Tech Events in Amsterdam

The artists in the exhibition Short Circuit break technology down and build new ideas from the digital debris. See you there?

Artist Michael Pinsky presents Your Shit Smells Like Roses. Go and see this new installation at the Water Bar in Leeuwarden.

Hi indie developers!

On Sunday June 21st, let's get together at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam from 1:30pm onward!

Come to meet your fellow indie devs in a relaxed atmosphere, have a drink and chat about video game development.

Anyone in the game development community is welcome: developers, artists, musicians or simply videogame enthusiasts who are starting their game development journey.

If you are working on some project and would like to show it, playtest it or get some feedback, don't be shy and bring your laptop or notes!

We also have a Discord channel: https://discord.gg/StY3uCyAyR

See you soon!
Mirko & Rutger

We're back for our third Go Amsterdam meetup this year. ING is kindly hosting us at their offices in Amsterdam! Come join us and meet like-minded gophers, enjoy talks about Go, and just have a good time.

We will be meeting on Tuesday June 23.
Doors will open at 17:15, and we'll be getting started with the program around 18:00. Talks will end around 20:45. Drinks and snacks are provided by our generous hosts, and there will be a break, with time to meet & talk to fellow gophers.

Talks:
- "Logging Sucks (In Go)" by Manuel Doncel Martos
- "What's new in Go", by Loes Alleman
- "Go and WebASM - The 5 Hells of Web Assembly" - by Cookie Engineer
- "Going back to First Principles - Writing Go apps in the age of AI" - by Frank Schröder

Important: We will need your full name by Thursday June 18, and you must bring identification matching your name to the event, or unfortunately you won't be able to get in. Either change your meetup profile name to your full name, or send us a message with your full name (and the profile you signed up with).

Please keep your RSVP status up to date! Doing so helps organize the meetup tremendously (with waiting list, capacity planning, food & drinks). Thank you!

If you want to talk about Go right now, join us on channel #amsterdam at the existing gophers.slack.com workspace. Sign up through https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/.

Hope to see you soon!

Cheers,
Go Amsterdam meetup team

PS: Photography/Video Consent. We will be taking photos and videos during the event and will use these photos and videos for social media, and promotional materials. By coming to the meet-up, you give us your consent to take photos and videos of you.

PPS: If you work at ING, you must register internally for this event and not at meetup.com.

​We our organizing our next half-day community event in our home town of Amsterdam. Check out the program.

Note: For admittance, you need to register on Luma – RSVPing here is not sufficient.

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.

Super excited to announce the details of our June meeting! We have thought of the perfect way to
celebrate the arrival of summer: drinks at the lovely Hanneke’s Boom!

This meeting will have a “flash mob” style format: just show up, grab a drink of your choice and enjoy
the sunshine!

Call for assistance: we need a bit of help to make this work smoothly!
We’re looking for a few volunteers who can:
• Arrive a bit earlier
• Grab and hold a few tables
• Help keep the group somewhat together as people arrive

If you’re up for helping out, drop a comment or send us a message — it’ll make a big difference.
Otherwise, just come by, look for familiar faces, and join us.

Nature needs more voices and representatives to protect and monitor it. Join us at this workshop to help protect our water.

*** ALL SESSIONS ARE PRESENTED IN DUTCH ***

Donderdag 25 juni 2026 zijn we te gast bij Inspark in Amstelveen.

We hebben weer een paar mooie sessies op het programma, waaronder een sessie van Derk van der Woude over Agent 365 en Agent ID. Ook geven we graag het podium aan Richard van der Els met zijn sessie over Cloud PKI en Entra CBA. Samantha gaat ons meenemen in alles wat komt kijken bij het opzetten van een centrale Entra ID tenant voor B2B gebruik.

Uiteraard praten we je weer bij over de laatste features binnen Entra in onze lightning-sessie. Riemen vast!

Deze avond zullen de sessies in het Nederlands worden gegeven.

PROGRAMMA

17.00 - 18.00 Inloop & Eten

18.00 - 18:20 Welkom door onze host, Inspark.

Lightning talk - What's new in Entra? Een korte sessie door Jan, Pim, Michel of Stefan over de laatste features binnen Entra. Zo zijn jullie weer helemaal bij!

