Kris Krüg
@krug.bsky.social
Techartist, quasi-sage, cyberpunk anti-hero from the future.
Sandboxing AI w/ Kris Krüg - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Founder, CEO - Future Proof Creatives
Host - Vancouver AI Community Meetups
Sandboxing AI w/ Kris Krüg - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Founder, CEO - Future Proof Creatives
Host - Vancouver AI Community Meetups
Surrey’s AI scene is on the rise.
From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC.
Be part of it Oct 14.
Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM.
Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community.
🎟 luma.com/surrey-AI
From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC.
Be part of it Oct 14.
Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM.
Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community.
🎟 luma.com/surrey-AI
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Surrey’s AI scene is on the rise.
From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC.
Be part of it Oct 14.
Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM.
Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community.
🎟 luma.com/surrey-AI
From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC.
Be part of it Oct 14.
Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM.
Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community.
🎟 luma.com/surrey-AI
Live from Vancouver: our SIGGRAPH mini report.
• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing
If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.
• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing
If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.
September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Live from Vancouver: our SIGGRAPH mini report.
• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing
If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.
• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing
If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.
Vancouver AI tested a new civic design tool: guided meditation built from public data... we breathed, listened, and visualized BC’s AI future encoding ethics, sustainability, radical inclusion, and creativity into memory and action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vancouver AI tested a new civic design tool: guided meditation built from public data... we breathed, listened, and visualized BC’s AI future encoding ethics, sustainability, radical inclusion, and creativity into memory and action
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO) just admitted the US needs 92 gigawatts of new power just for AI. That's 92 nuclear plants. They've built 2 in the last 30 years.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Eric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO) just admitted the US needs 92 gigawatts of new power just for AI. That's 92 nuclear plants. They've built 2 in the last 30 years.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
The real risk with AI? That the benefits don’t reach everyone. So we built this thing to make sure it does. That means working with Indigenous nations, creatives, researchers, the whole damn crew.
August 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The real risk with AI? That the benefits don’t reach everyone. So we built this thing to make sure it does. That means working with Indigenous nations, creatives, researchers, the whole damn crew.
I dare you to find an ai tech scene this quirky, open, and hilarious.
Open mics, AI dream logs, tie-dye shirts, and people who’d rather pass the mic than talk over you.
If you only watch one thing from the last Vancouver AI community meeetup night, make it this:
youtu.be/-YG-aIvq8U8
Open mics, AI dream logs, tie-dye shirts, and people who’d rather pass the mic than talk over you.
If you only watch one thing from the last Vancouver AI community meeetup night, make it this:
youtu.be/-YG-aIvq8U8
July 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I dare you to find an ai tech scene this quirky, open, and hilarious.
Open mics, AI dream logs, tie-dye shirts, and people who’d rather pass the mic than talk over you.
If you only watch one thing from the last Vancouver AI community meeetup night, make it this:
youtu.be/-YG-aIvq8U8
Open mics, AI dream logs, tie-dye shirts, and people who’d rather pass the mic than talk over you.
If you only watch one thing from the last Vancouver AI community meeetup night, make it this:
youtu.be/-YG-aIvq8U8
Not every week you pick a guy up at YVR after a 17-hour flight, hand him a chai, and end up swapping stories that go way deeper than business. Vippal came to Vancouver for Web Summiut with a trunk full of AI sensor shoes and left with a bigger crew and a real friend.
July 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Not every week you pick a guy up at YVR after a 17-hour flight, hand him a chai, and end up swapping stories that go way deeper than business. Vippal came to Vancouver for Web Summiut with a trunk full of AI sensor shoes and left with a bigger crew and a real friend.
Patterns repeat, but every now and then... someone bends the loop.
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Patterns repeat, but every now and then... someone bends the loop.
Proud to announce the winner of the Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: Canadian Identity Simulator by Matt Sinclair-Foreman.
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Proud to announce the winner of the Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: Canadian Identity Simulator by Matt Sinclair-Foreman.
Morton Rand-Hendrickson showed us the nightmare: MCP servers doing things you can't see, buried in agentic loops, with no audit trail.
"Something happened. There was a consequence. Hopefully it was the right one."
"Something happened. There was a consequence. Hopefully it was the right one."
June 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Morton Rand-Hendrickson showed us the nightmare: MCP servers doing things you can't see, buried in agentic loops, with no audit trail.
"Something happened. There was a consequence. Hopefully it was the right one."
"Something happened. There was a consequence. Hopefully it was the right one."
We’re gathering under starlight to calibrate the future.
