2026 Festival
Three days in Vancouver
Opening night plus two concentrated program days at the Space Centre, connecting AI research, professional practice, public policy and the arts.
Brand resources
Futureproof Festival Brand Guide
Futureproof Festival of AI brings research, creative practice and public leadership together to examine how AI works, what it changes and the choices it demands. Three days at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver for professionals whose decisions shape organizations, culture and public life. Use this page to copy festival language, download the right logo, and keep public claims honest while the voice keeps its pulse.
Presented by
2026 Festival
Three days in Vancouver
Future editions
Details to come
Future editions
Details to come
More on future editions later.
Messaging pillars
Ideas with consequences
AI decisions affect livelihoods, knowledge, culture and public institutions. Start with what people need to understand and decide.
Learn from the work
Make the case with published speakers, their research and the questions their sessions address.
Across professional boundaries
Business, technology, education, public leadership and creative practice bring different evidence to the same consequential questions.
Art is part of the inquiry
Creative AI performance, film and animation examine authorship and agency through practice.
Built through community
Vancouver AI and BC + AI provide the history and relationships behind the festival. Learning and judgment lead the invitation.
Festival copy
Copy you can use as-is.
These are the clean defaults for web pages, decks, press notes, and sponsor previews. Edit for context, not for fake certainty or beige little sentences that sound like they were raised in a dashboard.
Campaign hooks
Useful lines with a little voltage.
Hook 1
Understand AI. Shape what comes next.
Hook 2
AI is changing the work. The decisions are still ours.
Hook 3
Bring a question that matters to your work.
Hook 4
Research, governance and creative practice belong in the same conversation about AI.
Hook 5
The decisions you make about AI will outlast this year's tools.
Hook 6
Three days to examine the evidence and challenge your assumptions.
Hook 7
What should we build? What deserves scrutiny? What must remain human?
Hook 8
A stronger basis for what you do next.
Boilerplate
Short description
Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival, October 28-30, 2026, at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association. It brings researchers, founders, artists, educators and policy leaders together for three days of AI thought leadership, education and creative practice. Understand AI. Shape what comes next.
Boilerplate
Long description
Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival produced by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association. October 28-30, 2026, at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, opening night and two program days bring together research, business, education, public policy and creative practice. Keynotes, talks and audience questions examine human-centered AI, governance, knowledge, ownership and the work of making things with these systems. Creative AI performance is part of that inquiry. Built from Vancouver's grassroots AI community, the festival is for professionals who want a deeper understanding of AI and a stronger basis for the decisions it demands.
Lead promise
Official line
Understand AI. Shape what comes next.
Co-brand
Presenter line
Futureproof Festival of AI, presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
Registration
First-access line
Registration is open. The dates, venue, and prices on this site are the current confirmed ones.
Ticketing
Luma header
Understand AI. Shape what comes next. An international AI culture and ideas festival. Vancouver. Oct 28-30, 2026.
Private outreach
Outreach blurb
Futureproof Festival of AI brings researchers, founders, artists, educators and policy leaders to H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, October 28-30, 2026. Three days of AI thought leadership, education and creative practice for people deciding what gets built, adopted, funded, taught and governed.
Typography + composition
These are live specimens, not lookalikes. They inherit the same font roles and classes used across the festival site.
Two voices. One editorial rhythm.
Display type specimen
01 / DisplayLive role
Big ideas need room to breathe.
Cormorant Garamond carries the invitation, the provocation, and the main editorial turn.
Body type specimen
02 / BodyLive role
Inter does the grounded work: clear enough for logistics, warm enough for an invitation, and quiet enough to let the idea lead.
Use the body role for explanations, practical details, and longer reading.
Eyebrow type specimen
03 / EyebrowLive role
Futureproof field note
A tracked, uppercase signal that locates the reader before the headline arrives.
Caption type specimen
04 / CaptionLive role
Context and credit belong close to the thing they explain.
Keep supporting context compact, legible, and visually secondary, not microscopic.
