Vancouver AI Community Meetup #019

About this episode

The episode features a guided AI-powered meditation and discussions from a recent Vancouver AI community meetup.

A guided AI‑powered meditation, hackathon unveil & 52‑startups wisdom inside Vancouver’s thriving grassroots scene. ---------------------- Join BC + AI Ecosystem Association: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/ ---------------------- Mission 19 is a full‑body resonance test for what happens when code, consciousness, and community hold hands: Land acknowledgment with gratitude to the Squamish Nation Scholarship tickets + hydration thanks to Kassandra Linklate SIGGRAPH 2025 side‑events roadmap — 100 + RSVPs Hackathon 3.0 → unveiling the 1 000‑response “BC AI Hopes & Fears” dataset Guided meditation by Peter Bowles AI Ethics short‑film demo AI Film Club launch (Sept) Keynote : Michael Yagudaev on building 52 startups in 52 weeks with agentic coding workflows Provincial AI Strategy survey call‑to‑action from Farid Closing ritual: donuts, night‑sky viewing, Mission 20 teaser Links BC + AI Adoption Survey - https://engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherbc/engagement/ai-adoption-in-bc/ Hackathon dataset repo SIGGRAPH side‑event RSVP Credits Host/Producer Kris Krüg Meditation & Music Peter Bowles Video Kevin Friel Field Video Viktor Serbin Photos Michelle Diamond Venue H.R. MacMillan Space…

People in this episode

Host: Kris Krüg

Topics covered

• AI meditation
• hackathon
• startups
• community
• ethics
• data

Keywords

• AI
• meditation
• hackathon
• startups
• community
• ethics
• data
• Vancouver

Sponsors

Segev LLP, Sons of Vancouver, Dimitri Schwartzman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BC + AI Ecosystem Association, SIGGRAPH 2025

Places: Vancouver, Squamish Nation

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