18.20 - 19.20 Eén Entra ID tenant, meerdere organisaties: de architectuur achter de samenwerking
– Samantha Kloos-Kilkens

Netbeheerders in Nederland zijn geen concurrenten. Ze beheren samen de kritieke infrastructuur van het land en moeten steeds vaker nauw kunnen samenwerken. Toen de vraag kwam om een gedeelde Microsoft Entra ID tenant op te zetten waar meerdere organisaties veilig samen kunnen opereren, bleek al snel dat de standaardaanpak voor B2B hier niet volstaat.

In deze sessie loop ik door de architectuur en de securitybeslissingen van deze omgeving. Access governance, authenticatie en tenant hardening zijn ontworpen voor een omgeving die geen enkele organisatie in z'n eentje bezit.
We kijken hoe je users binnenkrijgt, hoe je gedelegeerd beheer organiseert met Administrative Units, hoe Conditional Access eruit ziet met meerdere doelgroepen en verschillende vertrouwensniveaus, welke MFA claims je van welke tenant wel of niet vertrouwt, en wat tenant hardening betekent wanneer samenwerken net zo belangrijk is als security.

Voor iedereen die identity architectuur ontwerpt waar meerdere organisaties één tenant delen, en waar security geen bijzaak mag zijn.

19.20 - 19.30 Korte pauze

19.30 - 20.00 Cloud PKI and certificated-based authentication - Richard van der Els

The benefits of Cloud PKI how to setup and how to use it.

In deze presentatie neem ik jullie mee in hoe makkelijk je Cloud PKI opzet je de certificaten kunt distribueren en deze vervolgens ook kunt gebruiken om jezelf te authenticeren.

20.00 - 20.20 Pauze

20.20 - 21.20 Agent 365 Security from an Entra perspective

• Derk van der Woude

AI-agents zijn niet meer weg te denken uit de moderne werkplek. Microsoft 365 Copilot, autonome agents, geautomatiseerde workflows — ze schieten als paddenstoelen uit de grond. Maar wie beheert en beveiligt al die digitale collega's eigenlijk?
In deze sessie duiken we diep in het Entra Agent ID-platform: de plek waar Microsoft identiteitsbeheer voor AI-agents samenbrengt. We beginnen met de fundamenten — wat is een Agent ID, hoe werkt het platform, en welke beveiligingsbasisprincipes gelden er voor niet-menselijke identiteiten?

Daarna gaan we écht de diepte in. Want agents zijn net mensen: ze hebben toegang, ze maken fouten, en ze kunnen misbruikt worden. We bekijken hoe ID Protection risicovolle agentgedrag detecteert, hoe je met Conditional Access granulair toegangsbeleid afdwingt voor agents, hoe Identity Governance zorgt dat agents alleen krijgen wat ze nodig hebben — en niet meer — en hoe Secure Access de verbindingen van agents naar resources beschermt.

Na deze sessie ga je naar huis met een helder beeld van het Entra-beveiligingslandschap voor agents, concrete handvatten om je eigen agentomgeving te beveiligen, en misschien een gezonde dosis paranoia over alles wat er al rondloopt in jouw tenant.

21.05 - 22.15 Ruimte om gezellig bij te kletsen onder het genot van een hapje/drankje.

Dear all,

With summer just around the corner, we are happy to invite you to the Summer Edition of the PostgreSQL User Group NL Meetup on June 25th 2026 in Amsterdam.

This time we have been invited by Databricks to host the event in their Amsterdam headquarters. We are very appreciative of this gesture and we like to thank them for supporting the PostgreSQL community with the venue and the hospitality.

On the agenda we have two PostgreSQL experts in their field. First up is an alumni presenter of the PostgreSQL User Group, Matthias van der Meent, who will be taking us on a deep dive into one of the better known index types: GiST. Next on the program is Bart Orbons, who will centre his presentation around grouping.

As usual, we have reserved some space in the program for anyone who wants to do a lightning talk. If you are interested, please contact us via a personal message on meetup.com.

We are very grateful for the contributions of both presenters as well as our host, to make this all possible for the PostgreSQL community in the Netherlands.

We hope to meet many of you at the meetup — a moment where PostgreSQL users can connect, share knowledge, and discuss the latest developments in the PostgreSQL ecosystem.

