Tech 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.

Digital technologies have a growing environmental and social impact, one that will continue to increase as systems scale and evolve. This shift challenges the role of designers, who can no longer focus solely on user needs but must consider the broader ecosystem in which technology operates. As AI accelerates these dynamics, its influence is shaped not only by technology itself, but by the design choices behind it. This talk explores how design operates across multiple layers, opening a perspective on more responsible approaches to innovation.

SPEAKER
Anna Forlati is Head of Digital Sustainability and Impact at TeamSystem. With a background in UX and Business Design, she bridges technology, sustainability, and humanity-centred innovation.
Her work focuses on integrating ESG principles and digital sustainability strategies into products and processes, designing technology that creates positive impact for people, businesses, and the planet.

HOST
forpeople is a global creative studio partnering with visionary companies to shape the future human experience. By joining the dots of strategy, brand, and experience design, we are redefining how people eat, move, live, work, and grow together. Based in London and Amsterdam, their diverse team of 130+ creatives puts people at the heart of everything they do. Fiercely independent. Proudly certified B Corp™. Striving to create a fairer, more inclusive, more meaningful world for people.

PROGRAM

18:00 Doors open with drinks & bites
18:30 Talk + Q&A
19:30 Drinks & Pizza🍕 & Networking

📸 Please keep in mind that there will be pictures taken at the event. They will be uploaded to the meetup page and might be used on social media.

Hey folks,
Join us on May 6 for a React meetup where we’ll explore how modern web engineering is evolving — starting with a fresh look at how we deploy Next.js applications beyond traditional setups, and what new tooling makes possible today.

🗣 Call for Proposals
Have an idea or story to share? Submit your talk proposal through our CFP form and take the stage at one of our upcoming meetups!

🤝 Organized by
This event made possible thanks to the support from React Summit, JSNation and TechLead Conf organizers – GitNation.

🤝 Sponsored by
Huge thanks to our friends Sentry!
Sentry is the only app monitoring platform built for developers that gets to the root cause for every issue. For software teams, Sentry is essential for monitoring application code quality. From Error tracking to Performance monitoring, developers can see clearer & solve quicker — from frontend to backend.

🤝 Want to support our community?
We’re looking for venue partners and sponsors for future meetups. Let’s discuss collaboration — contact us!

🕑 Event Schedule
18:30 - Doors open - snacks, beer, socialization
19:00 - Intro and announcements
19:10 - Vinext: Deploy Next.js Without Next.js - Jan Peer
19.35 - Modernizing a Codebase While Delivering Features - Bora Semiz
20:00 - Break with drinks
20:15 - Don't .gitignore Mental Health - Frédéric Harper
20:40 - Networking, Open Mic Lightning Talks
Mingle until 21:30pm

🗣️ Talks

➡️ Vinext: Deploy Next.js Without Next.js - Jan Peer
Next.js is a great framework - until you want to deploy it somewhere that isn't Vercel. vinext is a Vite plugin from Cloudflare that reimplements the Next.js API surface from scratch, so your existing app runs everywhere with a single command. In this talk, we'll look at why this exists, how Cloudflare built it in a week using AI, and how close to "drop-in replacement" it actually gets.

➡️ Modernizing a Codebase While Delivering Features - Bora Semiz
An opinion and methodologies on how to modernize an outdated and unmaintained codebase while at the same time delivering features. We will also explore how AI can support modernizing a legacy codebase.

➡️ Don't .gitignore Mental Health - Frédéric Harper
⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️
Depression, dark thoughts, anxiety – These are some of the words that most of us would like to add to our ignore file. Discussing mental health is still taboo in our society, and it’s even more so in the developer ecosystem, where we pride ourselves on working long hours and our lack of sleep.
More than ever, we need to talk about mental health! This is why I want to share my experience with depression, general anxiety, ADHD, and experience volunteering at a suicide prevention hotline. Along with my thoughts on how we can improve the situation, I’ll be sharing some tips to help people be more open about these topics and issues – more importantly, I want to touch on how those struggling can ask for help and assistance when needed.
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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.

Every 2 months, we'll visit a company or institute that will host the event and provide talks.

This time, we’re visiting Blender. Blender is a public project hosted on blender.org with the mission to get the world’s best 3D CG technology in the hands of artists as free/open source software. Blender is licensed as GNU GPL, owned by its contributors.

Countless communities and thriving businesses are built around Blender, from entertainment to medical research. Together, content creators, add-on developers, researchers and global marketplaces form an ever-expanding ecosystem.

If you want to learn more, check out:

• Website https://www.blender.org/
• Blog https://code.blender.org/
• Recordings of presentations from past Blender conferences, such as BCON25 https://video.blender.org/w/p/ofNr3T19QdraJNTVTB7FvG Also available on YouTube.

The schedule is as follows:

• 16:30 Walk-in, drinks, office tours
• 17:00 Seating
• 17:05 Welcome talk from the host: Blender
• 17:10 - 17:40 Talk #1: from Jeroen Bakker - "From main loop to pixels on the screen"
• 17:45 - 18:10 Networking and drinks, office tours
• 18:10 - 18:40 Talk #2: from Sybren Stuvel - "Introduction to Blender's render farm Flamenco”
• 18:40 - 19:30 Networking, drinks, and food

For those who visited the previous meetups, you already know what to expect: deep dives into technical subjects, snacks and drinks, and enough time to socialize.

You don’t need to register in advance for the office tours, they will be organised on the spot in small groups.

Due to the small size of the office the registrations are limited to 35 people only, so please register in advance to secure your spot.
And a friendly request - please no more than 5 people from the same company. Thank you!

See you there!

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).

Join us for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem.

We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.

During Waag Open, you’ll map out other people’s routes around Nieuwmarkt through drawing. The workshop is led by visual artist Esther Polak.

After a very successful first edition in Berlin in 2023, the babashka-conf come to the Netherlands for the second episode. As usual, we will explore the babashka ecosystem, use cases and techniques while making sure our community gets the chance to shake hands and exchange ideas.

More info on the website: https://babashka.org/conf/

NOTE: while the event is completely free of charge, seating is limited so reserve your ticket while you can! In case there are no seats left or in case of other questions: send an e-mail to babashka.conf@gmail.com and we will see what we can do.

On the 9th of May, we're joining forces with the Creative Coding Amsterdam for a full afternoon and evening at A Lab.

One big room. Two communities.

Games, art, code, and the people who make them.
We’ll be filling the space with exhibition and play-test booths. Indie games in the making you can play, creative projects to interact with, and the makers right there to talk to.
It's going to be informal and a bit chaotic in the best possible way.
Come for the work, stay for the people.

Towards the evening we'll gather for a round of short talks and showcases from both communities before we wind things down.

We've got a great mix of people signed up already!
Want to join them and show your work?
There's still space! → forms.cca.codes/may

All are welcome.
Free to attend.

Hope to see you there! 💜

→ more on https://cca.codes/assembly

In 2026, the European Parliament will vote on the introduction of the digital euro. During this event, we will take a closer look at the conditions needed to transform our financial system, and how the digital euro can play a role in this.

We’ve been getting a lot of requests to explore two big questions. First, what coding skills will matter in an AI-driven world? This topic has only become more pressing as some have made bold claims that traditional coding is "dead." And second, what will the product stack of the future even look like in an AI-driven world? So we'll be covering both in the May AI on the Amstel meetup!

Here is the panel for the May meetup:

• Adrian McPhee, CTO of the startup Eccasion. Adrian is also the former CTO of Bol.com and the former CTO of Amsterdam fintech champion Backbase.
• Clare Jones, CEO of Polarsteps. Amsterdam-based Polarsteps is a popular travel app with over 20 million users.
• Michael Aronzon, CTO of Miro. Miro's visual workspace has over 100 million users across 250,000 organizations.

May meetup will be held at the large atrium in Miro's Amsterdam office. Doors open at 17:00. The event starts with a networking period, and we usually start the panel sometime between 17:45-18:00. There will be time for Q&A with the audience. After the panel concludes, there will be another networking session. It's fine if you arrive a little late - we know work can be busy!

For those that are new to this meetup, the AI on the Amstel meetup is a monthly technical meetup that features knowledgeable speakers discussing "in the weeds" AI topics and challenges. This meetup caters to engineers, product managers, and founders in AI.

