Applying AI Events in Amsterdam

AI-Powered Review Analysis with DuckDB and Hugging Face: Build an Automated Customer Feedback Pipeline

*** HANDS-ON WORKSHOP, BRING YOUR LAPTOP! ***

Notes:

• Space is limited, so sign up for your spot, and note it is from 12:00 to 17:00. If you're not going to make it, please unregister.
• The workshop is on the 4th floor, rooms 04.508 and 04.509.
• Bring a photo ID for check in at reception.
• Lunch and drinks are included.

Abstract:
Ratings are slipping, thousands of reviews are piling up, and nobody knows why. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll build a pipeline that finds out automatically.

Working with 2.1 million real Amazon reviews from the Hugging Face Hub, you’ll use DuckDB to pinpoint which products are declining. Then you’ll connect that SQL to an LLM with Gradio’s gr.Workflow, so the model reads only the complaints that matter and reports the themes behind them. Finally, you’ll deploy it as a live Hugging Face Space, backed by Storage Buckets and callable as an API.

You’ll leave with a working app and a pattern you can apply to your own customer data!

Speaker: Pratik Patel is an AI Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at Hugging Face. He has written 3 books on programming, Cloud and OSS. An all around software and hardware nerd with experience in the healthcare, telecom, financial services, and startup sectors. He's co-organizer of Enterprise AI Atlanta and the Atlanta Java User Group, and conference chairperson for Devnexus. He also writes about his knowledge (and adventures) in tech, is a frequent speaker at tech events, and master builder of nachos.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) meetup in Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Software House and The Financial News Network invite you to a morning of expert talks, honest conversations with peers from the industry, and a good breakfast with a view over Amsterdam.

We’d love to see you there!

● **9:00 **| Registration, coffee, good food and even better conversations

● **9:30 | **Presentation: "One Year of Building with AI. What Worked, What Didn't" by Marek Gajda, COO @ The Software House

● **10:00 | **Quick quiz: win AirPods, a Kindle and more

● 10:05 | Panel Discussion: "One Year In. How Fintech Teams (Don’t) Build with AI" [Panelists from: Finom, Rabobank & Uber]

● 10:35–12:00 | Coffee, Food & Networking

• Sendil Nellaiyapen, Engineering Manager II @ Uber
• Koen van Gilst, Principal Engineer at @Rabobank
• Dmitry Ivanov, CTO at Finom
• Marek Gajda, COO & co-Founder, ex-CTO @ The Software House

You can build a fintech product over a weekend with AI. That's the promise many tech leaders hear.

At this Business Breakfast, Marek Gajda, COO at The Software House, will share what one year of AI-driven software delivery taught TSH teams. He'll bring examples from projects for banks & fintechs with the wins, the setbacks, and the new problems that replaced the old ones.

You'll get the full picture:

● where AI speeds up delivery,

● where it creates new work,

● and what changes for companies that handle money and customer data.

We will continue the discussion during a panel moderated by Michał Szehidewicz AI & Fintech Strategy Consultant @ The Software House. Product and technology leaders who spent the past year building with AI will share their own experience.

Did they face the same challenges, or different ones?

Wonderful is valued at $5 billion and operates in more than 35 countries. Its secret weapon? Forward deployed engineers, embedded directly within customers to make AI work in production.

On November 18, Sako Arts, CTO Netherlands at Wonderful, joins Whale for a fireside chat with Joris (leading Deployment at Duna) about all things forward deployed engineering.

We'll cover:

• What marks a good forward deployed engineer
• Why embedding with customers beats one-size-fits-all SaaS in an AI-first environment
• Navigating white-glove service and scalability
• managing executives and day-to-day stakeholders
• How to structure change management

Agenda

• 17:00 – Doors open
• 17:15 – Fireside chat & Q&A with Sako
• 18:00–19:00 – Drinks and bites

**About **Sako Arts
CTO Netherlands at Wonderful, the AI platform putting agents on the front lines of customer service across voice, chat, and email

This September, Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C led by Insight Partners, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion in under six months. Before Wonderful, Sako co-founded FruitPunch AI.

About Whale 🐳
We bring the next generation of operators and founders together - through expert-led sessions, dinner and hackathons.

Join our technical meetup for AI engineers & founders!

We share the latest AI devtools, APIs, RAG & Agent frameworks, techniques, models and much more!

// FOR WHO

• ✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
• ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
• ⚠️ Basic LLM knowledge required to fully enjoy the talks!*

// AGENDA

17:30 👋 Walk-in

18:00 🍕 Pizza

18:30 💻 TBA

18:45 🎤 TBA

19:00 💻 TBA

19:15 🤝 Drinks & Networking

21:00 🔚 End

Your blood test results sit in a PDF. Your sleep data lives in one app, your steps in another. Most of us never connect the dots. Some people already use AI to do exactly that.

