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The festival crew gathers on stage beneath a projected Thank you message

announcement2026-10-31

The gathering, in photographs

Opening night, two program days and Friends Quarters: 167 photographs from the full Futureproof Festival gathering.

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Speaker at the microphone facing a full Space Centre auditorium at a Vancouver AI Meetup

schedule2026-09-25

The 2026 program is set

Three days at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, October 28-30: opening night, then Making sense of it together, then What we build next. Here are the sessions to circle.

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H.R. MacMillan Space Centre exterior at night with people gathered inside

schedule2026-09-25

Opening night, hour by hour

Badges from four, doors and staffed booths from five, then Amber Case, the AI Builders Fellows, Brewster Kahle and a creative AI live set. Here's how opening night of Futureproof Festival runs on October 28.

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Wide Space Centre auditorium with a speaker and full Vancouver AI audience

sponsor2026-09-11

Internet Archive Canada joins as founding sponsor

Internet Archive Canada is the founding sponsor of Futureproof Festival 2026 in Vancouver, October 28-30, and backs the AI Builders Fellowship with BC + AI.

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speaker2026-08-16

Simon Haworth joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Intellomx CEO Simon Haworth is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Sarah Downey mending a glowing net on a dusk shoreline with salmon, a raven, and aurora.

speaker2026-08-16

Sarah Downey joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Sarah Downey teaches the separate Responsible AI Professional course on October 27–28, 2026.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Philippe Pasquier at an outdoor night tide-pool with a musical-notation current, a tide-pool bell, and a cello-scroll fern.

speaker2026-08-16

Philippe Pasquier joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Metacreation Lab director Philippe Pasquier is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Futureproof Festival featured speaker square for Loki Jorgenson beside a cedar switchback stair climbing to a roofless observatory under aurora and dawn, with the BC + AI ecosystem presenter mark.

speaker2026-08-16

Loki Jorgenson joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Circle Innovation CTO Loki Jorgenson is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Peter Bittner beside a hand-built signal loom turning many coloured threads into one luminous current.

speaker2026-08-12

Peter Bittner joins Futureproof Festival 2026

The AI Upgrade co-founder Peter Bittner joins Futureproof Festival 2026.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker poster for Kris Krüg beside salmon swimming through an upstream current.

speaker2026-08-12

Kris Krüg joins the Futureproof Festival 2026 program

Futureproof Festival founder and festival director Kris Krüg is part of the 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Kevin Friel with a painted generative light show flowing over a midnight festival crowd.

speaker2026-08-12

Kevin Friel joins Futureproof Festival 2026

BC + AI Film Club festival director Kevin Friel is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker poster for Jos Duncan-Asé beside a moonlit Pacific tidepool, aurora reflections, and concentric ripples.

speaker2026-08-12

Jos Duncan-Asé joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Love Now Media founder Jos Duncan-Asé is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Sara Blenkhorn, Director of Innovation at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, beside a geodesic dome framework merging with living mycelial systems under an aurora night sky.

speaker2026-08-04

Sara Blenkhorn joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Buckminster Fuller Institute Director of Innovation Sara Blenkhorn is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Futureproof Festival featured speaker square for Brett Gaylor beside a cave workshop whose rock arch opens onto a luminous kelp forest, with the BC + AI ecosystem presenter mark.

speaker2026-08-04

Brett Gaylor joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker and Hololabs VP Creative Brett Gaylor is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Archival-style AI Builders Fellowship campaign artwork in charcoal and bone, with a survey-line landscape, fossil spiral, and the words AI Builders Fellowship, Internet Archive Canada × BC + AI, and $5,000 · six weeks.

announcement2026-07-29

AI Builders Fellowship: CA$10,000 across two projects

Internet Archive Canada and BC + AI are backing two builders with CA$10,000 across two projects and six weeks. Both present on opening night of Futureproof Festival, October 28.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Mayumi Rollings with film, painting, music, and community imagery.

speaker2026-07-21

Mayumi Rollings joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Tiny Ghost Studios co-founder and CEO Mayumi Rollings is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Lynda Brown-Ganzert, CEO of RxPx Inc. Her smiling portrait appears on the right against an aurora-lit night sky above a gathering around a fire. Hand-lettered text reads The Human Side of Health and gives the festival dates, Oct 28–30, 2026, in Vancouver.

speaker2026-07-18

Lynda Brown-Ganzert joins Futureproof Festival 2026

RxPx CEO Lynda Brown-Ganzert is attending Futureproof Festival 2026. Updated October 25: she has no talk in the main program.

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Ana Serrano and Prem Gill smile in a painted coastal cinema scene, Ana on the left and Prem on the right. Their red-and-cream names sit beneath the constellation Futureproof Festival mark, followed by Fireside Chat, AI & Creativity and OCAD University. A projector lights the inlet between them; October 28–30, 2026, Vancouver and the BC+AI ecosystem mark appear below.

speaker2026-07-18

Ana Serrano joins Futureproof Festival 2026

OCAD University President and Vice-Chancellor Ana Serrano is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Illustrated Futureproof Festival featured speaker card for Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute. Her portrait appears on the right against a starry midnight-blue sky and glowing horizon. Hand-lettered text reads Calm Technology in the Age of Loud Machines and gives the festival dates, Oct 28–30, 2026, in Vancouver.

speaker2026-07-18

Amber Case joins Futureproof Festival 2026

Calm Tech Institute founder and Calm Technology author Amber Case is part of the Futureproof Festival 2026 speaker program.

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Hand-painted Futureproof poster with people around a shoreline fire beneath salmon, a raven, and aurora light

announcement2026-05-15

Futureproof Festival 2026: Oct 28–30 at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

The May 2026 launch announcement, kept as published. Speakers, sessions and times are now on the program page.

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