Vancouver AI Community Announcements | BC + AI Ecosystem

This clip captures a living snapshot of the BC AI ecosystem as it’s unfolding—from inside the room at Vancouver AI Meetup #16. You’ll hear about the launch of a new Surrey AI Meetup, an offshoot of the Vancouver community that’s building something smaller, slower, and more personal. There’s a moment of reflection for the Filipino community after the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy, along with reminders that many of the people who hold up these events—quietly, behind the scenes—are grieving too. You’ll hear early plans for a BC conference on AI ethics and governance, set for October 2025, organized in collaboration with SFU and the Ministry of Citizen Services. It’s not just talk—it’s policy, infrastructure, and accountability work being done in public. You’ll catch signals from a few other subgroups: AI and consciousness. Creative AI practices. Pedagogy and AI tutoring tools. The kind of interdisciplinary clusters that don’t fit neatly into startup decks, but point to where things are headed across Vancouver and the province. Carla from VIVO Media Arts shares her vision for a publicly accessible AI media lab—one where people without resources can still train their own models and explore AI on their own terms. That idea is already in motion, supported by funding leads pulled from shared community resources. No hype. No PR gloss. Just real people, building real things, in and around the world of AI in British Columbia. — Tags: BC AI, Vancouver AI, AI British Columbia, AI startups BC, Vancouver AI events, AI funding BC, grassroots AI BC, creative AI Vancouver, ethical AI BC