Purpose

Accelerate safe, ethical, and applied AI in life sciences across BC by convening researchers, clinicians, startups, and health systems to turn ideas into pilots and pilots into practice.

Focus

• Translational AI for therapeutics, diagnostics, clinical operations, and public health
• Data governance, privacy, security, and safety cases in regulated settings
• Evaluation, validation, and deployment pathways in real clinical workflows

What we do

• Workshops and clinics on model evaluation, data readiness, and regulatory pathways
• Mentorship pairing clinicians and PIs with AI engineers and product leads
• Policy and safety roundtables with health authorities and partners
• Pilot matchmaking and showcase for BC‑based projects

Membership

• Individuals: clinicians, researchers, students, data scientists, product builders
• Organizations: hospitals, research institutes, startups, biotech, diagnostics, agencies

Operating model

• Co‑chairs: BC + AI leads plus sector representatives
• Working groups: Data Governance, Clinical Validation, Therapeutics & Biotech, Med‑Devices & Diagnostics, Hospital Ops
• Integration: plugs into BC + AI funding directory, hackathon series, and ecosystem map

Principles

• Ethics and inclusivity first