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A year ago, when @NerdJey came to me with the idea of throwing an event around AI, my first thought was “this could either flop completely or be a very good idea.” Those are typically the bets I like...
Fast forward to today:
We’ve hosted packed events with hundreds of attendees across Vancouver and San Francisco.
We’ve built real partnerships (shoutout to Lovable).
We’ve brought in speakers from standout Series A/B startups like CodeRabbit, Galileo, and Gray Whale.
And we’ve had engineers and execs in the room from Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft.
More importantly, we’ve built a community of people who aren’t just watching AI happen, they’re shaping it.
When I reached out to Vivian about getting involved with @vanstartupweek, the response blew me away. It confirmed what we’re building here matters.
AI Club will be at Vancouver Startup Week HQ on April 30th.
We’re highlighting some incredible local founders:
Kyle Dulay (@usecollabstr)
@KendraGaragan (@Founded in Canada)
Georgiy Sekretaryuk (@enteroverdrive )
@robsonmanaged (Robson AI)
If you’ve been thinking about getting closer to what’s actually happening in AI, this is the room.
There are only a handful of tickets left. Reach out if you want in.
Canada is full of founders like Brett Turner. Ask around. They're working from coffee shops, office towers and industrial parks all around the country.
Founder Spotlight started as an idea over dinner with @NerdJey and Aiden Bamford.
We were tired of explaining to our Mom & Dad what we do for a living. Tech to Canadians outside of our bubble is still largely looked at as 'just IT'
So we're changing that and filming their stories. (credit to Aiden and Hiroko at Download)
For the nineteen year old in Victoria who thinks the only way in is a plane ticket south.
It isn't. It never was. You can build it in your backyard.
Here's our first teaser video, our account is live on IG - link in the comments below
Brandon Gains retweeted
Was recently going through my gallery and came across pics from the Build Days I used to host. Forgot how much fun it was.
Me and @SanketM321 were chatting at an event and it just clicked, why not bring back our collab from last year? We didn’t contemplate, we didn’t think logistics, both of us just said:
“F*ck it let’s run it, it’s fun as hell”
So keep your Fridays free folks cuz @AlthraIncubator & @frontrowvc are back!
90 seconds. Your pitch. Two investors. Hundreds of decks between us. Raw, honest feedback on where your story lands and where it doesn’t.
Then we close it out with a happy hour mixer for some great conversations before we all get to our Friday night plans.
Founders, builders, operators, this one’s for you.
Grats to Vancouver-founded Rentahuman on the launch!
Rentahuman (@RentAHumanX) allows AI agents to communicate with and pay humans to do tasks in the real world. Their mission is to use AI to create new jobs and coordinate workers at global scale.
The future will have more intelligence, more jobs, and more opportunities for people outside of the digital world.
Congrats on the launch, @alexandertw33ts!
ycombinator.com/launches/QXR…
About last night... AI Club sold out with 120 founders, builders and engineers.
Our pitch was no panels, no fireside chats, just demos... I wasn't sure that would land. You showed up anyway.
Live demos, real conversations, and operators sharing how they're using AI to improve product management, automate fundraising, optimize LLM context windows, and ship MVPs faster than ever before.
Thanks to our speakers for showing the work, not just talking about it:
→ Kendra Garagan 🦄, Founded in Canada
→ Georgiy Sekretaryuk 🏎️, Overdrive
→ Kyle Dulay, Collabstr
→ Martin Robson, Robson AI
Thanks to our event partner @vanstartupweek and Vivian Lago for making space for nights like this.
Special thanks to @nodayswastedco as our beverage sponsor
And to @NerdJey for co-founding this with me. Stay tuned for our next one!
AI Club is officially sold out, thank you Vancouver!
See you tomorrow @vanstartupweek
