Your place to connect, learn, and get hands-on with AI.
Be part of Vancouver’s growing AI community. Connect with people, programs, and resources, develop practical skills, and bring your ideas to life. Coming soon: access to a Canadian sovereign AI stack where you can experiment, test, and create.
ALEBEX Voice AI
Developer Hackathon
Build a real-time voice agent.
Join a live demo, build solo or with a team during a 2.5-hour sprint, then share your project at Show & Tell. No coding experience needed.
- When
12:00–4:00 PM · Vancouver (PDT)- Where
- AIC Founders Lab, 2nd Floor
570 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver - Bring
- A laptop and charger. Developer access, credits, technical support and pizza provided.
Built at AIC · ALEBEX AI
From problem → product → deployment.
ALEBEX AI was built at AIC and is deployed with real Canadian businesses: it handles routine calls, reminders, bookings, follow-ups, and intake, with human escalation built in. It's working proof of AIC's execution capability.
Missed-call recovery, booking, lead follow-up, and routine admin.
Explore ALEBEX AIBuilt at AIC. Independently benchmarked.
Canada’s #1 streaming speech-to-text model was built at AIC.
Alebex STT recorded a 3.96% word error rate for final transcription—placing #1 in Canada and #8 worldwide on the September 21, 2026 Artificial Analysis AA-WER Streaming Index.
Canada
Build the next Canadian AI success story.
Alebex went from an AIC-incubated idea to Canada’s top-ranked streaming speech-to-text model and a global top-10 contender. If you are building ambitious AI, bring it to AIC.
Build, validate or scale a company
Join Founders Lab, get mentorship, and grow through the accelerator.
Founders Lab I'm an organization
Train my team & adopt AI
Executive AI, corporate training, adoption, and applied pilots.
AI Adoption & Applied Research I'm a researcher / builder
Research, prototype and build
Applied research, AI pilots, and real AI infrastructure.
Applied Research I want to join the community
Meet founders, mentors & investors
Innovation Nights, workshops, and the AIC founder community.
Join the Community01 How AIC Works
One ecosystem, from first connection to scale.
People and ideas enter the AIC ecosystem, and move through a clear journey into skills, validated products, and real companies.
- 01
Connect
Find your community
- 02
Learn
Develop AI capability
- 03
Build
Turn ideas into products
- 04
Validate
Test in the real world
- 05
Accelerate
Prepare for growth
- 06
Scale
Access wider markets
02 Four Core Pillars
Four ways into one ecosystem.
Pillar 01
Founders Lab
Community, mentors and a pathway to acceleration.
Explore Founders Lab
Pillar 02
AI Adoption
Practical AI skills for leaders, teams and developers.
Explore AI Adoption
Pillar 03
Applied Research
Applied research, validated pilots and AI infrastructure.
Explore Applied Research
Pillar 04
Accelerator
Selective support from ideation to investor readiness.
Explore the Accelerator03 Founders Lab
Find your people.
Build your next chapter.
Join a community built for founders. Validate your idea with experienced support. Build the traction that opens new opportunities.
Membership is open. Acceleration is selective. Investor introductions are available to qualified companies and do not guarantee funding.
Featured AIC Venture
From idea to real-world venture.
Out of Box is a venture built through the AIC ecosystem, proof that AIC doesn't only teach innovation, it helps create companies. It moved through the same journey every AIC venture takes: idea, build, validation, launch.
AIC's model in practice: community, mentorship, applied building, and commercialization support, turned into a real venture.
Built through the AIC ecosystem.
04 For Organizations
Practical AI for your business, training, adoption, automation, pilots.
Came here to put AI to work in your organization? That's a core part of the ecosystem. AIC trains Canadian teams to adopt AI agents, RAG knowledge systems, voice AI, and automation workflows that cut repetitive work and lift productivity, from a free readiness review to real, measurable results.
AI agentsRAG knowledge systemsVoice AIAutomation workflows
Executive briefings, corporate training and workforce upskilling, practical, role-based, and paced to your business.
Applied research, prototypes and AI pilots through AIC Applied Research, test it before you scale it.
Training may qualify for employer funding. AIC can guide eligible employers through programs like the BC Employer Training Grant. Funding is not guaranteed.
05 Quick Answers
Frequently asked questions.
What is the Alexander Innovation Centre?
AIC is a Vancouver-based AI innovation ecosystem. It connects founders, AI talent, researchers, companies and investors through four pillars: Founders Lab (community and startup funnel), AI Adoption (AI training and upskilling), Applied Research (applied research and pilots), and Accelerator (structured startup acceleration).
How do founders join AIC?
Founders enter through Founders Lab open membership: join the community, take part in events and workshops, build with mentors and peers, and get discovered. Promising startups can progress into AIC's selective acceleration pathway.
Where should my business start with AI?
Start with a free AI Readiness Review. AIC looks at how your work actually flows and shows you where AI will save time or money, and where it won't, before you spend on any tools.
Can AIC train my team?
Yes. AIC trains owners, managers, and staff to use AI in real business tasks, from half-day briefings to multi-week cohorts, delivered in Vancouver or virtually across Canada.
Visit Us
Our Innovation Hub
Downtown Vancouver, steps from Granville Station.
Alexander Innovation Centre
#101 - 570 Dunsmuir Street, First Floor
Vancouver, BC V6B 1Y1
Getting Here
- SkyTrain Granville Station (2-minute walk)
- Bus Multiple routes along Granville and Dunsmuir
- Parking Nearby parkades on Seymour and Howe
Get Involved
Find your place in the ecosystem.
Whether you're founding a company, training a team, researching, investing, or mentoring, AIC is built to help ideas become real.