Mission 19 is a field test for collective intelligence. If you’re ready to question every default setting (including your own), orbit the Space Centre July 30.
Mission 19 is a field test for collective intelligence. If you’re ready to question every default setting (including your own), orbit the Space Centre July 30.
June 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We’re gathering under starlight to calibrate the future.
Mission 19 is a field test for collective intelligence. If you’re ready to question every default setting (including your own), orbit the Space Centre July 30.
Mission 19 is a field test for collective intelligence. If you’re ready to question every default setting (including your own), orbit the Space Centre July 30.
New Video Alert! How do you build an anti-burnout community in the AI age? 🤖💪
Join Jessica Liang, founder of Nook in Richmond, as she shares how 200 events and 18-hour days nearly burned her out—and the sustainable strategies she’s using to empower AI founders in Vancouver.
Join Jessica Liang, founder of Nook in Richmond, as she shares how 200 events and 18-hour days nearly burned her out—and the sustainable strategies she’s using to empower AI founders in Vancouver.
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New Video Alert! How do you build an anti-burnout community in the AI age? 🤖💪
Join Jessica Liang, founder of Nook in Richmond, as she shares how 200 events and 18-hour days nearly burned her out—and the sustainable strategies she’s using to empower AI founders in Vancouver.
Join Jessica Liang, founder of Nook in Richmond, as she shares how 200 events and 18-hour days nearly burned her out—and the sustainable strategies she’s using to empower AI founders in Vancouver.
Artists riff with engineers. Performers trade punchlines with philosophers.
This is not a safe space for lazy answers or Silicon Valley hype.
This is where you ask better questions, remix wilder ideas, and walk away changed.
This is not a safe space for lazy answers or Silicon Valley hype.
This is where you ask better questions, remix wilder ideas, and walk away changed.
June 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Artists riff with engineers. Performers trade punchlines with philosophers.
This is not a safe space for lazy answers or Silicon Valley hype.
This is where you ask better questions, remix wilder ideas, and walk away changed.
This is not a safe space for lazy answers or Silicon Valley hype.
This is where you ask better questions, remix wilder ideas, and walk away changed.
if you think stochastic parrots and LLMs are just mimicking us, wait until they start re-writing what’s possible for public infrastructure and collective agency.
This isn’t corporate AI—this is grassroots, community-coded, messy, experimental, open to all.
This isn’t corporate AI—this is grassroots, community-coded, messy, experimental, open to all.
June 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
if you think stochastic parrots and LLMs are just mimicking us, wait until they start re-writing what’s possible for public infrastructure and collective agency.
This isn’t corporate AI—this is grassroots, community-coded, messy, experimental, open to all.
This isn’t corporate AI—this is grassroots, community-coded, messy, experimental, open to all.
On June 25, the Vancouver AI scene invites you to get real about what happens when machines start steering—when agency gets decoupled from accountability, and 'good vibes' mean more than metrics.
Morton Rand-Hendriksen (LinkedIn) is about to drop the ‘Machine-Controlled Pandemonium’ gospel:
Morton Rand-Hendriksen (LinkedIn) is about to drop the ‘Machine-Controlled Pandemonium’ gospel:
June 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
On June 25, the Vancouver AI scene invites you to get real about what happens when machines start steering—when agency gets decoupled from accountability, and 'good vibes' mean more than metrics.
Morton Rand-Hendriksen (LinkedIn) is about to drop the ‘Machine-Controlled Pandemonium’ gospel:
Morton Rand-Hendriksen (LinkedIn) is about to drop the ‘Machine-Controlled Pandemonium’ gospel:
Enter the digital dojo of sales sensei Shane Gibson, where AI tools function like martial arts training—building your reflexes, enhancing your focus, and preparing you for the moments that matter most in sales encounters.
June 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Enter the digital dojo of sales sensei Shane Gibson, where AI tools function like martial arts training—building your reflexes, enhancing your focus, and preparing you for the moments that matter most in sales encounters.
The most honest data stories make everyone uncomfortable - including the data itself.
Numbers on the edge of their seats means they can't pretend to be neutral anymore. They're complicit in the systems they measure, and now they're ready to testify.
hackathon.bc-ai.net
Numbers on the edge of their seats means they can't pretend to be neutral anymore. They're complicit in the systems they measure, and now they're ready to testify.
hackathon.bc-ai.net
June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The most honest data stories make everyone uncomfortable - including the data itself.
