AI culture, creative applications, governance and community building.
AI culture, creative applications, governance and community building.
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Networking · Oct 28, 2026 · 17:00 local time; timezone inferred
The party starts at five. Ninety minutes to arrive, get a drink and find your people before anyone says a word from the stage. Published schedule: 5:00–6:30 PM.
Other · Editorial classification · Oct 28, 2026 · 18:30 local time; timezone inferred
A welcome to Squamish territory opens the festival. The first thing said from this stage, before any of the rest of it. Published schedule: 6:30–6:45 PM.
Keynote · Oct 28, 2026 · 18:45 local time; timezone inferred
Calm Technology in the Age of Loud Machines + Q&AStill movingAmber wrote the book on calm technology, and the first talk of the festival is hers: what AI should feel like when it is built for people instead of markets, and what it costs us when it is not. Then ten minutes of questions from the room. Published schedule: 6:45–7:25 PM.
Official agendaTalk · Oct 28, 2026 · 19:25 local time; timezone inferred
Speaker to announce.Two builders from the AI Builders Fellowship, Internet Archive Canada's program with BC + AI, each get eight minutes to show what they built after six weeks inside a hundred thousand Canadian government publications. Then the man who built the Archive takes the stage. Published schedule: 7:25–7:55 PM.
Keynote · Oct 28, 2026 · 19:55 local time; timezone inferred
Public memory, and who it belongs toBrewster built the Internet Archive. Public memory, the open web, libraries, and what a civic AI owes the people who have not been born yet. Then questions from the room. Published schedule: 7:55–8:35 PM.
Official agendaNetworking · Oct 28, 2026 · 20:35 local time; timezone inferred
More artists to announce.Artists with AI as their instrument: generative visuals, live-coded sound, and a room that gets louder as it goes. Twenty minutes, then the set hands the night to the party. Published schedule: 8:35–8:55 PM.
Official agendaNetworking · Oct 28, 2026 · 20:55 local time; timezone inferred
DJ, bar, art on the walls, and the arguments that started during the talks. Lights out at half past ten. Published schedule: 8:55–10:30 PM.
Talk · Oct 29, 2026 · 09:00 local time; timezone inferred
Where we are, and what today is askingKris sets the day in ten minutes. Where we are, what Thursday is asking, and how the blocks talk to each other. Published schedule: 9:00–9:10 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 09:10 local time; timezone inferred
What's actually going on in there2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Loki on what might actually be going on inside these things. The second talk on what living with them is doing to us. Twenty minutes each, then both of them on stage arguing about it. Published schedule: 9:10–10:05 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 10:35 local time; timezone inferred
The judgment you're outsourcingStill moving·2 talks + Q&AShane on asking better questions than the machine. Kerris and Raj on the judgment AI keeps talking you out of, from inside two companies rolling it out. Then all three taking questions. Published schedule: 10:35–11:30 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 11:30 local time; timezone inferred
Who it's being built for2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Jos on empathy as a media practice and communities that own their own stories. The second talk asks who gets invited into the rooms where AI gets decided. Who it's being built for, asked by people who already build for them. Published schedule: 11:30 AM–12:25 PM.
Official agendaNetworking · Oct 29, 2026 · 13:25 local time; timezone inferred
Still movingLunch is over and the room needs waking up. Suzy Easton, fifteen minutes, all sound and texture, and then the afternoon. Published schedule: 1:25–1:40 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 13:40 local time; timezone inferred
In the room where care happensStill moving·2 talks + Q&ASimon on what AI is actually doing in drug discovery, and where the hype runs out. Dean takes the second talk; he builds health AI that has to answer to real patients, HIPAA and PHIPA at the same time. The lab and the clinic, back to back, then both of them taking questions. Published schedule: 1:40–2:35 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 14:35 local time; timezone inferred
Telling the truth about riskStill moving·2 talks + Q&ASarah on governance for real people: nonprofits adopting AI without losing the values they run on. Kristen on how safety science gets translated for the public without being flattened. Both of them do this for a living, and neither one gets to hand-wave. Published schedule: 2:35–3:30 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 16:00 local time; timezone inferred
Who gets to tell the storyStill moving·2 talks + Q&ABrett on synthetic media, surveillance, and what the documentary can still do about it. Stephanie on the long history of where our ideas about machine intelligence came from, and who got to decide what counts as knowledge. Who gets to tell the story, argued by a filmmaker and a historian. Published schedule: 4:00–4:55 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 29, 2026 · 16:55 local time; timezone inferred
What the country decidesStill moving·2 talks + Q&ATaleeb sits at the federal AI policy table. Kris sits in this room. Canada's AI strategy meets the people who have to live in it: one conversation for the whole block, with questions from the floor. Published schedule: 4:55–5:50 PM.
Official agendaTalk · Oct 30, 2026 · 09:00 local time; timezone inferred
Thursday was where we are. Today is what we build.Five minutes from Kris to turn the corner. Thursday was where we are. Friday is what we build. Published schedule: 9:00–9:05 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 09:05 local time; timezone inferred
Working with the thing2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Alexandra on working with AI without handing it your judgment. The second talk on what the practice actually looks like with your hands on the tools every day. Then both on stage, comparing notes. Published schedule: 9:05–10:00 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 10:00 local time; timezone inferred
Where the work gets madeStill moving·2 talks + Q&AAna leads OCAD University. Mayumi runs an animation studio that uses AI everywhere and refuses to lose the artists. Where the work gets made, from the institution and from the studio floor, and what each one owes the artists inside it. Published schedule: 10:00–10:55 AM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 11:25 local time; timezone inferred
Holding a community together2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Zaro on community as an operating system, learned inside some of gaming's biggest franchises. The second talk on resilience at the scale of the whole planet. Same problem, wildly different scales, then both on stage. Published schedule: 11:25 AM–12:20 PM.
Official agendaNetworking · Oct 30, 2026 · 13:20 local time; timezone inferred
To announceArtist to announce.A scripted short piece with a soundtrack made just for it. Twenty minutes to bring everyone back after lunch. Published schedule: 1:20–1:40 PM.
Fireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 13:40 local time; timezone inferred
What's actually shippingStill moving·2 talks + Q&ASev is building a real-time AI inference network: what actually survives the trip from demo to production, and what it costs. Lane comes at the same question from Wikipedia, which everything trains on and nobody pays for. Then both taking questions. Published schedule: 1:40–2:35 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 14:35 local time; timezone inferred
At planetary scale2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Sara on life-centred design and who gets to own what we build. The second talk on regeneration at the largest scale anyone designs at. Planetary scale, from two people who mean it literally. Published schedule: 2:35–3:30 PM.
Official agendaFireside chat · Oct 30, 2026 · 16:00 local time; timezone inferred
Land, language, memory2 talks + Q&A · One more speaker to announce.Michael builds machine learning for Indigenous language reclamation, and asks who owns the data, the systems and the future those tools make. The second talk comes at the same question from the land. Published schedule: 4:00–4:55 PM.
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