**Main speaker: **Mike Alexandrovski

Mike founded Dostavista in 2012 and grew it into Borzo, a same-day delivery company operating in 10 countries and headquartered in Amsterdam. Now he applies the same engineering mindset to his own health.

He built a personal health protocol system with AI that combines ~1,000 biomarkers, his full genome, wearables and MRI scans. It breaks the body into 100+ subsystems and generates one protocol for diet, supplements, exercise, lifestyle and checkups. He’ll walk us through it live, including where AI fell short and where human judgment still mattered.

**Also on stage: **Rafaela Buena

Rafaela is the founder of Gigi, an AI gut health companion for women. After years of gut symptoms no one could explain, she built the tool she wished existed, herself, with AI, from lived experience. She also runs AI workshops and coaching, after 15+ years in communications, brand and storytelling.

She’ll share her story: what AI helped her see, what she built, and what she learned along the way. Her experience, not a product demo.

Then it’s your turn: open mic

We’re opening the stage to 2 to 3 more people who use AI for their health or well-being. Reading lab results. Tracking sleep. Managing energy. Staying sane while everything around us speeds up.

15 minutes each. Real experiences only. No pitches, no medical advice.

Want to share? Pick the "I want to be a speaker" ticket and describe your story in 1 to 2 sentences. We'll confirm speakers by November 11.

Agenda

• 17:30 Doors open, drinks
• 18:00 Mike Alexandrovski: live walkthrough of his AI health protocol system
• 18:30 Rafaela Buena: an AI context layer for women’s gut health
• 18:45 Open mic: 2 to 3 stories, 15 minutes each
• 19:30 Q&A with Mike, Rafaela and the storytellers
• 19:45 Networking until 20:30

Who it’s for

Founders, builders and curious people who want to understand their own health data better, and anyone wondering how others keep their energy up in a year where AI changes everything every week.

Worth knowing

Nothing shared on stage is medical advice. Talk to your doctor before changing anything based on what you hear. And keep your own data private: you don’t need to share anything personal to join.

A community event

This is a community event, not a business. Ticket money goes towards the space. Pay what feels right, minimum €10.

Hosted by Vibe Coding Amsterdam. Small, real conversations over headcount.

Welcome to the biggest Practical AI Meetup in Amsterdam!

Join us once a month as we explore the world of artificial intelligence, its cutting-edge practical applications, and the astonishing projects that are shaping our future.

Why should you attend?

• Get up close and personal with the AI projects that are redefining the boundaries of technology and human potential.
• Learn from the brightest minds in the field and gain valuable insights into the ever-evolving AI landscape.
• Unleash your curiosity, fuel your creativity, and expand your network as you connect with fellow AI aficionados and pioneers.

What you can expect?

Mindstone events consist of three talks covering different aspects:

• What I Learned Building With LLMs: A technical talk breaking down the process for building a product using AI with real-life learnings and insights.
• How To Be More Productive Using AI: A practical demo and step-by-step guide on how to use AI to speed up and improve tasks.
• What Does The Future Look Like With AI?: A theoretical talk on the impact of AI on work, life and society.

After the talks we'll have pizza, drinks, and time to connect with everyone around you.

Don't miss the opportunity to see what's really happening in AI - you'll be surprised at what's already possible today.

We have limited spots available, so get your ticket ahead of time to avoid disappointment!

What if your website could tell an AI agent exactly what it can do?
AI agents are opening up new ways to navigate websites and perform tasks online. What does that mean for the websites we build—and how do we keep people in control?

Join WP Meetup Amsterdam for a practical introduction to WebMCP with Fellyph Cintra. WebMCP is a proposal to help websites communicate their capabilities to AI agents, making it easier for agents to understand which actions are available.
Using examples in WordPress Playground, Fellyph will explore how this could change the way we interact with web applications and what it could mean for WordPress developers and site builders.

What you’ll explore

• What WebMCP proposes and how it connects websites with AI agents.
• Practical examples using WordPress Playground.
• Where to start experimenting and what precautions to consider.
• How you can contribute to the proposal as it evolves.

If you build WordPress websites, develop plugins, or want to understand how AI agents might interact with your projects, this talk offers a practical starting point.

About Fellyph Cintra
Fellyph has been involved with WordPress since 2008 and has spoken at more than 20 WordCamps worldwide. His recent talks include WordPress Playground and AI at WordCamp Asia 2026, and the latest developments in Playground at WordCamp Europe 2026.