Utility type specimen
05 / UtilityLive role
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The mono role is reserved for paths, filenames, and technical details that should read as tools.
Composition in practice
Make hierarchy visible.
We use responsive relationships, not a rigid spacing chart. Let type, rules, and unequal columns establish the reading order; let the layout stack naturally when the viewport or the reader's text size asks it to.
Editorial split
Let a small orientation line and a large idea occupy different amounts of the field.
The page should feel intelligent before anyone says a word.
02
Signal ledger
Reading order
Use rules and changing column weight to organize facts without turning everything into a card.
Logo system
Real marks, clean surfaces, no generated text.
Use transparent PNGs for compositing and opaque PNGs for press previews, reference decks, and fast partner handoffs.
Minimum rule: the wordmark should never feel like a caption. Give it space, preserve contrast, and composite the official BC + AI mark separately.
Transparent production assets
Wordmark
Futureproof Festival wordmark - white transparent
Primary standalone mark for dark UI fields, downloads, and video slates.
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Wordmark
Futureproof Festival wordmark - black transparent
Primary standalone mark for light documents and simple print layouts.
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Stacked
Futureproof Festival stacked - white transparent
Square-friendly festival lockup for social, cards, and partner previews.
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Stacked
Futureproof Festival stacked - black transparent
Stacked lockup for white decks, docs, and partner one-sheets.
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Horizontal
Futureproof Festival horizontal - white transparent
Wide lockup for dark web headers, sponsor decks, and co-brand bars.
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Horizontal
Futureproof Festival horizontal - black transparent
Wide lockup for light editorial surfaces and clean PDFs.
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Opaque reference exports
Wordmark
Futureproof Festival wordmark - white on black
Wordmark
Futureproof Festival wordmark - black on white
Stacked
Futureproof Festival stacked - white on black
Stacked
Futureproof Festival stacked - black on white
Horizontal
Futureproof Festival horizontal - white on black
Horizontal
Futureproof Festival horizontal - black on white
Image direction
EvidenceExpression
Proof has a camera. Atmosphere has a paintbrush.
Both belong in Futureproof. They just do different jobs, and the audience should never have to guess which one they are looking at.
Real photograph · Not AIThe crowd, in conversation
A real photograph of the community in conversation, cleared for editorial use.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
01 · Documentary / evidence
Show the crowd as it was.
Real photographs carry the people, place, and awkward little sparks that make a gathering true. Let them be specific. Let them stay human.
- 01Carry the photographer credit wherever the image travels.
- 02Crop for the format, never to rewrite who was present or turn an attendee into an endorsement.
- 03Do not fabricate, extend, or retouch the crowd into something that did not happen.
02 · Expressive / generated art
Make the argument visible.
Our painted festival world can carry metaphor, tension, weather, and a useful amount of weird. It is campaign art, not a receipt for real attendance.
- 01Use art to express a question or atmosphere, never as documentary evidence.
- 02Do not invent a recognizable person, speaker endorsement, crowd, quote, or event moment.
- 03Protect the salmon, raven, night-field, and hand-painted character before squeezing the work into a generic crop.
Festival artwork · Not documentarySalmon running upstream
The signature current: stubborn movement, Pacific night, and a destination worth swimming toward.
Festival artwork. Credit: Futureproof Festival.
Festival artwork · Not documentaryThe future is a cultural question
A manifesto image should make a proposition, not counterfeit a memory.
Festival artwork. Credit: Futureproof Festival.
Need the pixels? Use the cleared files, captions, and credits in the press kit.
Browse press imageryCo-brand lockups
Futureproof Festival leads. BC + AI presents and grounds it.
Presented by
Presented by
Futureproof Festival of AI is the event brand; BC + AI is the presenter and trust mark.
Use the official BC + AI SVG mark from public/brand, never generated lookalikes.
On dark fields, use white Futureproof Festival marks and the light BC + AI mark.
On light fields, use black Futureproof Festival marks and the dark BC + AI mark.
In generated image workflows, leave clean space and composite both marks afterward.
Voice
Deep wisdom, sassy swagger, both hands full.
