Applying AI Events in Amsterdam

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Description:
Join us for a community-led developer event focused on AI-assisted coding with GitHub Copilot.
This meetup brings developers together to explore practical workflows, real-world use cases, and hands-on experiences using GitHub Copilot. Whether you are new to GitHub Copilot or already using it in your daily work, this event will help you better understand how to apply AI-assisted coding techniques across the software development lifecycle. Expect practical demos, lessons from the field, and conversations with other engineers experimenting with AI-powered development. This event is organized in collaboration with Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community, AI Camp, Java Users Group and Amsterdam.dev communities.

Program
Time Session
17:00–18:00 Walk-in
18:00–18:05 Welcome
18:05–18:50 Talk 1: Agentic SDLC with GitHub Copilot — Burak Unuvar
18:50–19:30 Pizza
19:30–20:15 Talk 2: GitHub Copilot as an Incident Triage Teammate — Farid Nouri Neshat
20:15–20:45 Talk 3: Presentation TBA — Radek / Radosław Kowalski
20:45–21:00 Networking & drinks
21:00 End

Speaker: Burak Unuvar
This session explores how GitHub Copilot enables an agentic software development lifecycle, where software delivery tasks can be executed end to end, from issue assignment to pull request creation.
The talk will include a live demonstration of Copilot in action across multiple surfaces, including the IDE, UI, and CLI, while highlighting multi-model and multi-agent capabilities from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI.
About Burak
Burak draws boxes and lines and says the word “Kubernetes” a lot. Recently, he has been prompting heavily while letting GitHub Copilot do the magic.
Website: https://www.dailydoseofghcp.com/

Speaker: Farid Nouri Neshat
We would all appreciate having a fast teammate who can help troubleshoot incidents and find the needle in the haystack.
This talk will demonstrate how to build your own automated agent with GitHub Copilot. The agent can be triggered by alerts, safely gather vital context from observability tools, cloud APIs, and runbooks, and then provide actionable next steps directly to your team.
About Farid
Farid is a freelance cloud engineer with around 15 years of combined experience. He started his journey in full-stack development with Node.js and gradually shifted toward backend engineering and AWS infrastructure.
Website: https://faridnsh.ninja/

Speaker: Radek Radosław Kowalski
Ten months ago, when Radek and his team launched their project under a tight deadline and limited budget, it seemed nearly impossible. Fortunately, it was 2025—and agentic coding tools were ready to help.
The team embraced these tools as a lifeline, developing a workflow where engineers and AI agents built software side by side. The result: delivery ahead of schedule and within budget.
In this talk, Radek shares how the team’s approach evolved, the practical strategies they developed, and the lessons they learned to overcome constraints in time and cost.
About Radek
Over a 20+ year career in IT, Radek has grown from software engineer to architect to senior leader—before returning to the trenches to embrace the AI revolution and shape it firsthand. In the past year, he has helped organizations and engineering teams embed AI into both their business and daily workflows.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radek-kowalski/

Photos and videos may be taken during the event and used for social media and promotional materials. By attending the meetup, you consent to being photographed or recorded.

All attendees are required to follow the Berlin Code of Conduct.

For questions, please reach out on the CNCF #netherlands slack channel.
We are also looking for co-organizers, especially in other cities. Please also join the official CNCF community.

Are you curious about how to make a WordPress plugin in 45 minutes with the help of AI? Then this vibe-coding workshop led by Monique Dubbelman is exactly what you’re looking for. During this session, you will get introduced to Claude Code and discover how to use this powerful tool to effortlessly turn your ideas into working code. Whether you’re a beginner or already have some experience, this workshop will help you approach coding with a fresh perspective and renewed energy. You’ll not only learn the technical aspects, but also the mindset behind vibe-coding: working intuitively, trusting your creativity, and collaborating with AI. Upfront you'll get instructions how to set up your computer to work with Claude.