Curious about what this could mean for your website? RSVP and join us to explore WebMCP with the Amsterdam WordPress community.

How do you decide, now that we all know AI is (just) a tool?

A breakfast session for Founders, Commercial and Brand Leaders who are done with the hype and want to talk about real decisions.

Who’s opening

Mehak Chowdhary, ex-VP Marketing at TestGorilla, will show how to find the pipeline hiding in your own database using Warmbound, and how the team’s intelligence engine turns ICP pain signals into a prioritized insights and content for every aspect of your business. Every topic is checked against real Google and AI search demand before anyone writes a word.

What you’ll see

Real AI Builds from the TestGorilla GTM team:

• What they cost
• What changed
• How we’re measuring results and ROI

Then it’s your turn

Mehak and Thomas van Til, VP GTM at Contentoo, will split the room into two groups. Expect an honest conversation about their bets, their builds and what they learned, with plenty of room to swap notes with the room. They have already been down a variety of AI rabbit holes, so you don’t have to.

Everyone gets a say, the quiet thinkers as much as the big talkers.

Two questions:

• How do you decide what to build, buy or outsource?
• What does a good marketing hire look like when demand for content is growing faster than your headcount, and you can’t afford to lose authenticity?

We keep an intimate group to have an open conversation (potentially about a tool that’s clearly not going anywhere) and form new connections.

Get measurable value from the AI your team already has.

At this free evening, two people from other teams show how they use AI at work, and we show what you can start doing right away in Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude.

The evening starts with a welcome, where you meet the other guests and we say who we are and what it is for. Then two short talks: people from other teams who use AI at work show what they do, what changed and what went wrong. After that we show what you can start this week in Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude, on work like your own. We finish with networking, so you can stay and talk with the speakers and with each other.

Thursday 19 November, 18:00 to 20:00. Amsterdam; the exact address will be sent to approved guests. You don't need to bring anything, and the event is free. The number of seats is limited. Apply now!

How AI Natives (hello@ainatives.pro) uses your details: ainatives.pro/privacy

Your best opportunities die in your inbox. Your team’s die in everyone else’s.

A follow-up nobody owns. Meeting notes nobody reads. Everyone is told to use AI, and everyone is still copy-pasting into ChatGPT on their own.

On Saturday 21 November you build an AI Chief of Staff. You start with yours: it remembers everyone you meet, turns meeting notes into tasks, drafts replies in your voice and answers you on Telegram or Slack. Then you set it up so your team can plug in, each person with their own access, and nothing goes out until a human says yes.

On Monday, you’re the person on your team who made AI actually work.

You’ll learn how to

• Build a shared CRM that fills itself from email, calendar and meeting notes, enriched with LinkedIn
• Turn meeting notes into tasks and reminders, for you and your team
• Decide who sees what: your inbox stays yours, shared work stays shared
• Keep a human in the loop: agents draft, you approve before anything goes out
• Run personal and team bots in Telegram or Slack
• Write a Skill once, in your voice, and let your team reuse it

You leave with a working system for yourself and a setup your team can join. Rolling it out to a whole team takes longer than a Saturday, and we’ll show you where to start.

Our signature workshop
Recently run with Elena Avramenko for HR leaders at the Global Talent Strategy & Intelligence Conference, and live on stage at VibeConf. Want it for your team? craftingproduct.io

How the day runs

• 10:30 Welcome: MCP, agents and skills in plain language
• 11:00 Build together, following the mentor on the big screen
• 12:15 Coffee
• 12:30 Keep building
• 14:00 Lunch
• 14:30 Finish your Chief of Staff
• 15:30 Show what you built
• 15:45 Wrap-up and drinks until 16:00

Practical

• Your ticket covers the space, food and $30 of Team Brain credits
• Bring your laptop and a free Team Brain account. Work email blocked? Use your personal one
• Optional: a Claude or ChatGPT subscription. Team Brain runs on it, which keeps costs low
• Heavier agents may need extra credits, so bring a card
• Notion works too, with fewer features and higher agent costs

Dima Abramov, Product Lead at Foundever and Lovable Ambassador (Founding Cohort) & Certified Partner, Founder of Vibe Coding Amsterdam. Ran EurHack NL, one of the Netherlands’ largest student hackathons, and hosted VibeConf at Pathé Tuschinski.

Aleks Shamis** - Co-founder and Managing Partner, s16vc**

A 4x founder and early-stage investor based in Amsterdam. Aleks co-founded and runs s16vc, a Founders-for-Founders fund investing from Pre-Seed to Series A across the US and Europe, backed by 200+ founder-operator LPs from companies like Miro, UiPath, Intercom, Datadog and HuggingFace. A self-described "fake VC," he became an investor to get inside the industry and reshape it around what founders actually need, and he runs the fund itself like a product.

