[Earlyworm tickets $50 CAD available until 11:30 PM PT July 22, 2026 $60 CAD standard tickets available until 12 am PT July 30, 2926]
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About Event
For July’s Vancouver AI Community Meetup, we’re welcoming Dave Olson, community builder, storyteller, archivist, postcard-maker, poet, and long-haul keeper of strange and useful records, visiting from Okayama, Japan.
Also joining us is Dorothy Pang, a Vancouver visual artist, AI filmmaker, and creative director working across AI concepting, art direction, filmmaking, and motion capture.
Dave has spent decades making culture from the raw materials of lived experience: zines, dispatches, audio, field notes, friendship cards, Olympic-era media experiments, travel stories, spoken word, and handmade archives that refuse to behave like “content.”
His work lives somewhere between the internet and the envelope, the campfire and the database, the typed page and the half-remembered road story.
This will not be a product demo. It will be a generous, analog-hearted meditation on memory, community, tools, care, archives, and what it means to keep making human things while the machines get louder.
Come for the stories. Stay for the unfinished poem.
Dorothy Pang is a Vancouver visual artist, AI filmmaker, and creative director working across AI concepting, art direction, filmmaking, and motion capture.
Kris Krüg will tell the story of how it happened, including the accidents, relationships, experiments, mistakes and strange little sparks that carried the work forward.
Then he’ll turn the question back to the room:What should this community become next? Who needs to be part of the festival? What conversations are missing? What would make FUTUREPROOF genuinely useful, surprising, and worth showing up for?
Part origin story, part community briefing, part live design session.
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Event Details
Date: July 29, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM PDT
Venue: H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9
Format: Community talks, demos, conversation, and open networking
Who This Is For
People building with AI and people trying to understand what it is changing.
Creatives, technologists, researchers, organizers, founders, students, educators, and public-sector teams.
Anyone who wants a local, grounded, human room for sorting through the hype, the useful parts, and the hard questions.
