Futureproof Festival’s first edition took place in Vancouver on October 28–30, 2026. The proceedings, the published program, the photographs and Kris Krüg’s personal account offer different ways to return to it. This guide explains what each can tell you, and what the record still leaves out.
Read the proceedings
The 2026 proceedings are illustrated session recaps written by Kris Krüg, from opening night through both program days. Each recap has its own page with the session date, image credits and a citation you can copy. Search the recaps, or browse them by day or subject.
The recaps are authored accounts, not transcripts. They follow the ideas through the photographs, slides and work people brought to the festival. They don’t cover every session on the program.
The same recaps are collected in a magazine. Read the magazine in your browser or download the magazine PDF. The PDF is a large download. The browser version loads its photographs as you scroll, so on a phone it’s the quicker way to start. The magazine adds listening notes from the opening-night and Thursday recordings, and a gap index of the material still missing.
Find a session in the program
The 2026 program gives you the published session titles, speakers and schedule. Use it to find the conversation you’re looking for and follow the available speaker profiles.
Keep the distinction between a program and a record of what happened. A scheduled slot doesn’t establish that a full recording exists, and the published timetable isn’t a verified account of every change in the running order. Each recap gives the date of the session it covers, and the magazine’s gap index shows where the record is partial.
Look through the photographs
The festival gallery groups the 2026 photographs into opening night, the two program days and the gathering at Friends Quarters. The photo story gives a shorter way into that collection. Photos: Michelle Diamond. Diamond’s Edge Photography.
Open an image to read its description and credit. The gallery also holds festival artwork, Vancouver photographs and older community collections. Their labels set them apart from the October 2026 festival photographs.
A photograph can bring back a gesture, a conversation or a detail you missed. It can’t supply the full argument of a talk. Use a photograph’s description for what it shows, and the recap for what was argued.
Read Kris’s account
Futureproof Festival 2026: Year One is Kris Krüg’s account of why he convened the festival and the questions it left him with. It brings together his recollection, selected examples and photographs.
Read it as an authored perspective. It sits beside the proceedings, the program and the gallery, and it doesn’t claim to be a transcript or a complete report of every session. Later institutional or thematic articles will have their own questions to answer and their own sources to show.
What the record leaves out
The record has gaps, and the proceedings mark them. Session video, audio recordings and edited transcripts haven’t been released. Ceremonial material isn’t reproduced. Some question-and-answer exchanges are only partly covered, and the planned Friday filmmaker Q&A isn’t in this edition. The magazine’s gap index goes through what is partial or missing.
This guide can be updated if more material is released. A substantial change will show its update date at the top of the page.
Help correct the record
If you spot an error, include the page or image link and describe what needs attention. The care and reporting page has the contact for concerns during or after the festival, including photo concerns. It isn’t a dedicated proceedings corrections form.
The AI policy explains how tools support the work and where human responsibility stays. This reading guide was prepared with AI assistance.
Start with the proceedings, follow a session back to the program and the gallery, and keep the difference between a recap, a recollection, a photograph and a source record in view.
