https://greyskytech.com/2026-08-16weekly1 https://greyskytech.com/about2026-06-03monthly0.8 https://greyskytech.com/services2026-06-03monthly0.9 https://greyskytech.com/services/artificial-intelligence2026-06-03monthly0.8 https://greyskytech.com/services/automation2026-06-03monthly0.8 https://greyskytech.com/services/adoption-and-training2026-06-03monthly0.8 https://greyskytech.com/blog2026-08-16weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/tools2026-06-03monthly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/tools/ai-readiness2026-06-03monthly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/tools/automation-roi2026-06-03monthly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/tools/ai-use-cases2026-06-03monthly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu2026-09-04daily0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/archive2026-09-03daily0.6 https://greyskytech.com/contact2026-06-03monthly0.8 https://greyskytech.com/authors/anu-jolliffe2026-06-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/terms-of-service2026-04-06yearly0.4 https://greyskytech.com/privacy-policy2026-03-23yearly0.4 https://greyskytech.com/ai-policy2026-03-23yearly0.4 https://greyskytech.com/sitemap2026-04-06monthly0.3 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/this-weekend2026-09-05daily0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/this-week2026-09-05daily0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/this-month2026-09-05daily0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/topics2026-09-04weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ai2026-09-03weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/business2026-09-04weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/community2026-09-04weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data2026-08-17weekly0.7 https://greyskytech.com/blog/one-thing-to-start-your-digital-transformation2026-08-16monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/one-thing-to-start-your-digital-transformation.jpgTransformation stalls when five good ideas compete for the same Tuesday. Here is the one to start with, and the ten-minute check that shows if you need it.The One Thing You Can Do Today to Start Your Company's Digital Transformation https://greyskytech.com/blog/sixty-seconds-second-place-chequeup2026-08-11monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/sixty-seconds-second-place-chequeup.jpgI went to a Saturday hackathon meetup for the snacks, pitched an idea I have carried for ten years, and came second. Here is why I can finally build it.Sixty Seconds, Second Place, and the Ten-Year-Old Idea Behind chequeup https://greyskytech.com/blog/your-ai-policy-is-only-useful-if-your-team-buys-into-it2026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/your-ai-policy-is-only-useful-if-your-team-buys-into-it.jpgThe organisations getting real value from AI are not the ones with the longest policies. A field note on why buy-in beats documentation, and where to start.Your AI Policy Is Only Useful If Your Team Buys Into It https://greyskytech.com/blog/thirty-years-building-ahead-of-the-curve2026-07-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/thirty-years-building-ahead-of-the-curve.jpgThree decades of building, from a 1994 island BBS to today, and the events page and mailing list I run on Microsoft 365 for Business at zero monthly cost.Page 63, 1994: Thirty Years of Building Ahead of the Curve https://greyskytech.com/blog/why-just-use-gmail-stops-working-when-your-business-gets-serious2026-07-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/why-just-use-gmail-stops-working-when-your-business-gets-serious.jpgYour business email address is a trust signal, and a free email service sends the wrong one. The people you want to work with read it before they read you.Why "Just Use Gmail" Stops Working When Your Business Gets Serious https://greyskytech.com/blog/microsoft-365-copilot-the-ai-your-team-already-pays-for2026-06-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/microsoft-365-copilot-the-ai-your-team-already-pays-for.jpgMost of the team I trained had never opened the secure, governed AI that ships free with their Microsoft 365 licence. Here is why, and how to fix it.57% of the Team Had Never Opened the AI They Already Pay For https://greyskytech.com/blog/canada-ai-for-all-small-business-adoption2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/canada-ai-for-all-small-business-adoption.jpgCanada's AI for All is an excellent strategy with one gap: direct adoption dollars for small business. A leaner, CDAP-style fix and local AI pros.Ottawa Crafted a World-Class AI Strategy. Main Street Is Still Waiting. https://greyskytech.com/blog/why-i-replaced-google-search-with-microsoft-365-copilot2026-06-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/why-i-replaced-google-search-with-microsoft-365-copilot.pngA client texted me at 23:13, fed up that AI summaries have buried the real sources in Google. My answer: I switched to Microsoft 365 Copilot two years ago.Why I Replaced Google Search With Microsoft 365 Copilot https://greyskytech.com/blog/tales-from-the-crypt-it-overspend2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/tales-from-the-crypt-it-overspend.jpgEvery software subscription and cloud services review we run finds 10-30% in savings. Three true stories of zombie licences, vampire subscriptions, and shadow IT.Tales from the Crypt: Your Software Subscriptions Have Vampires and Zombies https://greyskytech.com/blog/queue-smart-er-patient-communication-platform2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/queue-smart-er-patient-communication-platform.pngHow we built Queue Smart, an ER patient communication platform that shows queue position, estimates wait times, and lets patients leave while keeping their spotQueue Smart: Giving ER Patients Their Time Back https://greyskytech.com/blog/why-microsoft-365-is-the-only-choice-for-canadian-small-businesses2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/why-microsoft-365-is-the-only-choice-for-canadian-small-businesses.jpgMicrosoft 365 costs less than Google Workspace, scales from solopreneur to enterprise, and includes tools most businesses never knew were included.Why Microsoft 365 Is the Only Choice for Canadian Small Businesses https://greyskytech.com/blog/microsoft-365-training-before-copilot2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/microsoft-365-training-before-copilot.jpgWhy we always run a Microsoft 365 for Business fundamentals workshop before discussing Copilot, and what happens when people finally understand the platform.The Microsoft 365 for Business Training Nobody Ever Got (And Why We Start There) https://greyskytech.com/blog/5-signs-your-business-is-ready-for-ai2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/5-signs-your-business-is-ready-for-ai.jpgNot sure if your business is ready for AI? Here are five clear indicators that it's time to explore what AI can do for your operations.5 Signs Your Business Is Ready for AI Adoption https://greyskytech.com/blog/rpa-vs-traditional-automation2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/rpa-vs-traditional-automation.jpgRobotic Process Automation and traditional automation solve different problems. Here's how to know which one your business actually needs.RPA vs. Traditional Automation: What Canadian Businesses Need to Know https://greyskytech.com/blog/building-ai-adoption-plan2026-06-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/blog/building-ai-adoption-plan.jpgMost AI initiatives fail because of people, not technology. Here's how to create an adoption plan that gets your team on board and keeps them there.How to Build an AI Adoption Plan That Your Team Will Actually Follow https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-192026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-19.avifOpenHack Victoria is a casual hack-and-code gathering held at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards. Introductions kick off at 6:15pm sharp, after which attendees work on anything they like: open-source, closed-source, side projects, or paid work. All experience levels and technologies are welcome, and participants are asked to bring their own laptop and follow the group's code of conduct. Food and drinks can be purchased from the restaurant but are not provided.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/vikelabs-cafe-x-startup-school-202026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cdm-summit-victoria-2026-222026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/housing-affordability-government-alignment-212026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-21.avifHosted by the BC Innovation Coalition, this working session gathered public-sector leaders to examine opportunities in housing delivery across BC. It was the second event in a three-part series: an October 2025 session captured the industry lens on cost drivers, this January session focused on the government lens, and a March 2026 solutions lab will connect validated barriers to solution providers. An earlier convening surfaced four themes: regulatory fragmentation across municipalities, permitting opacity with 12 to 18 month timelines, data silos, and design iteration waste, which industry estimates add 15 to 25% to project costs. Under Chatham House rules, two panels with federal, provincial, and municipal representation discussed building systems and innovation, and data, codes, and process. The session aimed to produce a validated list of priority barriers, identify pilot-ready municipalities, and build a cross-sector partnership network.Housing Affordability: Government Alignment https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/public-sector-buyers-expo-232026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-086-242026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-24.avifTenfold Victoria is a weekly co-working session and hangout that brings together Victoria founders, operators, technologists, and creators for what the group calls tenfold interactions. The evening runs on a simple agenda: updates and introductions from 6:00 to 6:30, chill co-working from 6:30 to 8:00, then demos, feedback, and wrap-up from 8:00 to 9:00. Tenfold is built for makers, with attendees encouraged to arrive ready to work, keep an open mind, and help each other out. The venue changes regularly to keep things fresh.Tenfold Victoria #086 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ruh-ai-overview-and-demo-webinar-252026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/hybrid-or-not-that-is-the-question-262026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-26.webpThis VIATEC CEO Breakfast Roundtable, hosted by Rob Bennett at Tectoria, tackled the question of whether remote work still makes sense or hybrid is the way forward. As employers like banks and government began bringing staff back to the office full time, many business leaders have been grappling with the right approach for their organizations. The session brought together two leaders with opposite strategies, one running a remote-only company and the other having recently required staff to return to the office, for a discussion on office mandates and how to make a strategy actually work for employees.Hybrid or Not - That Is The Question https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/becoming-a-frontier-practice-with-microsoft-365-and-copilot-272026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-27.pngHosted by CPB Canada at White Sport Restaurant in Langford, this session showed bookkeepers running solo or small teams how Microsoft 365 for Business with Copilot supports daily client communication and collaboration. The presentation covered how Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, and Copilot work together to help practitioners respond faster and keep sensitive data protected. Demonstrations included Microsoft Teams for keeping client conversations and files in one place with Copilot-generated summaries, OneDrive for secure document storage with version history and controlled sharing, and Copilot for turning meeting notes and emails into client-ready updates and documents. The fast session featured live demos with time for questions.Becoming a Frontier Practice with Microsoft 365 and Copilot https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-restart-282026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-28.webpThis VIATEC peer roundtable brings together senior technical leaders, including CTOs, architects, and experienced developers who shape technology strategy within their organizations. Over the coming year, the monthly meetings will explore a central theme: the role of software developers and engineering leadership when AI agents can generate the majority of the code. Discussions will examine what quality, correctness, reliability, and maintainability look like in that world, what oversight mechanisms and engineering principles must evolve, and how to architect large enterprise systems such as ERPs and CRMs when AI agents produce more errors as context windows expand. The group will also consider the new skills and artifacts, such as structured prompts and domain specifications, that engineering teams will need.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable Restart https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-292026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-winter-spring-social-302026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-30.avifData & Beer is a laid-back social evening hosted by the Victoria Data Society, a registered non-profit that builds community among data professionals and enthusiasts. There is no agenda and no presentations, just good conversation over a drink at the Bard & Banker, whether you are a seasoned pro or simply curious about the field. Attendees are encouraged to become VDS members to stay connected and support the local data community.Data & Beer - Winter >> Spring Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/vic-west-breakfast-club-312026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-31.jpgThe Vic West Breakfast Club is a monthly networking meetup for local business owners, entrepreneurs, and early risers, running since October 2023 with inspiration from the Sidney Breakfast Club. The gathering usually draws between 10 and 20 people, with no membership, cost, or formal structure. This month the group tries a new downtown Victoria location, having outgrown its previous space at LURE, and skips the formal speaker in favour of open community building and connection.Vic West Breakfast Club https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/7th-western-angel-investment-summit-in-victoria-332026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/green-drinks-victoria-february-edition-322026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-32.jpgGreen Drinks Victoria is a monthly informal gathering that brings together people from business, NGOs, and academia to discuss the environment and sustainability over a drink or two. Newcomers are greeted warmly and introduced to others, creating a friendly and agenda-free atmosphere. These free events rotate through various bars around the city, offering a relaxed space to reconnect with old friends or make new connections.Green Drinks Victoria - February Edition https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talks-the-modern-enterprise-342026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-34.avifThis Data Talks session hosted by the Victoria Data Society focuses on enterprise modernization with Fresche Solutions, a Canadian company known for keeping major financial institutions, government departments, and core health systems running through deep IBM mainframe expertise. The talk covers how Fresche now uses large language models and AI-assisted tooling to help organizations transition from legacy mainframes to modern, flexible architectures. It offers practical insight into how AI adoption actually happens inside critical infrastructure at enterprise scale. The evening opens with registration and pizza, followed by the presentation and networking; it is free for VDS members and $10 for non-members.Data Talks - The Modern Enterprise https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-february-352026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-tech-night-hackathon-362026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-tech-night-372026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cory-doctorow-is-coming-to-victoria-382026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cindicates-viatec-spring-social-pitch-and-mingle-392026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-39.webpCindicates and VIATEC teamed up for a joint Spring Social bringing together Victoria's tech community and announcing the finalists for the 2026 VIATEC Awards. The evening opened with an exclusive Cindicates program where investors, founders, and industry friends connected, heard the latest fund updates, and gave 90 second open mic pitches for startup ideas. VIATEC then revealed the 2026 VIATEC Awards finalists and upcoming opportunities, followed by extended networking over food and drinks at Fort Tectoria.Cindicates & VIATEC Spring Social: Pitch and Mingle https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/open-discussion-march-ceo-breakfast-roundtable-402026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-40.webpVIATEC's March CEO Roundtable took an open, discussion-driven format rather than locking into a single predefined topic, focusing on the most pressing issues facing attendees and their companies. Suggested themes included the impact of AI on hiring junior talent and developing the next generation of senior leaders, lessons from Web Summit and how to maximize ROI, and managing sales metrics with an eye to impact over activity. The conversation was shaped by whoever was in the room, with the final 15 to 20 minutes reserved to align on topics for the next roundtable.Open Discussion (March CEO Breakfast Roundtable) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/business-meetup-mingle-412026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-41.avifThe Business Meetup and Mingle brings entrepreneurs, professionals, and business enthusiasts together in Nanaimo to build connections, foster collaboration, and share experiences. There is no set agenda or topic: attendees chat, eat, drink, and network in a relaxed social mixer with light refreshments. The evening begins with each person taking 30 seconds to introduce themselves, what they are working on, and how they can help others. It is aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs, business owners, and anyone passionate about business, innovation, and connection.Business Meetup & Mingle https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-restart-422026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-42.webpThis VIATEC peer roundtable convenes senior technical leaders, CTOs, architects, and experienced developers around the central question of how engineers add value when AI can generate most of the code. The previous session explored achieving 10x productivity with AI, the hiring challenges AI creates, a non-technical carpenter who built a feature-complete ERP for his workplace, and structured Markdown-file-based workflow techniques. Attendees are asked to bring their recent AI workflow wins and struggles, techniques they have tried such as .md files and MCP, and honest views on where developers now create unique value. The format is peer-led with minimal structure: intros, shared stories of what is and is not working, and open discussion.