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Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival, coming to Vancouver October 28-30, 2026, for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association, built for people who want more than a sales pitch and less than a panic attack.
Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival produced by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association and born from Vancouver's grassroots AI community. From October 28–30, 2026, the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre fills with people making AI, questioning it, teaching it, turning it into culture, and living with the consequences. Critique sits beside curiosity. Practical work sits beside film, art, and an honest conversation about what AI is doing to public life.
The most honest AI conversation happening this year.
Futureproof Festival of AI, presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association.
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Oct 28-30 at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre: an international AI culture and ideas festival, born in Vancouver, for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Bring your questions. Bring your doubts. Bring the part of you that still wants this future to be human. Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival #FutureproofYVR #VancouverAI #BCAI
The most honest AI conversation happening this year. No hype. No panic. Futureproof Festival of AI. October 28-30, 2026. Vancouver. Presented by BC + AI. No booster rally. No panic room. Just the people who have to live with what gets built next. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival #FutureproofYVR
Oct 28-30 at the Space Centre: an international AI culture and ideas festival for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
Oct 28-30 at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre: an international AI culture and ideas festival, born in Vancouver, for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Bring your questions. Bring your doubts. Bring the part of you that still wants this future to be human. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival #FutureproofYVR #VancouverAI #BCAI
I'm going to Futureproof Festival in Vancouver, October 28-30. The most honest AI conversation happening this year, at the Space Centre. https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
I thought of you for Futureproof Festival, October 28-30 at the Space Centre in Vancouver. It's the honest AI conversation: critique and curiosity in the same room. Not a sales pitch. Not a panic attack. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
Subject: Futureproof Festival, Oct 28-30 in Vancouver A few of us should be in this room. Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival, coming to Vancouver October 28-30, 2026, for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association, built for people who want more than a sales pitch and less than a panic attack. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival Speakers: https://www.futureproof.website/speakers
Futureproof Festival of AI is October 28-30, 2026 at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver. The most honest AI conversation happening this year. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
Futureproof Festival of AI is an international AI culture and ideas festival, coming to Vancouver October 28-30, 2026, for the most honest AI conversation happening this year. Presented by the BC + AI Ecosystem Association, built for people who want more than a sales pitch and less than a panic attack. Registration is open. Festival Pass CA$950. Student Festival Pass CA$250. Speakers: https://www.futureproof.website/speakers Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
The first public voices for Futureproof Festival are up, including Amber Case, Brewster Kahle, and Ana Serrano. October 28-30, 2026. H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver. Lineup: https://www.futureproof.website/speakers Tickets: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival
Announced speakers at Futureproof Festival, October 28-30, 2026: Amber Case, Founder, Calm Tech Institute Ana Serrano, President & Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University Lynda Brown-Ganzert, CEO, RxPx Inc Zaro, Community Manager, EA SPORTS Kris Krüg, Founder & Festival Director, BC + AI Ecosystem Association Mayumi Rollings, Founder & CEO, Tiny Ghost Studios Anthonia Ogundele, Founder & Executive Director, Ethọ́s Lab Peter Bittner, AI Trainer & Consultant, The AI Upgrade Kevin Friel, Festival Director, BC + AI Film Club Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Jos Duncan-Asé, Founder, Love Now Media Kaoru Yoshihira, Head of Partner Development, BytePlus Sara Blenkhorn, Director of Innovation, Buckminster Fuller Institute Brett Gaylor, VP Creative, Hololabs Sarah Downey, Founder, Sarah Downey Consulting Dr Beatriz García, Independent Researcher and Strategic Advisor, Urban Cultural Policy and Major Events Philippe Pasquier, Professor & Director, Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University Simon Haworth, CEO, Intellomx Loki Jorgenson, CTO & Director, Innovation, Circle Innovation Misagh Azimi, Interdisciplinary Artist & AI Researcher, Metacreation Lab for Creative AI · Victoria University of Wellington Alexandra Samuel, Technology Journalist & Author, Independent Sev Geraskin, Co-Founder & VP of Engineering, PolarGrid · Economy of Wisdom Foundation More voices publish as they become real. https://www.futureproof.website/speakers
Festival home: https://www.futureproof.website/ Tickets: https://www.futureproof.website/tickets Buy on Luma: https://luma.com/futureproof-festival Speakers: https://www.futureproof.website/speakers Speaker news: https://www.futureproof.website/news Press kit: https://www.futureproof.website/press#press-kit
Futureproof Festival on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/futureproof-yvr/ BC + AI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bc.ai.ecosystem/ Vancouver AI on X: https://x.com/van_ai Hashtags: #FutureproofYVR #VancouverAI #BCAI
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Founder, Calm Tech Institute
Amber Case, founder of the Calm Tech Institute and author of Calm Technology. She’ll talk about building technology that respects our attention and agency, and what AI should feel like when it’s actually made for humans.
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President & Vice-Chancellor, OCAD University
Ana Serrano, president of OCAD University. She’ll talk about culture’s job in shaping technology, and why artists and educators need a real say in what gets built.
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CEO, RxPx Inc
Lynda Brown-Ganzert, CEO of RxPx. She’ll bring 30 years of digital health receipts and ask whether the technology is actually making life better for patients.