Numbers on the edge of their seats means they can't pretend to be neutral anymore. They're complicit in the systems they measure, and now they're ready to testify.
hackathon.bc-ai.net
Numbers on the edge of their seats means they can't pretend to be neutral anymore. They're complicit in the systems they measure, and now they're ready to testify.
hackathon.bc-ai.net
The survey came back loud. Map that raw noise, shape it, and hand it back to the crowd with the volume still up. If you can leave ears ringing, you’ve done the work. Get 'em while their hot.
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: hackathon.bc-ai.net
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: hackathon.bc-ai.net
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The survey came back loud. Map that raw noise, shape it, and hand it back to the crowd with the volume still up. If you can leave ears ringing, you’ve done the work. Get 'em while their hot.
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: hackathon.bc-ai.net
Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: hackathon.bc-ai.net
Spoiler: The maps were never neutral.
Time to visualize who actually drew the borders and who pays the price.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
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Time to visualize who actually drew the borders and who pays the price.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
buff.ly/sm1vEOc
June 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Spoiler: The maps were never neutral.
Time to visualize who actually drew the borders and who pays the price.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
buff.ly/sm1vEOc
Time to visualize who actually drew the borders and who pays the price.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
buff.ly/sm1vEOc
You mean the lines surveyors drew while Indigenous people watched their territories get carved up for resource extraction?
The lines railway barons drew to move wealth from coast to coast? Let's connect those lines to their outcomes.
The lines railway barons drew to move wealth from coast to coast? Let's connect those lines to their outcomes.
June 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You mean the lines surveyors drew while Indigenous people watched their territories get carved up for resource extraction?
The lines railway barons drew to move wealth from coast to coast? Let's connect those lines to their outcomes.
The lines railway barons drew to move wealth from coast to coast? Let's connect those lines to their outcomes.
"If I did it indie style with VFX artist friends, probably $100K and 3 months."
Kevin Friel, who worked on Dune, explaining what his AI alien newscast would have cost the old way.
His actual cost: $200 and 2.5 days.
This isn't theoretical. This isn't a demo for demo's sake.
Kevin Friel, who worked on Dune, explaining what his AI alien newscast would have cost the old way.
His actual cost: $200 and 2.5 days.
This isn't theoretical. This isn't a demo for demo's sake.
June 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
"If I did it indie style with VFX artist friends, probably $100K and 3 months."
Kevin Friel, who worked on Dune, explaining what his AI alien newscast would have cost the old way.
His actual cost: $200 and 2.5 days.
This isn't theoretical. This isn't a demo for demo's sake.
Kevin Friel, who worked on Dune, explaining what his AI alien newscast would have cost the old way.
His actual cost: $200 and 2.5 days.
This isn't theoretical. This isn't a demo for demo's sake.
Canada's contradictions aren't bugs - they're features waiting for the right visualization to expose them.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
June 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Canada's contradictions aren't bugs - they're features waiting for the right visualization to expose them.
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
buff.ly/WaDUY6x
157 years of cognitive dissonance makes for rich datasets!
Indigenous sovereignty vs. resource extraction. Privacy rights vs. surveillance capitalism. Climate commitments vs. pipeline expansion.
Indigenous sovereignty vs. resource extraction. Privacy rights vs. surveillance capitalism. Climate commitments vs. pipeline expansion.
June 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
157 years of cognitive dissonance makes for rich datasets!
Indigenous sovereignty vs. resource extraction. Privacy rights vs. surveillance capitalism. Climate commitments vs. pipeline expansion.
Indigenous sovereignty vs. resource extraction. Privacy rights vs. surveillance capitalism. Climate commitments vs. pipeline expansion.
Finally, someone admits it. Canada isn't some happy middle ground - we're a collection of competing visions fighting for the same geography.
This hackathon gets it: Data storytelling isn't about finding comfortable truths. It's about mapping the fault lines.
buff.ly/BvTW27O
This hackathon gets it: Data storytelling isn't about finding comfortable truths. It's about mapping the fault lines.
buff.ly/BvTW27O
June 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Finally, someone admits it. Canada isn't some happy middle ground - we're a collection of competing visions fighting for the same geography.
This hackathon gets it: Data storytelling isn't about finding comfortable truths. It's about mapping the fault lines.
buff.ly/BvTW27O
This hackathon gets it: Data storytelling isn't about finding comfortable truths. It's about mapping the fault lines.
buff.ly/BvTW27O
You think you're just making a chart. You're actually building a weapon. Every axis you choose, every colour you pick, every data point you include - that's your thesis.
June 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You think you're just making a chart. You're actually building a weapon. Every axis you choose, every colour you pick, every data point you include - that's your thesis.