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable Restart https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-432026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-winter-spring-social-442026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-44.avifData and Beer is a relaxed social hosted by the Victoria Data Society, a registered non-profit that builds community among data professionals and enthusiasts. There is no agenda and no presentations, just good company and conversation over a drink, alcoholic or not. It welcomes everyone from seasoned professionals to the merely curious, and attendees are encouraged to become VDS members to stay connected and support the local data community.Data & Beer - Winter >> Spring Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-092-452026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-45.avifTenfold Victoria is a weekly co-working and hangout that brings together local founders, operators, technologists, and creators for tenfold interactions. The agenda runs from updates and introductions into a chill co-working block, and closes with demos, feedback, and a wrap-up. Tenfold is explicitly for builders: attendees are asked to arrive ready to work, keep an open mind, be kind, and help out. This edition, number 092, was hosted at Frontier Co-Working Space.Tenfold Victoria #092 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/green-drinks-victoria-march-edition-462026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-46.jpgGreen Drinks Victoria is a monthly informal gathering that brings together people from business, NGOs, and academia to discuss the environment and sustainability over a drink or two. It is a welcoming, agenda-free space where newcomers are greeted warmly and introduced to others, fostering a friendly and lively evening. These free events are hosted at various bars around the city, this edition at Swans Pub.Green Drinks Victoria - March Edition https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cpps26-472026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/lunch-learn-with-sr-ed-ca-482026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talks-designing-for-humans-492026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-49.avifHosted by the Victoria Data Society, this Data Talks session features Samantha Magnus presenting Designing for Humans. The premise: AI is shortening development time, but faster delivery only helps if you build the right things, since shipping the wrong data products faster will not advance your career. Samantha walks through Data HX, a framework she has been developing that combines design thinking, human-centrism, and data product development, covering the dual starting line for development, how to brainstorm and iterate, principles of information architecture, and human-centred testing techniques. The evening opens with registration, networking, and pizza, and closes with more networking. It is free for VDS members, with a $10 cover for non-members.Data Talks - Designing for Humans https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-march-502026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/yyj-tech-virtual-mixer-512026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-51.avifThe YYJ Tech Virtual Mixer is an online, introvert-friendly networking session hosted by the Channel Stewards for the YYJ Tech community. It offers a chance to connect with fellow tech enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals without leaving the office. Attendees can expand their professional circle, find a mentor, or simply chat with like-minded folks about how to strengthen the local tech community, with the aim of turning virtual connections into real-life friendships and partnerships.YYJ Tech Virtual Mixer https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-2026-viatec-awards-522026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-52.webpThe VIATEC Awards bring Greater Victoria's tech community together to connect, celebrate, and spotlight the year's most notable tech companies and individuals within the region's $5.9 billion tech sector. Known for its elaborate and playful production, the 2026 edition runs under a Western Neon theme at Carson Hall in the Victoria Conference Centre. The evening opens with networking, seating, and a welcome from 5 to 6pm, followed by a creative challenge and dinner, the awards show at 7pm, and an after party from 9 to 11pm. VIATEC, Victoria's tech industry association, has produced the gala for more than 24 years.The 2026 VIATEC Awards https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/uvic-rainhouse-engineering-design-showcase-532026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-53.webpThis showcase highlights the work of student engineering teams from UVic and Camosun College, including Capstone projects and STEAM design teams. Presented by UVic in partnership with Rainhouse Engineering, the day of innovation and creativity gives visitors a firsthand look at how students are shaping the future of engineering and technology. It runs at the Pearkes Rec Centre.UVic + Rainhouse Engineering Design Showcase https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-hand-project-spring-open-house-542026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-54.pngThe Victoria Hand Project hosts a spring open house offering an inside look at its work creating prosthetic hands with global impact. Visitors can meet the passionate team, hear the stories behind the people the organization helps, and see the arms in action. The event runs at UVic's Engineering Lab Wing, Room A144, and is a chance to experience the work up close and learn how everyone can make a difference.Victoria Hand Project Spring Open House https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-restart-552026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-55.webpThis VIATEC peer roundtable gathers senior technical leaders to examine how AI is reshaping software development and leadership. The premise: as organizations adopt AI, roles across the product development lifecycle are consolidating, with the boundaries between product managers, developers, and operations teams dissolving into end-to-end product development. Engineers are shifting from hands-on coders to high-level system architects who orchestrate automated agents, a change that enables speed but raises risks around security, technical debt, and the maintainability of generated code. The peer-led session is driven by attendees, with suggested topics including changes in the AI landscape, adapting organizations to rapid change, managing the risks of AI-generated code and content, and data security and privacy protection.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable Restart https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-winter-spring-social-562026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-56.avifData & Beer is a laid-back social evening hosted by the Victoria Data Society for data enthusiasts, whether seasoned professionals or the merely curious. There is no agenda and no presentations, just good company and conversation over a drink of choice, alcoholic or not. This edition is held at Peacock Billiards. VDS is a registered non-profit building community among data professionals in Victoria, and attendees are encouraged to sign up as members.Data & Beer - Winter >> Spring Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/kidovate-market-day-572026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-finance-prof-s-toolkit-pivot-tables-xlookup-index-match-582026-07-18monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-58.pngHosted by CPB Canada, this technical session sees Kevin Loo demonstrate how finance professionals can turn disparate data into actionable financial intelligence through advanced spreadsheet skills. It covers Pivot Table mastery for deep-dive analysis, slicing and visualizing large volumes of data to surface trends, outliers, and key business drivers, alongside advanced lookup logic comparing XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH and when to use each so formulas stay robust as data structures evolve. The session is aimed at finance professionals who need high precision while managing high-volume data, and it carries one CPD point. Loo is a seasoned finance professional with deep expertise in both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. It runs in person at the White Spot in Langford.The Finance Prof.'s Toolkit: Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP & INDEX/MATCH https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-592026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-59.avifOpenHack Victoria is a weekly gathering where people meet on Tuesday nights at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards to hang out and write code. Introductions happen at 6:15pm sharp, and attendees bring their own laptops to work on anything they like, whether open-source, closed-source, side projects, or work. All experience levels and technologies are welcome. Food and drinks can be bought from the restaurant but are not provided, and the group follows a code of conduct. Jared Norman is the current organizer, and the event is sponsored by Super Good.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/privacy-made-simple-a-practical-guide-for-smes-to-meet-canadian-regulations-602026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-60.webpThis one-hour session gives Canadian small and medium enterprises practical guidance on navigating privacy law, including current requirements, upcoming legislative changes, and the complexities of cross-border data flows. Attendees gain clarity on which privacy statutes apply to them, the distinction between privacy and security, and a realistic view of breach risks and the hidden costs of a data incident. The session also covers the benefits of compliance, a step-by-step compliance checklist to implement immediately, and cross-border considerations. It is led by Marilyn Sing, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/CA) at iPP Consulting, a firm focused on helping SMEs meet Canadian privacy obligations.Privacy Made Simple: A Practical Guide for SMEs to Meet Canadian Regulations https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-097-x-cursor-meetup-612026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-61.avifThis edition of Tenfold Victoria doubles as a Cursor Meetup, a gathering for founders, operators, technologists, creators, and builders in Victoria, BC. It welcomes anyone who wants to learn how to build software, from beginners to intermediate users to Cursor power users, and encourages attendees to demo their work and share how they are using coding agents. The evening runs from updates and introductions into a networking and build session, then closes with demos, feedback, and a wrap-up. Attendees are asked to arrive ready to work, keep an open mind, and be kind. Food and drinks are provided.Tenfold Victoria - #097 x Cursor Meetup https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talks-business-lives-in-conversation-modern-objection-handling-methods-622026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-62.avifPart of the Victoria Data Society's Data Talks series, this session features veteran sales professional and business coaching strategist Bill Bunting delivering a 45-minute talk, Business Lives in Conversation: Modern Objection-Handling Methods. Drawing on more than 30 years in front-line sales, recruiting, and coaching, Bunting shows how to turn objections into insight and momentum rather than roadblocks. Attendees learn why objections signal engagement rather than rejection, simple frameworks for responding under pressure, and how to uncover the real issue behind a first objection. The evening opens with registration, networking, and pizza before the talk and closing networking. It is free for VDS members, with a $10 cover for non-members.Data Talks - Business Lives in Conversation: Modern Objection-Handling Methods https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-632026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-642026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-64.avifOpenHack Victoria is a weekly gathering where people meet on Tuesday nights at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards to hang out and write code. Introductions happen at 6:15pm sharp, and attendees bring their own laptops to work on anything they choose, from open-source and closed-source projects to side projects, work, or play. All experience levels and technologies are welcome. Food and drinks can be bought from the restaurant but are not provided, and the group follows a code of conduct. Jared Norman is the current organizer, and the event is sponsored by Super Good.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ais-impact-on-attracting-and-retaining-talent-652026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-65.webpPresented by the Tech and People Network and PeopleOps Victoria, with VIATEC hosting and Redbrick providing snacks, this session tackles how AI is reshaping the way organizations hire, manage, and support their people. Rather than a panel or a sales pitch, it is an honest, facilitated roundtable discussion for peers navigating these changes in real time. The conversation explores where AI is genuinely helping or hurting attraction, engagement, and retention, how talent and people-and-culture leaders balance efficiency with trust and fairness, and what to watch as AI-related recruiting and privacy legislation evolves. The format is an informal roundtable with a few prompts and open discussion, designed for people leaders, talent professionals, HR partners, and tech operators applying these tools operationally.AI's Impact on Attracting and Retaining Talent https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/exploring-how-ai-affects-team-structure-may-ceo-breakfast-roundtable-662026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-66.webpThis VIATEC CEO Breakfast Roundtable gathers chief executives to examine how AI is quietly reshaping the way organizations are built, from hiring decisions and team structure to productivity expectations and the pipeline of future leaders. The session questions the assumptions behind today's AI playbook: that model pricing will stay low, that capabilities will keep improving, and that eliminating junior roles carries no downstream cost. It asks what happens to the organizations being designed now if the economics shift or the technology plateaus. Participants weigh the strategic, ethical, and operational tradeoffs, including how to develop the next decade's senior leaders if AI replaces junior roles, whether current subscription pricing is sustainable, and what automating people away signals to remaining staff and customers.Exploring How AI Affects Team Structure (May CEO Breakfast Roundtable) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-099-672026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-67.avifTenfold Victoria is a weekly co-working session and hangout that brings together the city's founders, operators, technologists, and creators for what the group calls tenfold interactions. The evening opens with updates and introductions, moves into a chill co-working block, and closes with demos, feedback, and a wrap-up. Tenfold is built for people actively making things, and attendees are asked to arrive ready to work, keep an open mind, be kind, and help each other out.Tenfold Victoria #099 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/pacifican-bsp-information-session-victoria-682026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-and-karaoke-692026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-69.avifData, Beer and Karaoke is a casual social evening hosted by the Victoria Data Society for data enthusiasts of every experience level, from seasoned pros to the simply curious. There is no agenda, no presentations, and no expectations, just good company and conversation over a drink of your choice. A karaoke room is available between 6 and 8pm for anyone who wants to sing.Data, Beer and Karaoke! https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/web-summit-vancouver-702026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-70.jpgWeb Summit Vancouver is a large-scale technology conference that gathers the people and companies shaping the next chapter of global innovation. It connects more than 35,000 founders, investors, and innovators focused on the future of tech. Politico has described Web Summit as the world's premier tech conference.Web Summit Vancouver https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/round-table-discussion-bring-your-questions-712026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-71.pngHosted by CPB Canada, this informal evening roundtable invites bookkeepers to discuss any and all things bookkeeping. Attendees are encouraged to bring their appetite and their questions for an open, casual conversation.Round Table Discussion - Bring your Questions! https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-100-722026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-72.avifTenfold Victoria #100, themed The City We're Building, marks the 100th weekly gathering of a community that brings together the city's founders, engineers, designers, operators, investors, researchers, students, and newcomers. What began as a small meetup has grown into one of Victoria's most consistent homes for people building in public, now more than 550 people strong. This milestone night is bigger than usual, featuring founder and ecosystem updates, new faces from across Victoria tech, and demos and spontaneous conversations. The evening is supported by local startups Elastic Energy and Trelent.Tenfold Victoria #100 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-732026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-742026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-74.avifOpenHack Victoria is a weekly Tuesday evening gathering at James Joyce Bistro, inside Peacock Billiards on Douglas Street, where people come together to hang out and write code. Introductions happen at 6:15pm sharp, after which attendees work on anything they like, from open-source and side-projects to work and play. All experience levels and technologies are welcome, and food and drinks can be purchased from the restaurant. The group is organized by Jared Norman and sponsored by Super Good.