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Community Manager, EA SPORTS
Zaro, community manager at EA SPORTS. He’ll talk about what live-service games learned about building community around products people care about, and what keeps the humans in the loop when the machines get smarter.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Zaro. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder & Festival Director, BC + AI Ecosystem Association
I’m Kris Krüg, founder of Futureproof and executive director of BC + AI. I started this festival to get artists, builders, skeptics, and curious weirdos into the same room to compare notes, disagree, and figure out what the hell we’re going to do with AI together.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Kris Krüg. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder & CEO, Tiny Ghost Studios
Mayumi Rollings, founder and CEO at Tiny Ghost Studios. She’ll talk about running an AI-powered animation studio without losing the artists, the craft, or the plot.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Mayumi Rollings. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder & Executive Director, Ethọ́s Lab
Anthonia Ogundele, founder of Ethọ́s Lab. She’ll get into young people building the future, especially Black youth, and who actually gets invited into the rooms where AI gets decided.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Anthonia Ogundele. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
AI Trainer & Consultant, The AI Upgrade
Peter Bittner, co-founder of The AI Upgrade. He’ll get practical about teaching AI to working people, especially newsrooms and communications crews, without drowning them in another stupid tool list.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Peter Bittner. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Festival Director, BC + AI Film Club
Kevin Friel, festival director and founder of the BC + AI Film Club. He’ll talk about what happens when filmmakers quit waiting for permission, make stuff, screen it, and learn together.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Kevin Friel. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. He’ll talk about saving the web, keeping knowledge open, and what a library owes the people who haven’t been born yet.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Brewster Kahle. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder, Love Now Media
Jos Duncan-Asé, founder of Love Now Media. She’ll talk about empathy as a media practice, who gets to tell the story, and what it looks like when communities own their own narratives.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Jos Duncan-Asé. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Director of Innovation, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Sara Blenkhorn, director of innovation at the Buckminster Fuller Institute. She’ll get into life-centred AI, better ways to govern and own what we build, and institutions that serve more than shareholders.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Sara Blenkhorn. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
VP Creative, Hololabs
Brett Gaylor, VP Creative at Hololabs. He’ll bring 20 years of remix culture, surveillance documentaries, and interactive storytelling to the question of who gets to shape the algorithm.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Brett Gaylor. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Founder, Sarah Downey Consulting
Sarah Downey, founder of Sarah Downey Consulting. She’ll get practical about AI strategy, policy, and readiness for nonprofits that can’t afford to lose their values in the rush to adopt.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Sarah Downey. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Independent Researcher and Strategic Advisor, Urban Cultural Policy and Major Events
Dr Beatriz García, independent researcher and strategic advisor. She’ll ask where AI gets its cultural lenses, who chose them, and how we can keep one machine-made worldview from swallowing all the others.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Dr Beatriz García. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Professor & Director, Metacreation Lab, Simon Fraser University
Philippe Pasquier, professor and director of the Metacreation Lab at SFU. He’ll talk about making art with AI without handing it authorship, and what new forms of expression show up when artists stay in the loop.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Philippe Pasquier. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
CEO, Intellomx
Simon Haworth, CEO of Intellomx. He’ll talk about what AI is actually changing in drug discovery, where the hype runs out, and what builders in BC can do about it.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Simon Haworth. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Interdisciplinary Artist & AI Researcher, Metacreation Lab for Creative AI · Victoria University of Wellington
Misagh Azimi, artist and AI researcher at Metacreation Lab and Victoria University of Wellington. He treats AI like an instrument, not an author, and will likely talk about music, creative labour, and who stays in control.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Misagh Azimi. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Technology Journalist & Author, Independent
Alexandra Samuel, independent technology journalist and author. She’ll get practical about working with AI without handing it your agency, judgment or humanity.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Alexandra Samuel. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering, PolarGrid · Economy of Wisdom Foundation
Sev Geraskin, founding VP of engineering at PolarGrid and president of the Economy of Wisdom Foundation. He’ll get into distributed AI infrastructure, community intelligence and who gets to shape the systems underneath all this.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival and Sev Geraskin. Do not crop the speaker out of the artwork.
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Head of Partner Development, BytePlus
Kaoru Yoshihira, head of partner development at BytePlus. He’ll get into what happens when powerful creative AI models hit real production workflows, token economics, and scale.
CTO & Director, Innovation, Circle Innovation
Loki Jorgenson, CTO and director of innovation at Circle Innovation. He’ll get into consciousness, agency, and what it means to build powerful systems when nobody has clean answers.
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Editorial use of Futureproof Festival wordmarks, artwork, and photographs is permitted with credit. Photographs: Michelle Diamond. Festival artwork and wordmarks: Futureproof Festival. Do not crop a speaker out of their artwork or imply a speaker endorsement of a third party.
Download the logo and image zipThe wide lockup for headers, decks, and byline credits. White for dark fields, black for light fields — both transparent, so they drop onto any background.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival. Use the file as supplied.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival. Use the file as supplied.
A square-friendly lockup for social cards and tight layouts, in the same two transparent tones.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival. Use the file as supplied.
Editorial use permitted with credit to Futureproof Festival. Use the file as supplied.
Documentary photographs show the real room. These files carry the visual world of the festival for articles, listings, broadcasts, and social coverage.
Editorial use of Futureproof Festival wordmarks, artwork, and photographs is permitted with credit. Photographs: Michelle Diamond. Festival artwork and wordmarks: Futureproof Festival. Do not crop a speaker out of their artwork or imply a speaker endorsement of a third party.
Festival artwork. Credit: Futureproof Festival.
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Festival artwork. Credit: Futureproof Festival.
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Festival artwork. Credit: Futureproof Festival.
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The community in conversation at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre. Photo: Michelle Diamond. November 2025.
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