup: Vancouver AI Hackathon winners turn BC survey data into stories—one builds semantic maps,…
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2:27Vancouver AI Highlights: Ceremony, Justice, Music, Launch | BC + AI Ecosystem
Most “AI meetups” are demo days with mood lighting. This one opened with ceremony, launched a nonprofit, and turned 1,000 voices into music. That’s not hype.…
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2:36Guided Meditation for an Ethical AI Future | Vancouver AI Hackathon Submission
Vancouver AI Community → BC +AI Ecosystem → Join a calming, data-driven guided meditation in Stanley Park (Vancouver, BC) to imagine a practical, ethical AI…
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29:13Ethical AI: Advocacy, Love & Community Care | Jos Duncan-Ase
What does it mean to “put love in the code” and the policy? A powerful Vancouver AI meetup talk: Jos Duncan (Love Now Media) shares a community-first path to…
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2:19AI Hackathon Guided Meditation: Collective Awareness & Future Vision | Vancouver AI Hackathon
Vancouver AI Community → BC +AI Ecosystem → What happens when a tech hackathon begins with meditation? Join the BC +AI community in a guided journey of golden…
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5:21How AI Transformed Survey Data Into Human Connection | Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
Dean’s Album → Vancouver AI Community → BC AI Ecosystem → Rival Technologies → Dean Shev just shocked everyone by winning our $2,500 Data Storytelling…
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4:45Turning AI Survey Data Into Living Conversations & Semantic | Vancouver AI Data Hackathon
In this demo, Prajwal Prashanth showcases his Round 3 Vancouver AI Hackathon submission: a storytelling tool that turns open-ended survey data into living…
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2:58How Canadians Really Feel About AI 🇨🇦"
Watch as Hugh Behroozy transforms over 1,000 Canadian voices into an interactive platform that makes AI policy personal and accessible. [PolicyNow.ca]( bridges…
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7:51BC’s funniest answers about AI 🤯😂
What happens when you ask 1,000+ British Columbians about AI? You get comedy, confusion, poetry…
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5:58AGI Data Interface | Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
What if data could talk, adapt, and guide you like a story? 📊✨ Bear × Bunny’s AGI-DI transforms BC’s AI survey into a living data interface. --------- In an…
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27:51How Much Power Does AI Really Use? Find Out Here!
Lionel Ringenbach just exposed something at Vancouver AI that'll make you rethink every ChatGPT query you've ever made: 55% of AI requests in code editors are…
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2:23Mind, AI & Consciousness - Community Spotlight: Loki Jorgensen
In this BC + AI Community Spotlight, physicist-turned-AI philosopher Loki Jorgensen explores the big questions at the heart of artificial intelligence: - What…
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2:11Vancouver AI Community Recap: AI Ethics & Grassroots AI (July 2025)
Become a Member → Grow Community Infrastructure: Join BC + AI ---------------- This meetup featured Squamish Nation cultural advisor Jonathan Williams opening…
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46:21I Built 52 Startups in 52 Weeks with AI Coding Agents - Here's What Actually Works
TLDR: Serial builder who shut down AI 51 startups shares brutal truth about AI coding - more output doesn't mean better outcomes. Michael Yagudaev drops…
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12:15Indigenous Wisdom Meets AI
Indigenous Elder Brings Ancient Wisdom to Vancouver AI Community | Gabriel George Sr. Eagle Song Gabriel George Sr of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation opens…
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2:17:36Vancouver AI Community Meetup #18 - June 2025
2 hours & change under the Space Centre dome served up a living syllabus on what community‑driven AI looks like in BC: Protocol First. Kris Krüg cracked…
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1:47:40Vancouver AI Community Meetup #17 - May 2025
While Web Summit suits pitched "AI solutions," we gathered in a planetarium to witness actual humans using AI to solve real problems. Gabriel using custom GPTs…
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1:24:37Vancouver AI Community Meetup #16 - April 2025
Post-Interface Culture, Fungal Code & the Sandwich Tribunal Welcome to the living archive of Vancouver AI Meetup #16—recorded in a round room built like a…
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1:53:53Vancouver AI Community Meetup #15 - March 2025
This episode captures an unfiltered night inside the Vancouver AI community—where analog gear hums alongside AI-generated visuals, and Indigenous songs echo…
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19:27Canadian Identity 2025: How AI Hackers Re-imagined Data & Took Home $2.5K
What DOES it mean to be Canadian in 2025—and can AI turn raw survey data into lived experience? 👀 Watch as the Vancouver AI Community announces its hackathon…
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42:18AI Community Announcements | Vancouver AI Meetup #18
Community Announcements at a Vancouver AI community meetup is the section that feels more like an open mic at a neighbourhood house or the late-night kitchen…
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2:19Student Builds Ethical AI Hat for the Blind | BC + AI Community Spotlight Prajwal Prashanth
TL;DR: Meet Prajwal Prashanth—17‑year‑old valedictorian, hardware hacker, and living proof that the next generation is shipping ethical, community‑first AI out…
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7:48Building Creative AI Community The Art of AI Documentary Filmmaking
How does a filmmaker help shape an AI-powered creative community? Victor Serbin shares the behind-the-scenes story of building, filming, and finding the art in…
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9:48AI Shoes That Guide & Heal | Vancouver AI Startup Showcase