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talks-data-talks-data-for-impact-752026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-75.avifThis Victoria Data Society Data Talks session, Data for Impact, examines how organizations can prove the difference they make. Speakers Bryn Sadownik, Senior Manager of Research and Evaluation at Vancity Community Foundation, and Md Islam, an IMM researcher and impact consultant, explore Impact Measurement and Management as it shifts from a niche practice to a boardroom priority driven by investor scrutiny and funder expectations. Drawing on field-tested frameworks and consulting experience, they share practical guidance on building IMM systems that work, from Theory of Change to actionable data pipelines.Data Talks - Data Talks - Data for Impact! https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/pmi-vis-annual-professional-development-conference-2026-762026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-76.jpgPMI-VI's Annual Professional Development Conference 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the Vancouver Island chapter of the Project Management Institute. Held at the Coast Victoria Hotel and Marina, the conference reflects on the chapter's rich history with commemorative touches to mark the milestone.PMI-VI's Annual Professional Development Conference 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-772026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-77.webpThe Software Leadership Peer Roundtable brings together senior technical leaders, including CTOs, architects, and experienced developers, to navigate shared challenges as peers. The central theme running through the monthly meetings is the role of software developers and engineering leadership when AI agents can generate the majority of the code. Discussions explore how to ensure quality, correctness, reliability, and maintainability in a world where teams rarely write or read code, how oversight and engineering principles must evolve, and which long-held software engineering principles to abandon or keep. The group examines these questions from technical, organizational, ethical, and operational perspectives.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/disrupthr-victoria-782026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-give-ai-safe-access-to-your-production-database-792026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-79.jpgThis VIATEC AI Meetup Technology Track session featured John Oram, co-founder and CTO of VeilStream, presenting on giving AI safe access to production databases. Production databases hold sensitive data that cannot be handed directly to a large language model, so the talk proposed an intermediary masking layer that sits between the LLM and the database and configures access control dynamically at query time. The model requests a specific subset of data and provides a reason for needing it, and that request is then evaluated, filtered, and fulfilled so the model receives what it needs without exposing what it should not see. Oram brings over 15 years of experience building secure backend systems, and his work at VeilStream centres on data sanitization for developer environments.VIATEC AI Meetup: Technology Track - Give AI Safe Access to Your Production Database https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/green-drinks-victoria-end-of-season-on-the-patio-craft-802026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/microsoft-build-2026-812026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-822026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-82.avifOpenHack Victoria is a weekly gathering where people meet every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro, the restaurant inside Peacock Billiards on Douglas Street, to hang out and write code. Introductions happen at 6:15pm sharp, and attendees bring their own laptops to work on whatever they like, from open-source and closed-source projects to side projects, work, or play. All experience levels and technologies are welcome, and food and drinks can be purchased from the restaurant. The group is organized by Jared Norman and sponsored by Super Good.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/github-copilot-dev-days-victoria-1-832026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-83.avifGitHub Copilot Dev Days Victoria was the first GitHub Copilot Dev Days Canada event in the city, bringing together builders, maintainers, and developers for an afternoon focused on modern GitHub-powered workflows, open tooling, and hands-on learning. The event was GitHub-centric but fully tool-agnostic, welcoming users of VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Claude Code, or any other stack. The agenda featured lightning talks, live demos from local engineers, and a community social, with speakers including Ve Sharma, a Microsoft Solution Engineer presenting on the agentic SDLC, and Jeremy Moseley, a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, on how five engineers ship 200 pull requests a week. Food and drinks were provided by Microsoft and GitHub, with the space hosted by PwC.GitHub Copilot Dev Days - Victoria #1 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/payroll-without-borders-remote-hybrid-multi-province-employer-842026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-84.pngThis CPB Canada regional session explored payroll for remote, hybrid, and multi-province employers, a growing area of complexity as businesses increasingly hire across provincial lines. The talk covered the payroll implications of employees working in different provinces, how bookkeepers can help employers stay compliant and accurate without straying into HR or legal advice, and how to market payroll expertise to attract clients from anywhere in Canada. It was presented by Bianca Mueller, an award-winning Certified Professional Bookkeeper and Payroll Compliance Professional with 17 years of experience and Community Manager at Wagepoint, and closed with a Wagepoint demo.Payroll Without Borders: Remote, Hybrid & Multi-Province Employer https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-852026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-day-azure-cloud-data-platforms-862026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/apres-data-data-social-872026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-87.avifApres Data was a relaxed social hosted by the Victoria Data Society to wind down after Data Day. Held on the rooftop at the Canadian Brewhouse in Uptown, it invited attendees to grab a drink, soak up the evening sun, and connect with Victoria's data community in an informal setting. The event was free to attend and open to everyone, with no Data Day ticket required.Aprés Data Data Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/learn-to-work-with-an-ai-agent-claude-cowork-workshop-882026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-88.avifThis full-day, hands-on workshop hosted by Antfluent taught knowledge workers how to work alongside an AI agent using Claude Cowork. The premise is that where using a computer once meant learning its language of menus, buttons, and shortcuts, Cowork inverts that by having the computer learn your language, read your files, connect to your tools, and take actions on your behalf. The day covered the fundamentals of working with Claude, including tokens, context, system prompts, prompt engineering, and managing cost, before moving from chat to agents and the Cowork mental model of an AI agent running on your own machine with access to your files, calendar, and email. Guided sessions walked through the building blocks of automation: connectors, skills, plugins, and scheduled tasks. Participants left with Cowork connected to their real tools, a custom workflow they built and tested, and an automated task scheduled to run. It was led by Gabriel Velazquez Lopez and Anu Jolliffe.Learn to Work with an AI Agent - Claude Cowork Workshop https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/lunch-learn-ai-101-892026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-social-902026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-90.avifData Social is a casual, agenda-free gathering hosted by the Victoria Data Society for data enthusiasts, whether seasoned professionals or the simply curious. There are no presentations and no expectations, just good company and conversation over a drink of your choice, alcoholic or not. Held at Glitch, it is a laid-back evening to trade insights, find inspiration, or simply unwind with people who share a love of data.Data Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-912026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-91.webpThis VIATEC peer roundtable gathers senior technical leaders, including CTOs, architects, and experienced developers who guide teams and shape technology strategy within their organizations. The monthly series explores a central question redefining the field: what is the role of software developers and engineering leadership when AI agents can generate the majority of the code? Discussion spans how to ensure quality, correctness, reliability, and maintainability in a world where teams rarely write or even read code, how oversight and engineering principles must evolve, and which long-held practices to abandon or keep. The group examines these questions from technical, organizational, ethical, and operational angles.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talk-beyond-the-lie-factor-922026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-92.avifPresented by Jacob Lower at a Victoria Data Society Data Talk, Beyond the Lie Factor examines how misleading data visualizations distort the reality of the underlying data. Whether accidental or intentional, choices like truncated axes, improper area encoding, and dual-axis layouts can completely warp an audience's conclusions. The session digs into the science and psychology behind these distortions, building from Tufte's foundational Lie Factor through recent empirical findings from the CHI and IEEE VIS research communities. Attendees leave with practical, research-backed guidance for building charts that accurately inform rather than mislead. The evening runs at Redbrick with pizza, refreshments, and networking.Data Talk: Beyond the Lie Factor https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-the-evolution-of-prompting-prompt-like-its-2019-932026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/vital-data-a-half-day-symposium-on-data-ai-in-healthcare-942026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/health-tech-night-x-victoria-data-society-social-952026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-107-show-your-work-962026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-96.avifTenfold Victoria #107 is another Tuesday-night gathering of the city's builders: founders, engineers, designers, operators, and creators working on companies, projects, prototypes, and skills. Framed around the theme Show Your Work, it is aimed at people who arrive with momentum and something they are actively building, rather than those just looking to see what is out there. The evening runs from updates and introductions into a co-working and build session, then closes with demos, feedback, and a wrap-up. Tenfold is part of the Build Canada network, a growing national community of builders.Tenfold Victoria #107: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/yyjtech-breakfast-club-972026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-92026-07-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-9.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on anything they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-102026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-10.jpgThis VIATEC AI Meetup session covered practical, real-world uses of AI in video production and editing, led by Anthony Bortolussi, Managing Director of Vancouver video agency Create Video. Topics included AI for scripting, concept development, voice generation, editing support, and captions and translation, alongside AI-assisted camera tools, drone footage, and robotic gimbals, with live demos throughout. Doors opened at 11:30 with presentations from noon at Fort Tectoria, aimed at business owners, marketers, and creatives.VIATEC AI Meetup: Business Track https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-spring-summer-social-122026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-12.avifThe Victoria Data Society hosts a laid-back social for data enthusiasts, from seasoned professionals to the data-curious. There is no agenda, no presentations, and no expectations. Attendees grab a drink, alcoholic or not, and settle in for good company and conversation with people who share a love of data.Data & Beer - Spring >> Summer Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-summer-social-at-the-harbourcats-112026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-11.webpVIATEC takes over the Canadian Club House at Royal Athletic Park for a tech-community evening at a Victoria HarbourCats baseball game against the Bend Elks. The ticket includes a private covered section reserved for VIATEC with a field view, a private bar, a FanFood app drink promo code for drinks delivered to seats, complimentary snacks while supplies last, and a prize raffle. VIATEC bills it as its easiest networking event of the year.VIATEC Summer Social at the HarbourCats https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-doctor-is-in-july-ceo-peer-roundtable-132026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-13.webpA confidential, in-person CEO peer roundtable hosted by VIATEC in Victoria, BC. Leaders bring a real problem, a decision they are avoiding or a bet they are unsure about, for other leaders' perspectives, and the problem need not be technical or from the software industry. The session is kept confidential with no recordings and no notetakers, so participants come with something real and leave with a new angle or a practical next step.The Doctor is IN (July CEO Peer Roundtable) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/design-your-business-the-sequel-12026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-1.avifA hands-on design jam for entrepreneurs, side-hustlers, and changemakers. Bring a business idea, a challenge, or just a hunch worth exploring, and use creative collaboration and Design Thinking tools to sketch possibilities, get feedback, and leave with concrete next steps. No polished plan or perfect pitch needed, and new attendees are welcome even though this one is a sequel.Design Your Business (the sequel) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-109-more-useful-every-week-152026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-15.webpA weekly co-working and build night from Tenfold Victoria for founders, operators, technologists, and creators. Tenfold is for builders: you do not need it all figured out, but you should be building something, whether a company, project, prototype, skill, or research direction. The evening runs updates and intros at 6pm, co-working and build time from 6:30, and demos, feedback, and wrap-up from 8. Tenfold Victoria is part of the national Build Canada network.Tenfold Victoria #109: More Useful Every Week https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-142026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-14.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ai-salon-community-human-connectivity-162026-07-23monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-16.webpAn informal AI salon at theDock exploring how we can intentionally design and use AI to deepen human connection rather than deepen isolation. It gathers people from across social technology, community building, psychology, human-computer interaction, and AI research for a 90-minute Chatham House round-table: a short provocation, open discussion, and shared next actions. A $10 donation toward the space is suggested, and tea and light snacks are provided.ai salon: Community & Human Connectivity https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/americas-exchange-power-skills-1012026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-101.pngWe are excited to share that PMI Vancouver Island Chapter is participating in Americas Exchange, a unique collaboration bringing together PMI chapters from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. What began as a simple idea from volunteers at PMI São Paulo has grown into an international initiative focused on knowledge sharing, networking, and strengthening connections across the global PMI community. We are proud to have Jason Bunston representing our chapter and helping build this partnership.Americas Exchange: Power Skills https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/pmi-vi-networking-july-22026-07-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-2.jpgPMI Vancouver Island is ramping up. Join the local project management community for an evening of networking and connection with like-minded folks. Admission includes appetizers.PMI-VI: Networking - July https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-1002026-07-21monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-100.webpThis VIATEC peer roundtable gathers senior technical leaders, including CTOs, architects, and experienced developers who guide teams and shape technology strategy. The monthly series explores a question redefining the field: what is the role of software developers and engineering leadership when AI agents can generate the majority of the code? The July session digs into ensuring quality and reliability when teams rarely write or read code, how oversight must evolve, and which long-held practices to keep or abandon.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-172026-07-22monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-17.