We are thrilled to welcome you to our 10th edition of the AI Native Netherlands, hosted at the Adyen headquarters in Amsterdam!

This is a joint meetup between Adyen Developer Events and Meetups and AI Native Netherlands meetup.

At the end of the evening, we're adding another Q&A panel. After the talks, you can submit questions online about what was just presented. The speakers will answer them live.

A massive thank you to our host, Adyen, for their generosity in providing the venue, food, and drinks for this evening and for supporting the Dutch AI engineering community.

We’ll cover:

• Multi-layer evaluators and human-in-the-loop safeguards for production LLM systems
• Failure modes and silent quality degradation in agentic pipelines
• Quality engineering and monitoring for production LLM systems
• Building and deploying foundational models at trillion-token scale
• Training infrastructure, pre-training at trillion-token scale, and meeting strict production SLAs
• A structured panel discussion where your questions about the talks drive the technical deep dive

Speaker 1: Ronny Roeller (NEXT AI)
Ronny is CTO and Co-Founder of NEXT AI — a customer insights platform for the AI era. Launched in April 2023, clients include Deel, Bosch, Generali, Rituals, Action, and others. He studied Computer Science at VU Amsterdam and works on building scalable, production-ready AI systems.

Talk: From Prompts to Production: Engineering Quality in LLM-Based Systems
Building systems around large language models is fundamentally different from traditional software. Outputs are probabilistic, data-dependent, and costly to compute. Deterministic QA approaches quickly break down.

In this talk, Ronny will share how production-grade quality was engineered for LLM workflows using multi-layer evaluators, real customer datasets, and human-in-the-loop safeguards. He will walk through concrete failure modes encountered in production, how silent quality degradation emerged over time, and the architectural patterns that restored reliability.

The focus is on practical techniques to measure, monitor, and continuously improve LLM system quality beyond prompt tuning.

Speaker 2: Hanna van der Vlis (Adyen)
Hanna van der Vlis is an AI research engineer at Adyen, a payment processor that handles over 40B transactions annually. She focuses on deep learning research, training infrastructure, and building foundational models. She is passionate about solving large-scale engineering challenges, deploying AI to optimize complex systems and driving real-world impact.

Talk: Towards The Adyen Foundational Model
Traditional machine learning in the payments industry relies heavily on point-in-time information silos and Boosted Trees. This approach is increasingly constrained by manual feature engineering and limited label availability.

In this talk, Hanna will outline Adyen’s transition toward a unified Foundational Model by rethinking payment sequences as a language problem. She will walk through the engineering challenges of pre-training a shared backbone on up to 51.2 trillion tokens, overcoming compute bottlenecks, and fine-tuning for downstream tasks such as fraud detection and authentication.

The focus is on the practical realities of developing and deploying these large-scale models while meeting strict sub-30ms SLAs in production.

Agenda:
17:45 — Arrival, food & drinks
18:30 — Talk #1 | Ronny Roeller
19:15 — Talk #2 | Hanna van der Vlis
20:00 — Panel discussion: Open conversation & audience Q&A
20:30 — Networking & more drinks
20:45 — Wrapping up

What to bring: Just curiosity and questions. If you are working on LLM workflows, foundational models, training infrastructure, or sub-30ms production SLAs, we would love to hear your technical questions during the panel discussion.

Who is this for: Platform engineers, AI/ML engineers, SREs, architects, and engineering leaders focused on building and validating reliable AI systems in production.

Where to find us: Adyen, Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6-50, Amsterdam
(meet at the reception; you will be brought to the 11th floor of the office building where the event will take place).

