Who runs it

Festival staff.

A small crew makes this festival. Here is who does what, so you know whose shoulder to tap during the three days.

Festival Director
Kris Krüg
Runs Futureproof and the BC + AI Ecosystem behind it. Started the meetups because he wanted this festival and had no community yet, then the meetups took on a mind of their own.
Read why a festival →
AV Lead
Kevin Friel
Runs cameras and AV across the three days, and is Kris's second on everything else. He also directs the BC + AI Film Club's own festival, which is the title his speaker profile carries, and he speaks at this one.
Read his speaker profile →
Production Lead
Alex Salvador
CTO
Fiann O'Hagan
Production Manager and Bartender
Gabriela Arana
Runs the floor while the festival is happening, and the bar once it is.
Production Assistant
Kelly Krug
Production Assistant
Debbie Krug
Hospitality and Registration
Noa Titievsky
Hospitality and Registration
Aliza Sch
Fixer
Sean Cranbury
Volunteer Program Lead
Volodya Trokhymenko
Leads the volunteer crew: who gets vetted, who gets briefed, who is on.
Volunteer Program
Andrii Kavetskyi
Festival Photographer
Michelle Diamond
Shoots this community and has since 2025: the meetups, the Film Club, MAC nights. The photographs of real rooms across this site and in the press kit are hers.
See the photographs →
Video
Viktor Serbin
Social Media
April Smith
Project Manager, AI Builders Fellowship
Martin Montero
Runs the AI Builders Fellowship, the Internet Archive backed program whose recipients bring their projects to the festival.

Volunteers make the rest of it work. Tell us what you are good at.

Press and photo requests go to the press page.

Kris Krüg