Keep the voice civic, strange, warm, practical, and brave. The visuals can glow; the copy should keep its boots on the floor and its eyebrows slightly raised.
Use
- Understand AI. Shape what comes next.
- Curiosity in one hand, care in the other.
- international AI culture and ideas festival
- Vancouver as the host city, not the boundary
- festival, not conference
- build what lasts
- bring your questions, bring your doubts, bring the part of you that still wants this future to be human
- professional learning grounded in specific research and practice
- appropriately freaked out and excited
- human agency under pressure
- actual people, actual data, actual places
Use Carefully
- Use public-interest as a credibility pillar, not the lead hook.
- Use innovation only when there are receipts.
- Use premium for room quality, not velvet-rope posturing.
- Use swagger only when the claim has proof underneath it.
- Use community for real relationships, not audience acquisition.
- Use human-centered only when attached to a concrete choice.
- Use the three-day format as a confirmed fact, not as fake scarcity.
Avoid
- inevitable-future hype
- generic tech conference language
- AI-generated brochure cadence
- cliche bravery words with no specific consequence
- public-interest framing as the lead brand line
- city-public-square framing as the lead brand line
- unsourced urgency or availability-pressure language
- raw meeting language on public pages
- fake generated BC + AI marks
Colour
Every swatch is the live Tailwind value, checked against tailwind.config.ts on each build. Copy the token, not the hex, and the palette can move without you.
Six roles. One field of light.
Foundation
The three fields everything else sits on. Reach for these first.
- ink#0A0A0BNight field
Primary brand field, nav, dark UI, poster depth.
- parchment#F5F1E8Parchment/cream
Human warmth, editorial text, light relief.
- starfield-night#172231
The lifted field. Sections and cards that need to sit above ink without going light.
Starfield
The painted-world palette. Atmosphere, art direction, and printed surfaces.
- starfield-current#2f5158
Deep water and the cool half of an aurora gradient.
- starfield-teal#61938c
Mid-tone forest and the radial wash behind hero content.
- starfield-salmon#d2645d
Eyebrows, the shimmer accent, and the warm counterweight to aurora.
- starfield-violet#583849
Dusk shadow in generated art and the deepest atmospheric layer.
Aurora
The signal ramp. Interactive state, links, focus, and live moments.
- aurora-50#F0FDF9
Barely-there tint on light surfaces.
- aurora-100#CCFBEF
Soft fills and quiet highlight bands.
- aurora-300#5EEAD4Signal cyan
Logo glow, active interface states, signal moments.
- aurora-500#14B8A6
Primary action fills and the skip link.
- aurora-700#0F766E
Pressed and hovered action states.
- aurora-900#134E4A
Deep gradient anchor under dark sections.
Ember
Heat and emphasis. Gathering energy, never alarm-by-default.
- ember-300#FCA5A5Ember/coral
Social heat, emphasis, and gathering energy.
- ember-500#EF4444
Genuine errors and destructive confirmations.
- ember-700#B91C1C
Pressed state on an ember action.
Mountain
Retreat and reflection. The quieter, slower half of the programme.
- mountain-300#C4B5FD
Retreat, reflection, and depth-layer signals.
- mountain-500#8B5CF6
Retreat-track accents and wayfinding.
- mountain-700#6D28D9
Pressed state on a retreat surface.
- mountain-900#4C1D95
Deep violet anchor in layered gradients.
Partner
Borrowed equity. Belongs to BC + AI, not to Futureproof.
- lime-500#daf142BC + AI lime
BC + AI continuity and small electric accents only.
Layout
The steps the site already leans on hardest, measured across the codebase. They are a shortlist, not a census. Start here and new work looks like it belongs.
Short scales. Fewer decisions.
Section rhythm
Vertical breathing room between full-width bands. These four carry almost all of it.
- py-24
A section that should feel like a chapter break.
- py-20
The default band. Use this unless there is a reason not to.
- py-16
A tighter band, or a section that follows a heavy one.
- py-14
Compact strips: stat ledgers, marquees, inline callouts.