We look forward to a great meetup!
Feike Steenbergen Gerard Zuidweg

Meetup Program
17:30 – 18:25 — Welcome, Beer & Bites 18:25

18:30 — Opening

18:30 – 19:10 — GiST indexes: An analysis – Matthias van der Meent
Abstract: PostgreSQL has various index types, each supporting different query patterns and behaviours. In this talk, Matthias will go over one of the better known index types: GiST — how and where it is used, how it works, its strengths, its weaknesses, and some possible improvements.
About Matthias: Matthias van der Meent is a PostgreSQL hacker and contributor with over 5 years of contributions to the project. His focus is mostly on subsystem performance, indexing, and resource usage.

— (Very) Short Break —

19:15 – 19:55 — 'Grouping, the way you want it' – Bart Orbons
Abstract: This talk dives into PostgreSQL's advanced grouping features, showing how to go beyond a plain GROUP BY to aggregate data exactly the way you need it. Expect practical examples that make complex reporting queries simpler and more powerful.
About Bart: PostgreSQL user and enthusiast. Started using PostgreSQL in 2000 and has not stopped since — having worked before with Sybase and Oracle, but not anymore. Until four years ago, Bart worked at XS4ALL Internet as a technical software architect focused on database and software modelling, until the company was folded into its parent organisation. He then helped migrate the customer base into their systems before moving on to his current role at Z-CERT, where he helps set up company administration and systems. A regular at pgconf.eu, this talk is part of a series Bart originally created for colleagues at XS4ALL to improve their SQL skills and introduce newer features of the SQL language.

19:55 – 20:00 — Lightning Talks

20:00 – 20:30 — Wrap-up and drinks

During the workshop you will learn how to prepare your data so your agent isn't flying blind. We'll work through examples, cleaning and contextualizing tabular data, chunking documents intelligently and building habits for reviewing AI-generated code with confidence.

Agenda
- 18:00 Doors Open
- 18:30 Start of the Workshop
- 20:00 Workshop Closing & Announcements
- 20:10 Networking
- 21:00 Event Closing

GitHub Repo
https://github.com/pyladiesams/feed-AI-agentic-beast-proper-data-jun2026

Stream
YouTube Stream

Speaker
Jessica Eggen
Jessica Eggen is a Data Analytics Engineer who loves to spent her time wrangling and puzzling with real-world data at scale. With a background in Business Analytics and machine learning she hopes to bring a practical, business-grounded perspective to AI.

​📧 Contact
Are you interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at amsterdam@pyladies.com

​💬 Find us on the PyLadies Global workspace:

1. ​https://slackin.pyladies.com enter your email address.
   Accept the email invitation
2. ​Go to workspace https://pyladies.slack.com
3. ​Join channel #city-amsterdam

⚠️ Important Note:
PyData Amsterdam is transitioning to Luma. ✨

• Please subscribe to PyData Amsterdam on Luma: https://luma.com/pydataamsterdam
• And register at the Luma link for this event : https://luma.com/1zt31rv6

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

🎬 From Clean Data to Big-Screen Agents: Meet us at Cinema The Pulse! 🎬

Our last meetup tackled scaling data pipelines for pristine data quality. Now that the data is clean, let's make it actionable.

We are thrilled to announce our next meetup on Thursday, June 25th, 2026, hosted by ManyChat!

We are taking over Amsterdam's premium Cinema The Pulse! No office rooms this time, architecture diagrams are getting the full, high-fidelity big-screen treatment.

🔍 The Focus: Production-Grade Agents
Anyone can prompt a model to generate a basic SQL query in a demo. Building a trustworthy system that safely queries everything from company business metrics to critical treasury data is a completely different challenge. We are peeling back the architecture of real, production systems, including a tool built on Claude Code that lets non-technical users bypass the analyst queue by simply typing /ask.

You will learn the exact engineering patterns needed to transition from prototype to production:

• Open Architecture: Designing thin-client plugins, FastAPI services spawning headless Claude, and a "brain" repo for metric definitions.
• Smart Routing: Directing plain-English questions to the right business domain and handling multi-turn follow-ups seamlessly.
• Security & Isolation: Enforcing multi-tenant data isolation, blocking destructive SQL, and preventing prompt injections.
• Reliability Tactics: Taming hallucinated columns with curated views and handling schema drift in highly regulated fintech industries.

Excited to see how production-grade agents actually work under the hood? Space is limited in the theater, so grab your seat now for an evening of high-signal engineering insights, cinematic views, and great networking with the PyData Amsterdam community!