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-110-the-next-order-1092026-07-22monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-109.avifA weekly co-working and build night from Tenfold Victoria for founders, operators, technologists, and creators. Tenfold is for people actively building something, whether a company, project, prototype, skill, or research direction, and it asks you to arrive with momentum rather than to browse. The evening runs updates and intros at 6:00, co-working and build time from 6:30, and demos, feedback, and wrap-up from 8:00. It is free and in-person in Victoria, with the address shared on registration and RSVPs subject to host approval. Tenfold Victoria is part of the national Build Canada network.Tenfold Victoria #110: The Next Order https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ask-me-anything-presidents-office-hours-1052026-07-22monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-105.jpgChapter President Sarah Wilson is setting aside an hour on Zoom for open office hours. No agenda and no slides, just a conversation. Bring whatever you have been sitting on: how the chapter works, getting more involved as a volunteer, your PMP journey, a project challenge, or career questions. Open to members and non-members alike, free for everyone, and worth 1 PDU under Power Skills.Ask Me Anything: President's Office Hours https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-cowichan-valley-1102026-07-23monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-110.avifOpenHack Cowichan Valley is a casual tech meetup in Duncan, held on the top floor of Craig Street Brew Pub. The evening is built around catching up and trading ideas, with conversations ranging across software, AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and hardware, plus light refreshments and good company. Local developers, IT professionals, entrepreneurs, makers, and students are all welcome, whether they have been to every meetup or this is their first. The format is relaxed: bring a laptop, bring a notebook, or just show up and share whatever you have been working on lately. OpenHack Cowichan Valley is part of the wider OpenHack Victoria community, runs on a published code of conduct, and is free to attend with an RSVP.OpenHack Cowichan Valley https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-quantum-computing-and-ai-32026-07-24monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-3.jpgAn accessible introduction to quantum computing and its relationship to AI, with Yuyang Liu (experimental quantum optics and quantum information, UVic) and Steve Harris (AI4Enterprise). Covers core quantum concepts, current hardware platforms, and a practitioner's take on where quantum approaches may fit machine-learning workflows and where the overheads show up. Doors at 11:30 a.m., presentations start at noon. Coffee and tea served; everyone is welcome.VIATEC AI Meetup: Technology Track - Quantum Computing and AI https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-campfire-practical-skills-from-real-devs-1022026-07-24monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-102.jpgThis session's Campfire talks: "The Value of the Tech Community" with Nick Hepner, Technical Executive. In the inaugural talk, Nick will discuss the value of engaging the technical community, how to leverage that into intrinsic reward and career development, and how to build that community for more impact. "How to Build Judgement" with Glen Pierce, Senior Development. Just because you know the tech doesn't mean you make good choices. Glen will discuss the difference between knowledge and judgement and how to make the most of your experience, at a novice or advanced level. Tenfold Campfire is a twice-monthly lecture series hosted at the University of Victoria. Each session features two one-hour lectures (45 minutes plus 15 minutes of questions) on a topic drawn from the speaker's real working experience: systems they've built, problems they've solved, lessons that took a career to learn. Come learn practical skills from real engineers solving real problems.Tenfold Campfire: Practical Skills From Real Devs https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-victoria-1292026-07-27monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-129.jpgTouch Grass Victoria is a standing invitation for the local tech community to close the laptop and spend a morning outside together. This outing follows a 6.6 km route through John Dean Provincial Park, climbing the forested slopes of Mount Newton past old-growth stands and viewpoints over the Saanich Peninsula. Everyone sets off together at a relaxed, conversational pace that suits anyone comfortable with a couple of hours on a moderate trail. It is a low-key way to meet other developers, founders, designers, and operators without a screen or a meeting agenda in sight. Bring water, sturdy shoes, and a layer for the shade under the trees. Meet at the trail entrance near 8505 Alec Rd., by the West entrance. Refer to [the map](https://maps.app.goo.gl/xCgqsUFXmuWM9bTy5) to find it.Touch Grass Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-111-show-your-work-1332026-07-29monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-133.avifTenfold is for builders, founders, operators, designers, researchers, artists, hackers and anyone seriously working on something of their own. Show Your Work is Tenfold's monthly demo night. An RSVP is required to be sent the demo sign-up form, and up to 10 demos are selected to be featured throughout the evening. Each presenter gets 10 minutes total, including demo and discussion. Presenters screen share on the main display via Google Meet while walking the room through what they are building, what problem they are solving and where they would like feedback. Think of it as somewhere between a lightning talk, a product demo, and group office hours. You do not need to have it all figured out. Early is fine. Half-built is fine. Bring what you are working on. Share notes. Ask for feedback. Help someone else move faster. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Demos • 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.: Debrief + Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #111: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1112026-07-29monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-111.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-talk-leveling-up-video-game-analytics-1082026-07-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-108.avifThe Victoria Data Society's Data Talks series turns to video games, an industry that has measured player behaviour at scale for years. Alex Oswald contrasts how the AAA giants run analytics with how indie studios manage on a fraction of the budget, covering player retention, game health, A/B testing, causal analysis, and machine learning. His background spans data roles at Electronic Arts, TinyMob Games, Kixeye, and Kano Apps, and he now runs Savepoint Analytics, a consultancy for indie developers. Pizza and networking from 5:00, the talk at 5:30, networking again from 6:30. Free for Victoria Data Society members, $10 at the door for everyone else.Data Talk - Leveling Up Video Game Analytics https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-women-in-tech-meetup-1252026-07-31monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-125.jpgToast's Women in Tech Meetup is built as the opposite of the usual tech networking event: a chance for women and non-binary folks in tech to connect with people who meet them where they are. Expect an afternoon of live music, food trucks, and good company by the waterfront, with room to catch up on life, chat about work, and build a meaningful network of women in tech. Attendees cover their own food and drink bills from the venue's menu. Before attending, guests are asked to complete Toast's anonymous Gender Equity Survey, which captures real lived experiences in tech and helps shape Toast's programs, research, and advocacy. Toast itself is a collective for women in tech by women in tech, working with companies committed to gender diversity to help women get the jobs they want and the pay they deserve, with a community behind them.Victoria Women in Tech Meetup https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/business-meetup-mingle-nanaimo-1222026-08-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-122.avifA casual evening mixer for Nanaimo's entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals. There is no agenda and no set topics: everyone takes about 30 seconds to introduce themselves and what they are working on, then the room opens up to conversation over food and drinks at Simonholt Restaurant. It suits anyone building local connections, from aspiring founders to established owners. The group asks attendees to order something from the menu to support the venue that hosts them.Business Meetup & Mingle (Nanaimo) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1122026-08-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-112.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-112-open-workshop-1342026-08-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-134.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #112: Open Workshop https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/monthly-ux-social-1692026-08-07monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-169.jpgAn informal after-work social for Victoria's UX and design community, held on the first Wednesday of the month at the Bard & Banker on Government Street. It is billed as a chance to talk shop with the local UX folk and find out who and what is new around town. The series dates back to 2017 and is carried on the YYJ Tech community calendar; the UX Victoria Meetup group that used to list it has posted nothing since 2022, so word of mouth does most of the work.Monthly UX Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/mount-doug-hike-series-1612026-08-08monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-161.avifA Friday-morning hike up Mount Douglas Park for women business owners who want to talk shop and get their steps in at the same time. This is the first of three walks in the August series. Founder Friday Walks was started by Kaila Pilecki and Nicole Crone of My Aligned Purpose, a Victoria coaching practice for women entrepreneurs, so that women running their own businesses have somewhere to have real conversations about business, money and growth. Meet in the parking lot at the corner of Cedar Hill Road and Churchill Drive. Friendly dogs and babies are welcome; the organisers ask that toddlers and older children stay home unless you plan to carry them, since the idea is to get everyone's heart rate up on the climb.Mount Doug Hike Series https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/shipaton-victoria-edition-1262026-08-09monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-126.avifAn in-person kickoff for Shipaton, RevenueCat's global hackathon where builders ship a brand-new mobile app to the app stores across August and September. This Victoria edition is one of the official local meetups, built around meeting other Island developers: brainstorming app ideas, finding potential teammates, sharing works in progress for feedback, and hearing what Shipaton is and how to enter. It is pitched wide, with indie engineers, designers, growth people, students, first-timers, and anyone poking at the latest app-building tools all welcome, and you do not need a finished idea, a team, or any prior experience to turn up. Food and refreshments are provided.Shipaton: Victoria Edition https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/model-mondays-spotlight-on-microsoft-ai-models-1572026-08-11monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-157.avifModel Mondays is Microsoft Reactor's livestream series on model choice, and this edition puts the spotlight on the MAI family: the seven models Microsoft announced in-house at Build in June, spanning image, voice, transcription, coding and reasoning. The Microsoft AI models team joins to cover what is new in the family, how it works under the hood, and how to use the models when building agents. Questions are taken live, and the conversation carries on afterwards in the Azure AI Foundry Discord.Model Mondays - Spotlight on Microsoft AI Models https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/own-a-machine-not-a-job-1672026-08-11monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-167.pngThis is the August edition of CPB Canada's Victoria Regional Network Meeting, which runs in person every month. Jeffrey Denissen of Profit Guard Consulting presents the 16 core drivers he argues determine revenue, profit and cash flow in every business, and what separates a company that runs as a machine from one that runs on its owner. His case is that most owners track the wrong numbers, and that financial strain shows up in those drivers long before it reaches a year-end statement. It is aimed at bookkeepers and accountants who want to recognise which figures actually matter, raise the level of their client conversations, and know when a business needs CFO-level support alongside the books rather than instead of them. The session carries one CPD point.Own a Machine, Not a Job https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/geeky-girls-patio-party-2026-1242026-08-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-124.jpgIsland Women in Science and Technology (iWIST) marks its 15th year with its annual summer social on the patio at Bill Mattick's Restaurant, at Cordova Bay Golf Course. The evening celebrates the season and the year ahead, and it is where iWIST announces three scholarships for women in STEM, funded alongside Redbrick and Shift Technologies. Tickets include appetizers, two drinks, and prize draws, with a waitlist by email at events@iwist.ca if the night sells out. iWIST has connected women and allies across Vancouver Island's science and technology community since 2011.Geeky Girls Patio Party 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1132026-08-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-113.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-113-bring-the-problem-1352026-08-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-135.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #113: Bring The Problem https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-cowichan-valley-1192026-08-13monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-119.avifSummer isn't over yet, but it's a great time to reconnect. Join us on August 12th for another OpenHack Cowichan Valley meetup. Whether you've been shipping code, tinkering with a homelab, experimenting with AI, building a side project, or simply enjoying the Cowichan Valley sunshine, come spend an evening with fellow tech enthusiasts. What to expect: 💻 Share what you've been building, learning, or exploring 💡 Swap ideas, solve problems, and discover new tools and technologies 🤝 Meet local developers, IT professionals, makers, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone with a passion for technology ☕ Light refreshments and casual conversation With September just around the corner, it's also a great opportunity to reconnect with the community before conferences, projects, and busy fall schedules ramp up again. Whether this is your first OpenHack or you've been coming for years, we'd love to see you. Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. #OpenHack #CowichanValley #TechCommunity #SoftwareDevelopment #CyberSecurity #AI #Networking We meet at 6:00 pm at Craig Street Pub in Duncan on the top floor. Bring a laptop, bring a notebook, we don't care, just come hang out!OpenHack Cowichan Valley https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-business-track-1202026-08-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-120.jpgA lunchtime VIATEC Business Track session on what AI actually means inside schools. Speaker Peter Scott, a Vancouver Island AI-and-education speaker who teaches AI courses at UVic and SFU and is billed as founder of the Centre for AI in Canadian Learning, walks through the top issues in secondary education: homework, the risks and benefits of AI for learning and retention, and where it leaves career paths for students. Aimed at parents, educators, and employers trying to make sense of it. Hosted by VIATEC's Robert Cooper at Fort Tectoria. Free to attend.VIATEC AI Meetup: Business Track https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-spring-summer-social-42026-08-14monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-4.avifA laid-back social for data enthusiasts, whether you are a seasoned pro or just data-curious. No agenda and no presentations: grab a drink, alcoholic or not, and settle in for good company and great conversation with folks who get your love of data.Data & Beer - Spring >> Summer Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/building-leadership-teams-august-ceo-peer-roundtable-1562026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-156.webpLast session we opened the floor, and almost every rascally problem in the room was a people problem. So this time, let's go one level up and talk about talent on the leadership team itself. Making changes at that level can be the hardest thing a leader has to do. The person on your mind may be someone you have worked with for years and grown to know quite well. We will open with a quick check-in. If the room weighed in on your problem last time, we would love to hear how it went. Maybe the advice worked, maybe it flopped, maybe you quietly ignored all of us. Every version is welcome, and so is just listening. Then bring the leadership problem you would value another perspective on. It might be a leader you are no longer sure about, a loyal one the company has outgrown, a seat you cannot fill at the level you need, or a change you keep putting off. It might also be the bigger question of whether you have the strongest team you could have, or just the one you have gotten used to. As always, it does not need to be polished, resolved, or from the software industry. It does not even need to be a problem at all. If you have navigated a change like this before, tell us how you got through it, what worked, and what you wish you had done differently. We will be talking about real people, so the usual rules carry extra weight. This is an in-person and confidential conversation. No recordings, no notetakers, no broadcasting. What is shared in the room stays in the room. The aim is for you to leave with a sharper read, a borrowed playbook, or the nudge to finally make the call. For more information on joining VIATEC Peer Roundtables, please contact Rob Bennett by e-mail at [rbennett@viatec.ca](mailto:rbennett@viatec.ca) describing how you meet the eligibility criteria for this roundtable.Building Leadership Teams (August CEO Peer Roundtable) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/yyj-tech-breakfast-club-1592026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-159.jpgA very casual monthly breakfast for Victoria's tech community, held on the first Friday of the month at Frankie's Modern Diner. No agenda, no speakers, no tickets: just a table of local tech people talking about everything in Victoria tech you can think of. There is no event page and no registration. Show up, or let people know you are coming in the #breakfastclub channel on the [YYJ Tech Slack](https://yyjtech.ca).YYJ Tech Breakfast Club https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/mount-doug-hike-series-1622026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-162.avifA Friday-morning hike up Mount Douglas Park for women business owners who want to talk shop and get their steps in at the same time. This is the second of three walks in the August series. Founder Friday Walks was started by Kaila Pilecki and Nicole Crone of My Aligned Purpose, a Victoria coaching practice for women entrepreneurs, so that women running their own businesses have somewhere to have real conversations about business, money and growth. Meet in the parking lot at the corner of Cedar Hill Road and Churchill Drive. Friendly dogs and babies are welcome; the organisers ask that toddlers and older children stay home unless you plan to carry them, since the idea is to get everyone's heart rate up on the climb.Mount Doug Hike Series https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/camosun-computer-science-capstone-symposium-1072026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-107.pngGraduating students from Camosun's Interactive Media Developer and Information and Computer Systems programs demo the capstone projects they spent the year building: custom software, original games, augmented reality, animation, business solutions, and training simulations, all built by student teams. You can walk the floor, try the work, and ask the people who built it how it holds together. Open to the public, so it suits employers hiring junior developers, prospective students, and anyone curious about what comes out of the programs. Complimentary burgers and hot dogs on the patio, and free parking in the P1 lot on Lansdowne Road.Camosun Computer Science Capstone Symposium https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/bbq-annual-general-meeting-182026-08-16monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-18.avifThe Victoria Data Society's summer BBQ and Annual General Meeting at the Juan de Fuca Rec Centre picnic shelter. The AGM covers a short review of the past year, upcoming priorities, and board updates, with voting limited to VDS members. Everyone is welcome, and beef and vegetarian burgers, hot dogs, and soft drinks are provided, with lawn games and networking to follow. It is free for VDS members and $10 at the door for non-members.BBQ & Annual General Meeting https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1142026-08-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-114.