TL;DR What happens when a 500‑million‑dollar Indian footwear dynasty crashes our grassroots meetup? You get Vippal Kansel—CEO of Vijanta & founder of Impakto…
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3:51Canada’s Identity Crisis: An AI Voice Clone Confronts the Numbers
A synthetic First Nations voice walks you through the raw data behind Canada’s widening fault lines... unpacking the numbers and what they mean. Search traffic…
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4:12Interactive AI Dashboard Tutorial: 3D Semantic Mapping for Qualitative Survey Analysis
Learn how to create interactive 3D dashboards for qualitative data using AI.Explore Canadian identity survey responses visualized through semantic clustering.…
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2:21Vancouver AI Community BBQ Sizzle + AI Hackathon Winner: #VAI18 Recap
What happens when you mix a Space-Centre cook-out, a mind-bending keynote on the *Model Context Protocol* (MCP), and the most creative AI-hackers in Canada?…
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2:36What Makes Someone Truly Canadian? AI Data Storytelling Hackathon
What happens when 1 000 real survey voices become AI characters you can meet? Step inside the Canadian Identity Simulator and test your own beliefs—every…
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1:02:42MCP Tips and Tricks Expert Level
"Empire of AI" by Karen Hao | | ► WHY FUNCTION-CALLING IS DEAD ► HOW CLAUDE SENT 8 000 ROGUE EMAILS ► LIVE n8n WALKTHROUGH: Slack → Google Sheets in seconds ►…
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32:23How ChatGPT & AI Embeddings Will Replace Google Search
What happens when private search monopolies lock away our shared knowledge? Discover how AI, embeddings, and Aaron Swartz’s vision can set it free. Join Kush…
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24:15The AI Gold Rush: Live from Web Summit
AI startup founders send field reports live from Web Summit Vancouver 2025’s trade-show floor—no buzzwords, just what’s actually happening. From DNA-driven…
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12:17Land Acknowledgement & Indigenous AI Ethics | Tsleil-Waututh Nation at Vancouver AI #websummit
Grounding AI in Indigenous wisdom: Gabriel George Sr. of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation opens Vancouver AI: May 28 #WebSummit with land acknowledgement and song.…
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8:10Grounding Our AI: A Live Ritual Ceremony
Before the buzz of keynotes, demos, and algorithms, this transmission from the Vancouver AI Community Meetup brings us back to where all real futures start:…
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12:42Building an Anti-Burnout Community in the AI Age
How to build anti-burnout community in the AI age | Jessica Liang built something rare: a coworking space that actually works. 200 events in one year. 18-hour…
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5:28AI Backlash, Layoffs & the Power of Community
Real Talk with Bibi Souza at Cloud Summit Vancouver Welcome to the Cloud Summit Vibe Lounge, live from the Orpheum Theater at Web Summit Vancouver 2025. In…
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10:00The Future of Creativity: AI & The Artist
What do you get when you cross a VR pioneer, hip-hop concert promoter, brand anarchist, and freestyle futurist? You get Khayyam Wakil—the Saskatoon-born…
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7:26AI Filmmaking Just Changed Forever!
Holy digital disruption, Batman. Kevin "The Pixel Wizard" Friel just completely rewired my understanding of what's possible in filmmaking, and I've been in…
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8:33How Indigenous Knowledge Can Revolutionize the Economy
What happens when Indigenous wisdom meets artificial intelligence? Carol ANne Hilton — founder of the Indigenomics Institute and visionary behind the global…
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2:25Vancouver AI Community Meetup 2025 - The Future is Here
While Web Summit suits were pitching "AI solutions," we gathered 55 humans in a Vancouver planetarium to witness something rarer: actual people using AI to…
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1:24How Vancouver is becoming the AI capital of the world
Pull up a chair, tune into the signal, and hear from one of the real ones shaping British Columbia’s AI renaissance from the ground up. Dr. Patrick Parra…
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20:39AI VFX Video Filmmaking Revolution: Kevin Friel
No corporate polish. No fake optimism. Just two veterans breaking down what da funk is really going out out there for film makers and photographers and…
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2:12Making Music with AI: A Deep Dive into Metacreation Techniques
What happens when you invite artists into the algorithm? When creative technologists and composers aren’t just end users—but co-designers of the code itself?…
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34:25I Tried The New AI That Reads Your Thoughts
The room was hot with emergence—new tools, new tribes, new stakes. I lit the fuse, Loki Jorgenson grabbed the mic, and we dove head-first into mind-machinery…
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10:09The Indigenous Wisdom Behind AI
Gabriel George of the Slə́lwəta̓ʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation shares ancient tech prophecies that predicted our digital age centuries before computers existed.…
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4:24Grassroots AI, Values & Building AI Learning Community
This is where the story turns inward. Where we stop pitching and start reflecting on what we’re actually building here in British Columbia. In this clip from…
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2:33Why Vancouver is the Next AI Capital of the World
Feels strange writing a description for a meetup that's still under my skin a week later. Feels strange writing a description for a meetup that's still under…
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11:00Vancouver AI: The Community You've Been Waiting For...