Agenda:

• 18:00 - 18:55: Welcome with food and drinks! 🍺🍕
• 18:55 - 19:00: Host company intro - Manychat
• 19:00 - 19:45: Talk 1: Answers You Can Question: Building a Trustworthy Self-Service Analytics Agent by Alex Litvinov
• 19:45 - 20:00: Short break
• 20:00 - 20:45: Talk 2: From chat to insight: reliable AI agents for financial data by Niels Neerhoff
• 20:45 - 21:30: Networking & drinks

Talk 1 : Answers You Can Question: Building a Trustworthy Self-Service Analytics Agent
By Alex Litvinov

Talk Summary
At Manychat we built an analytics agent on top of Claude Code that lets non-technical employees ask data questions in plain English—no SQL, no analyst queue. A teammate types /ask and a question; the agent clarifies it if needed, routes it to the right business domain, writes guarded SQL against curated views, and returns a formatted answer—multi-turn, so follow-ups just work.

This talk walks the build from prototype to production. We’ll open up the architecture—a thin client plugin, a FastAPI service spawning headless Claude, and a “brain” repo of always-on rules and per-domain metric definitions—and the hard parts: routing questions to the right domain, taming hallucinated columns with curated views, blocking destructive SQL, and scoping data access safely.

Bio
From bioinformatics to backend systems, Alex has spent 15+ years building data-heavy software across healthcare and science. Today he’s a Data Engineer at Manychat, working where platform data engineering meets ML/AI.

Talk 2 : From chat to insight: reliable AI agents for financial data
By Niels Neerhoff

Talk Summary
With the rise of chat interfaces, users increasingly expect to interact with their data in plain English. Large language models make this possible, but deploying a model against financial data introduces risks.

This talk walks through the engineering challenges of building a natural language interface for treasury data: the kind of tool where a CFO can ask, "What's our net cash position this quarter?" and get a trusted answer, without writing any SQL.

We'll cover topics such as multi-tenant data isolation, schema drift, prompt injection, and why you can't rely on the model to enforce access control. Drawing on production experience at Palm, a fintech platform for cash flow forecasting and treasury management, we'll look at the patterns that make NL-to-SQL agents reliable enough for users in a regulated industry. You'll leave with concrete techniques for building agents that are capable, and safer to ship.

Bio
Niels is a software engineer working on data and AI, with an interest in reliable, autonomous systems. He cares about architecture, testing, and automation. When not working, you'll find him on his gravel bike, or listening to all sorts of music.

Directions
📍 Cinema The Pulse, Hildegard Von Bingenstraat 4, 1081 LH Amsterdam, Netherlands Hall #4. Just a 5 min walk from the Amsterdam Zuid train station.

Schedule
19:00 Walk-in
19:15 David Beentjes on NativePHP Mobile
19:55 Break
20:15 Daniele Besana on Running a WooCommerce store: the good, the bad and the ugly
20:45 Open Call 🔔
21:00 Drinks @ the bar

Did you ever receive an offer to build a mobile app but had to decline because you didn't have the knowledge in the needed programming languages? Well, maybe now you do have the required skills. In his talk on NativePHP Mobile, David Beentjes (12+ years of WordPress development experience and co-owner of Unloc) shares his insights from building an Android and iOS app in the same programming language WordPress is written in: PHP. Based on a real-world app, he showcases the possibilities that NativePHP unlocks for WP builders and how an app can be integrated with an existing WordPress site for authentication, content management, or whatever else you can think of.

Daniele Besana is the founder of WP-OK. In 2023, together with his wife Hanny, he acquired a 6-figure webshop at cafe-analog.nl. Coming from years of supporting ecommerce clients, running a store firsthand gave him a completely new perspective on the real challenges behind a WooCommerce business.
In this talk, Daniele shares the lessons learned after taking over an existing webshop: what they improved, what surprised them, what mistakes they made, and the many non-technical aspects such as logistics, suppliers, inventory, and (some) marketing.
This is not a technical WooCommerce talk, but a practical and honest look at what it really means to run an online store: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Join us for the sixth 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

Looking for a cofounder? Try the matching platform we created, https://findyourcofounder.nl

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

By registering and attending this event, you acknowledge and consent that photos, videos and other media may be captured by the organizers and partners.
These materials may be used for documentation, promotional, and community purposes in connection with Tech Makers activities.

During the Wallen Festival, the Waag opens its doors for an exhibition of artists who deconstruct and reimagine technology. Come and visit!