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-114-work-in-progress-1362026-08-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-136.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #114: Work In Progress https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/trustworthy-data-from-collection-to-peer-review-1862026-08-20monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-186.jpgNick Hepner follows the research data collection pipeline end to end: establishing chain-of-custody, navigating compliance, building a cleaning process that allows for accurate corrections, and preparing it for analysis. He has spent more than a decade designing, building and securing enterprise-level data collection platforms. The session is aimed at data professionals, researchers, and anyone curious about data architecture. Pizza and networking open the evening, the presentation runs in the middle, and networking closes it out.Trustworthy Data: From Collection to Peer Review https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/road-to-the-microsoft-365-summit-vancouver-1602026-08-21monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-160.avifA community networking night in the run-up to the Vancouver Microsoft 365 Summit in September. No agenda is published: it is billed as straight networking with no pitch decks required, open conversation across Microsoft 365, Dynamics and the wider stack, and summit tickets and discounts handed out on the night. It is aimed at anyone working in or around the Microsoft platform in Vancouver, whether or not they are going to the summit itself. The room is on the 14th floor at Northeastern University, and the organisers meet arrivals in the lobby to bring them up. Street parking is nearby. Numbers are capped at 100.Road to the Microsoft 365 Summit Vancouver https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ai-accelerated-rapid-design-sprint-1302026-08-21monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-130.avifA hands-on rapid design sprint built around a facilitation tool the Victoria Impact Design Collective is prototyping to get teams and stakeholders to alignment quickly. Working in small groups, you gather real user insights, watch AI surface themes in real time, validate the findings together, and rapidly generate solution ideas. The collective says the tool grew out of a workshop it delivered at PMI Vancouver Island's conference. For designers, project managers, researchers, entrepreneurs, facilitators, and the AI-curious; no design or AI experience required.AI-Accelerated Rapid Design Sprint https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-campfire-practical-skills-from-real-devs-1822026-08-21monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-182.pngTwo talks, 45 minutes each with questions after. Ontology basics from Daniel Kopaee of Fernwood Agentic, on spotting patterns in a fluid, probabilistic world and projecting them back onto the latest semantic models. Then LLM security from Calum Bird of Trelent, on the spectrum of what counts as private AI and whether your data is really training the model. Anyone can come, though RSVPs are approved rather than automatic, and Nick says the series returns to UVic next month.Tenfold Campfire: Practical Skills From Real Devs https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/mount-doug-hike-series-1632026-08-22monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-163.avifA Friday-morning hike up Mount Douglas Park for women business owners who want to talk shop and get their steps in at the same time. This is the third of three walks in the August series. Founder Friday Walks was started by Kaila Pilecki and Nicole Crone of My Aligned Purpose, a Victoria coaching practice for women entrepreneurs, so that women running their own businesses have somewhere to have real conversations about business, money and growth. Meet in the parking lot at the corner of Cedar Hill Road and Churchill Drive. Friendly dogs and babies are welcome; the organisers ask that toddlers and older children stay home unless you plan to carry them, since the idea is to get everyone's heart rate up on the climb.Mount Doug Hike Series https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/superteam-canada-codechella-mixer-1792026-08-22monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-179.pngA social the night before Cursor Codechella, billed by the organisers as food and drinks. The listing welcomes Superteam Members and Codechella participants. Registration is by approval rather than automatic, and space is limited. Superteam Canada members have their own ticket type that skips the approval step. Superteam Canada describes itself as leading Solana's innovation network in Canada. Membership is selective and capped at 150 accepted members, and the chapter runs grants of up to $10,000 plus Spark North, a pre-accelerator for the global Solana Startup Competition. Codechella runs the following day and carries a Solana prize track among its four.Superteam Canada Codechella Mixer https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cursor-codechella-982026-08-23monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-98.webpYou do not need to be an expert, Alhwyn Geonzon says you do not need to know how to code either, and you can come alone or in a team of up to four. Registration is by approval rather than automatic, and space is limited: he is pitching it at 150 to 200 builders. It is a one-day hackathon for people who want to finally ship a project they have always wished existed, and Alhwyn is explicit that it is not a demo day. The stated aim is not polished UIs, slide decks, or pitch theatrics, but what you tried to build, what broke, and what actually shipped. Plan for a full Saturday. Workshops run through the late morning from GMI Cloud, Cursor, Convex, and Solana, the afternoon is a long build phase, and it closes with a hard submission deadline, demos capped at three minutes each, and judging. Demos are mandatory to be eligible for a prize. There are four prize tracks: Convex for the best project on their realtime backend, database, auth, or functions ($1,000 USD first, $500 second); Solana for the best onchain app, wallet, payment, or agent tooling ($500 USD); Best AI Agent Application on GMI Cloud ($500 USD); and RevenueCat's Shipaton for the best mobile app shipped on the day, which carries a Shippy trophy, a swag kit, and entry into the main Shipaton. Every participant gets sponsor credits: $20 Cursor, $10 GMI Cloud, $100 Render, $50 Exa, 100,000 ElevenLabs, 10,000 Firecrawl, and three months of Wispr Flow. Snacks, drinks, limited-edition swag, and mentors on site all day.Cursor Codechella https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-115-show-your-work-1372026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-137.avifThe monthly demo night. Up to ten builders show what they are making, ten minutes each including discussion, screen sharing to the room while they explain the problem they are solving and where they would like feedback. Slots are picked in advance rather than on the night. The room is founders, operators, designers, researchers, artists and hackers, anyone seriously working on something of their own. Nothing needs to be finished. Early is fine, half-built is fine, and the ask is that you turn up ready to contribute rather than only to watch.Tenfold Victoria #115: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1152026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-115.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-ai-meetup-technology-track-1232026-08-28monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-123.jpgA lunchtime VIATEC Technology Track session on the long, tangled relationship between games and artificial intelligence. Jonathan Schaeffer of Synsira Software Solutions presents "Chips Challenging Champions: The Role of Games in AI R&D": how building programs to beat the best human players was one of AI's original grand challenges, why games are still the field's experimental test bed seventy years in, and how a surprising amount of everyday technology traces back to game research. Schaeffer spent four decades in computing science at the University of Alberta and built Chinook, the checkers program that became the first computer to hold a human world championship in any game. Hosted by Steve Harris at Fort Tectoria; coffee and tea served, with lunch available from the Fort Cafe on site. Doors at 11:30, talks begin at noon.VIATEC AI Meetup: Technology Track https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/food-visits-ox-korean-1682026-08-31monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-168.pngThe yyjtech #food channel has spent plenty of time swapping cravings, debating favorites, and making everyone hungry, so now it is time to do the sensible thing and meet up for an actual meal. We are heading to OX Korean BBQ on Hillside for a fun, casual lunch where the food finally gets to leave the chat and land on the table. If you have been lurking in #food or posting your latest find every week, come hungry and join us for a tasty midday hangout. The guest list is capped and a waitlist is already running. The channel itself lives on the [YYJ Tech Slack](https://yyjtech.ca).#food visits OX Korean https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-women-in-tech-meetup-tech-girl-walk-2132026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-213.pngA casual walk along Dallas Road for women and non-binary folks in tech: an hour away from the screens to stretch your legs, catch up on life and work, and build a network of people in your corner. The meetups run monthly, and this one is open to everyone rather than members only. Look for Andrea in a bright pink hat.Victoria Women in Tech Meetup: Tech Girl Walk https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1162026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-116.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-116-new-work-1382026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-138.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #116: New Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/vancouver-microsoft-365-summit-2026-1282026-09-04monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-128.jpgWestern Canada's Microsoft 365 Summit returns for its second edition, a full day of keynotes, breakout sessions and panels built around AI, Copilot and the Microsoft 365 platform. The programme runs three parallel tracks: Security, Compliance and Cloud; Modern Work, AI and Automation; and Business Applications and Innovation, with more than twenty speakers drawn from Microsoft, the MVP community and local partners. It is aimed at IT leaders, business decision-makers, and the Microsoft partners and vendors who build on the stack. Two optional add-ons bookend the main day, sold together as one separate VIP ticket: • Welcome Networking Dinner, the evening before, on Tuesday, September 2. • Post-Event Executive Breakfast, the morning after, on Friday, September 4.Vancouver Microsoft 365 Summit 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-01-john-dean-park-2122026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-212.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week follows the Pickles Bluff and Mount Newton loop, roughly five kilometres with about 250 metres of climbing. Everyone sets off together at a conversational pace over moderate ground, finishing at a bluff with a viewing platform looking out across the Saanich Peninsula and the Gulf Islands. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on half an hour of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #01: John Dean Park https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/labour-day-1732026-08-09monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-173.jpgA Community event on Monday, September 7, 2026.Labour Day https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-117-build-from-here-1392026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-139.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #117: Build From Here https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1172026-08-28monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-117.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/business-meetup-mingle-nanaimo-1722026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-172.avifA casual evening mixer for Nanaimo's entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals. There is no agenda and no set topics: everyone takes about 30 seconds to introduce themselves and what they are working on, then the room opens up to conversation over food and drinks at Simonholt Restaurant. It suits anyone building local connections, from aspiring founders to established owners. Parking is on site, and the group asks attendees to order something from the menu to support the venue that hosts them.Business Meetup & Mingle (Nanaimo) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/truenorthcto-victoria-1892026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-189.pngThe Victoria chapter of a national peer community for senior technology leaders: CTOs, CPOs, CIOs, CISOs, CAIOs, founders and the people carrying real operating accountability. Membership is vetted rather than open. The room is deliberately not built for vendor prospecting, recruiting or broad startup networking. What it is built for is candid conversation about the hard technology and operating questions, with people who have lived through the tradeoffs.TrueNorthCTO Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/leading-ai-from-the-front-the-decisions-only-you-can-make-1962026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-196.jpgWho is making the AI calls in your company: you, or whoever in the room sounds most technical? Rachel Krayenhoff of Ingenuity Labs says most people quietly pick the second, and this session is about taking it back. She covers setting a direction you can defend, asking sharper questions of any tool or vendor pitching you, telling what needs a guardrail from what does not, and leading the part of an AI change that has nothing to do with the technology. Open to anyone, though it is pitched at executives and owners. Arrival and lunch first, presentations from noon, and the Fort Cafe on site sells food.Leading AI from the Front: The Decisions Only You Can Make https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-fall-social-1782026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-178.jpgA laid-back social for people who work with data, from seasoned practitioners to the merely data-curious. The organisers bill it as no agenda and no presentations: turn up, get a drink, and talk to whoever is there. Nothing is prepared, and nothing is expected of you. This edition moves to the Phillips Taproom in Rock Bay. The two socials before it were in Uptown, so anyone returning on memory would be in the wrong part of town. Phillips has added a kitchen, now run by Roast, and the drinks list carries tasting flights, cocktails and non-alcoholic options alongside the beer. Group reservations at the taproom start at parties of eight, so a smaller table is a walk-in.Data & Beer - Fall Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/funding-your-company-part-1-so-many-options-ceo-peer-roundtable-2112026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-211.webpA closed peer group for chief executives, not a drop-in session. It meets monthly and eligibility applies, so this is one meeting of a standing group. In person and confidential: no recordings and no notetakers. The next two sessions are about financing. Part 1 brings in no outside guests: it opens on a shared baseline of equity, debt, grants and the structures in between, then works from the decisions the people in the room have already made or are weighing now. What the group cannot answer from its own experience becomes the agenda for Part 2, so the invited experts address this room's open questions rather than presenting on funding in general.Funding Your Company, Part 1: So Many Options (CEO Peer Roundtable) https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-02-jocelyn-hill-2292026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-229.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs to Jocelyn Hill, roughly eight kilometres with about 380 metres of climbing, with steep sections. The route passes Holmes Peak and opens out across Saanich Inlet and the Malahat before the final pull to the summit. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 25 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #02: Jocelyn Hill https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/round-table-discussion-2282026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-228.pngThe Victoria regional network meets in person every month, and this edition centres on a round table session, so the evening is dinner, networking and an open exchange of ideas among bookkeeping professionals. Non-members in the profession are welcome as well.Round Table Discussion https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1182026-08-28monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-118.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-118-before-the-noise-1402026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-140.