V-UNFRAMED 2026 | INDUSTRY DAY

V-UNFRAMED 2026 | INDUSTRY DAY

Human in the Circle

V-UNFRAMED’s Industry Day debuts as a professional platform inside Vancouver’s immersive festival, featuring a full day of programming leading into a VIP reception and the festival opening.

The day combines panel discussions, showcases, a short podcast series, networking opportunities, and a VIP reception offering an exclusive first look at the exhibition.

Dedicated to exploring the future of narrative creation, the 2025 edition brings together French and Canadian creators, cultural institutions, and industry leaders in XR, immersive arts, and interactive storytelling.

🗣️ All discussions will be held in English.

Program

12:45PM – 1:15PM | ☕ Registration & Welcome Coffee

1:15PM - 1:45PM | PANEL 1 — Curating the Circle — a 30-minute interviewer-led conversation on what belongs in an immersive program now.

1:45PM - 2:20PM | PANEL — Conversations with Intelligent Systems — intelligent characters, responsive spaces, and living narratives. How can voice, movement, presence, sound, memory, and generative systems create more engaging interactions?

2:20PM - 2:35PM | From Prompt to Presence — a Real-Time Live! Style interactive demonstration by Multimodal Media Lab, showing human decisions, failure, and intervention.

2:35PM - 2:50PM | ☕Coffee Break

2:50PM-3:35PM | Cloud Bodies / Allison Moore — a visiting and exhibiting artist case study.

3:35PM-4:00PM | Step Into the Circle: Your topic, your turn: a panel where the audience sets the agenda.

4:00PM - 4:15PM | ☕Coffee Break

4:15PM-5:00PM | PANEL 3 — AI-in-the-Loop — what happens when intelligent systems blur the line between human and artificial? A conversation with thinkers, developers, artists, and philosophers about emerging creative realities.

5:00PM-5:45PM | PANEL 4 — (Re)Building the Circle — what now? How do we build with the human at the centre, while embracing the affordances of emerging technologies?

6:00PM – 9:00PM | 🍸 VIP Reception & Cocktail — Gathering leading into the V-Unframed Exhibition Opening

Presented by Allliance Française Vancovuer

With the support of Institut Français Canada, Institut Français / Novembre Numérique, Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC, Government of British Columbia, MetroVancouver, Gouvernement du Québec

In partnership with Centre for Digital Media, Conseil Jeunesse francophone de C-B., MML, MOVE37XR, Northeastern University, re:Naissance | IndieFest, Space Centre, UBC Department of Theatre and Film