Welcome to our pop-up creators’ and makers’ space: an open, low-barrier environment where people of all disciplines can come together to create. Bring your own tools, whether that’s a laptop, a sketchbook, a typewriter, or a crochet kit and spend time sketching, making, coding, writing, painting, sewing, or building.

The concept is simple: no workshops, no formal program, just an open space where everyone is welcome to focus on their own project or get inspired by others. It’s about creating side by side, with minimal structure and maximum accessibility.
We can learn and inspire each other.

Whether you want to work on your side project, procrastinate your side project with a new side project, or learn a new skill, or just drink coffee - you're welcome to drop by anytime during 10-18h for as long or short as you want.

The event is intended to cross-pollination between different disciplines, spark fresh ideas, and inspire participants to explore skills outside their comfort zone.
Everyone is welcome, regardless of background or experience.

Meetup – Comparing SEDI and the KERI Protocol with the eIDAS-based EUDI Wallet Model
(KERISuite: Free Open-source Identifier Systems Software under TrustoverIP Foundation that is anchored in LFDT)

Monday June 29, 7:00 PM
Amsterdam area (exact location to be announced)
A meetup about SEDI and its supporting KERI protocol, and how this compares to the EUDI Wallet (eIDAS-based) that will be introduced across Europe.

• SEDI = Model legislated in the State of Utah (US): State-Endorsed Digital Identity. The state endorses a digital identity, while the citizen remains in control.
• KERISuite = technical foundation for secure, self-controlled, persistent, cryptographically verifiable digital identity.
• eIDAS = European legal framework for electronic identification and trust services.
• EUDI Wallet = the European Digital Identity Wallet under eIDAS 2.0, enabling citizens and organizations to store and share digital credentials.

SEDI and eIDAS/EUDI represent two policy approaches to digital identity: Some US states versus EU.

KERI/KERISuite can be seen as a possible technical infrastructure for implementing such models in a privacy-preserving, decentralized, and verifiable manner.
SEDI places more emphasis on individual sovereignty and state endorsement, while eIDAS/EUDI focuses more on EU-wide interoperability and legal recognition.

There are also concerns about the level of trust European citizens are expected to place in these systems.

The meetup is organized by the Permissionless Society Meetup Group and supported by the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT).

• Introduction to SEDI and the KERI protocol — Henk van Cann
• Presentation on the characteristics of eIDAS/EUDI from that perspective - {Speaker to be announced soon}

Free entrance.
Doors open at 6:45 PM.

The meetup starts exactly at 7:00 PM. At 8:30 PM we'll have a drink and a chat.

Also announced here: https://www.meetup.com/lfdt-netherlands/events/314921548

Meetup – SEDI en het KERI-protocol vergelijken met het eIDAS-gebaseerde EUID.

Maandag 29 juni, 19:00 uur
Omgeving Amsterdam (locatie volgt)

Een meetup over SEDI en het ondersteunende KERI-protocol en hoe dit zich verhoudt tot de EUID-wallet (eIDAS-gebaseerd) die we in Europa gaan krijgen.

Kort:
SEDI = State-Endorsed Digital Identity, wettelijk vastgelegd in de staat Utah (US). De staat “endorses” een digitale identiteit, maar de burger blijft zelf de identity provider.
KERISuite / KERI = technische basislaag voor veilige, zelfbeheerde, lang houdbare, cryptografisch verifieerbare digitale identiteit.

eIDAS = Europees juridisch kader voor elektronische identificatie en vertrouwensdiensten.

EUDI Wallet = de Europese digitale identiteitswallet onder eIDAS 2.0, waarmee burgers en organisaties digitale credentials kunnen bewaren en delen.

Samenhang:
SEDI en eIDAS/EUDI zijn twee beleidsmodellen voor digitale identiteit: VS versus EU. KERI/KERISuite kan worden gezien als een mogelijke technische infrastructuur om zulke modellen privacyvriendelijk, decentraal en verifieerbaar uit te voeren. SEDI legt meer nadruk op individuele soevereiniteit en de staat die goedkeurende ondersteuning geeft; eIDAS/EUDI legt meer nadruk op EU-brede interoperabiliteit en wettelijke erkenning. Er zijn zorgen over het vertrouwen dat Europese ingezetenen moeten hebben in dit systeem.

De meetup wordt georganiseerd door Permissionless Society Meetup Group en ondersteund door de Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT).

