For anyone unfamiliar with multi-modal (or multimodal), here’s a definition for when the word is used in conjunction with AI, from the IBM “What is multimodal AI?” webpage,
Multimodal AI refers to machine learning models capable of processing and integrating information from multiple modalities or types of data. These modalities can include text, images, audio, video and other forms of sensory input.
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Moving onto the point, an October 8, 2025 invitation to the upcoming Vancouver AI meetup arrived via email (you can see the invite online, presumably for a limited time),
You’re invited to
Vancouver AI Community Meetup: 10/29
Wednesday, October 29 [2025]
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDTH.R. MacMillan Space Centre
Vancouver, British ColumbiaOct 29 [2025] we’re back with the monthly dose of “what if we just tried the thing nobody said would work?” Indigenous knowledge meets machine learning. Film meets fever dream. Quantum computers meets grandma’s kitchen.
Next Vancouver AI community meetup: https://luma.com/vai22
We’re composting the old world into something that actually grows!
Join BC+AI—help build what comes next: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
KK [Kris Krug]
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For anyone curious about BC’s artificial intelligence community events, there’s this BC+AI webpage.
For the meetup, the price of an ‘Earlyworm’ ticket is $47.25 (7 left) until 11:59 pm PT on October 15, 2025. The standard ticket is $63.00.
There are three free tickets for the October 29, 2025 meetup if you are a member of the Creative Mornings Vancouver community. You can signup to Creative Mornings Vancouver (part of the world’s largest creative community) for free and get announcements from the international organization and notices from the local chapter which hosts a monthly event that is also free.
The November 7, 2025 at the Vancouver Art Gallery runs from 8:15 am to 10:15 am (breakfast is included gratis the event sponsor). The guest is Brandon Wint (from the Creative Mornings Vancouver November 2025 event page),
Brandon Wint
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For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon Wint’s poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. In recent years, his films have screened at DOXA documentary film festival and Reelworld Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival Centre.
Each month we ask our speaker some probing questions to give us a deeper glimpse into their life and relationship with creativity:
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Getting to the free tickets for the October 29, 2025 Vancouver AI community meetup, from the Creative Mornings Vancouver (CMVan) webpage, Note: A link has been removed,
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At each CMVan event, the 30-second pitch segment gives audience members a chance to step on stage and spotlight upcoming local creative events happening around the city.
Check out what’s coming up this October [2025]:
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10. Vancouver+AI Community Meetup #21 : Enter their raffle to win 1 of 3 tickets (Oct 29 [2025])
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To sum up, you can buy your ticket for the Vancouver AI community meetup or you can take a chance on getting one of three free tickets by signing up to the Creative Mornings Vancouver community newsletter or signing up to attend the November 7, 2025 event (Brandon Wint) and entering the raffle. Good luck!