AI isn’t just another feature layer. It’s changing how products are conceived, how engineering teams operate, and how strategy is defined.
In this session for The New Stack, two women leaders from product and engineering share what it really looks like to build with AI in production environments — beyond the hype, beyond demos, and deep into execution.
Anna, who has been building AI solutions and now works on AI at Ticketswap, will share hands-on lessons from deploying AI in real systems: where it works, where it breaks, and how teams adapt when software stops being deterministic.
Andreia will challenge the common trap of “AI-first thinking” with a sharper lens: start with the user problem. She’ll show how to identify genuine friction points where predictive or generative models outperform traditional approaches — and how to avoid adding AI where it adds no real value.
Together, they’ll unpack three critical shifts happening inside modern teams

Agenda:
17:30 Doors open, networking
18:00 First presentation
18:30 Second presentation
19:00 Drink and networking break
19:15 Drinks, bites & networking

Everyone is welcome to this event, although organized by the collaboration of Women in Product NL and Women in Tech Netherlands, we want to be inclusive. So if you are not in product profession, or not a woman, you are still welcome to learn and network!

This event is advertised on 2 platforms. If Please RSVP only 1 of 2 events :
RSVP link with Women in Tech https://wit-h.com/topics/21763/events/210305
OR
RSVP below on this Meetup event

​Hey! I’m Dima 👋 Product person obsessed with vibe-coding — experimenting with Lovable, Replit, v0, MagicPatterns, and bolt.new to build things that spark joy and curiosity.
​Working on craftingproduct.io with Love ❤️ and Lovable.

​✨ Connect with others actually building with AI
✨ Learn practical workflows and applications
✨ Share projects, challenges, and breakthroughs
✨ Maybe even find your next collaborator or co-founder

​🤝 Networking – Meet fellow product creators
💬 Knowledge Sharing – Real stories and practical use cases
💡 Hands-on Demos – Practical sessions (e.g. building a personal website, using AI in product workflows)
🚀 Show & Tell – Anyone is welcome to demo or share their project — just reach out!
🍻 Casual Drinks – Relaxed evening vibes with inspiring conversations

​This edition will be more open mic, show & tell style 🎤✨
Instead of a fixed lineup, we’ll invite anyone who wants to demo, share a story, or ask a burning “how-to AI” question.
​How it works:

• ​Quick intros and warm-up
• ​Open mic demos & mini-talks (5–10 mins each)
• ​Split into small groups for hands-on discussions, idea sharing, and deep dives
• ​Come back together for highlights + wrap-up

​No pressure, no stage — just space to share, learn, and build together 🚀
​Bring: Your stories, questions, and enthusiasm!

A deep dive into how brain signals are becoming a new input layer for AI systems, enabling more adaptive, human-centred intelligence.

This session explores the rapidly emerging field where artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) converge. Advances in non-invasive neural sensing now make it possible to capture real-time signals related to attention, cognitive load, emotion, and intent. When combined with modern AI systems, these signals can be used to build technologies that adapt dynamically to human mental states, opening new possibilities for training, decision support, healthcare, productivity tools, and human-machine collaboration.

Speakers

Jonathan Zwaan****, CEO Zander Labs, who is building AI that understands, adapts to, and evolves with humans. Zander Labs develops non-invasive plug-and-play EEG sensors that record brain signals, interfaces that stand at the frontier of neuroadaptive technology to shape the next step in human-machine communication.

Prof Maryam Alimardani, Associate Professor in the domains of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI). With a PhD from the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, she researches socially intelligent systems based on the user's neurophysiological responses to develop BCI systems that predict the user's affective and cognitive states.

Grant Easterwood, Entrepreneur in Residence at Prosus, Founder/Host of the AI on the Amstel meetup, fintech and AI expert

With special demos:

**Marouane el Merabet (**Vrije Universiteit) of MindRun - an experimental game designed to train motor imagery and brain-computer interface control.

Dr. Teodoro Solis-Escalante, Team Leader / Senior Scientific Researcher Zander Labs - demo of brain-computer interface connected chatbot

Moderator/curator:

Monique van Dusseldorp** **is a curator/moderator of tech events

​AI House Amsterdam

​AI House Amsterdam is a hub for artificial intelligence created by Prosus. With world-class technical events, the AI House offers free AI training and workshops, collaborations between engineers and academia, elite hackathons, meetup events, investor-founder events, residency programs for top AI experts, a moonshot project studio, and more.

