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Need help?Alexandra Salvador
Artist & Executive Assistant. I write, make music and help small/medium sized businesses run smooth! Production Lead for Futureproof Fest 2026
Alexandra W Samuel
How can AI help us work the way we're wired—and how does the way we're each wired affect the way we approach AI?
Amber Case
Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist exploring how digital tools shape culture. Famous for her TED Talk, "We are All Cyborgs Now" she held research fellowships at Harvard and the MIT Media Lab. She now directs the Calm Tech Institute, advocating for technology that respects human attention.
Anson P. Mulville
We are the creative agency arm of a large meetings and travel company. I lead the content team in charge of creating media for events and campaign content for our portfolio of brands that we support including social, digital and broadcast. I currently lead our generative AI initiatives.
Danese Cooper
For many years I was the Open Source Diva. I was the first female CTO for Wikimedia Foundation. I founded InnerSource Commons Foundation nearly 11 years ago. I knit in meetings.
David Agahchen
I'm David Agahchen, co-founder of Etcera. Driven by curiosity about the deepest truths of reality and how we make meaning within it, I'm exploring a question: How might we build AI that amplifies our meaningful choices? I'm here to connect with curious minds and imagine what's possible together.
Davis Vaitkunas
Davis has led Bond Capital Private Credit for 25 years. Bond is a direct source of growth and transition debt capital for certain later-stage businesses in North America with a minimum of $2MM MRR or $5MM in historical EBITDA.
Geraldine Eliot
Curiosities about how we retain our voice within AI, preserving critical thinking & keeping it real.
Gil Barros
UX, Design Methods, Service Design, Strategy.
Gregory Heller
Career coach, educator, and AI builder at UW Foster School of Business. Host of Conversations on Careers and Professional Life. Practitioner-skeptic: building with AI every day while asking hard questions about what it costs us.
Harvey Johal
Vendor-agnostic IT/data advisor. I help $25M–$300M companies fix the data foundation under their AI and BI bets, before the next platform decision gets made. 25+ years in enterprise data and cloud. I love restoring cars, was on a reality TV show, built condos and developed properties, and I’m a dad.
Hwayda Kater
Pitch deck and executive presentation partner. I help business leaders and their teams communicate complex ideas with clarity and confidence through strategic content, persuasive presentation design, and reusable template systems built to scale.
Ian Tepoot
Founder of Crafted Logic Lab... building humanist AI that partners rather than replaces. Developer of the intelligenceOS powering Clarisa (source-checked answers) & Soren (intent coding AI). Researching neurosymbolic+transformer hybrid approaches based on observable AI processing dynamics.
James Bishop
Project manager & Artist. Digital health & justice & portraits & landscapes.
Jordan Wade
Award-winning TV host, media producer and storyteller with international experience covering six Olympic Games. Co-founder of FriendsQuarters, a Vancouver hub for creativity and connection. Passionate about bringing people and ideas together, exploring how innovation and AI are shaping our future.
Karen Hamilton
Business process strategist at Sage. Endlessly curious about the world and how to steward it responsibly for future generations.
Karim Elakkad
I’m the founder of CrowdSky Solutions, building HealLens, practice-management software with therapist-reviewed AI, and CrowdSky IQ, a governed AI ecosystem. I’m here to meet people turning AI into useful products.
Kevin Friel
Kevin Friel is a Vancouver filmmaker, video producer and VFX artist with more than 25 years in production. He co-founded the BC + AI Film Club and leads Futureproof’s cameras and AV across all three days.
- KNFutureproof / 2026
Kimberly Nnabue
MBA & operations lead building SaaS platform strategy. I use AI to build better workflows. I'm also deeply curious about the philosophical implications of AI and how society uses it as a scapegoat for systemic failures. Let's chat systems design, politics, or tech tools!
Kris Krüg
I make photographs, build software, and bring people together to figure out what the hell we're going to do with all this technology. I lead BC + AI and founded Futureproof and Vancouver AI. Here for people whose imagination stretches mine.
Martin Montero
I build Promethean tech. Agentic tools, systems & Traininfg to augment human capacity and thriving. Create solutions to empower & educate non Devs to create the solutions they and their communities need. Project manager for the BC+AI / Internet Archive Canada fellowship
- MPFutureproof / 2026
Max Putilin
DevOps
Max Tor
Web developer and Vancouver AI volunteer, open to collaborating
Mike Jackson
Serial entrepreneur & creative. Late to the game?….maybe. Ready to learn?….always. Can AI make the world a better place? Let’s do that then.
Nima Norouzi
I'm building Repolve: turning workout data into a Strength Profile that evolves with you. UBC Computer Science (AI), former machine learning TA, and solo founder. I'm curious about AI that understands one person deeply, and what makes people keep using what we build.
Rebecca Pauls
I’m here with curiosity about AI and a belief, rooted in my work with PLAN, that caring relationships hold us together. Through Courage to Care, we are exploring how stories connect us—and how we can shape a future where caring for one another is at the heart of what we build.
Rnold Smith
I love working with youth. Investing in people development should match investment in technology. My book: Unleashing the Human Advantage. My super power? Helping people live inspired. Coach, consultant, author, program facilitator. I specialize in behaviour change and organizational development.
Robert Kaul
I turn ambitious healthcare innovations into successful companies. With 30+ years of entrepreneurial experience, I founded Cloud DX and AI-native Vitaliti Technologies Inc., raised $70M CAD since 2014, and led Cloud DX to become the first Canadian company to win an XPRIZE in 2017.
- SCFutureproof / 2026
Sean Cranbury
I am a writer, organizational development director, and creative technologist living in Vancouver.
sev geraskin
Sev Geraskin is Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at PolarGrid, North America’s first real-time AI inference network, which he built from concept to commercial. As President of the Economy of Wisdom Foundation, he created Transmutarianism, measuring how economies turn deprivation into fulfillment.
Simon Haworth
Biotech drug discovery entrepreneur: Focus: AI-powered de novo research that reveals the causal biology of disease and develops new drugs with pharma partners. Unlike an LLM, we WRITE the academic papers rather than just read them. British citizen; BC Resident; 150 yrs of China family connections
Susanna
Co-Founder of Global Business Bridge Society (Vancouver non-profit supporting immigrant and local entrepreneurs). Background in procurement, law and finance. Looking to meet people in supply chain, procurement and the non-profit sector. Happy to connect on cross-border business collaboration.
Tahiti Rey-Linton
Musician, designer, artist, dancer and chef. Creative director at Camp Denman. AI tools have blown my creativity wide open, and now I get to teach campers to do the same while keeping camp a place where people connect as real humans in a fast-changing digital world.
Tanya Slingsby
Tanya Slingsby is a strategist, philanthropic leader, artist, and interdisciplinary thinker working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human systems, creativity, and social impact. She founded and leads Slingsby Legacy Advisors Inc.
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