Tuesday, September 22, 2026
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
780 Blanshard, 780 Blanshard Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2H1 (open in Google Maps)
Free Event
Presented by BRIDGE Impact AI
A 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.
Anu's Take
Their own site publishes numbers, not just a commitment: dollars distributed, projects funded, youth supported. Publishing a number is a harder commitment than a statement of intent, and pre-launch is the moment to ask what it looks like at scale.
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Published Saturday, August 29, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
Turning a commitment into something a team actually does is the whole problem, and it is the one I wrote up here: why the plan matters more than the platform.