Software Engineering Events in Groningen

This is the widest category on Brainberg, because software engineering itself spans a huge range of events: language user groups (Python, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, Elixir, Ruby, Zig), framework communities (React, Svelte, Next.js, Vue, Laravel, Django, NixOS), backend architecture tracks, testing and QA tracks (ISTQB certification courses, mutation testing, test-automation workshops), refactoring and DDD circles, hackathons, and the long tail of "thoughtful engineering" meetups that don't fit neatly under any specific stack.

This page narrows the Groningen calendar to Software Engineering 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 Groningen, Netherlands.

Save the date: Tuesday 12th of May 2026!

We will host our fullstack event @ Sopra Steria Groningen office: Full-stack Spring Sessions!

Sign up via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tickets-fullstack-spring-sessions-1985899204981?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event hosts a wide range of speakers and subjects, there will be food and drinks and time to meet and catch up. We'll host two keynotes, magical intermezzo's, next to our other speakers and subjects as listed below!

Timetable

The Brothers of Mystery - A magical kick-off of (hopefully) a magical evening!
17:30 - 17:45

Keynote: Ester Greenwood - Quality is a Ballet
17:45 - 18:15

Breakout 1: Frederieke Scheper & Laurens van der Kooi
Breakout 2: Rodney Wormsbecher;
18:15 - 19:00

Dinner: Happy Smokers
19:00 - 20:00

The Brothers of Mystery - A magical intermezzo - part 2!
20:15 - 20:30

Ruben Scheedler: Doctor, my agent keeps acting up;
20:30 - 21:15

Keynote: Michael Bolton;
21:15 - 22:15

Social Drinks; 22:15 - 23:00

Kind regards,

Mark Poelstra, Matthijs Koopman, Willem Keesman, Douwe Jongeneel & Erwin Reimert

When:
May 21st, 2026

Location:
YouWe
Laan Corpus Den Hoorn 200
9728 JS Groningen

Dietary restrictions:
Please reach out as soon as possible if you have any dietary restrictions.

Agenda:
17:30 - Walk in and food
18:20 - Welcome by GroningenML and YouWe
18:30 - JP van Oosten (n8n): Building and Evaluating AI Agents: From OpenClaw to n8n
19:00 - Sebastiaan den Boer (YouWe): Oops I AI'd it again
19:30 - Break
20:00 - Yftah Zise (RUG (AI) / NVIDIA): Recent advances in LLM alignment
20:30 - Closing statements, drinks & networking
21:00 - End of meetup

JP van Oosten (n8n): Building and Evaluating AI Agents: From OpenClaw to n8n
Everyone's talking about AI agents, and if you've tried OpenClaw, you've seen how powerful a personal AI assistant can be. But what if you could build something similar yourself, visually, without writing code? In this talk, JP van Oosten (Engineering Manager at n8n) shows how n8n lets you build your own agentic workflows that cover much of what tools like OpenClaw offer, and goes a step further by tackling the question nobody wants to ask: how do you know your agent actually works? He'll walk through building agents in n8n, share a demo of his OpenClaw-like setup, and dive into practical approaches for evaluating agents so you can trust them beyond the demo.

Sebastiaan den Boer (YouWe): Oops I AI'd it again
AI is the fasted growing tech in history. And it's not slowing down. But it's surprisingly difficult to get AI to production and to get economic benefit. Why?

Yftah Zise (RUG (AI) / NVIDIA): Recent advances in LLM alignment
This talk examines technical strategies for detecting and reducing model hallucinations and implementing fine-grained safety controls.

Software Engineering Events in Groningen

Upcoming Software Engineering events in Groningen

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