The AI on the Amstel meetup is the largest monthly AI event in Amsterdam. We get 250-400+ people a month depending on the size of the venue that month. For example, here are the pictures of the crowds at our three most recent meetups: a meetup at Amsterdam's flagship public library, a meetup at the AMS Institute graduate school, and a meetup at Booking's headquarters. I hope to see you at the May event!

Our hosts for this month (Miro) also have legal terms for an event in their space. Anyone attending acknowledges that they have read and agree to Miro’s Conduct and Content Standards, Miro Meetups Terms, and Miro’s Nondisclosure Agreement and agree that Miro may use their personal data to send them communications, including marketing emails in accordance with Miro's Privacy Policy.

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

KubeCon just wrapped and the AWS summit will be right around the corner. What's better than an event that combines both?!

Join us for a relaxed evening of good conversation, familiar faces, and a couple of sharp talks from speakers who were just on stage. Whether you're still buzzing from KubeCon or gearing up for the AWS summit, this is the perfect way to bridge the gap.

On the agenda:
We'll line up two talks (roughly 20 minutes each) from speakers spanning both events — fresh perspectives, real-world insights, and plenty to talk about over drinks afterward.

The format:

• Walk in, grab a drink, say hi
• Two talks back to back (~40 min total)
• Open floor: food, drinks, and good people

Food and drinks will be on us. Vegetarian options will be made available.

This one is intentionally low-key: no packed agenda, no rush. Just a chill chance to connect and learn more about tech you like from real people.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hello, Kotlin enthusiasts!

Our next MeetUp will take place at the Xebia office in Amsterdam on 13 May.

📍 Location: Xebia Netherlands - Amsterdam - Wibautstraat

Join us on an evening filled with tasty food, refreshing drinks, and insightful Kotlin discussions.
Make sure to press the RSVP button!

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🕒 Timeline:
• 17:45 - Doors open, food and drinks 🍕
• 18:30 - Opening 💻
• 18:40 - Making @Transactional Play Nice with Kotlin Rich Errors and Either - Tjalling Ran
• 19:30 - Quick break 🚽
• 19:40 - How to supercharge your knowledge base with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Jamie Craane 💻
• 20:25 - Closing 💻
• 20:30 - Chats & Drinks 👥

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Title: Making @Transactional Play Nice with Kotlin Rich Errors and Either

@Transactional rolls back on exceptions — but what if your error is a value? Functional error handling patterns like Arrow’s Either.Left or Kotlin’s upcoming Rich Errors let you model errors as return values instead of throwing exceptions, making failure explicit and strongly typed in your function signatures. The downside: your @Transactional would commit even on an error. This talk shows how to solve that with Spring AOP, so you can adopt functional error handling in an existing Spring Boot codebase without breaking your @Transactional behavior.

Bio:
Tjalling Ran is a back-end developer at Maqqie, where he works on public APIs, backoffice tooling, and CLA compliance, bridging technical implementation and technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. He has a passion for writing expressive and unambiguous code by leveraging the type system and naming things well. His day-to-day stack is Kotlin with Spring, OpenAPI, and JPA. Earlier in his career he worked on code generators with Xtend, a language that felt refreshingly modern compared to Java at the time, which made Kotlin a natural fit.

Title: How to supercharge your knowledge base with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Abstract
Your notes, documents, and images contain a wealth of knowledge — but finding the right piece at the right moment can be surprisingly hard. What if you could search your personal knowledge base the same way you talk to an AI assistant?

In this talk, we’ll explore how Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can supercharge your personal knowledge base. You’ll learn how vector embeddings are created, how they are stored, and how they power an end-to-end RAG retrieval workflow. Along the way, we’ll demystify what embeddings actually are and why they work so well for semantic search.

But we won’t stop at text. We’ll also integrate image embeddings into the workflow, enabling you to query your own photos and screenshots using natural language.

Finally, we’ll tackle an often overlooked challenge: protecting sensitive information. You’ll see practical techniques for preventing confidential data from being sent to external embedding providers.

By the end of the session, you’ll understand how to build a powerful, privacy-aware RAG system that turns your personal data into an AI-searchable knowledge engine.

