The festival
Opening night + two program days
Three days of talks, film, creative work, practical ideas, and conversations that keep moving after the stage goes dark.
The story
This started with a monthly meetup full of people who wanted a better AI conversation.
Vancouver's grassroots AI community has spent years gathering at the Space Centre: filling the building, screening films, testing ideas, arguing in good faith, and trying to make sense of what this technology is doing to public life.
Futureproof Festival is what happens when that energy becomes an international festival. Opening night. Two program days. People building with AI and people with good reasons to challenge it. Nobody has to pretend the future is already decided.
From the communityAuthentic photograph, not AI-generated
The audience, the panel, and the screen behind them, all at once.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Another full-room angle. The seats fill before the hype does.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Wide room, full seats, one speaker holding the arc.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Vancouver
Come for the conversation. Stay long enough to understand the place that made it possible.
Vancouver, BC
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Applause is data. This crowd gives it freely.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Film Club style: mood lighting, a hard quote, and a crowd paying attention.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
