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Join us at Fri AI Lab, this Fri 4-6pm at @Alexander Innovation Center on: 🚀🧠🔁 Creating Autonomous AI Agents 🤖⚙️🦾! 👉 Sign up on Luma: https://luma.com/8bfn2z9e 📅 Date: May 22 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 4–6pm 📍 Venue: Alexander College, 570 Dunsmuir Street (Ground Floor Presentation Room) #OpenClaw #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #AutonomousAgents #SME #Startups #AlexanderInnovationCenter #DecentralizedAI #VibeCoding

🚨🚨 ‼️ IMPORTANT REMINDER: Tomorrow’s Friday AI Lab 4-6pm event VENUE changed to: Alexander College, 570 Dunsmuir Street (downtown) Tomorrow's demo topic is: 🎬 Creating Hollywood-Style Videos with AI! 🤖🍿 (Community Sharing) 👉 Sign-up on Luma: https://luma.com/hs9hsu4u 📅 Date: May 8 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 4-6pm 📍 Venue: Alexander College, 570 Dunsmuir Street (Downtown) How cool of a welcome from Alexander College's Justin Hinchcliffe!

🎬🤖🍿 What if you could turn a rough idea into a cinematic short film, trailer, ad, or animated story without a full production crew? Check this out... mind blowing! 🤯: https://lnkd.in/gw25pjFq This Fri at FUNK, we’re opening the AI Video Sandbox: a hands-on builder meetup where we’ll explore how AI is changing video creation, from storyboarding and scene generation to voice, music, editing, and final polish. This is not a class. It’s a build-in-public workshop for creators, founders, marketers, artists, and AI-curious doers to test tools, share demos, troubleshoot prompts, and learn together. Bring your laptop, your latest experiment, or just your curiosity. 👉 Sign Up on Luma: https://luma.com/hs9hsu4u 📅 Date: May 8 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 4-6pm 📍 Venue: FUNK Coffee & Bar (Coal Harbour Room) #AIVideo #CreativeAI #BuildInPublic #OpenClaw #AIAgents #VancouverAI #FUNK

This week is Startup Week Vancouver, we’ll join the fun and make this Fri into a networking event for AI Builders! 📅 Date: May 1 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 4-6pm 📍 Venue: FUNK Coffee & Bar 👉 Sign Up now on Luma: https://luma.com/mw1ehor2 #OpenClaw #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #Networking #FUNK #DecentralizedAI

🚨IMPORTANT🚨: Event Date Change: this week’s event is now SAT 1-3pm Hey AI Builders, We need to shift our schedule for this week. We rely on the generosity of our venue sponsor FUNK, and we were just notified they have a full venue buyout this Fri. 🙏 Apology: Sorry for the change and any hassle this caused! 🔥 New Time: This Sat, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM. 📍 Location: Still at FUNK. 🔥 Capacity: We remain capped at 20. If you can’t make this new time, please release your spot for others. 🔥 Preparation: Bring your laptop and your latest AI experiments. Let's ship! ✨ Confirm your spot: https://luma.com/5l4n2x0a See you Sat @ FUNK ! 👾