Bio:
With over 20 years of IT experience, Jamie Craane designs and develops software for a wide range of organizations, from large enterprises to startups and SaaS services. Working for Moxie-IT, Jamie focuses on the entire value chain: from architecture and technology to software development, deployment and management, and improving the performance of development teams. Adding value and providing insight for everyone involved are central to his approach.

Fast, secure, and automated delivery are essential to his approach. Jamie combines innovation with proven technologies and closely follows developments in Artificial Intelligence. He doesn’t shy away from challenges and enjoys sharing his knowledge with teams and the community.

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Don't forget to RSVP to secure your seat—spots are limited! We can't wait to see you there and discuss the future of Kotlin and software architecture.

​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!

Maptime — End of Spring Edition
📅 Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 📍 TomTom Building

18:15 — Doors Open | Walk-in
Grab a drink, get settled, and catch up with familiar faces.
18:30 — Welcome & Intro
A quick hello, what's new in the Maptime world, and a shout-out to everyone who asked for this edition to happen. You made it happen!

18:35 — Community Project Showcase
Maptime regulars share what they've been working on — any mapping project, case study, or line of work is welcome. Short, informal, no slides required.

19:45 — Humanitarian & Development Mapping
A couple of focused mapping sessions for humanitarian and development projects. Laptops open, maps on screen, contributions welcome from everyone.

19:45 — Optional: Field Survey Walk (weather permitting)
A quick walk around the building to do some real-world surveying. Good vibes, fresh air, and maybe a few new data entries on the map.

21:00 — Wrap-up
Keep mapping, keep chatting — wind down at your own pace.

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

Hi✋

At Data Tribes we organise Meetups because we truly care about sharing knowledge both inside and outside the organisation. We believe that it is beneficial to us and to the market as a whole to connect, create, learn and grow together!

The agenda

// Doors open 6.00pm
// Drinks and Pizza’s 6.30pm
// Start presentations 7.00pm
// Marcel van der Kuil & Henk van der Valk
// Cloud & Climate Pub Quiz
// Start networking 9.00pm
// End Meetup 9.30pm

Greetings,
Data Tribes Inc.

Join us for the fifth event at our new location: The Social Hub Amsterdam City!

Tech Drinks + Pitching by Tech Makers, powered by Qonto is our regular meet-up for the tech and entrepreneurial community in the Netherlands, hosted in Amsterdam.

Each month we bring together tech start-ups and individuals to have drink, pitch ideas, swap stories, share failed experiments, and plot a bit of world domination.

If you're interested in pitching during the event, please apply via this form.

Follow Tech Makers here for upcoming events, interesting people, and a little mischief

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Register for free and let's boost entrepreneurship in the Netherlands !!

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These materials may be used for documentation, promotional, and community purposes in connection with Tech Makers activities.

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.

Join us at Waag on Thursday 4 June and experiment with radio technology around the Nieuwmarkt neighbourhood!

A digital public space is essential for a healthy democratic society. During the sixth edition of the PublicSpaces Conference, we will explore how the digital public space can be shaped based on democratic values.

Join us on Saturday 6 June for Hyperlink at Waag Futurelab and discover how we can make technology work for our democracy again by participating in various workshops, exhibitions and talks. Create your own AI model, discover mesh technology and more.

​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

On June 24th, we're hosting Stef van Grieken, founder and CEO of Cradle.

Stef worked on self-driving cars and the TPU (Google's chip architecture for ML) before founding Cradle, an AI platform for unlocking the next generation of medicines.

Drawing on more than a decade of experience building in deep tech, we'll learn more about his perspective on:

• Spotting the next $100B+ opportunity
• Leading research teams working at the cutting edge
• Why now is a good time to get into deep tech

​​​Agenda:

• ​​17:00 - Doors open
• ​​17:15 - Fireside chat & Q&A
• ​​18:15-19:30 - Drinks and bites

Stef is the founder and CEO of Cradle, an AI platform revolutionizing the way we design new medicines.

Cradle applies machine learning to help scientists engineer proteins, the machinery of life.

Stef has led ML teams for close to a decade, giving him a unique perspective of how to build new technologies using AI.

​​We bring the next generation of operators and founders together.

​​Through expert-led sessions, hands-on training, and curated connections, we create a space where people learn from each other, share what works (and what doesn’t), and build together.

​​🔒 Spots are limited — apply below to request an invite.