Imported from kk-kb (projects/08-community-groups/life-sciences-ai/events/2026-05-06-life-sciences-meetup-001-transcript.md). Canonical in git. Long ASR transcript (~32k words).
Source: Field recording / automated speech recognition. Light cleanup: obvious host-name / sponsor ASR fixes; conversational filler largely preserved.
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Okay, I am just Kris Krüg rolling up on Simon Haworth's house for the, uh, BCAI Life Sciences Meetup number one. It's been work in the works for a while. Simon's Intellomx is a sponsor of BCAI in Vancouver ai. We've been working on pulling together a special interest group dedicated to life sciences for a while.
So here we are. Meet up number zero one. It's at his house. It's a dinner party. It's invite only. We will see what happens Ing I'm proud of him. And, um, there's so much interesting things going on in the life science space and so many interesting startups in our ecosystem that, um, have been coming to us wanting to do events and meetups and trainings and stuff.
So this represents us starting to
gather some of those interested
parties together to see what this thing could become. We're also planning a festival at the end of the year, a AI festival called Futureproof Festival in Simon and Lifelines. We're gonna program one day event, so should be interesting to see how,
Hey, what's up? David Cox?
You been over here to Simon's Place before? No, I haven't. I love coming here. He is, been doing a good job of hosting lately and, uh, yeah, let's see.
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Yeah, I mean, I mean, I can somewhat see the wisdom. It's the starter house area in Vancouver and I mean,
close to the airport.
So it's,