Radius
Four radii carry nearly every surface. Step outside them only with a reason.
- rounded-full
Pills, buttons, avatars, and swatch dots.
- rounded-lg
The default card and panel corner.
- rounded-2xl
Larger feature cards and nested content wells.
- rounded-sm
Inline code, tags, and small dense chrome.
Elevation
Depth comes from a dark, diffuse shadow. There is no light-mode drop shadow.
- shadow-2xl
Floating panels and anything that overlaps a hero.
- shadow-xl
Cards lifted off a matching field.
- shadow-lg
The lightest lift. Rare, and usually on a light surface.
Hairline
Structure is drawn with a translucent parchment rule, never a solid grey.
- border-parchment/10
The default edge on every card, section, and divider.
- border-parchment/15
A rule that needs to read at a glance.
- border-parchment/20
Emphasis edges and the rim on a swatch.
Calls to action
Buttons are verbs, not jewellery.
Futureproof has two working action families. Pick the family for the context, then let primary and secondary establish the choice.
If it does not go somewhere or do something, it does not get dressed like a button.
Big public moments
Campaign calls to action
Use these when the next move carries the campaign forward: tickets, submissions, press, or a major jump through the festival story.
Copy festival language
primary
campaign-cta campaign-cta-primaryOne consequential move per decision area. The primary is the sentence's verb, not confetti.
Download the marks
secondary
campaign-cta campaign-cta-secondaryA useful alternate route with less visual pressure. It still needs a clear destination and a real job.
Tools, forms, supporting routes
Utility and form actions
Use the quieter pill family inside forms, planners, error states, and supporting navigation where the task matters more than the campaign moment.
Open usage rules
primary
btn-primaryUse for submit, save, retry, or the dominant task inside a compact tool or form.
Read claim rules
secondary
btn-secondaryUse for back, cancel, download, or a supporting route that should remain easy to find.
Interaction contract
Clear before clever.
These states already live in the site CSS. Keep them when an action moves into a new layout; do not recreate them with a third component family.
- Focus
- Keep the visible sitewide keyboard ring. Campaign actions deliberately turn it up another notch.
- Pointer
- Hover is feedback, never meaning. Campaign lift runs only for hover-capable fine pointers.
- Touch
- Keep a 44px minimum target. Campaign actions grow to 48px on coarse pointers.
- Pressed
- A one-pixel press is enough. The interface should acknowledge a click, not perform a small musical.
- Reduced motion
- Transitions collapse sitewide; campaign actions also stop hover and active movement.
Do
Use real exported logo assets for all readable marks.
Place Futureproof Festival of AI first and BC + AI as presenter unless the context is organization-first.
Give the dot-matrix mark generous breathing room.
Use generated art for atmosphere, plaques, frames, and blank signal fields.
Use the confirmed Oct 28-30 date and H.R. MacMillan Space Centre venue; keep sponsor, speaker, vendor, protocol, and inventory claims tied to confirmed public facts.
Do not
Do not retype the Futureproof Festival logo in a site font.
Do not publish generated text as a final readable mark.
Do not let the BC + AI presenter mark become a generated approximation.
Do not compress the logo into dense art or low-contrast fields.
Do not imply ticket inventory, sponsor commitments, partner commitments, vendor commitments, or protocol participation before they are real.
Public-claim safety
Say the bold thing. Do not invent the facts.
Claim
Safe
Unsafe
Dates
October 28-30, 2026.
Any date outside the confirmed Oct 28-30 window.
Venue
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver.
Unconfirmed room layouts, catering, liquor, or production details.
Tickets
Registration is open; use the Tickets page for current prices and availability.
Unconfirmed ticket count-down, unavailable-status, or sponsor-bundled ticket claims.
Partners
Presented by BC + AI. Partners are named only when confirmed.
Unconfirmed sponsor, vendor, protocol, or retreat claims.
Speakers
Confirmed public names only.
Unconfirmed speaker announcements.
Sources
Planning evidence informs public copy.
Raw internal transcript language or unattributed meeting snippets.