This clip captures a living snapshot of the BC AI ecosystem as it’s unfolding—from inside the room at Vancouver AI Meetup #16. You’ll hear about the launch of…
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33:14Why Vancouver’s Data Storytelling is So Beautifully Weird
BC + AI is on fire! 🔥 Dive into Round 1 of the Vancouver AI Hackathon, where grassroots creators, scrappy AI startups BC, and ethical builders from across AI…
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3:01Why Data Storytelling is the Future of Analytics
Dive into the ultimate food identity debate with Sev Geraskin's project for the Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon. Using AI agents, 3D modeling,…
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1:32Interactive Choice-Driven Chart Demo | AI Hackathon Prototype
A rapid walkthrough of a choose-your-own visualization that updates its chart based on live user selections. Recorded during an AI Hackathon; shows UI flow,…
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3:43I Tried Data Storytelling, and It Was Amazing
Michel LeBlond developed a fun interactive chat using AI and RAG, inspired by "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.” Gemini Workspace analyzes data for gaming…
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3:24Generating Videos with Midjourney, Sora & Runway | AI Hackathon Walk-Through
Step-by-step breakdown of a multi-tool AI pipeline that turns raw survey text into animated, data-driven videos. Includes prompt engineering, image creation,…
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3:22AI Persona Generation from Survey Data | AI Hackathon
Watch a complete walkthrough of an AI pipeline that converts 500+ lunch-combo survey responses into four evidence-based consumer personas. Recorded during an…
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4:49AI Hackathon: AI Survey to Data Storytelling Pipeline
An end-to-end AI pipeline converts 500+ survey responses into a data-driven comic. Recorded at the VanAI Round 1 Hackathon in Vancouver. This presentation…
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2:04AI Chefs Are Already Better Than Human Chefs
Steven Jones' submission for the Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon showcases how AI can transform complex survey data into a dynamic, visual experience.…
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31:59AI UX Design: ChatGPT Interfaces Are Already Obsolete
Allen Pike on Post-Chat AI Design What if chat was just the training wheels? In this keynote from Vancouver AI Meetup #16, Allen Pike (Forestwalk Labs) maps…
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2:05Photogramming Fungi, Teaching AI to Listen: Lionel Ringenbach Community Spotlight Vancouver AI
Lionel left fifteen safe years in enterprise code to see what happens when you swap the keyboard for the forest floor. His first stop was Mycolog—a straight-up…
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16:08Protecting Indigenous Languages in the Age of AI | Peter-Lucas Jones at Vancouver AI
What happens when ancient languages meet machine learning? In this powerful talk from the Vancouver AI Community, Peter-Lucas Jones (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Takoto,…
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2:24We Don’t Do Panels. We Do Portals. | Vancouver AI: March 2025 Recap
We Don’t Do Panels. We Do Portals. Vancouver AI: March 2025 Recap This wasn’t a meetup. It was a lightning strike. A 3-hour detonation of mind, matter, and…
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20:49The Rise of AI Storytellers: Will Humans Become Obsolete?
How do we move beyond boring data reports and static dashboards? In this conversation, Kris Krüg and Andrew Reid (Founder, Rival Technologies) break down the…
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6:32When Your Digital Twin Stares Back: Brittney Smaila's Teleportation Paradox | Vancouver AI
The fourth in Brittney Smaila's ongoing series of AI-focused spoken word explorations, this performance at our February Vancouver AI Community Meetup takes the…
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35:15Should We Let Our Brains Connect to the Internet?
What happens when AI meets your brain? Dr. Judy Illes, Distinguished Professor at UBC and neuroethics pioneer, breaks down the revolution happening at the…
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18:33Reimagining Work: Conscious, AI-Driven Exponential Growth: Sissi Wang at Vancouver AI Meetup
Purpose-driven, conscious organizations leveraging exponential technology can profoundly impact human potential and global…
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2:05Future Proof Humans Unite: Vancouver AI Explores Consciousness & Creativity | #VAI15
Explore the vibrant intersections of AI, creativity, and human potential from Vancouver AI's standout February gathering, VAI15. Kris Krüg hosted a…
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