“I had a great time and learned a ton. Both instructors did a fantastic job showing us how to use each tool... I would highly recommend.”

Jamie, June edition of this workshop

“It was an AI conference but it felt incredibly human and cozy.”

Lili, VibeConf

“Great energy, fun and loved the hands-on workshop!”

Attendee, Product Delight workshop in Paris

AI agents now write specs, ship prototypes and run research. So who does what in a product team now? One evening, two views of the same shift: inside a 13-PM product org at Semrush, and a founder running growth with a two-person team. Come find out, and meet the builders figuring it out.

This is a Vibe Coding Amsterdam community meetup, hosted at the Semrush office. Two talks from people living it, a fireside chat, then plenty of time to meet and talk with real builders. Food and drinks are on Semrush.

Talks

Pavel Kolesnikov****, Head of Product at Semrush
Pavel leads Online Visibility, Semrush's core product line, with a team of 13 PMs across SEO, AI search visibility and content. Over nearly eight years at Semrush, he grew the AI SEO product from zero to $30M+ ARR.

Agentic Work: How AI Is Redefining Roles in Product Teams. What actually changed inside Semrush's core product org: how PM and designer teams work now that AI prototyping is part of the process, what they learned after months of it, and how AI is changing the way they plan and set strategy. Useful if you're in planning season.

**Elena Avramenko****, co-founder of **Modaal.dev
She scaled growth programs at Miro and built new ventures at LEGO. Now she's building Modaal, a vibe-coding app for native mobile apps, with a two-person team. Her talk: how she got Modaal found in Google and AI search using Semrush and AI, when there's nobody to hand the work to.

This is for you if you're a PM, designer, engineer or founder building with AI, and your job description stopped matching what you actually do.

Schedule
17:30 Doors open, food and drinks
18:15 Welcome
18:20 Pavel Kolesnikov
18:45 Elena Avramenko
19:05 Fireside chat and Q&A with both, moderated by Dima
19:30 Drinks and meeting people
20:30 Wrap-up

Good to know

Limited spots. Registration is approval-based.

Plans changed? Cancel your RSVP so someone else gets your spot.

Entry instructions go to confirmed guests.

Hosted by Semrush, an Adobe company

About Vibe Coding Amsterdam
2,000+ community connections exploring AI tools by building with them, together. Meetups, buildathons and VibeConf. Anyone can build.

AI Native Netherlands is back! We'll be hosting our 14th edition at the Xebia office in Amsterdam, and this is our last meetup of the year.

A huge thank you to our friends at Xebia for hosting us and providing food and drinks. This is the second time Xebia has had us over, the OGs among you will remember the early editions.

This time, we're looking at two challenges that come with AI-assisted software development. First, how coding agents handle memory and context across sessions. Then, how teams can rethink collaboration when AI changes the speed of development and what individuals can accomplish on their own.

We'll cover:

• What coding agents actually remember, and what survives between sessions.
• The difference between session history and persistent memory, and why it matters.
• How Claude Code handles memory, with comparisons to Codex and Pi.
• Why traditional ways of collaborating may no longer work as AI accelerates development.
• How teams can establish clear responsibilities, shared standards, and processes that keep everyone aligned.
• What needs to change as individual developers become capable of doing more with AI.

Speaker 1: Vladislav Ramazaev (BlueDolphin)
Vlad is a Senior Software Engineer at BlueDolphin with 10+ years of experience in architecture and system design, across distributed systems, data pipelines and high-load services in C#/.NET, Kotlin and TypeScript.

At BlueDolphin, he works on the microservices behind an enterprise architecture SaaS platform. Previously, he built data pipelines for AI model training and evaluation and led architecture and delivery practices across multiple engineering teams.

Talk: Inside Coding Agents: What Survives Between Sessions
Your coding agent can recover a decision from months ago, but did it actually remember it?

This technical talk goes inside real coding-agent sessions to examine what gets stored, what survives context compaction, and what the model can access later. Using Claude Code as the main example, with focused contrasts from Codex and Pi, we'll separate session history from persistent memory and see how a correct observation can become harmful when its original scope is lost.

You'll leave with a clearer model of agent memory and practical principles for deciding what should be loaded automatically, reviewed regularly, or retrieved only when needed.

Speaker 2: Alexander Fisher (Xebia)
Alexander has a decade of experience in data, working across the full data stack, and now focuses on dbt. He takes pride in building elegant, scalable solutions and working closely with teams. Teaching, sharing knowledge, and helping others improve code quality are important parts of his work.

