Vancouver AI Meetup (VAM!)

​Behind the Code: Challenges in Building Intelligent Systems.

​🌱 Special thanks to our sponsor, Body Energy Club! Every attendee will receive a complimentary goodie bag with gift cards, healthy samples, and drinks. 🎁💪⚡️

​Join us for a rare strategic salon with Kip Warner and Pawel Z. exploring the invisible trade-offs behind “efficient” AI.

​About the host: Helena Vallée is a product strategist focused on the systems architecture and human factors of AI. With a background in law, product management, and ethics, she curates VAM! events that turn complexity into clear, actionable insight.

​🌀 11:00 AM – Arrival & Networking. Doors close at 11:15 AM as we’ll be running a focused program and won’t be able to let attendees in after that.

​🎙️ 11:30 AM – 11:40 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks

​🎙️ 11:40 AM – 12:10 PM The Future of Flight Operations: Agents, Simulations & Real-Time Optimization with PAWEL, Senior Data Scientist, Jeppesen ForeFlight (formerly Boeing Digital Aviation)

​Pawel brings a systems-level lens shaped by years of engineering in aviation and real-time decision intelligence. His work spans AI, agent-based modelling, and high-stakes operational systems, where software meets the hard edge of safety-critical constraints.

​🕛 12:10 PM – 12:20 PM Break

​🎙️ 12:20 PM – 1:30 PM Program Optimization: Making Software Efficient with KIP WARNER, Engineer & Founder, Cartesian Theatre Corp. (Top 100 AI Startups in Canada • VivaTech ’25, only Canadian startup selected from 14k global AI companies)

​Join Kip for a fast-paced dive into how real software gets optimized. Covering algorithm efficiency, CPU cache behaviour, vectorization, parallelization, and more. With decades of experience building performance-critical systems, Kip champions deep technical literacy as the foundation for true digital sovereignty.

​🌀 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Open Social: Builders, Engineers & Systems Thinkers Connect.

​Looking forward to having another powerful AI meetup!

​​⚠️ Note: The space is not pet-friendly, but service animals are welcome. Bicycles are not allowed inside the building.

​​We’re honored to be hosted by Northeastern University. Here’s more about the university.

​​Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. With 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, over 320,000 alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide, the global university network serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Located in the heart of downtown, the Vancouver campus offers a wide range of master’s-level tech degrees, including pathway programs that allow students with non-STEM backgrounds to pursue a graduate degree in tech.