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Future Proof Creatives: An initiative aimed at equipping creative professionals with the skills and insights needed to thrive in an evolving digital landscape. This could involve workshops, resources, and community-building activities focused on emerging technologies and sustainable practices in the creative industries.

08/03/2026

A doctor getting hours back from paperwork is a real outcome. An “AI-enabled workflow” is brochure fog.

Rick Glumac points to AI scribes as one place the benefit is already becoming measurable. Doctors of B.C.'s own small pilot found less administrative work and more attention available for patients.

The serious question is not whether AI enters health care. It is whether clinician time returns to patients while privacy, consent, and accuracy remain intact.

Time saved is useful. Trust is load-bearing.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLTCXiqiqQ

08/02/2026

B.C. founders should not need a customer on another continent before their own government takes them seriously.

Rick Glumac calls it the home-ice disadvantage: local companies build useful s**t, then leave B.C. to find the first customer that makes everyone back home pay attention.

The Integrated Marketplace tries to break that loop with real testbeds in ports, airports, health care, and other places where a demo has to survive contact with reality.

Buy local is a slogan. Test local is infrastructure.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLTCXiqiqQ

08/01/2026

AI adoption is a bulls**t metric if nobody can name the benefit.

Rick Glumac asks the harder question: what changed at work, what improved in society, who got time back, and who got left holding the bag?

Counting licences is easy. Measuring whether the technology made life better is the actual job.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3axtuRHrk

07/31/2026

Mayumi Rollings has spent nearly 30 years in animation and has been drawing since she was four.

So when Mayumi says AI has unleashed her creativity, this is not a tourist reviewing the tool after a weekend. It is an artist with three decades of practice noticing that some old production walls just moved.

The interesting part is not that a machine made art easy. It is that an experienced artist found a wider runway for taste.

What happens when the distance between vision and ex*****on gets this much shorter?



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3axtuRHrk

07/30/2026

An accelerator worth a damn ends with something you can show.

Tiny Ghost Studios runs a three-week animation sprint where people get up to speed fast and leave with a finished 30-second short.

That is the right unit of learning: small enough to finish, real enough to expose every hole in your process.

More rendered frames. Fewer declarations about the future.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCt5zTZvnkA

07/29/2026

Teaching kids where the button lives is perishable knowledge.

Critical thinking. Collaboration. Creativity. The ability to notice when a machine is confidently making s**t up.

Those skills will outlast this quarter's model release.

Rick Glumac is right to put the human capacities first. Tools change. Judgment is the infrastructure.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLLTCXiqiqQ

07/28/2026

Kids do not show up for prompt engineering. They show up because Jazz is there. Because PJ is there. Because the room feels like theirs.

Anthonia Ogundele gets the part of AI education most institutions keep missing: technical access without cultural infrastructure is just another empty lab.

Ethọ́s Lab starts with belonging, mentorship, and community impact. The AI comes after the trust.

That is how young people shape the future instead of merely inheriting it.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3axtuRHrk

07/27/2026

A consciousness detector sounds like science fiction until you describe it as a test bench for competing theories.

That is the move Loki Jorgenson and the Mind, AI & Consciousness crew are making: out of the reading group and into the building stage.

If a theory cannot tell us what evidence would change its mind, it may be a mood with citations.

Time to run the theories through the machine and see what survives.



Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCt5zTZvnkA

07/27/2026

Dimitri Schwartzman is a longtime Vancouver AI community supporter ...

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