Talk: Collaboration in the Age of AI: A Process-Based Approach
AI is changing how quickly we develop software and how much we can accomplish individually. But many of the formal and informal conventions we've relied on to collaborate effectively aren't keeping up.

As individual capabilities grow, how do we make sure teams still work well together?

Alexander will explore how a process-based approach can help teams adapt to this shift. How do we establish clear responsibilities, maintain shared standards, and make sure everyone knows where to focus their efforts when the way we work is changing so quickly?

The talk looks at what needs to change in team collaboration as AI becomes a bigger part of everyday development.

Agenda:
18:00 — Arrival, food & drinks
18:45 — Talk #1 | Vladislav Ramazaev
19:30 — Talk #2 | Alexander Fisher
20:15 — Open conversation, networking & more drinks
21:00 — Wrapping up

What to bring:
Just curiosity and your own questions. Whether you're experimenting with coding agents, dealing with context and memory limitations, or figuring out how AI is changing collaboration within your team, we'd love to hear your experiences.

Who this is for:
Software engineers, AI engineers, data engineers, architects, tech leads, and engineering leaders working with AI-assisted development or exploring how AI is changing engineering teams.

Where to find us:
Xebia, Wibautstraat 200, 1091 TJ Amsterdam — Google Maps Link

One last thing:
Since this is our final edition of the year, come and close it out with us. Thank you for a great year, enjoy the holidays, and we'll see you at the end of January for the first meetup of 2027.

• ✅ Anyone building
• ✅ Devs, founders, ML engineers, product & data peeps
• ⚠️ Know what LLMs, RAG, and AI agents are, vibecoding something that worked once.*

AI Builders is a community organizing 100+ meetups and hackathons per year in Europe and the US. We're 11000+ devs, founders & engineers and growing fast! -> Grow with us!

// AGENDA

10:45 👋 Doors Open

11:00 📋 Welcome & Challenges

11:20 🤝 Pitching & Team Matching

12:00 🌯 Lunch (sponsored)

13:00 🚀 Hack Session (Day 1)

14:00 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

16:00 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

19:00 🌯 Dinner (sponsored)

20:00 🚀 Overnight Hack Session

00:00 🚀 Quiet Hours (continue hacking or sleep)

09:00 🌯 Breakfast

10:00 🚀 Hack Session (Day 2)

10:30 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

11:30 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

14:00 🌯 Lunch

15:00 🚀 Final Polish

15:45 💬 Submissions Close

16:00 🏆 Demos & Judging

17:00 🔚 End & Awards

• What is AI Builders? A nonprofit community of 8000+ AI builders running 100+ events a year across Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, Rotterdam & Miami. All volunteer-driven. All in-person. Maximum community vibes since 2023.
• Why the donation? 1) So we can count heads (venues have max capacity, pizza has a shelf life) 2) Sponsors don't cover everything yet. Every euro goes back into the community.
• Can I co-host? Message Ilya if we still need co-hosts, or grab a free ticket. You arrive 1.5h early, help with setup and welcoming. In return: you meet literally everyone. Fastest networking hack we know.
• Can I speak? Apply at aibuilders.club/speaking. Every lineup is picked from there, so a demo with working code beats a pitch deck.
• ⚠️ I'm not technical - can I come? Absolutely. But to get the most out of it, you should be comfortable with concepts like LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and API calls. Not sure what those mean? Ask any chatbot - that's what they're for.
• Why bother going to meetups in 2026? 80+ builders in the room. 8000+ in the community. Talks with actual code, not thought-leadership slides. Good pizza. Bad jokes. The kind of conversations that turn into side projects, first clients, and startups.

What does AI look like when the goal isn’t profit but impact? For this edition of Data & Drinks, we’re dedicating the evening to AI for Good. Join us on Thursday 26th of November, from 17:30 to 21:00, at our new Xomnia office (Vierwindenstraat 149, Amsterdam).

During this event, we will host three talks: the Netherlands Red Cross and Xomnia will share how they use LLMs to analyse humanitarian feedback at scale, Rainforest Alliance will show how AI helps them reach millions of farmers with the right training, and Doctors Without Borders will walk us through how they built the foundations for safe AI adoption across their organization.

This free event includes food, drinks and plenty of networking opportunities with data professionals from Amsterdam and beyond.