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #118: Before The Noise https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-breakfast-club-2272026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-227.jpgNo speaker this month. After introductions the room splits into small groups around three questions: what is working unusually well, what problem you are trying to solve, and what introduction would genuinely help. Vincent's aim is less surface-level networking and more useful conversation with other people doing business in Victoria. Business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals and salespeople are all welcome, and so is the friend you bring along. Email [vincent@citynest.ca](mailto:vincent@citynest.ca) for the RSVP link.Victoria Breakfast Club https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/all-in-2026-2262026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-226.webpCanada's national AI gathering, in its fourth year: five content tracks running across four stages, more than two hundred speakers, and one hundred Canadian AI startups picked from over three hundred applicants. Alongside the stages, four guided AI Tours split the floor by where an organisation actually is: research, custom build, off-the-shelf deployment, and adopters recounting what their own rollouts cost them. Germany joins this year as Country of Honour. Sessions run mostly in English, with live translation both ways.ALL IN 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-cowichan-valley-1872026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-187.avifA casual tech night built around whatever people have actually been working on over the summer: shipped code, a homelab, an AI experiment, a side project, or the honest admission that you got nowhere near any of it. Local developers, IT professionals, entrepreneurs, makers and tech enthusiasts all turn up, and first-timers are as welcome as the regulars. There is no formal presentation and, in Kyle's own framing, no pressure to have anything impressive to report. It is billed as a relaxed evening among people who enjoy technology and building things. Head to the top floor of the pub.OpenHack Cowichan Valley https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/swans-pub-networking-september-1532026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-153.jpgPMI Vancouver Island's networking evening at Swans Pub, a recurring fixture for the project management community on the Island. Turn up, meet people who run projects for a living, and talk about what is actually working. Admission includes appetizers, and the evening carries 2 PDUs under Power Skills. Members, non-members and students are all welcome.Swans Pub Networking - September https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/dev-days-victoria-2-2252026-08-31monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-225.pngAn afternoon for builders, maintainers and developers who work inside the GitHub ecosystem, built around short lightning talks and live demos rather than a keynote. Ve frames it as GitHub-centric but tool-agnostic. Whatever you already code with is welcome: VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Claude Code. Three talks are named so far: where the agentic SDLC stands now, what it takes to be a product-focused engineer, and teaching Git to people who are not developers. A fourth slot is open, with talks submitted and up-voted in [an open repo](https://github.com/github-dev-club/GitHub-copilot-dev-days-canada). A community social closes it out.Dev Days - Victoria - #2 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-03-mount-finlayson-2302026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-230.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week takes the Mount Finlayson loop, five kilometres with about 400 metres of climbing, graded difficult. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 25 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #03: Mount Finlayson https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/hiring-ai-how-to-build-the-right-agent-and-keep-it-out-of-trouble-1972026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-197.jpgEvery AI conference this year runs a version of the same talk: treat your agent like a new hire, with a job description, onboarding and a performance review. Mike Leslie argues the metaphor is itself the problem. Calling something an AI employee rather than an AI tool, in his framing, makes people check its output less carefully and hands accountability to something that cannot hold any. What he puts in its place is scoped, time-limited access instead of one shared key, and an approval model separating what an agent does alone from what needs a signature. Questions follow the presentation. It is one of the lead-up sessions before the Prompt Victoria conference in November.Hiring AI: How to Build the Right Agent and Keep It Out of Trouble https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-spec-is-the-product-the-code-is-the-cheap-part-2452026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-245.jpgMost AI coding demos hand you the finished thing. This one starts with the spec: a pre-recorded walkthrough of how René wrote it, narrated live, including what he cut and why. Then he builds the whole thing in the room. It is a real-time heat map that lets conference attendees rate talks while the talks are running, so ten minutes into a session you know whether to stay or go find the better room. About 35 minutes in it goes live to a real URL, everyone opens it on their phone, and the only session available to rate is this one. The room then picks the next feature and he builds that too. Steve is on the mic throughout, interviewing and playing skeptic while the agent grinds, and René closes on what it got wrong and whether the thing should ship at all.The Spec is the Product; the Code is the Cheap Part. https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-tech-week-52026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-5.avifA decentralized, city-wide innovation showcase with multiple events daily across Greater Victoria, inspired by Boulder Startup Week, Seattle Tech Week, and NY Tech Week. Local companies open their own doors for workshops, AI panels, mixers, and behind-the-scenes looks at the Island's tech ecosystem, and anyone can submit an event to host.Victoria Tech Week https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/responsible-ai-for-marketing-a-panel-2462026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-246.jpgFive marketing practitioners on how they use AI in their own businesses, and where they have decided not to. These are people who run the work rather than sell the tools, so the questions are unusually practical ones. Jessy and Rob put the panel together: Ross Dunn of StepForth Web Marketing, Jasmine Philip of Women in Need, and Owen Brown of OBdesign. Where does AI save time, and where does it quietly create more? What gets disclosed to clients and what does not? Who is accountable when the output is wrong? Expect some disagreement. Questions follow the presentation. It is one of the lead-up sessions before the Prompt Victoria conference in November.Responsible AI for Marketing: A Panel https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-awkward-teenage-phase-of-ai-advertising-2442026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-244.jpgFor years, success on Meta's ad platforms came down to precision and control: you picked the audience, the placements, the creative formats and the optimisation settings, and the campaign did as it was told. Much of that has quietly moved behind the curtain, with the platform's own systems now expanding audiences past their targeting, adapting creative across placements and generating video from stills. Amanda calls the result the awkward teenage phase: powerful, occasionally brilliant, still unpredictable. She works through what changed behind the scenes, why campaign performance has got harder to see into, and where instruction gave way to suggestion. Questions follow the presentation. It is one of the lead-up sessions before the Prompt Victoria conference in November.The Awkward Teenage Phase of AI Advertising https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/software-leadership-peer-roundtable-1852026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-185.webpA closed peer group, not a drop-in session. It brings together senior technical leaders: CTOs, architects and experienced developers who guide teams and shape technology strategy. Regular attendance is expected. This is one meeting of a standing group rather than a one-off. The series runs monthly for a year on one question, which the organisers put this way: what is the role of software developers and engineering leadership when AI agents can generate the majority of the code? From there it works through how to ensure quality and reliability in a world where the group rarely writes code and might not need to read it at all, how oversight and engineering principles evolve to manage risk, and which long-held principles to abandon and which to keep.Software Leadership Peer Roundtable https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/how-to-be-human-in-a-high-tech-world-1982026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-198.jpgOpens with a discussion on the hard questions of this high-tech moment, then drops deliberately into low-tech mode: short human-to-human sessions on the talk, pitch or presentation you actually have to give. Past speakers and local experts run those sessions. Bring something you are already trying to say well: it suits anyone carrying a pitch, a conference talk or an introduction they have never been happy with.How to Be Human in a High Tech World https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/grok-bot-meetup-2012026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-201.pngA build night for Grok Bot, an agent that signs in and uses apps and websites the way you do rather than telling you how. The evening is coworking around one short demo block, not three hours of slides. Drop in for an hour or stay the whole night. Bring a laptop; the hosts are supplying credits.Grok Bot Meetup https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/future-workforce-lab-human-skills-in-action-2512026-09-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-251.pngA hands-on introduction to the Future Workforce Project, an experimental platform that puts teamwork, leadership and decision-making under pressure into physical challenge rooms, then measures what it sees. Teams rotate through the challenges in half-hour blocks, staggered five minutes apart, and finish over refreshments and feedback. Ning frames it as research rather than a workshop: the loop under test is measure, practise, recharge, return, measure again, and the people in the room are the ones being observed. Aimed at anyone who hires, leads or develops a team and has watched the usual soft-skills session assert an outcome it never checked.Future Workforce Lab: Human Skills in Action https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/marinelabs-rogue-waves-rockets-reef-sharks-oh-buoy-2522026-09-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-252.jpgAn open door over the lunch hour, with the team explaining how a growing network of coastal buoys becomes real-time weather data that maritime operators act on. Science, slushies and Dough Eyes pizza too. Noelle frames it as come-curious rather than a programme: no agenda to sit through, just the people who run the sensor network and, in their words, a few stories from ten years in marine tech. Access is off Pembroke Street; ring the doorbell.MarineLabs: Rogue Waves, Rockets & Reef Sharks...Oh Buoy! https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/fund-raising-stories-the-good-and-the-bad-and-everything-in-between-1812026-08-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-181.pngThis is a session on real fundraising cases, drawn from the case studies Angel Forum uses in its own workshops. The organisers say that is where they show how things work in reality, and that investors and founders both learn from them. Both are invited, and registration is by approval rather than open sign-up. The listing names no speakers beyond the host, Irene Dorsman, who is Angel Forum's chief executive and a director. The network has run its investor forums for more than twenty-five years and lists over a hundred members, and its own account of an earlier Victoria session has angel investors talking through strategies, lessons learned, disasters and successes, plus a walk through how they evaluated Daiya Foods.Fund Raising Stories - the good and the bad and everything in between. https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tour-of-reliable-controls-manufacturing-facility-2022026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-202.pngA guided walk through a LEED Platinum office and the manufacturing floor behind it, run by the people whose building automation gear is doing the work in both. Their own framing is the behind-the-scenes one. Parking is onsite, with overflow at the Admirals Shopping Centre nearby if the lot fills.Tour of Reliable Controls Manufacturing Facility https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-startup-financing-and-liquidity-journey-in-the-ai-era-1702026-08-06monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-170.pngThe AI boom has rewritten the rules of startup fundraising – valuations, deal structures, and investor expectations are all moving faster than ever. But how do founders actually navigate this new landscape, from first check to eventual liquidity? Join Osler, RBCx, and Cindicates for a candid conversation with investors who are actively writing checks in this environment. Co-moderated by Jacques Du Plessis (Osler) and Shelly Badhesha (RBCx), this session brings together a panel of investors to unpack: • What's actually changed (and what hasn't) in startup financing since AI became the market's obsession • How investors are evaluating deals and setting terms in this cycle • What founders need to know about the path to liquidity and how to plan for it years in advance Who should attend: Founders planning to raise capital in the next 12 months — whether this is your first round or you're navigating a later stage, this session will give you a clearer view of what to expect, straight from the people making the decisions. 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. PT | Fireside and Q&A 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. PT | SocialThe Startup Financing and Liquidity Journey in the AI Era https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/indigenous-reconciliation-ai-a-pre-launch-sneak-peek-2042026-08-29monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-204.pngA first look at BRIDGE before it opens to the public: the platform itself, the AI tools inside it, and Laurel Anne Stark's own account of building it. BRIDGE describes itself as female founded and Indigenous-led. It is built in lək̓ʷəŋən speaking territory and governed by an all-Indigenous Leadership Circle that the company says holds veto power over how BRIDGE gets built. The product is pitched as a way to act on a reconciliation commitment from a phone rather than a policy document. Framed as a build story rather than a demo, so questions are part of the evening, and there are drinks.Indigenous Reconciliation AI: A Pre-launch Sneak Peek https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-119-the-city-is-the-room-1412026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-141.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #119: The City Is The Room https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/the-next-generation-of-business-how-young-founders-are-adopting-ai-1712026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-171.webpFour founders in their twenties on what they have actually built with AI, what it took to get working, and where a person is still required, alongside creator partnerships and what building young in this city looks like from the inside. On the panel: Olivia Wein of sleepwear brand Isla Lune, whose $45,000 Mitacs-funded research project at UVic uses her own company to test how much of a product business can run on its own; Muhammad Aarij, who helped define the AI front-desk agent CareCloud now sells and is finishing a Master of Applied Data Science at UVic; Tara Crymble of Creatorbuzz, who runs creator programs for B2B tech brands; and Samuel Games, who built the mobile detailing business Canine Car Care and co-runs Victoria Builds. Owen Works of Dopa is MCing and hosting. Doors, panel, questions, then time to talk. It is an independent event during Victoria Tech Week, put on by the three communities behind it, and the room holds 50 to 80, so the organisers ask people to register through their own page.The Next Generation of Business: How Young Founders Are Adopting AI https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1742026-08-28monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-174.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/women-who-build-a-coffee-crawl-2052026-08-29monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-205.pngA morning tour of women-founded businesses around downtown, travelling between them by electric cart. It starts and finishes at Puzzle Lab, with coffee at both ends and a run of founder stops in between. Suzanne is still finalising the route, so the participating businesses are announced closer to the day. Numbers are capped and every registration is approved by hand.Women Who Build: A Coffee Crawl https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/climate-tech-day-marine-tech-morning-1912026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-191.pngVancouver Island sits on the front line of the blue economy, and this is the morning half of Climate Tech Day: climate technology built for marine conditions, and the operators, buyers and researchers behind it. The speakers and the programme are both still to be announced. Registration is open and approval-based, so the practical move is to hold a spot now and read the agenda when it lands.Climate Tech Day: Marine Tech Morning https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/proptech-morning-2032026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-203.pngA morning on the technology that speeds up housing delivery and strips cost and delay out of the process. The premise is that housing gets built too slowly, and that most of the drag sits in the process itself. Two presenters are named so far: the coalition's own tool for mapping housing delivery so obstacles surface early, and Parametric Properties on how existing stock gets assessed. Chris says the format and the full lineup are still to come.PropTech Morning https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/she-owns-the-upside-2062026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-206.pngThree women founders on what it takes to raise, defend and keep a company. The organisers have set out the ground in advance: non-dilutive capital when venture money is scarce, and IP that de-risks you to investors. Then putting AI to work while still owning what it produces, negotiating without apology, and the practical end of scaling. Coffee and snacks on the main floor. An educational session, so attending creates no solicitor-client relationship.She Owns the Upside https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/ocean-tech-live-demo-day-2026-1802026-08-12monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-180.pngA drop-in showcase of ocean technology on Victoria's Inner Harbour, pitched at the general public rather than at the sector. COAST describes it as a live, interactive showcase, and the format is literally that: companies bring their equipment to the pier and run it, with the people who built it standing beside it. The roster is not closed. COAST is still taking applications for demo slots, so more companies may be added before the day. What is already committed spans drones and vessels, ocean sensors, marine security systems, ocean stewardship and conservation technology, and marine renewable energy. The showcase is held outdoors on Ship Point Pier. COAST is an initiative of the South Island Prosperity Partnership.Ocean Tech Live: Demo Day 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/climate-tech-day-circular-materials-community-energy-talks-1932026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-193.pngTwo afternoon panels on where climate technology meets the built environment. The first starts from a hard premise: circular materials do not fail on chemistry, they stall on everything around the product. The codes were not written for them, procurement defaults to the incumbent, and specification pathways treat unproven as disqualifying. The second panel is on community-owned energy, including First Nations ownership of