Why Signals 2024 is the One Creative Tech Event You Can’t Afford to Miss
Are you part of the creative industries in the Greater Vancouver area and ready to export, or new to exporting and looking to break into international markets?
Immersive experiences that ignite imaginations
We can tell you what creative technology is, but nothing beats experiencing it. That’s why DigiBC works to create opportunities for people to immerse themselves in the amazing work our BC studios produce. We facilitate inspiring and engaging creative technology experiences to ensure that everyone can see, feel, and experience the magic of creative technology and the worlds it creates.
Signals is an interactive and immersive expo showcasing bold and innovative storytelling in video games, XR, virtual production, and AI—all with a focus on world-class Canadian and Indigenous works.
Presented by DigiBC and VIFF, this unique interactive and immersive creative tech expo will take place in Vancouver from September 27 to October 6, 2024.
The Signals Creative Tech Expo offers talented producers in the XR space a unique opportunity to celebrate and elevate their capabilities—and to bring their original, exciting, and compelling work to a global audience. We’re supporting mid-career producers with projects in development, and from early career producers seeking hands-on learning.
DigiBC has partnered with Science World to create joint initiatives, events, and interactive exhibits that aim to educate and engage our communities about the opportunities and innovations in digital media and creative technology—all to inspire and nurture the next generation of tech talent in British Columbia. Dream Builder, featuring Phoenix Labs’ Dauntless video game, opened in September 2023 and continues until 2025, when a new creative technology exhibit will open and feature another member studio.
Are you part of the creative industries in the Greater Vancouver area and ready to export, or new to exporting and looking to break into international markets?
A warehouse in False Creek flats is being transformed from an industrial blank slate to a portal to a digital future rich in imagination and possibility. And it’s all to set the stage for Signals: Vancouver’s annual creative tech expo.
Join us for an Inspiring, transformative, immersive works that will change the way you see the future September 27 to October 6, 2024.
Science World’s Creative Technology Gallery won an award at this year’s Canadian Association of Science Centres (CASC) CASCADE awards in the $1M+ category. The gallery, a 3,000-square-foot immersive space, highlights British Columbia’s vibrant fusion of science, art, and technology.
Signals 2023 showcased over 35 interactive and immersive works that question our connections to each other, the world, and the part technology plays. It was a jam-packed week where attendees had the opportunity to play, watch and interact with the technology of tomorrow from B.C. video game studios, Canadian and Indigenous artists, and international AI and bio-wearable creators.
Signals 2022 curated 35 groundbreaking projects that showcased the vast possibilities of creative technology.