Hardware & IoT Events in Amsterdam
Hardware, robotics, and IoT events in Europe run a wider range than most categories, from evening workshops where beginners solder their first ESP32 weather station to week-long industrial trade shows. On one end sit the big anchor conferences: Embedded World in Nuremberg (probably the largest event of its kind in the world), Hannovermesse, Battery Tech Expo, Quantum Industry Day, IoT Tech Expo. On the other end sit the community workshops: 3D printing for beginners, laser-cutter training, drone filming workshops, Raspberry Pi and Arduino club nights, microbial fuel cell experiments, and the long tail of fab-lab and makerspace sessions that introduce new people to the tools.
This page narrows the Amsterdam calendar to Hardware & IoT 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.
Amsterdam runs one of the strongest applied-AI event calendars in Europe. The city is full of product engineering teams actually shipping AI features, which shows up as depth in LLM integration, agent, RAG, and evaluation-focused meetups. Product management and design events are also unusually strong here (The Next Web, Mind The Product, Config EU satellites), as is the data-engineering scene around dbt and Snowflake.
Upcoming Hardware & IoT events in Amsterdam
The Hard Thing about Hardware
Amsterdam, 🇳🇱 Netherlands
On June 2, we're teaming up with Puzzle Ventures for a panel on the new wave of hardware founders.
Software ate the world. Now AI is coming for the physical one. Founders Samuel Beek and Pieter Becking join Gloria Bäuerlein of Puzzle Ventures to talk about what it takes to combine AI with atoms.
During the panel, we'll get into:
- Moats in hardware
- Why VCs are investing in hardware after a decade away
- How AI is collapsing the cost and time of building physical products
- What founders get wrong when they jump from software to hardware
- 17:00 - Doors open
- 17:15 - Panel & Q&A
- 18:15-19:30 - Drinks and bites
Gloria Bäuerlein is the Founding Partner of Puzzle Ventures, a €22 million solo GP fund backing European inception-stage B2B founders (e.g. Duna, Omnea, Rillet, Pigment). She has been on both sides of the table - as an investor at TCV and Index Ventures, and as an operator at KRY & Back.
Samuel Beek is the founder of Schematik, the "Cursor for hardware" - an AI tool that turns plain English into working electronics. Schematik recently raised $4.6 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners and angels like Salar al Khafaji (founder Monumental), Thomas Wolf (founder Huggingface), and Jelle Prins (co-founder Cradle).
Pieter Becking is the co-founder of Servo7 (Y Combinator W26), building robots that drop into existing warehouses and learn on the job from a few demonstrations - no facility redesign required. Angels include Durk Kingma (co-founder OpenAI), Thomas Wolf (founder Huggingface), Adriaan Mol (founder Mollie), and Jelle Prins (co-founder Cradle).
🐳 About WhaleThe Whale brings together operators and founders from tier-1 startups and scaleups. Through expert-led sessions and hackathons, we create a space where people learn from each other, share what works (and what doesn't), and build together. Past sessions have featured Anthropic, Job van der Voort (founder, Remote), Duco van Lanschot (founder, Duna), and more.
🧩 About Puzzle VenturesPuzzle Ventures is a €22M solo GP fund helping European inception-stage B2B founders put the puzzle pieces together - across first customers, talent, and global investor introductions.
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