Look who’s coming.

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A reminder of whose territory this is before anyone says a word about the future.

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What technology feels like when it's built for people instead of markets, and the words to ask for it.

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Compare what governments said across decades, check the scanned pages behind an AI answer and see where the public record is too thin to support one.

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Look up a Vancouver street and follow its history through council minutes, films and archive documents. Explore public memory with AI while keeping the sources in view.

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A different sense of what a library is for, and a debt you'll feel to people who haven't been born yet.

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What it sounds like when an artist keeps authorship and uses AI as the instrument, and a few forms of expression you haven't heard yet.

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The shape of the whole three days and why I put these particular people next to each other. Then I get out of the way.

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Sharper questions about what might actually be going on inside these things, and less embarrassment about admitting nobody has clean answers.

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What it's actually like to live alongside these systems, from a researcher who ran that experiment on herself.

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A sharper question than the one you walked in with, and the habit of asking it of people and machines both.

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A name for the judgment that makes you good at your job, and a case for discernment as the one skill that can't be automated.

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Empathy as an actual working method, and a clear picture of what changes when a community tells its own story.

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What it actually costs to keep Wikipedia free while everything trains on it, and who is currently paying.

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A picture of what collaborative intelligence between people and AI could look like, from someone who spent a decade researching what comes next.

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Hear a Vancouver musician and technologist step into a new solo electronic project, drawing on years of recording, playing in bands and building her own instruments.

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A straight map of where AI actually changes drug discovery and where the hype runs out, and a real answer to what a builder in BC can do about it.

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What it takes for health AI to earn a real patient's trust: consent, privacy law, and somebody's actual medical record.

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An honest bill for running AI at real scale: what survives the trip from demo to production, and what it costs to keep it running.

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A way to get a room full of skeptics to trust AI by building it themselves, and what happens when the hero's journey meets the scientific method.

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Explore how documentary and games can help people question AI and imagine a different internet, through Brett Gaylor’s BrainRot Revolution research.

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The long history under the word intelligence, and a clearer view of who got to decide what counts as knowledge and what that still does to your work.

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A first-hand read on where Canada's AI strategy is actually heading, and a clearer sense of who it's being written for.

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An invitation to consider how we relate across beings and systems, grounded in family memory and land.

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You'll stop thinking of artists and educators as the people who get consulted after the tools are already built.

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A view of cultural policy from someone who has helped creative workers get their projects funded, made and seen.

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Real alternatives to shareholder-first ownership for whatever you're building, and the institutions already trying them.

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Why seeing the whole planet every day turns out to be the easy part, and what it takes to get people to act on what they can already see.

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A daily practice for working with AI that keeps your judgment where it belongs, which is with you.

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The nerve to quit waiting for permission: make the thing, screen it, learn out loud with people doing the same.

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Proof you can run AI through an entire studio and keep the artists, and the numbers that make that possible.

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What language reclamation looks like when the community owns the model, the data and the future it makes.

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A way to think about AI through living languages and the communities responsible for them, from someone building those tools.

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He wrote the book on human-centered AI. You'll leave with a clear picture of AI that keeps people in charge, and an eye for the designs that do.

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The shape of the whole three days and why I put these particular people next to each other. Then I get out of the way.

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A way of thinking about AI as a small, local instrument rather than a data-centre spectacle.