Two creators beside a table displaying artwork at a Vancouver AI community event.
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Startup Exhibitor Package

Bring the thing you're building. Put it on the table.

Two festival days, two full festival tickets, and a working table with power and Wi-Fi, for the product, prototype, research, or weird little machine people need to see in person.

CA$2,000 · inquiry first · H.R. MacMillan Space Centre

Photo: Michelle Diamond

The package

Less pitch deck. More, here, try this.

A working table gives people a reason to stop, try the product and ask the question behind the question. Bring the crew who built it.

CA$2,000

One-time package fee in Canadian dollars.

A group gathered around a laptop demonstration at a BC + AI community event.
A working demo at the August BC + AI Meetup.Photo: Michelle Diamond
The table

One demo table and two chairs

Standard access to power and event Wi-Fi

The access

Two full festival tickets

Your name on it

An approved linked logo and company profile

A promotion kit of festival artwork you can reuse

Two table days

Your crew can attend the full festival. Your startup table is active Thursday and Friday.

Venue details and map
Thursday, October 29
Full-day demo and exhibition
Friday, October 30
Half-day demo and exhibition
Make it tangible

A product on a table beats another paragraph about the product.

The crew behind the work gets to be visible too. People meet the builders, ask how it works, and get closer than a launch post lets them.

Four young builders standing with a quadruped robot at the Space Centre.
Bring the crew who made it.Photo: Michelle Diamond
Two attendees watching the quadruped robot walk through the venue at a BC + AI community event.
Give people a chance to see it in action.Photo: Michelle Diamond
Clear edges

What this does not buy

  • No speaking slot or control over the festival program
  • No attendee list, lead scanner, or attendee contact export
  • No custom AV, category exclusivity, travel, or accommodation
  • No guaranteed press, prizes, leads, sales, or other commercial outcomes
Inquiry first

Ready to put your work on a table?

Tell us what you are bringing and what it needs. We will check the fit and practical requirements before offering the package. There is no checkout here. We talk first, then we invoice.

Before you send

Inquiries are open. Sending this form does not reserve a table or create a charge.

Hand-painted Futureproof Festival scene: Squatchie pressing soil around a cedar seedling on a bluff above a night inlet, the line "Build What Lasts." lettered into the picture and the festival name drawn as a constellation in the sky
Build What Lasts.

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