​About Prosus

​Prosus is the power behind the world’s leading lifestyle ecommerce brands, across Europe,** **India, and Latin America, unlocking an AI-first world for our 2 billion customers.

​The Prosus technology ecosystem spans food delivery, payments, classifieds, travel, events, and mobility. Our integrated approach enhances user engagement and creates the foundation for unprecedented AI capabilities through proprietary data and cross-service intelligence.

​Address and contact information

​AI House is located on the third floor of the Symphony building, Mahlerplein 5, Amsterdam.

​Questions? events@aihouse.nl

Humans in AI Week runs 1 to 7 June across 100+ cities worldwide. It is a global moment to ask what it means to be human in the AI era, and to put that question in front of AI labs, policymakers, and future generations. The AI Collective Dutch Chapter is participating by pointing our community toward this event.

The Day

SAS Innovate on Tour Benelux is a free, full-day conference for practitioners and leaders who want to see how organisations are turning data and AI into real decisions. The day covers responsible AI, governance and transparency, and how to move faster with greater confidence.

This is not a product showcase in isolation. It is a peer-oriented day built around what is actually working inside organisations navigating AI at scale.

The full agenda is available on the SAS Innovate on Tour Amsterdam page. Keynotes and industry tracks run through the afternoon.

The Hackathon Boot Camp

From 16:00 to 18:00, the day closes with the SAS Hackathon Boot Camp: a hands-on working session where you will apply AI to real-world challenges using SAS Viya in the cloud. Short assignments, collaborative format, guided by SAS experts.

To join the Boot Camp you will need:

A laptop, fully charged A free SAS Profile registered with the same email address you use to sign up To check the Hackathon Boot Camp box on the SAS registration form

The Boot Camp is a preview of the global SAS Hackathon taking place in October. Participating teams receive one month of access to the full SAS suite with expert support.

How to Register

Registering here lets us keep you connected to the AI Collective Dutch Chapter and Humans in AI Week updates. To attend the event itself, you must also register directly on the SAS Innovate on Tour Amsterdam page.

Remember to select the bootcamp option when completing your registration if you want the hands-on experience!

**The link to the SAS registration page will be included in your confirmation email. **Please complete your SAS registration to secure your place.

Humans in AI Week

This event is part of Humans in AI Week, a global initiative by the AI Collective running 1 to 7 June 2026. Add your voice to the global time capsule at humansinaiweek.com.

About the AI Collective Dutch Chapter

The AI Collective Dutch Chapter is the local expression of the global AI Collective: a nonprofit community of 200,000+ members across 100+ forums worldwide, building the human layer for the AI era. We bring together practitioners, leaders, and learners across the Netherlands through curated events, peer conversations, and shared experience.

All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective agree to our privacy policy and are subject to our code of conduct.

​What happens when the creator of Python, a pioneer of open-source foundation models, and a builder of large-scale AI systems come together?

​Join Guido van Rossum, Thomas Wolf, Euro Beinat and Vanessa Evers for a rare, cross-layer conversation spanning the full AI stack — from the languages we write, to the models we train, to the systems that operate in the real world.​

​**Guido van Rossum**
Creator of Python, the programming language that underpins modern software development and much of today’s AI ecosystem. His work fundamentally reshaped how developers write, scale, and think about code.

​**Thomas Wolf**
Co-founder of Hugging Face, the company that put open-source AI and foundation models at the centre of global innovation. A leading force behind the democratisation of machine learning.

​**Euro Beinat**
AI leader at Prosus, building and deploying large-scale AI systems across a global portfolio of companies. Operating at the intersection of advanced research and real-world impact at scale.

Vanessa Evers** **

Director-General, National Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science CWI. Chief Science Advisor, Ministry of OCW.

​Curated by Monique van Dusseldorp

Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands