
Vancouver AI Pods Vancouver AI Community Meetup #019
Aug 1, 2025
02:27:18
A guided AI‑powered meditation, hackathon unveil & 52‑startups wisdom inside Vancouver’s thriving grassroots scene.
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Join BC + AI Ecosystem Association: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
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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 Centre
Sponsors
Segev LLP
Sons of Vancouver
Dimitri Schwartzman
