Listen "Vancouver AI Community Meetup #019"
Episode Synopsis
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 NationScholarship tickets + hydration thanks to Kassandra LinklateSIGGRAPH 2025 side‑events roadmap — 100 + RSVPsHackathon 3.0 → unveiling the 1 000‑response “BC AI Hopes & Fears” datasetGuided meditation by Peter BowlesAI Ethics short‑film demoAI Film Club launch (Sept)Keynote: Michael Yagudaev on building 52 startups in 52 weeks with agentic coding workflowsProvincial AI Strategy survey call‑to‑action from FaridClosing ritual: donuts, night‑sky viewing,Mission 20 teaserLinksBC + AI Adoption Survey - https://engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherbc/engagement/ai-adoption-in-bc/Hackathon dataset repoSIGGRAPH side‑event RSVPCreditsHost/Producer Kris KrügMeditation & Music Peter BowlesVideo Kevin FrielField Video Viktor SerbinPhotos Michelle DiamondVenue H.R. MacMillan Space CentreSponsors Segev LLPSons of VancouverDimitri Schwartzman
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