
VHT to Speak at the Futureproof Festival of AI 2026
Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, will give the talk "Where care happens" at the Futureproof Festival of AI in Vancouver on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
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Updated Oct 23, 2026

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Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, will give the talk "Where care happens" at the Futureproof Festival of AI in Vancouver on Thursday, October 29, 2026.
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Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, will give the talk "Where care happens" at the Futureproof Festival of AI in Vancouver on Thursday, October 29, 2026.

At B.E.L.L.E's Seattle AI Summit in Bellevue, VHT pitched in the startup pitch session and our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, won 1st place in the Bloome AI hackathon.

VHT Beta is Live!

Our co-founders pitched VHT in the Seed Track at Venture Summit West 2026, held June 16–17 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Virtual Healthcare Technologies is proud to recognize Professor Maryam Tanha and her students for their capstone work enhancing secure file upload protections within the VHT.ai platform, supporting safer handling of sensitive healthcare data through cybersecurity, automation, and clinical validation.

As always the professors at NorthEastern University and their dedicated students have showcased another excellent project with VHT. Professor Qurat and team worked diligently with VHT to apply an extra layer of ethics between our AI model ECHNA and patients /providers.
02Featured moments
4 events in photos. Select one to open its entry in the timeline below.
Showcase partner · VancouverSpring 2026 showcaseNortheastern University Vancouver Student Research Showcase, Spring 2026
SpeakerExhibitor · VancouverAI Summit Vancouver 2025
Showcase partner · VancouverSpring 2025 showcaseNortheastern University Vancouver capstone showcase
Speaker · VancouverVancouver AI #14Vancouver AI Community Meetup #1403Talks and events
The talks, showcases, sponsorships and pitches where the VHT team has presented since 2024, with event names as the organizers published them.
All: 15
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
Talk: Where care happens
Featured talk by our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, followed by a joint Q&A.
Bellevue, WA
Our President & co-founder pitched VHT in the Startup Pitch Competition, and our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, took 1st place in the Bloome Lightning Talk + Mini Hackathon (a 70-minute build).
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
The co-founders presented VHT on stage in the seed-track pitch session, with feedback from the investor panel.
Northeastern University Vancouver, Vancouver
Our two spring capstone teams, LLM Tribunal and file-upload security, presented their posters and results.
Seattle, WA
Talk: VHT.ai fireside chat with the co-founders
A fireside conversation recorded in the event’s pop-up podcast studio.
Vancouver
VHT sponsored and co-hosted this private, by-approval evening after AI Summit Vancouver.
SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver
Talk: Ethical AI Decision-Making in Healthcare: When Algorithms Surpass Human Judgment
Talk by our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, at SFU Harbour Centre, plus a VHT startup booth.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, was named a winner with a 17-song album built from about 1,000 BC survey responses, and presented it on stage.
Northeastern University Vancouver, Vancouver
VHT presented at Northeastern University Vancouver during SIGGRAPH 2025 week.
Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver
Northeastern University Vancouver, Vancouver
The treatment-plan AI team presented VHT’s first capstone at the poster showcase.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, presented the VHT and Northeastern collaboration and ethical AI across patient care and operations.
Northeastern University Vancouver, Vancouver
VHT sponsored this debate between AI optimists and AI doomers, and our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, co-hosted it as one of five hosts.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, Vancouver
Talk: AI’s medical revolution
Our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, presented a mental-health chatbot prototype.
BCIT Burnaby Campus, Burnaby
Talk: Ethics of AI in Healthcare
Talk by our founder & CTO, Dean Shev, at the BCIT Burnaby campus.
04Press & media
These are the podcasts, articles and videos in which VHT and its work were featured.
Announcement ·
Partnership announcement and a co-founder reel.
Podcast ·
The co-founders on VHT’s digital twin and proactive healthcare.
Video ·
A short video feature on VHT.
Event organizers, journalists and podcast hosts can reach the team through our contact form about talks, panels, showcases and interviews.
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