Core team leading the BC + AI Festival Week planning and execution.
Updated April 28, 2026.
Festival Leadership
- Festival Director: Kris Krüg
- Education Day: Anthonia Ogundele (Ethos Lab)
- Life Sciences Day: Simon Haworth (Intellomx)
- Data Nerds Day: Gordon Hamilton (Data for Good Vancouver) + Andrew Reid (Rival Technologies)
- MAC Day: Loki Jorgenson
- Ethics Day (AEFL): Jesi Carson (AEFL) + Sarah Downey (governance speaker)
- Film Festival + Squatchies: Kevin Friel (Nera Studios / BC + AI Film Club)
- DEFRAG: Philippe Pasquier (SFU Metacreation Lab), Erica Lapadat-Janzen, Arshia Sobhan Sarbandi, Kris Krüg
Partners & Collaborators (confirmed)
- Rival Technologies — Data Storytelling Hackathon sponsor ($5K prize pool, Round 5)
- Data for Good Vancouver — Data Nerds Day co-lead (1,600-member network)
- DAMA Vancouver — data governance programming, Data Nerds Day afternoon session
- Creative Pulse — AI Job Fair (confirmed inside festival week, Oct 30 afternoon)
- SFU Metacreation Lab — DEFRAG co-producer, Canada Arts Council-funded
- AI Ethical Futures Lab (AEFL) — Ethics Day lead and host (Parker Street Studios)