Its tax season! Want to know how much AI can help with your taxes? What can AI help automate vs where your certified accountant is absolutely necessary? This coming Friday at FUNK, we're experimenting with where AI comes in when it comes to SME finances and tax preparation. We're moving beyond SaaS cloud platforms for accounting and as small business owners, we’re getting our hands dirty to see how AI can help automate receipts, categorize expenses, and maybe even generate tax documents? 📅 Date: Apr 17 (Fri) ⏰ Time: 4-6pm 📍 Venue: FUNK Coffee & Bar 👉 Sign Up now! (Only 20 ppl): https://luma.com/sybdrk9n 🛠️ Build in Public - what we’ll work to demo on this week: ✅ Connecting AI to financial data sources e.g. receipts/statements ✅ Writing prompts that categorize expenses and identify deductions automatically ✅ Triggering tax workflows from events (new transactions, receipt uploads, quarterly reminders) ✅ Building a tax preparation pipeline your AI manages itself ✅ Live demos: receipt photo → auto-categorization → tax document generation ✅ Anyone wants to experiment on how to automate Bitcoin & Taxes? For this month, we'll stick with this theme for a few weeks, so the group can dive deeper into AI experimentations around this topic. *** Disclaimer *** this is just an AI experimentation sandbox, please still consult your certified accountant for any legal recommendations. --------- 🛠️🦞 OpenClaw/AI Agents Sandbox: Build, Don't Just Watch This is NOT a class—it's a weekly workshop for Claw Pilots to demo progress, troubleshoot in real-time, and exchange raw ideas. Be a Builder (No "CD-ROMs"): We value action over observation. Don't just come watch; come ready to show your demos and "ah-ha" moments. Progress Over Perfection: We don't care if it's broken. Share your failures and raw learnings, it's the fastest way to learn. We show up weekly to push each other to learn 10x faster. Verifiable & Open: We advocate decentralized AI. Our focus is open, secure, and authentic tech you can actually trust in an increasingly synthetic world. *** NOTE: Bring your laptop, bring your latest build, and let's build great things together! *** We're also not tied only to OpenClaw, the space is moving so fast, anything related to AI Agents/LLMs/Vibe Coding are all welcome! 🗓️ Agenda: 4:00 PM | Rapid-Fire Intros: Who are you and what are you building? (1-min limit!) 4:20 PM | Live Demos: Automating Your Taxes with AI. We'll show our stack; you show yours. 5:30 PM | Open Q&A & Troubleshooting: No gatekeeping, ask anything. 🚀 Who This Is For: Solo Entrepreneurs: Track business expenses without the spreadsheet hell. Freelancers: Automate deduction tracking and quarterly prep. Doers: You value a working tax bot over manual data entry. Note: We meet every Friday, 4–6 PM @ FUNK. Bring a friend! #OpenClaw #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #TaxAutomation #FUNK #DecentralizedAI

Hi everyone, This week's Fri AI Lab is officially Full House! https://luma.com/5l4n2x0a Please note: 🚫 No Walk-ins: We are capped at 20 people. If you haven't signed up, please do not show up as we cannot accommodate walk-ins. ⏳ Update Status: If you can’t make it, cancel now. No-shows will be blacklisted from future sessions to keep things fair for those on the waitlist. 📣 Next Event: We’ll announce the next date this weekend. Stay tuned to grab a spot if you didn't make this one! See some of you on Fri 4-6pm @FUNK! Elaine

🥽🧪⚡️ Fri AI Lab: Automate Your Socials With OpenClaw 🦞🦞 📅 This Friday, April 3rd | 4-6 PM 📍 FUNK. Coffee Bar, Vancouver Stop just "scheduling" posts and start automating them. This week at our Friday AI Lab, we're turning OpenClaw into a social media powerhouse. 🛠️ What we'll be demo-ing: ✅ Connecting OpenClaw to social media channels ✅ Writing prompts that generate on-brand posts automatically ✅ Triggering posts from events, RSS feeds, DMs & cron ✅ Building a content calendar your AI manages itself ✅ Live demos: post from Telegram → auto-publish to Luma/Eventbrite/LinkedIn etc. This is NOT a class — it's a weekly workshop for builders to demo progress, troubleshoot in real-time, and exchange raw ideas. Progress over perfection. 🚀 Bring your laptop, bring your latest build, and let's build great things together! 🎟️ RSVP on Luma (FREE): https://luma.com/5l4n2x0a Only 20 seats! *** Note: Can't make it? Please cancel your spot 24 hours in advance, so folks on the waitlisting can be bumped up. To keep things fair, "No-shows" will unfortunately be deprioritized for future events. #OpenClaw #AIAgents #BuildInPublic #SocialMediaAutomation #Vancouver #AI #DecentralizedAI #FUNK