generation and distribution, and what stands between a project on paper and one that is built. A Community Action Bus runs from downtown Victoria and back, so transport is provided.Climate Tech Day: Circular Materials + Community Energy Talks https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/sr-ed-masterclass-2092026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-209.pngAn open session with the staff who administer SR&ED rather than a firm that files on your behalf: what the program covers, where its scope actually begins and ends, and which misconceptions stop people claiming. It is the Government of Canada's largest federal incentive program for research and development, reaching more than 20,000 businesses a year by the listing's count, and it is explicit that pre-revenue startups qualify too. Questions are taken on the day.SR&ED Masterclass https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/human-leadership-in-the-age-of-ai-a-victoria-tech-week-special-1832026-08-13monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-183.pngA candid conversation for senior leaders about what leadership needs to look like as AI reshapes how organisations work. The premise is that AI is the catalyst but most of the work ahead is human. Humaira Ahmed is explicit that this is not a technical session and not a conversation about the latest tools. Expect questions about what leaders need to hold onto, what they need to unlearn, and how to bring people along when the pace keeps accelerating, with space for the room to contribute. Aimed at CEOs, founders, executives and senior People and HR leaders. Registration is approval-gated and the room is capped at fifty. Registering also opts you into marketing communications from BestHuman.Human Leadership in the Age of AI: A Victoria Tech Week Special https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/careers-in-technology-panel-discussion-networking-event-1842026-08-13monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-184.jpgFour to six people working in technology and computer science careers talk about what they actually do, how they got started, and the routes they took to get there. The organisers list computers, AI, cybersecurity, online gaming and system administration among the fields on the table, and say the panellists will be named closer to the date. No particular background, education or previous experience is expected. The organisers name post-secondary students weighing their options, people considering a career change, and the simply curious, and say students, prospective students, alumni and community members are all welcome. There is time set aside for questions. The panel is followed by time to network with the industry professionals in the dedicated Career Centre space, room 205 on the second floor. Registration is RSVP only, capacity is 40, and a waitlist opens once it fills.Careers in Technology: Panel Discussion & Networking Event https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/climate-tech-day-green-drinks-gala-1942026-08-19monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-194.pngThis is the once-a-year version of a room that otherwise meets on the third Thursday of the month at Swans Brewpub, and in Chris's own telling it was the best-attended event of the entire week last year. Founders next to the people who fund them, engineers and policy staff, researchers and operators, and a fair number who turned up because they heard the room was good. Registration is approval-based, and Chris says capacity is real this year, so a spot is worth holding early.Climate Tech Day: Green Drinks Gala https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/from-dial-up-to-ai-25-years-of-building-victoria-tech-2102026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-210.avifThree people who have been inside Victoria's technology sector since the dial-up years sit down to work out how it actually got here: what grew, what stalled, and which turns only look inevitable in hindsight. The seats span the ecosystem rather than one company. VIATEC's chief operating officer has spent decades building and backing local firms; an independent generative-AI consultant covers the enterprise side and now advises on adopting the current wave. It runs as a conversation rather than a deck, with unstructured time on both ends of the panel, which is usually where the specifics turn up.From Dial-Up to AI: 25+ Years of Building Victoria Tech https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/bridge-official-launch-party-restoration-fundraiser-2562026-09-04monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-256.jpgA launch party and a restoration fundraiser running as one evening, outdoors on the waterfront. Food, music and short talks, with restoration specialists there to explain the Garry oak work on this coast. Restoration on the site is where the ticket money goes, invasive plant removal and replanting, and the receipts are tax deductible. Worth knowing before you set off: the path down from the parking area is uneven, and a shuttle runs for anyone who needs it.BRIDGE Official Launch Party & Restoration Fundraiser https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/climate-coffee-1952026-08-26monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-195.pngAn informal morning gathering for anyone working in climate, sustainability or clean energy, and for anyone just curious about it. There is no agenda, no speaker list, and nothing that anyone has to present. Conversation runs on whatever people are actually working on, and newcomers are the point rather than an afterthought. The series started in Spain in 2023 and now runs in more than thirty cities, drawing founders, investors, operators, scientists and students. Hayden has hosted this one since the spring.Climate Coffee https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/discover-rainhouses-2026-open-house-992026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-99.jpgRainhouse opens its doors for facility tours, live CNC and advanced-manufacturing demonstrations, and a chance to meet the team. Open to customers, industry partners, students, and the curious public to see how ideas become finished products.Discover Rainhouse's 2026 Open House https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/uvic-startup-showcase-2072026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-207.jpgAn evening to meet the ventures coming out of the university, spanning med-tech, deep-tech, ocean-tech, clean-tech and more. Two panel talks run alongside the showcase in ECS660, one of them on entrepreneurship. The other is on research commercialisation. Light refreshments throughout and a cash bar. Parking is paid, and Lot 1 is the closest to the door.UVic Startup Showcase https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/viatec-annual-general-meeting-call-for-nominations-1062026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-106.jpgVIATEC's Annual General Meeting in the Fort Tectoria conference room. Casual networking runs from 4:30 p.m., the AGM starts at 5:00 p.m. sharp with the year in review and the newly elected board, then networking until 7:00 p.m. Board nominations are open until September 2, 2026, and member voting for the seven open board seats happens online via SmartBallot beforehand.VIATEC Annual General Meeting & Call for Nominations https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/see-how-custom-machines-are-built-2542026-09-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-254.jpgA walk through a working machine shop, with live demonstrations of the automation equipment on the floor and the engineers who designed, wired and commissioned it standing right there to explain how each one works. The whole team, mechanical, electrical, controls and fabrication, sits under one roof, so one conversation can cover a machine from concept to production. Open to engineers, founders, students and anyone curious about advanced manufacturing.See How Custom Machines Are Built https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-campfire-practical-skills-from-real-devs-2532026-09-03monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-253.pngTwo talks, 45 minutes each with questions after. DovLev Lehrer of Fernwood Agentic on AI governance and safety, then [Victoria Data Society](https://www.victoriadatasociety.ca) President Cynthia Lynam on why the question still decides the answer. The talks are proposed and prepared by the people giving them, drawn from work they have actually done rather than a curriculum. Anyone can come, though the fifty seats are approved rather than automatic.Tenfold Campfire: Practical Skills From Real Devs https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-tech-nachos-victoria-tech-week-edition-1652026-08-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-165.jpgVictoria Tech Nachos bills itself as a covert group at the intersection of nachos and technology: no speakers, no sponsors, social only. Register on Luma, find the table booked under Ryan, and order whatever you want. When you settle up, ask the server to add your share of the nachos, which the pub splits six ways on the honour system. This edition sits inside Victoria Tech Week at Swans Pub, so it works as the whole evening or as a stop between other downtown events.Victoria Tech Nachos - Victoria Tech Week Edition https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/bsidesvi-62026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-6.webpThe 2026 edition of Vancouver Island's community-driven security conference, part of the global Security BSides movement. A friendly, interactive all-day event of talks, workshops, and villages for security professionals, enthusiasts, and the security-curious at every level.BSidesVI https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/how-to-invent-with-ai-and-own-the-output-2082026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-208.pngA session Matthew calls The Bankable Inventor, aimed at a problem most teams meet only in hindsight: across every major patent office an inventor has to be a human, so AI-assisted work needs a human it can name. He works through documenting that contribution while the R&D is happening, and filing on AI-assisted work without giving up the patent. An educational session, so attending creates no solicitor-client relationship.How to Invent with AI and Own the Output https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/fireside-chat-with-andrew-wilkinson-1642026-08-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-164.jpgAndrew Wilkinson in conversation, hosted by Karen Kler, Director of Operations at Tiny. Wilkinson taught himself web design in Victoria in 2006, founded the design agency MetaLab, whose client list has included Slack, Google, Uber and Coinbase, and went on to co-found Tiny, the holding company that acquired MetaLab in 2017. He is Tiny's Executive Chair. The session sits on the closing day of Victoria Tech Week 2026. No venue has been published yet, so watch the Luma listing for the address.Fireside Chat with Andrew Wilkinson https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/closing-party-north-house-victoria-launch-2552026-09-04monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-255.pngNorth House opens its Victoria space with a panel, then moves up to the roof for sunset over downtown and stays there late. The lineup is still under wraps, billed as some of the biggest names in Victoria tech. The other draw is the space itself. The Vancouver room is an 8,000 square foot founders' workspace in Mount Pleasant, and this is the Victoria equivalent, so the opening doubles as the first look inside.Closing Party: North House Victoria Launch https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-04-thetis-lake-highlands-2312026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-231.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week takes the Deep Highlands loop, about nine kilometres with 300 metres of climbing. The line goes over Seymour Hill and Stewart Mountain, rugged and overgrown in places. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 15 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #04: Thetis Lake Highlands https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/startup-canada-tour-victoria-1582026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-158.jpgThe Startup Canada Tour's second 2026 stop, and the last one before the national final. A full day for early-stage founders at the Victoria Conference Centre: keynotes, panels and workshops, an Ask the Expert Lounge where mentors take one-on-one questions, and an exhibitor floor of ecosystem and support organisations. Lunch is included with every pass. The day also runs a qualifying round of the Startup Global National Pitch Competition. Each stop sends its winner, with $8,500, on to the Grand Finale in Mississauga a month later, where the national winner takes $30,000. Pitches are three minutes with no slide deck, then three minutes of questions from the judges, and the audience votes a separate People's Choice award. Passes are split by who you are: a Startup Pass for founders and their teams under $1M in revenue, General Admission for service providers, mentors and investors. Trieste Reading, Chief Growth Officer at FrontFundr, is the first announced speaker, with the rest of the speakers and the schedule posted closer to the date.Startup Canada Tour - Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-120-show-your-work-1422026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-142.avifTenfold is for builders, founders, operators, designers, researchers, artists, hackers and anyone seriously working on something of their own. Show Your Work is Tenfold's monthly demo night. An RSVP is required to be sent the demo sign-up form, and up to 10 demos are selected to be featured throughout the evening. Each presenter gets 10 minutes total, including demo and discussion. Presenters screen share on the main display via Google Meet while walking the room through what they are building, what problem they are solving and where they would like feedback. Think of it as somewhere between a lightning talk, a product demo, and group office hours. You do not need to have it all figured out. Early is fine. Half-built is fine. Bring what you are working on. Share notes. Ask for feedback. Help someone else move faster. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Demos • 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.: Debrief + Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #120: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1752026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-175.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-2472026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-247.jpgA Community event on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.National Day for Truth and Reconciliation https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/cdm-summit-fraser-valley-2026-1212026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-121.jpgCDM Summit (the Canadian Digital Marketing Summit) returns to the Fraser Valley for a one-day marketing conference at Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Surrey campus. It gathers marketers, business owners, creators, and agency leaders from across British Columbia for practical sessions on AI, paid media, content, SEO, social, analytics, and growth. The 2026 lineup includes Patrick Suquet (TikTok Canada), Michelle Blaho-Melo (Wealthsimple), Wahiba Chair, Melissa Rodgers (Fora Consulting), Neel Singh and Mark Funston (Tropoly), and Alejandro Arango Gomez (TURBO), with AMA tables and networking built into the day.CDM Summit Fraser Valley 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-05-east-sooke-coast-trail-2322026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-232.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week follows the East Sooke coast trail to Beechey Head, eight kilometres return with 250 metres of climbing. It follows the coast the whole way, rolling over roots, rocks and uneven ground, with petroglyphs at Alldridge Point. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 45 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #05: East Sooke Coast Trail https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1762026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-176.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-121-no-victory-lap-1432026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-143.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #121: No Victory Lap https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tedxvictoria-2026-uncharted-72026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-7.jpgTEDxVictoria returns with the theme Uncharted: where the map ends, ideas begin. A full day of inspiring speakers, community organizations, and passionate locals sharing ideas worth spreading, asking us to embrace the unknown and chart a course into a bold new future.TEDxVictoria 2026 | Uncharted https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-fall-social-1902026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-190.jpgA no-agenda social for people who work with data, from career practitioners to anyone merely curious about the field. The organisers are explicit: nothing is prepared, nobody presents, and nothing is expected of you. Arrive when you can, order something, and talk to whoever is in the room. It lands in the middle of autumn conference season, when most of what is on locally wants you to arrive with something ready. This one does not, which is the whole point of it.Data & Beer - Fall Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-06-mount-work-2332026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-233.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs the Mount Work summit trail, five kilometres return with about 350 metres of climbing. It gets steep and rocky near the summit. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 30 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #06: Mount Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/thanksgiving-day-2482026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-248.jpgA Community event on Monday, October 12, 2026.Thanksgiving Day https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1772026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-177.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-122-hard-problems-1442026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-144.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #122: Hard Problems https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-cowichan-valley-1882026-08-15monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-188.avifNo expertise required, nothing to prepare, and no need to arrive with a project. Expect working developers, IT people, founders, makers and the plainly curious, in a room capped at forty. RSVP if you can. Kyle describes it as an informal evening with no formal agenda, interesting people talking about interesting things. The floor is open to software, hardware, AI, infrastructure and cybersecurity, alongside ideas, projects, lessons learned and the things that didn't quite work. Bring something you are building, a problem you are stuck on, or nothing at all. Head for the top floor. Refreshments are on, and since nothing is scheduled, turning up late or leaving early costs you nothing.OpenHack Cowichan Valley https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-07-mount-manuel-quimper-2342026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-234.