Er zijn twee sprekers:
Een introductie over SEDI en het KERI-protocol - Henk van Cann
Een presentatie over de karakteristieken van eIDAS in dat perspectief - Spreker weldra aan te kondigen

Toegang is gratis. Deur open om 18:45 uur. Het begint precies om 19:00 uur.
Om 20:30 uur uiterlijk napraten met een borrel.

Bio Henk van Cann

1. MSc Management and Computer Science (1992) and BSc Water and Soil Management (1987)
2. Certified Bitcoin Professional & MOOC DFIN 511 University of Nicosia - Digital Currencies (2016)
3. Co-founder ‘Permission-less Society’ Meetups (2016-today)
4. Trainer of teachers at Blockchain Workspace (2016-2020)
5. Cardgame bitcoin misconceptions site (2019-2021)
6. KERI Suite documentation and education (2021-today)
7. Co-chair Concepts & terminology of Trust over IP foundation (2023-2025)
8. Founding chairman of KERI Foundation LLC (2024-today)
9. Organizer of the KERICONF26 in Utah, US (2025-today)

Dear Platform Engineering Community,

Summer is here… and so is our next Platform Engineering MeetUp in Amsterdam. This being our 10th edition I am extra excited that we will be hosting this milestone event on Hannekes Boot ⛴️🎉😀

This time, we will be diving into the world of FinTech. With a strong focus on security, resilience, and modern platform engineering challenges, we are aiming to learn how to keep the fire where it belongs 😉 Together with three fantastic speakers, we’ll explore everything from Kubernetes security and hidden software supply chain risks to building secure platforms for, and against AI (see agenda below ⏬).

And since no summer MeetUp would be complete without it… YES, there will be a BBQ, drinks, and plenty of time to continue the conversations after the talks 😉🍔🍻

A huge THANK YOU to our hosts Chainguard and Tarmac.io for making this evening possible 🫶

As always, all you need to do is bring you++, some good vibes, interesting talking points, and come ready to connect with fellow engineers in a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

Can't wait to see you all again!! 🙂
Michi

LOCATION
Hannekes Boot
Dijksgracht 4
1019 BS Amsterdam
what3words Address: ///evening.league.builder

AGENDA
17.30 - 18.00 Doors Open, Welcome Snacks & Drinks

18.00 Welcome by our hosts

18.10 - 18.30 "What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security"
Lars Lefebvre, Application Security Engineer @ ING
What I’ll Tell My Kids About K8s Security is a creative and story-driven talk that makes Kubernetes security approachable — even for those who aren’t deep in the weeds of K8s. Framed through metaphors and everyday analogies (like thermostats as a control plane or opening windows in cold winter as malicious action), the talk explores complex security challenges in a fun and memorable way. In the second half, I’ll share the story behind an open source tool we built at ING to help teams uncover and understand real-world security issues in their clusters.

18.35 - 18.55 "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities™ : The Next Infrastructure Frontier"
Cassie Crossley, CEO & Co-Founder @ VulNow

• Uncovering the Invisible Risk: A deep dive into "Dark Matter Vulnerabilities" (TM): the critical, silent security patches and PreCVEs occurring in open-source dependencies that traditional automated scanners completely miss.
• Securing the Golden Path: How modern platform engineering pipelines inadvertently distribute unmapped supply chain risks, and practical strategies to embed true codebase integrity into infrastructure at scale.
• Balancing Compliance and Velocity: A strategic look at navigating the EU Cyber Resilience Act's (CRA) upcoming technical demands without forcing engineering teams to sacrifice development speed for operational security.

19.00 - 19.20 "Towards a Secure Platform for, and against AI"
Django Beek, Enterprise Sales Engineer @ Chainguard
Mythos is real, not a marketing stunt. Critical infrastructure, including fintech, must prepare to be secure in the AI era. Meanwhile, to stay ahead of the competition, development velocity with AI is a must. These competing, inevitable forces need to be tamed. We’ll, among others, touch upon these questions:

• How is the platform the hub of the wheel between agentic developer velocity and maintaining a secure posture against AI adversaries?
• How do you control and mitigate the risk introduced by your software supply chain?
• What is the future of open source and the traditional maintainer model?

The software industry is changing fast, perhaps too fast. We don’t have a glass bowl, but certainly a growing sense of the solution directions. Join us for this preview of the future SDLC in the AI era.