Schedule

• 17:30 - 18:20: Welcome with food and drinks!
• 18:20 - 18:30: Opening notes
• 18:30 - 18:55: Analyzing humanitarian feedback with LLMs, by Daan Gorsse (Netherlands Red Cross) and Olaf de Graaff (Xomnia)
• 18:55 - 19:20: Meeting the learner where they are at, by Daniel Uosukainen and Saana Sirkkala (Rainforest Alliance)
• 19:20 - 19:35: Break
• 19:35 - 20:00: Building the foundations for safe AI adoption at MSF, by Derek Loots (Doctors Without Borders)
• 20:00 - 21:00: Networking/drinks

Talk 1: Analyzing humanitarian feedback with LLMs, by Daan Gorsse and Olaf de Graaff
When a crisis hits, Red Cross teams all over the world receive large volumes of community feedback every day: questions, complaints, comments and requests, in many languages. Reading, classifying and interpreting all of it by hand doesn’t scale, and getting it wrong means missing what people need. In this talk, 510, the data and digital team of the Netherlands Red Cross, shows how they built an open-source service together with Xomnia. It plugs into their CRM, anonymizes the feedback and uses LLMs to summarize, classify and spot trends across thousands of records. They’ll share the lessons learned along the way.

About Daan: Daan Gorsse is a Data Specialist in the 510 team at the Netherlands Red Cross, where he designs and implements data platforms, feedback management systems and AI-enabled analytical tools for humanitarian organisations around the world. He works with teams across multiple countries to turn large volumes of community feedback and operational data into structured, actionable insights.

About Olaf: Olaf de Graaff is a Machine Learning Engineer at Xomnia, currently focused on agentic AI. For almost two years, he has worked as a data and machine learning engineer for a range of organisations, including 510 on their qualitative feedback analysis service. Outside of work, he loves to travel, play squash and outpace his colleagues on a run.

Talk 2: Meeting the learner where they are at: Agile production and targeted reach through AI, by Daniel Uosukainen and Saana Sirkkala
Rainforest Alliance’s certification programmes aim to reach millions of farmers to make social and environmental impact in some of the most biodiverse landscapes on the planet. Training is a crucial part of that: every year, thousands of face-to-face trainings are held and tens of thousands of people take part in online learning across the globe. So how do you produce effective learning at scale without losing touch with local contexts? And how do you make sure learners can rely on validated content when it’s easier to just ask a chatbot? This is the story of how instructional designers are meeting the AI future head-on to increase impact in the field.

About Daniel: Daniel Uosukainen is Manager Instructional Design at Rainforest Alliance. With a background in social sciences and international development, he has spent most of his seven years there as a trainer and instructional design generalist, from train-the-trainer models and participatory training to monitoring and evaluation and managing the systems that deliver learning to tens of thousands of learners.

About Saana: Saana Sirkkala is Manager Instructional Design at Rainforest Alliance. With a background in political science, public health, leadership and international development, she has built expertise in programme and project management over nearly four years, with a growing focus on scaling the organisation’s product portfolio. Today, she explores how AI can improve learning, support decision-making and streamline workflows for hundreds of thousands of future learners.

Talk 3: Building the foundations for safe AI adoption at MSF, by Derek Loots
This session explores how Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) rapidly built and adopted cloud and AI solutions by investing in people, alignment and modern ways of working. It covers the MSF AI Assistant, used by 4,000 people every month, a coordinated Copilot rollout, health promotion tools and other solutions making an impact in the field. Derek will share the journey, the governance choices, and the key lessons and challenges along the way.

About Derek: Derek Loots is the AI Tech Lead at Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, where he leads the AI portfolio across delivery, governance, security, training and adoption. He co-delivered the MSF AI Assistant and has built shared AI infrastructure and solutions now used across the organisation. Before MSF, he worked as a consultant and senior cloud engineer, specialising in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, data platforms and CI/CD.

Important note:
Spots are limited! Please cancel your registration if you cannot attend.

Mapping the Future: GeoAI, From Vision to Reality 🗺️

What happens when AI agents start working with maps? Geospatial data is about to get a whole lot smarter, and we want to show you how!

Join us on Thursday, November 26th for an evening of fresh ideas, great pizza, and hands-on assignments. Speakers from Felt (the AI-native GIS platform) and Databricks (the Data and AI company) will share their vision for the future of geospatial data in an AI-driven world, with a special focus on agentic AI.

After you've soaked up the knowledge of our speakers and asked your questions, it's your turn to apply your learning during a guided hands-on session.

No coding or technical Databricks experience is needed to participate, so just bring your curiosity, and we'll take care of the rest! 🚀

The Agenda
17:45 – 18:00 Walk-in
18:00 – 18:30 Pizza 🍕
18:30 – 19:10 Databricks: talk + Q&A
19:10 – 19:50 Felt: talk + Q&A
19:50 – 20:00 Break
20:00 – 20:40 Hands-on: working with an agentic geospatial use case
20:40 – 21:30 Networking 🍻

Each talk runs 30 minutes, with 10 minutes saved for your questions. The evening is hosted by RevoData.

