Applying AI Events in Utrecht

"AI research" and "AI in production" are two pretty different worlds at this point. This page collects events from the production side: how teams integrate LLMs into real products, build agents that are worth trusting, wire up RAG pipelines that don't quietly hallucinate, and ship Copilot-style features without breaking the rest of the app. Agentic coding is a particularly active thread right now, with dedicated meetups and studios popping up across the continent.

This page narrows the Utrecht calendar to Applying AI events. It's a subset of Netherlands's wider tech-event schedule, useful when you want something specific to go to in the city this month.

Upcoming tech events in Utrecht, Netherlands.

With 9 editions in, one question keeps coming back at the Data & AI Literacy Round Table: who actually owns this?

Your professionals are already using AI, but do they have the right skills? Data & AI owns the strategy. HR owns the learning tools, the budget for people's hours and the performance conversation. Both sides need to work together to make your data & AI upskilling program a success.

So for the **10th edition **we are putting Data & AI and HR in the same room for one afternoon.

The two talks

Stefanie Kuiper (ABN AMRO) takes on AI value realisation, including AI literacy, in the bank's new Central Data & AI Office from 1 October. In her keynote she shares what owning that means for her and her team, and how they work with HR to make AI adoption a success at ABN AMRO's.
Sandra Oudshoff (Conclusion) follows with a short add-on: where ownership of data & AI literacy actually sits at Conclusion and what it changed in the results.

Four breakouts

Then we split into 4 small groups, around the most burning questions that came up in 3 months of conversations with Data Booster clients:

Who owns data & AI literacy?
Why time (not money) has become the most important budget
How do you prove your program works?
Does measuring AI usage give you the behaviour you're looking for?

Past editions brought together leaders from ING, Rabobank, ABN AMRO, Schiphol, KLM, Heineken, PGGM, PostNL, Just Eat Takeaway, Eneco and Brenntag. We keep the Round Table small on purpose, so everyone gets to bring their own questions to the table and leaves with ideas for their own data & AI literacy strategy.

Date: Thursday 29 October 2026
Location: Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile, Beatrixgebouw (6th floor), Jaarbeursplein 6, 3521 AL Utrecht. Easiest by train: Utrecht Centraal is a short walk, and parking around the Jaarbeurs will be busy that week.
Time: Doors 14:30, programme 15:00 to 17:00, drinks from 17:00 until 18:00

Register now. There are 20 to 30 seats, and registration is by approval so you meet the right peers.

Right now, we are only at the beginning. With open-weight biological models allowing AI safety researchers to chat directly with genomic sequences using ordinary language, the barrier to interacting with biology has nearly vanished. It's an unprecedented frontier, but because we are standing right at the starting line, we have to ask: when tools like these move from research labs into widespread use, where do we actually draw the line between innovation and hazard?

This opens up deep questions for AI safety researchers about how society adapts when technology outpaces our traditional guardrails. If health, genetics, or biological traits can be modeled and optimized, how do we govern access to these capabilities without stifling progress? More fundamentally, when the exact same underlying mechanism can be deployed to engineer resilience or to engineer a vulnerability—acting as two sides of the same coin—how do AI safety researchers begin to define where safety ends and risk begins, and who gets to decide?

Readings:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-Release

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Applying AI Events in Utrecht

Upcoming Applying AI events in Utrecht

Data Booster Data & AI Literacy Round Table

Discussion group - AI and DNA

(waitlist) Hands-on Workshop: Agentic Harnesses, Skills, Tools & Guardrails