17 meetups, workshops and conferences in Vancouver, British Columbia, researched and checked against each organizer. 8 still to come.
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Two-day AI summit for founders, researchers, investors and enterprise leaders, with keynotes, panels, hands-on workshops, a startup pitch competition and an exhibition area.
A working session to separate real AI risks from noise and turn concerns into practical next steps, with shared notes and small groups.
A monthly screening night where filmmakers and creative technologists show and discuss AI-assisted film and video work.
Educators take stock of a term with AI: what it saved in workload and attention, and what it cost in craft.
A monthly after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community to meet, share what they are building and talk shop.
A year-end civic lab gathering recurring AI themes such as accountability, labour, privacy and public trust into a map for 2027 work.
The last education and AI session of the year, sorting the year's experiments into what to keep for 2027 and what to drop.
A year-end after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community, themed around what people actually shipped this year.
BC + AI Ecosystem Association, BC + AI and Ethos Lab, MAC Group / BC + AI, BC + AI Events / Kris Krüg, IDC Canada, Voxel51 and Nebius, BC + AI Ecosystem Association / Kris Krüg and Global Summit AI. Recent sessions have run at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Parker Street Studios, Paradox Hotel Vancouver and FriendsQuarters.
Explore AI through conversations, creative work, and practical discovery with builders, artists, educators, and community members.
Educators discuss authorship and assessment when students use AI: what they are asked to produce and how that work gets judged.
Work through physical AI and computer-vision examples, including datasets, model training, and evaluation, alongside local practitioners.
A monthly after-work drop-in for Vancouver's AI community to meet and talk; this edition's theme is separating AI hype from reality.
Explore organizational AI adoption, governance, and trustworthy deployment with business and technology leaders.
A monthly meetup on applying AI to life sciences and local healthcare in BC, with a founder talk and project updates.
A laptops-open civic policy session on public-interest AI, looking at governance, rights and civic imagination through small-group work.
Discuss British Columbia’s contribution to Canada’s AI transparency consultation and meet people working across technology, education, culture, and public service.
A reading-group deep dive into recent interpretability research on a global workspace inside language models, and what it suggests about machine minds.
Researched and checked on September 22, 2026. This is a curated snapshot, not a guarantee of every AI event in Vancouver. Dates, prices, and availability change — always confirm with the organizer before you travel or pay. Running an AI event in Vancouver? Tell us.
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