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs Mount Manuel Quimper, ten kilometres with about 480 metres of ascent on a sustained climb. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 45 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #07: Mount Manuel Quimper https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-1992026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-199.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-123-build-what-lasts-1452026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-145.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #123: Build What Lasts https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/profitable-on-purpose-2242026-08-31monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-224.jpgA working conference for women who already run an established business and want the profit side of it to work harder. The day is built so you spend it working on your own numbers, rather than filling in a notebook. Sessions cover pricing, operations, legal structure and financial decisions, with guided networking between them. Victoria Westcott's session breaks down the three decisions she says took Oak Bay Clean to $760,000 in recurring annual revenue: publishing prices openly, packaging the service as a subscription, and paying above market. Caroline Deane covers the structural gaps that quietly create risk, from entity choice to succession. The closing hour turns the day into a 90-day plan, and the room is capped at 100.Profitable on Purpose https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-08-jocelyn-hill-timberman-loop-2352026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-235.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week takes the Jocelyn Hill and Timberman loop, 6.6 kilometres with 340 metres of climbing. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 25 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #08: Jocelyn Hill & Timberman Loop https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2142026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-214.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-124-show-your-work-1462026-07-25monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-146.avifTenfold is for builders, founders, operators, designers, researchers, artists, hackers and anyone seriously working on something of their own. Show Your Work is Tenfold's monthly demo night. An RSVP is required to be sent the demo sign-up form, and up to 10 demos are selected to be featured throughout the evening. Each presenter gets 10 minutes total, including demo and discussion. Presenters screen share on the main display via Google Meet while walking the room through what they are building, what problem they are solving and where they would like feedback. Think of it as somewhere between a lightning talk, a product demo, and group office hours. You do not need to have it all figured out. Early is fine. Half-built is fine. Bring what you are working on. Share notes. Ask for feedback. Help someone else move faster. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Demos • 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.: Debrief + Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #124: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/victoria-tech-nachos-1662026-08-05monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-166.jpgVictoria Tech Nachos bills itself as a covert group at the intersection of nachos and technology: no speakers, no sponsors, social only. Register on Luma, find the table booked under Ryan, and order whatever you want. When you settle up, ask the server to add your share of the nachos, which the pub splits six ways on the honour system.Victoria Tech Nachos https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-09-mckenzie-bight-2362026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-236.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week drops to McKenzie Bight and climbs back by Squally Reach, 7.5 kilometres with 250 metres of climbing. The return goes by Cascade Falls, with steep stairs on the Cascade trail and a steady pull up to the viewpoint. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 30 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #09: McKenzie Bight https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/projectworld-businessanalystworld-vancouver-2026-1322026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-132.jpgA four-day conference for project managers and business analysts at the Sutton Place Hotel in downtown Vancouver, built as two symposium days of keynotes and concurrent sessions plus two days of full-day hands-on workshops. Passes are sold by the day, so the symposium, the workshops, or a combination are all separate options. Sessions earn PDUs and CDUs toward PMI and IIBA certification renewal, and registration includes breakfast, snack breaks and lunch. The 2026 advisory board is drawn from BC organizations including Translink, WorkSafe BC, BC Pension Corporation, BCIT, UBC Sauder, UVic's Gustavson School of Business, Lululemon and Intact Financial. Keynotes, speakers and the session program are posted on the conference site as they are confirmed.ProjectWorld*BusinessAnalystWorld Vancouver 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/big-data-analytics-west-summit-2026-1272026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-127.jpgStrategy Institute's two-day Big Data & Analytics West Summit brings enterprise data, analytics, and AI leaders from across Western Canada together at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver. The programme runs keynotes, C-suite panels, and technical case studies on operationalising AI, modernising data foundations, and turning real-time data into business decisions, with speakers drawn from financial services, healthcare, retail, government, energy, and technology. It runs in a hybrid format, so you can attend in person or online.Big Data & Analytics West Summit 2026 https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2152026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-215.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-125-what-survives-contact-1472026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-147.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #125: What Survives Contact https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/pmwest-2026-project-management-conference-1312026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-131.jpgPMWest is the PMI Canadian West Coast Chapter's annual conference, two days at the Vancouver Convention Centre West Building under the theme Engage. Connect. Thrive. The published agenda gives each day an opening and closing general session, breakout and curated sessions, expert-led workshops, community sessions and networking meals, with a Connection Hub on day one and a Career and Growth Hub with employers hiring project talent on day two. Day one ends with PM Night and the Project of the Year award, day two with the mentorship graduation and a closing reception. Passes cover both days or a single day, and sessions carry PDUs toward PMP or CAPM renewal. Speakers and session titles had not been announced when this was listed.PMWest 2026: Project Management Conference https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/prompt-victoria-from-disruption-to-direction-82026-09-04monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-8.jpgVancouver Island's conference on practical AI for business and professionals returns for year two with an expanded three-track program at the Victoria Conference Centre. The 2025 debut sold out at 350 attendees with 28 speakers across two tracks. Presented by VIATEC and co-organized with the Victoria Data Society, PlusROI Online Marketing, and AI4Enterprise: practical learning, honest conversation, and real connections. One ticket covers all three tracks, the opening keynote, the breaks and the closing reception, with no track lock-in. Early bird registration opens 10 August at $259+GST and runs to 27 September; standard is $299 from 28 September. VIATEC members pay $109+GST early bird and $149+GST standard, Victoria Data Society members $159+GST and $199+GST, and student and volunteer rates are available.Prompt Victoria | From Disruption to Direction https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-10-john-dean-park-2372026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-237.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week follows the Pickles Bluff and Mount Newton loop, five kilometres with about 250 metres of climbing. The route runs through old-growth forest and reaches the Pickles Bluff viewpoint. The Dean Park Rd gate is closed to vehicles from mid-November to mid-March, so the west entrance is the way in. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 30 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #10: John Dean Park https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2162026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-216.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-126-whats-working-1482026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-148.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #126: What's Working https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/remembrance-day-2492026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-249.jpgA Community event on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.Remembrance Day https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/data-beer-fall-social-1922026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-192.jpgA no-agenda social for data people at any level, and the format has not moved since September: no speakers, no slides, nothing expected of anyone who walks in. Turn up, order a drink, and talk to whoever else did. Mid-November now holds its light past five, which it has never done here before, so this is not the indoor huddle a November social used to be. That suits it. Talking to people was always the entire offer.Data & Beer - Fall Social https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-11-jocelyn-hill-2382026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-238.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs to Jocelyn Hill, roughly eight kilometres with about 380 metres of climbing, with steep sections. The route passes Holmes Peak and opens out across Saanich Inlet and the Malahat before the final pull to the summit. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 25 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #11: Jocelyn Hill https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/matrix-technology-expo-2572026-09-04monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-257.pngA full day of audiovisual manufacturers with their kit set up and running, more than two dozen of them on one floor, from Sony and Samsung to Shure, Sennheiser and Crestron. Practical seminars run alongside. Aimed at anyone speccing a boardroom, classroom, control room or signage refresh, where comparing gear side by side beats reading spec sheets and the people who built it are standing next to it. Lunch and afternoon refreshments are provided, and parking is reimbursed.Matrix Technology Expo https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2172026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-217.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-127-make-it-real-1492026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-149.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #127: Make It Real https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/swans-pub-networking-november-1542026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-154.jpgPMI Vancouver Island's networking evening at Swans Pub, a recurring fixture for the project management community on the Island. Turn up, meet people who run projects for a living, and talk about what is actually working. Admission includes appetizers, and the evening carries 2 PDUs under Power Skills. Members, non-members and students are all welcome.Swans Pub Networking - November https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-12-mount-finlayson-2392026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-239.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week takes the Mount Finlayson loop, five kilometres with about 400 metres of climbing, graded difficult. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 25 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #12: Mount Finlayson https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2182026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-218.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-128-show-your-work-1502026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-150.avifTenfold is for builders, founders, operators, designers, researchers, artists, hackers and anyone seriously working on something of their own. Show Your Work is Tenfold's monthly demo night. An RSVP is required to be sent the demo sign-up form, and up to 10 demos are selected to be featured throughout the evening. Each presenter gets 10 minutes total, including demo and discussion. Presenters screen share on the main display via Google Meet while walking the room through what they are building, what problem they are solving and where they would like feedback. Think of it as somewhere between a lightning talk, a product demo, and group office hours. You do not need to have it all figured out. Early is fine. Half-built is fine. Bring what you are working on. Share notes. Ask for feedback. Help someone else move faster. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Demos • 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.: Debrief + Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #128: Show Your Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-13-thetis-lake-highlands-2402026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-240.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week takes the Deep Highlands loop, about nine kilometres with 300 metres of climbing. The line goes over Seymour Hill and Stewart Mountain, rugged and overgrown in places. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 15 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #13: Thetis Lake Highlands https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2192026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-219.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-129-the-long-game-1512026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-151.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #129: The Long Game https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-14-east-sooke-coast-trail-2412026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-241.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week follows the East Sooke coast trail to Beechey Head, eight kilometres return with 250 metres of climbing. It follows the coast the whole way, rolling over roots, rocks and uneven ground, with petroglyphs at Alldridge Point. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 45 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #14: East Sooke Coast Trail https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2202026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-220.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/tenfold-victoria-130-what-we-built-1522026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-152.avifIt's Tuesday again. Tenfold is for builders. You do not need to have everything figured out. But you should be building something: a company, a project, a skill, a prototype, a body of work, a research direction, a creative practice, a future. The energy that makes Tenfold special comes from people showing up with momentum, curiosity and a willingness to contribute. If you want to "see what's out there" this is not for you. The magic is showing up with work of your own, sharing and helping others bring their ideas to life. Back to the lab. Agenda • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m.: Updates & Intros • 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.: Chill Co-Working / Build Time • 8:00 to 9:00 p.m.: Demos, Feedback, Wrap-Up Important: arrive curious, ambitious, open-minded and ready to contribute. Always.Tenfold Victoria #130: What We Built https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-15-mount-work-2422026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-242.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs the Mount Work summit trail, five kilometres return with about 350 metres of climbing. It gets steep and rocky near the summit. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 30 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #15: Mount Work https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2212026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-221.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/touch-grass-16-mount-manuel-quimper-2432026-09-01monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-243.pngAn unstructured Sunday walk for the local tech community. No talks, no agenda, nobody presenting. This week climbs Mount Manuel Quimper, ten kilometres with about 480 metres of ascent on a sustained climb. It is community-organised rather than guided, with no leader and no outdoor programme, so bring water, layers, and shoes you do not mind wrecking. Reckon on 45 minutes of driving from downtown, and watch the community Discord for route or weather changes beforehand. Check the event page for the exact meeting point and to register.Touch Grass #16: Mount Manuel Quimper https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2222026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-222.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/christmas-day-2502026-09-02monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-250.jpgA Community event on Friday, December 25, 2026.Christmas Day https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/openhack-victoria-2232026-08-30monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-223.avifOpenHack Victoria meets every Tuesday evening at 6pm at the James Joyce Bistro inside Peacock Billiards, 1175 Douglas Street, with introductions at 6:15pm. Attendees bring their own laptops and work on whatever they like: open source, closed source, side projects, or paid work, with all experience levels and technologies welcome. Food and drinks are available from the restaurant but not provided, and the group is sponsored by Super Good and coordinated through its Discord.OpenHack Victoria https://greyskytech.com/wheres-anu/swans-pub-networking-january-1552026-08-17monthly0.6 https://greyskytech.com/images/events/event-155.jpgPMI Vancouver Island's networking evening at Swans Pub, a recurring fixture for the project management community on the Island. Turn up, meet people who run projects for a living, and talk about what is actually working. Admission includes appetizers, and the evening carries 2 PDUs under Power Skills. Members, non-members and students are all welcome.Swans Pub Networking - January