This episode captures an unfiltered night inside the Vancouver AI community—where analog gear hums alongside AI-generated visuals, and Indigenous songs echo through a room full of technologists, artists, and systems thinkers. This is the sound of a grassroots AI ecosystem growing in real time.

It’s less a conference and more a convergence. A gathering of those building tools, telling stories, and raising essential questions about what kind of intelligence we want to build and who gets to shape it.

Episode Highlights

• OJA, the AI Band — Combining hand-built synths and generative visuals, the group shares how AI helped translate code into collaborative audiovisual performance.
• Damien George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation — Offers a powerful welcome, history, and song rooted in this terri ...