Thank you everyone for your participation at our AI Startup Hackathon 🚀🚀 including our Judges Brad Bycraft Albert L. Amy Ngai and congratulations to all the Winning Teams too! It was a huge experiment as we put together a vetted event accepting mainly experienced professionals in Biz/Tech/PM/UX Designers to Vibe Code in less than 15 hours business ideas that are grounded to solve real market needs and investable by investors. We were curious to see how the teams will work out as the roles are merging now that AI can shorten development cycles from Prompt to Deploy. It was definitely a lot of learning for the participants as well as for us organisers too! We have tones of footages and photos to select and edit and we will do so after this Web Summit week - The Olympics of Tech, as 15,000 people are in town for the event. We will share all the learnings in due time. I cannot thank enough the Volunteering Team: Jane Y. Cassie Wang Gloria Chan Inge Cheung Jeff Lam Kylie Chan Clara Wong Holly Lam Caroline (Cora) Yoon Alex Au Ieong Sze Wing P. Minha Kim Maiko Shirakawa without them, we cannot pull off this event as we have 10 teams to handle all the behind the scenes work! And of course all our collaborators: Leticia Serrano of IterateUX, Matt K. of Omnia Consulting Ltd. CXO Kaizor IxDA Vancouver PMHive, AI Summit Vancouver Modev for helping bring in balanced talents in Biz/Tech/PM/UX Designers with complimentary skillsets igniting their innovative superpowers! Thanks to all our Mentors: Michael Yagudaev Matt K. Shuai (Nino) Feng Long Yeung Fernanda Nauata Israa Qeroof Zlil Sheloach Stingna Z. who spent their precious time to coach the teams over the weekend and so glad to see their concepts and decks really did evolve and progressed over just 15 hours! Special thanks to our Sponsors for the fabulous venue and resources/licensing as well as cash award (actually the team opted for Bitcoin Award!) BCIT Computing CloudRift ProtoPie Zenith Venture Studio Sze Wong Alex Cheng Hope to organise an “AI Vibathon” (as the teams are no longer Hacking!) for Teenagers or “Founder of One” next as we definitely see that trend coming! Any feedback for us, welcome to drop us a note at: hello@aistartuphub.ca #AIStartupHub #AIHackathon #Startup #Community #VibeCoding #LLM

𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 🪄 𝐀 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 🎇 Congratulations to all participants who poured in 𝟭𝟮𝟬% 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 at the AI Hackathon 🎉 In 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟯𝟬 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀, you built AI-driven solutions that were 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝘆, and you did it with heart, speed, and skill. The projects tackled real-world problems across industries: 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝, 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜. These solutions weren’t just smart — they were designed with 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 in mind, thanks to the powerful mix of Biz, Tech, PM, and Design talent in every team ⚔️ Big congrats to the standout winners: 🏆 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 (𝗖𝗔𝗗 $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝟬) – Climate TRACE Data - Anthony Pak, Elisha La, Paola Santiago 💡 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 – Planform - Danny SC Tseng, Scott Lionello, Henry Wong, Hyo Kim 🎨 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗨𝗫 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 – Casting - Ernest Barron, Yiming Zhu, Nickolay Makarenko, Gibran 💰 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 – Flow - Ehyun Kwon, Yang Su, Yurii Veklynets 💖 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 – Casting While these teams took home top honors, we’re incredibly proud of 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 that showed up, built fast, and aimed high — including 𝙏𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙢𝙚𝙢, 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧, 𝙀𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙮.𝙖𝙞, 𝙈𝙮𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡, 𝘿𝙈𝘼𝙋, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧&𝗧. You all tackled meaningful challenges with bold thinking. 🙌🏻 To our 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 — thank you for your thoughtful feedback. 🤝 To our 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 (BCIT Computing, ProtoPie, CloudRift, Zenith Venture Studio), 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, and every single 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁 — thank you for helping make this hackathon possible. You brought the energy, the ideas, and the vibe coding spirit 🤖 𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 — 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 ✨ #AIHackathon #VancouverTech #StartupLife #AICommunity #ProductDesign #UX #FutureOfAI #HackToLaunch #HackathonVibes #AIInnovation #StartupCommunity AI Startup Hub · IterateUX · Omnia Consulting Ltd. · IxDA Vancouver · CXO Kaizor · Zenith Venture Studio