AI + Creativity + Ethics (ACE) Winnipeg

September Session Topic: What’s Your AI Code?

Responsible AI can feel abstract until it shows up in our own creativity, work and everyday decisions.

This interactive ACE Club session asks a more personal question:  What’s Your AI Code?

• We’ll begin with a representative from DesCan sharing how the design community is approaching AI and responsible creative practice, including emerging principles, questions and resources.
• Using DesCan’s work as an example, participants will take part in a guided session to identify their own personal AI code, reflecting on real-world AI uses and considering what feels comfortable, what depends on the situation, where the grey areas are and what lines they would not cross.
• We’ll then bring those choices to life with a live room visualization, asking participants to position themselves based on their personal stance from the working session.
• We’ll explore where the room aligned, where it didn’t, what challenged our thinking and whose perspectives may still be missing.
• We’ll close with providing resources to bring the key principles into our own lives and keep the conversation going.
• The goal is not to create one universal code for responsible AI, but to each leave with clarity on our own AI Code.

Participants arrive asking: “What are guidelines for responsible AI?” and leave with clarity: “What are my guidelines and why”

Agenda:

6:00 pm: Doors open for networking & refreshments

6:30 pm: presentation starts

7:30 pm: networking

8:00 pm: wrap up

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Winnipeg has remarkable creative talent, emerging tech leadership, and strong community values. Now is the moment to shape how AI intersects with human creativity — before the conversation is shaped for us.

The AI + Creativity + Ethics (ACE) Club fosters a trusted, welcoming space where creatives, educators, students, technologists, policymakers, and whoever feels called can come together to explore AI’s capabilities alongside the ethical and societal implications of its use.

This group is particularly focused on AI’s evolving impact on creative work and those who make it, and strives to remain grounded in mutual respect and ethical responsibility for all humans.

✨WHAT TO EXPECT

✔️ A welcoming, inclusive space that embraces diverse perspectives and is grounded in mutual respect for human creativity

✔️ Member-led discussion topics

✔️ “What We’ve Learned” reflection

✔️ Clear next steps to contribute to the broader community

✔️ Upcoming opportunities to engage across Manitoba’s AI, creative, and ethics ecosystem

✔️ As interest and membership grow, we will invite guest speakers aligned with our mission

🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING

✔️ Curiosity, creativity, and ethical reflection

✔️ This club brings together community members who are curious about shaping how AI influences creative practice, education, and ethical decision-making

✔️ The goal is not only to exchange ideas, but to translate shared insights into meaningful action that benefits Manitobans

✔️ We welcome all voices who want to create a welcoming, inclusive space open to differing perspectives, founded in mutual respect for human creativity and innovation

About the hosts:

AI + Creativity + Ethics (ACE) Winnipeg is hosted by a group of Founding Members dedicated to creating a trusted, welcoming space to explore not only what AI can do, but what it should and should not do, in the creative industry — grounded in mutual respect for human creativity and innovation.

This Event’s Founders Include:

Sara Berger
Sara is a Business Consultant passionate about connecting ideas and people to create momentum, whether inside organizations or across Manitoba’s innovation and non-profit communities. She believes meaningful progress comes from asking thoughtful questions, listening well, and simply doing the next right thing.

Ari Quinn
Ari is a graphic designer and illustrator who designs with intention, not just aesthetics. Her work is illustration-driven and rooted in problem-solving, helping turn complex and sensitive information into visuals that feel clear and approachable.

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New Media Manitoba’s AI Adoption Project is funded by Prairies Economic Development Canada | Développement économique Canada pour les Prairies.

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