Futureproof Festival
Presented byBC + AI Ecosystem
Launching through the 2026 weekend

Futureproof 2027 is the full city-wide week we reveal from the first room.

The 2026 weekend is the proof of love and demand. The 2027 site becomes the larger invitation: six tracks, many stewards, multiple venues, and one coherent public story.

What 2026 unlocks

The reveal is a promise with evidence behind it.

Instead of selling the full week before the team is ready, the weekend creates the shared language, partner proof, and waitlist energy that make the week feel earned.

Reveal layer 1

The 2026 room validates the appetite.

A concentrated first year gives sponsors, venues, and track leads a real story to scale from.

Six-track atlas

The weeklong work becomes a map of owned rooms.

Each track keeps the ambition from the original weeklong plan, but the launch path is now staged: reveal the atlas at the 2026 weekend, then build toward the city-wide festival in 2027.

Monday

AI & Education Day + Youth

Teachers, students, and the classroom reimagined.

Tuesday

AI & Life Sciences Day

What AI means for medicine, research, and human health.

Wednesday

Data Nerds Day

Data for good, data for work, data as craft. Wednesday's big tent.

Thursday

Mind, AI & Consciousness

The questions nobody else is asking.

Friday

AI Ethical Futures Lab

A design jam, not a panel discussion.

Saturday

2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival

Where AI meets cinema. Closing night anchor.

Stay in the loop

Be first to know when the 2027 week opens.

The weeklong launch list is for track stewards, venue partners, sponsors, volunteers, speakers, artists, and attendees who want the larger world to become real.