What You'll Take Away
- A sneak peek at where the geospatial market is heading and which platforms are leading the way
- Inspiration and practical ideas to level up your day-to-day geospatial work with agentic AI
- Hands-on experience with an agentic geospatial use case, without writing a single line of code
- New connections with people tackling the same challenges as you

Who Should Attend
- GIS specialists and geospatial analysts
- Geoscientists and researchers
- Product owners and product managers
- Data professionals who work with location data
- Business users and team leads curious about what agentic AI can do for them
- Anyone excited about where GeoAI is heading, whatever your technical background

The Essentials
📅 Thursday, November 26th
⏰ 5:45 PM – 9:30 PM
📍 The Collection, Westermarkt 2, 1016 DK Amsterdam
🍕 Pizza, drinks, and non-alcoholic options provided
🎟️ https://revodata.nl/events/mapping-the-future-geoai-from-vision-to-reality/

Spots are limited, so grab yours early. We can't wait to see you there! 👋

This is a community-led event hosted by RevoData and is not an official Databricks event.

Speed, quality and judgment when AI meets enterprise reality

Building a prototype with AI is one thing. Getting a product into the hands of customers, inside a business with existing systems, teams and responsibilities, asks something different.

Where does AI actually speed up product development? Where does the work move rather than disappear? And who decides when something is good enough to ship?

Epicenter and DNA.inc are bringing together product, engineering and AI practitioners to examine those decisions through work they have actually done. The conversation will focus on established organizations: products already in use, systems that cannot simply be replaced, and teams expected to change how they work while continuing to deliver.

We'll look at what happens to quality when delivery gets faster, which decisions still need human judgment, and how product and engineering roles change as AI becomes part of the work. Expect concrete examples, including limits and lessons from things that did not go to plan, with time for questions from the room.

For CTOs, product and engineering leaders, enterprise AI teams, and founders building for complex organizations. Come for the discussion and stay to compare notes with people facing similar decisions.

Wednesday, November 25 | Epicenter Amsterdam
18:00 mingle | 18:30 conversation

Co-hosted by Epicenter and DNA.inc. Moderated by Joey Bayer.

DISCUSSION POINTS

• Where speed actually changes: what happens between an AI-assisted prototype and a product used by real customers?
• Quality and release judgment: which reviews, tests and decisions can change, and which cannot?
• The system around the product: what do legacy architecture, existing workflows and customer expectations prevent teams from simply replacing?
• People and responsibility: how do roles and expertise change, and what concerns inside teams deserve to be taken seriously?

Tech meetup in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Join our technical meetup for AI engineers & founders!

We share the latest AI devtools, APIs, RAG & Agent frameworks, techniques, models and much more!

// FOR WHO

• ✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
• ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
• ⚠️ Basic LLM knowledge required to fully enjoy the talks!*

// AGENDA

17:30 👋 Walk-in

18:00 🍕 Pizza

18:30 💻 Orq Arena: Benchmark Llms Head-to-head on Your Own Prompts

18:45 🎤 TBA

19:00 💻 From Cloud to Local: Running a Legal Research Agent with Gemma 4

19:15 🤝 Drinks & Networking

21:00 🔚 End

Join our technical meetup for AI engineers & founders!

We share the latest AI devtools, APIs, RAG & Agent frameworks, techniques, models and much more!

// FOR WHO

• ✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
• ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
• ⚠️ Basic LLM knowledge required to fully enjoy the talks!*

// AGENDA

17:30 👋 Walk-in

18:00 🍕 Pizza

18:30 💻 Orq Arena: Benchmark Llms Head-to-head on Your Own Prompts

18:45 🎤 TBA

19:00 💻 From Cloud to Local: Running a Legal Research Agent with Gemma 4

19:15 🤝 Drinks & Networking

21:00 🔚 End

• ✅ Anyone building
• ✅ Devs, founders, ML engineers, product & data peeps
• ⚠️ Know what LLMs, RAG, and AI agents are, vibecoding something that worked once.*

AI Builders is a community organizing 100+ meetups and hackathons per year in Europe and the US. We're 11000+ devs, founders & engineers and growing fast! -> Grow with us!

