Speakers

Meet the first voices joining Futureproof.

Five builders and community leaders are now announced for Futureproof. More voices will be shared as their participation and materials are ready.

Amber Case

Founder

Calm Tech Institute

Amber Case is the founder of the Calm Tech Institute and author of Calm Technology, whose work gives builders and institutions practical language for designing technology that respects attention, agency, and everyday life. At Futureproof, Amber will help us ask what AI should feel like when it is built for humans instead of just markets.

Ana Serrano

President & Vice-Chancellor

OCAD University

Ana Serrano is President and Vice-Chancellor of OCAD University, co-founder of DemocracyXChange, and an award-winning leader in digital media and cultural innovation. She previously founded the CFC Media Lab and IDEABOOST at the Canadian Film Centre and has helped shape national conversations on democracy, technology, and culture.

Lynda Brown-Ganzert

CEO

RxPx Inc

Healthcare executive, entrepreneur, and digital health innovator with more than 30 years of experience building technology companies, leading global healthcare transformation, and advancing patient-centred innovation. As Founder and CEO of RxPx, she is recognised for driving commercial growth, digital health adoption, and meaningful improvements in patient outcomes. Her awards include 2025 Digital Health Executive of the Year (Canada), Top 10 Women Leaders in Digital Health, Influential Woman in Business, BIV Top 500 in BC, BIV Top 40 Under 40, and Forbes 52 Women-Led Startups Driving the Future of HealthTech.

Zaro

Community Intelligence Architect

zaro.me

Zaro is a Community Intelligence Architect who has spent four decades inside the ways humans organize, from circus to politics, football, gaming, and tech ecosystems. His Community Intelligence framework helps organizations stop treating people as audiences to manage and start building communities as living infrastructure for better decisions, products, and culture. His work explores a question technology can no longer afford to ignore: as our machines become more intelligent, what will keep us human?

Kris Krüg

Founder & Festival Director

BC + AI Ecosystem Association

Opening keynote speaker. Leads BC + AI, the Vancouver AI Meetup, and the RAP Workshop.

October 28–30 · Vancouver

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