19:30 - 22.00 Get-together with BBQ & Drinks

Simon Brown is the creator of the C4 model for visualising software architecture and Structurizr - the original developer-friendly "models as code" tooling for creating version-controlled documentation. He is the author of The C4 Model (O'Reilly) and Software Architecture for Developers (Leanpub). Over the past 15+ years, Simon has worked with hundreds of organisations across ~40 countries, from startups to global household names in almost every industry sector, helping teams adopt the C4 model and communicate their software architecture more effectively.

Join in with an evening with Simon Brown at the latest Amsterdam JUG Meetup at Miro, Fred. Roeskestraat 100, 1076 ED Amsterdam.

In this meetup, in addition to food, drinks, and networking, you will experience two sessions with and by Simon Brown. Whether you are new to C4 or very experienced with it, you will find something for you during this event.

Agenda

18:00 - Doors Open (And Food!)
19:00 - 19:45 Talk 1: "First Steps with C4"
20:00 - 20:45 Talk 2: "Ask Me Anything About C4"
21:00 - The End

Note that by submitting the registration form for this meetup and by signing up to this event, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to Miro's Conduct and Content Standards, Miro Meetups Terms, and Miro's Privacy Policy and agree for Miro to use personal data it collects of yours for the purpose of sending communications, including marketing emails, to you.

Decagon is valued at $4.5 billion and has become one of the standout success stories in Silicon Valley — all in under two years.

On July 2, Wouter van den Brande joins us in conversation with Bas van den Brande, leading growth at Duna (and yes, his brother 😄), to talk about what that actually looks like from the inside: building the sales motion, closing eight-figure deals, and operating inside one of the fastest-scaling companies in enterprise AI.

We'll cover:

• Scaling to $4.5B in under two years
• Closing the largest deals - what works and what doesn't
• The operating model behind the growth

Agenda

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

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

About Wouter van den Brande [LinkedIn]

Founding GTM at Decagon (FTE #12), where he leads the largest AI deployments as sales director. Previously enterprise AE at Rockset (acq’d by OpenAI). Earlier at Fourthline, where he started and led the BDR team before moving into enterprise sales. He is also an active angel together with his brother Bas (www.brande-ventures.com), a scout for a16z and Venture Partner at Creandum.

About Whale 🐳

We bring the next generation of operators and founders together - through expert-led sessions, dinners, and hackathons.

Join The technological city walk on 2 July and discover how technology is woven into everyday life in the city. Walk through different places in the neighbourhood and take a closer look at the systems, devices and data around you. What role does technology play in the city — and who is it really for?

🎙️🎙️ Get excited for the July meetup! On July 7th, we'll be renting out the Boom Chicago comedy theater (Amsterdam's largest comedy theater) for a really special meetup!

🎨🎥 You've asked for a meetup on how to use AI to be more creative in both your personal life and at work, and it's finally happening! Get ready to get inspired! The goal of this meetup is to help you learn from top creatives who use AI every day on, well, how to use AI be more creative! And since we're at a comedy theater this month, we'll also have a little more "fun" than normal 🙂.

🎤🎤 We’re lining up a really great panel for the July meetup, including:

• Rhys Davelaar, Executive Creative Director at Publicis, the largest advertising/marketing agency in the world.
• Chrissie Cremers, AI Creative & Co-Founder at Aigency Amsterdam. Aigency Amsterdam is an award-winning agency and creative studio specializing in AI-generated media.
• A panelist specializing in AI in music at one of the "big three" record labels. He's still going through all the internal approvals - we'll announce the third panelist soon!

🅰️ℹ️ We hope to see you there! For those who are new to the meetup, the AI on the Amstel meetup is a monthly meetup that features knowledgeable speakers discussing "in the weeds" AI topics and challenges. We get 250-400+ people a month depending on the size of the venue that month. Founded in 2024, the meetup has almost 6,000 members and a 4.7/5 rating.

📣📣 Finally, a shout-out to our new meetup sponsor — Alibaba and Qwen! Qwen is the leading AI model in China. Want to learn more? Reach out to Kas or Daniel from the team based in the Netherlands.

Join us for a meetup together with MLOps Community, and with talks from Devoteam, Boxd.sh and Elastic. We will share some pizzas and drinks afterwards.

Agenda:
17.45: Doors open
18.00: AI-Driven SRE Observability Solution with Elastic
18.40: The next compute primitive: a serverless container
19.20: Agent Building with Elasticsearch
20.00: Networking with pizza and drinks
20.30: Wrap up

Talks:
AI-Driven SRE Observability Solution with Elastic
This talk will illustrate how the health check script and the LangGraph AI agent work together to provide autonomous diagnostics for Elasticsearch deployments. The solution provides clear insights into what happened, why it occurred, and how it can be resolved. It is built around Elastic and is capable of monitoring and responding to issues, including those related to Elastic deployments.