// AGENDA

10:45 👋 Doors Open

11:00 📋 Welcome & Challenges

11:20 🤝 Pitching & Team Matching

12:00 🌯 Lunch (sponsored)

13:00 🚀 Hack Session (Day 1)

14:00 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

16:00 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

19:00 🌯 Dinner (sponsored)

20:00 🚀 Overnight Hack Session

00:00 🚀 Quiet Hours (continue hacking or sleep)

09:00 🌯 Breakfast

10:00 🚀 Hack Session (Day 2)

10:30 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

11:30 🛠️ Open Workshop Slot

14:00 🌯 Lunch

15:00 🚀 Final Polish

15:45 💬 Submissions Close

16:00 🏆 Demos & Judging

17:00 🔚 End & Awards

• What is AI Builders? A nonprofit community of 8000+ AI builders running 100+ events a year across Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, Rotterdam & Miami. All volunteer-driven. All in-person. Maximum community vibes since 2023.
• Why the donation? 1) So we can count heads (venues have max capacity, pizza has a shelf life) 2) Sponsors don't cover everything yet. Every euro goes back into the community.
• Can I co-host? Message Ilya if we still need co-hosts, or grab a free ticket. You arrive 1.5h early, help with setup and welcoming. In return: you meet literally everyone. Fastest networking hack we know.
• Can I speak? Apply at aibuilders.club/speaking. Every lineup is picked from there, so a demo with working code beats a pitch deck.
• ⚠️ I'm not technical - can I come? Absolutely. But to get the most out of it, you should be comfortable with concepts like LLMs, RAG, AI agents, and API calls. Not sure what those mean? Ask any chatbot - that's what they're for.
• Why bother going to meetups in 2026? 80+ builders in the room. 8000+ in the community. Talks with actual code, not thought-leadership slides. Good pizza. Bad jokes. The kind of conversations that turn into side projects, first clients, and startups.

We share the latest insights about: AI dev tools, Agent frameworks, RAG, vibe coding, OpenClaw, Claude Code and more!

• ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
• ✅ Anyone building with AI
• ⚠️ Some LLM knowledge required!*

• 🎤 Innovative AI Demos — from EU + Silicon Valley leaders
• 💻 Builder Tool Demos — ship fast, explain faster
• 🤝 🍻 A LOT of time for informal networking
• 🍕 Yummy Pizza & Snacks

// AGENDA

17:30 👋 Walk-in

18:00 🍕 Pizza

18:30 💻 Orq Arena: Benchmark Llms Head-to-head on Your Own Prompts

18:45 🎤 TBA

19:00 💻 From Cloud to Local: Running a Legal Research Agent with Gemma 4

19:15 🤝 Drinks & Networking

21:00 🔚 End

• What is AI Builders? A self-organizing nonprofit community of 11000+ AI nerds 🤓. We're building a democratic AI platform, to make our community completely co-owned and co-governed by you (yes, all attendees).
• New question?
• Will it be recorded? Yes, some sessions are streamed live and recorded. By attending, you consent to being photographed and filmed. Let us know if you don't want to be on camera.
• I'm not technical. Can I come? Yes, but to actually enjoy the meetup we recommend understanding basic LLM concepts: Agents, Embeddings, RAG, MCPs, Inference, Structured Output, Finetuning, APIs, Reinforcement Learning. Not sure what those mean? Ask any chatbot — that's literally what they're for.
• Can I get a free ticket? Can I volunteer? Money should never be the reason not to join. If you need a sponsored ticket, or want to help out by arriving 1.5h early to set up, message Luc.
• Can I demo, give a talk, or just help out? Message Luc if you want to shine ✨ on stage and grow your network — community demos are 10 minutes, builder demos are 15-20 minutes.
• What time does the event start? The event starts at 17:30 on Wednesday, 24 February.
• Where is the venue located? The event will be held at StartDock Coworking Prins Hendrikkade, StartDock Coworking Prins Hendrikkade, Prins Hendrikkade 21e, 1012 TL Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Is food provided? Yes! We'll have pizza and drinks available.

We look forward to hanging out with you!

Thanks to our friends for hosting us in their beautiful space.

AI Builders is a community organizing 100+ meetups and hackathons per year in Europe and the US. We're 6000+ devs, founders & engineers and growing fast! -> Grow with us!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Join our technical meetup for AI engineers & founders!

We share the latest AI devtools, APIs, RAG & Agent frameworks, techniques, models and much more!

// FOR WHO

• ✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
• ✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
• ⚠️ Basic LLM knowledge required to fully enjoy the talks!*

// AGENDA

17:30 👋 Walk-in

18:00 🍕 Pizza

18:30 💻 Orq Arena: Benchmark Llms Head-to-head on Your Own Prompts

18:45 🎤 TBA

19:00 💻 From Cloud to Local: Running a Legal Research Agent with Gemma 4

19:15 🤝 Drinks & Networking

21:00 🔚 End

Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands