Futureproof Festival of AI, Vancouver, October 28-30
The most honest AI conversation happening this year. Once a year, we make room for three days of candid conversation, creative work, and people comparing what AI is really doing.
Why this oneA lineup is an editorial choice. The people on these stages help decide which questions get taken seriously, whose experience counts, and what becomes possible next.
Opening night plus two program days at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, October 28-30, 2026.
Get the Festival PassWhy this oneCome curious is the whole pitch. One pass covers opening night and both program days.
Current passes
Festival CA$950 · Student CA$250 · Supporter CA$1,650
CA$950 Festival Pass
Active BC + AI members receive 25% off at checkout.
Opening night at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Two full program days
Closing gathering included with the pass
Why this oneThis is the festival in one sentence: AI is not only a technical shift. It changes taste, power, work, memory, and the stories a culture tells about itself.
The festival
A festival, not a pile of sessions.
Opening night and two program days belong to one festival, so ideas, questions, creative work, and the people carrying them can meet in the same place.
Ways in
Listen. Make. Experience.
Futureproof Festival is built for attention, participation, and the kind of discovery that needs other people in the room. Find the path that fits: attend, speak, exhibit, sponsor, or go deeper with the community below.
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Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Listen
Hear the room think out loud.
Take in ideas, hard questions, and perspectives that do not arrive pre-agreed.
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Photo: Michelle Diamond - Vancouver AI Meetup
Make
Put ideas to work.
Build, test, compare notes, and learn what changes when people get their hands on the technology.
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Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Experience
Feel what changes in person.
Share creative work, close attention, and the energy that only happens when people gather in a real room.
Find your way in
Four reasons to be in the room.
You do not need the same background, job title, or opinion as everyone else. Bring the part of this conversation that is real for you.
Curious
For people trying to get an honest read on AI.
Bring your questions, your doubts, and the parts that still do not fit into a neat answer.
Creative
For people making culture in a changing medium.
Artists, filmmakers, designers, and storytellers belong in the centre of the conversation.
Builder
For people who learn by making.
Bring a working prototype, a practical question, or something you want thoughtful people to try.
Community
For people helping others make sense of change.
Teachers, organizers, researchers, and public-interest practitioners can compare what is working in the real world.
Get involved
Help shape the first Futureproof Festival.
Some people want to attend, some want to meet the program or sponsor, and some want to build, volunteer, cover the story, or go deeper with the retreat and matchmaking. Choose the path that fits and connect with us directly.
Tickets
Registration is open.
Choose the pass that fits on the tickets desk, then continue to checkout when you are ready.
Futureproof Festival grew out of a community that was already gathering in public: building, teaching, experimenting, and debating together. The festival is an extension of that foundation.
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A packed room facing the stage. This is what community proof looks like.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Space Centre courtyardNot AIAuthentic photograph, not AI-generated
People still talk to each other here. Useful, weirdly radical, deeply Vancouver.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Community announcements from the Space Centre stage. The program starts in public.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Creative AI culture under blue light. The room already knows how to watch closely.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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The human part stays on screen. That is the work.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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MAC brings the weird questions with enough rigor to hold the room.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
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Human energy on the mic. The opposite of a keynote mannequin.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Courtyard mingling
Courtyard mingling: broad community proof without a stage cue card.
Photo: BC + AI community archive.
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A stage group with the community screen behind them. Public by design.
Photo: Michelle Diamond.
Festival home
We picked a planetarium on purpose.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre's whole job is putting people in a dark room and getting them to look up until the universe feels a little less abstract. That's not so far from what AI is asking of everyone right now. The building already has a planetarium dome and a Vancouver AI crowd that keeps filling the room before anyone called it a festival. We didn't need a blank ballroom. We needed a room that knows how to hold something enormous.
1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9·Festival home base: opening night + two program days
Some rooms are built to move people through. This one is built to let an idea stay long enough to change.
Why this oneThe Space Centre is not scenery. It is a public, slightly strange place where science, culture, memory, and imagination already share the same architecture.
Latest from the festival
News from the room.
Speaker announcements, program updates, and festival milestones, posted as they happen.
BC + AI is the presenting ecosystem, led by festival founder and director Kris Krüg. These confirmed partners bring venue, research, creative community, data practice, and actual humans who have been doing the work before it looked shiny.
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