V-Unframed's Industry Day introduces a new
professional platform within Vancouver’s immersive festival. The 2026 theme is “Human in the Circle.”
The day blends panels, a short podcast series, showcases, networking, and a VIP reception offering
industry guests an exclusive first look at the exhibition.
It brings together French and Canadian creators, cultural institutions, and industry leaders in XR, immersive arts, and interactive
storytelling.
Discussions will be held in
English.
12:45PM-1:15PM
Registration
and 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
2 | 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
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 5 (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.