Speaker: Prince Sharma: Senior Consultant - Observability @Devoteam

The next compute primitive: a serverless container
The cloud split compute into two bad primitives. VMs that are safe but slow. Serverless functions that are fast but stateless. We built a third option: composable, hardware-isolated microVMs that suspend to zero, resume in 10ms, and fork their entire state (memory, disk, network) on demand. Ships as a single Rust binary with zero external dependencies. We'll walk through the architecture and do a live demo.

Speaker: Azin: Co-Founder @ Boxd.sh

Agent Building with Elasticsearch
Speaker: Sander Philipse, Principal Software Engineer @Elastic

We’re excited to announce the second edition of Cloud Native Platform NL.

Join us on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at Wibautstraat 200, Amsterdam, for an evening of practical talks, good conversations, pizza, and drinks with the fellow platform engineers and cloud-native enthusiasts.
This edition focuses on two themes that are becoming increasingly important for modern engineering teams: securing AI systems in production and building platform foundations that scale without creating long-term technical debt.

Talk 1: How to Secure & Optimize Your RAG pipelines with Fine Grained Authorization

It’s time for Day 2 Ops in the world of AI.
Building enterprise-ready AI poses challenges around data security, scalability, and integration, especially in compliance-regulated industries. The primary mitigation strategy is to build guardrails around Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to safeguard data while also optimizing query response efficiency.
This session will cover how modern permissions systems can safeguard sensitive data in RAG pipelines. We'll start with why Authorization is critical for RAG pipelines to protect sensitive data from potential vulnerabilities and also the various techniques for permissions-aware data retrieval including prefiltering, and post-filtering vector databases. The principles in this talk can also be used to apply authorization for AI Agents.
The talk will also include a practical demo implementing fine-grained authorization for RAG using Pinecone, Langchain, OpenAI, and SpiceDB.

About the speaker:
Sohan is a Lead Developer Advocate at AuthZed, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building mobile apps and has been living in the cloud since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Fermyon and Gupshup. He is also an O' Reilly author, having created a course on Cloud Concepts for Everyone. He has always been interested in emerging technologies and how it shapes the world around us.

Talk 2: Shaky Ground: Infrastructure Mistakes That Create Tech Debt — and How AI-Powered Platforms Fix It.

Every engineering team hits the same trap: infrastructure decisions that work today become painful bottlenecks tomorrow. Shortcuts pile up into tech debt, outages, and teams that can't ship.
This talk covers the most common infrastructure mistakes and how platform engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) provide a way out — including how different Kubernetes architectures affect scalability and team autonomy.
The highlight: a live demo showing how anyone can extend the platform by simply writing a skills.md or agents.md file, instantly adding new tools, business apps, and AI-powered workflows — no deep platform knowledge required.
Walk away with practical ideas for building systems that grow with your business without slowing your team down.

Key Topics:

• What IDPs are and why starting early pays off
• Golden paths and self-service tools that keep teams fast and infrastructure consistent
• Kubernetes architecture trade-offs: scalability, cost, and autonomy
• GitOps and automation to eliminate repetitive manual work
• Extending your platform with AI agents — adding new tools and apps through simple markdown files

About the speaker:
Mojtaba Imani is a Golden Kubestronaut and platform engineering consultant at Xebia, and the creator of Kuberise.io, an open-source IDP for Kubernetes. He helps companies reduce technical debt, improve developer experience, and build platforms that scale — without everything falling apart later.

Who should attend?

• Platform engineers
• DevOps engineers
• SREs
• Cloud architects
• Engineering managers
• CTOs
• Developers interested in platform engineering and scalable infrastructure

Agenda

• 18:00 Arrival with pizza and drinks
• 18:45 Talks and discussion
• 20:30 Last round of drinks
• 21:00 Building closes

Whether you are working on cloud platforms, Kubernetes, cost optimization, developer platforms, or AI infrastructure, this meetup is for you.

Is the water clean enough to swim in? Why does water sometimes turn green? Join us on 6 August to measure and observe water quality, and discover what water can tell you.

Cloud conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Co-founder / CTO at Decagon. Details TBD

CTO conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cybersecurity / InfoSec conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands