Kris Krüg
Founder & Festival Director
BC + AI Ecosystem Association
October 28–30 · Vancouver
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.
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.
About Kris Krüg
Kris Krüg is a photographer, creative technologist, and community builder. He has spent two decades documenting technology, art, activism, and the back rooms where culture actually changes, on a public trail that runs through National Geographic, CBC, SXSW, TEDxOilSpill, and the Olympics. He leads the BC + AI Ecosystem Association and the Vancouver AI Meetup, and co-instructs the Responsible AI Professional certification program. He started the meetups because he wanted this festival and had no community yet. Most of his work now points at one question: how do we use AI to increase human capacity instead of flattening human judgment?
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Where to find Kris
- Thursday · October 299:00–9:10 AM
Where we are, and what today is asking
Kris sets the day in ten minutes. Where we are, what Thursday is asking, and how the talks talk to each other.
- Thursday · October 294:55–5:50 PM
What the country decides
Taleeb sits at the federal AI policy table. Kris sits where it lands. Canada's AI strategy meets the people who have to live in it: one conversation for the whole hour, with questions from the floor.
On stage with Taleeb Noormohamed.
- Friday · October 309:00–9:05 AM
Thursday was where we are. Today is what we build.
Five minutes from Kris to turn the corner. Thursday was where we are. Friday is what we build.
- Friday · October 307:30–10:00 PM
Closing Party
Music, art, and the conversations that are not ready to end. It's in your pass. Lights out at ten.
On stage with Philippe Pasquier and Charles Bicari.
Times are Vancouver time and can still move. See the full program
One Festival Pass covers every session. See tickets
