🧠 The AI Collective Netherlands | Amsterdam Meetup

Join us for another AI Collective Netherlands gathering, an evening connecting people who are shaping and applying artificial intelligence in meaningful ways.

This meetup brings together practitioners, leaders, and learners from across the country to exchange ideas, share practical experience, and explore how AI is being built and adopted responsibly.

Agenda

17:30 – 18:30 Welcome, light walking meal, and networking

18:30 – 19:00 Anubha Saxena, Senior AI Engineer @ Miro

19:15 – 19:45 Cristian Tzolov, Spring AI Lead @ Broadcom

19:45 – 20:30 Closing and more networking

As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided.

Talks

Anubha Saxena: Let’s not talk about evals

Anubha will be giving a talk on evals, but not the kind you’re thinking of. Not metrics. Not benchmarks. The stuff that actually matters: how do you know your AI feature is working? And how do you make that question easy enough that your team can actually answer it?

Cristian Tzolov: Building AI agents in Spring AI

AI agents are systems dedicated to the art of context window curation; relentless loops of assembling context, prompting the model, observing results, and re-assembling for the next step. Building them is more than stitching together LLM calls; it demands systems that can iteratively refine their context, self-correct, and act autonomously toward better outcomes.

This talk explores how Spring AI provides an elegant framework for exactly that. The ChatClient, Advisors, and Tool Calling APIs serve as the core building blocks: after briefly covering the essentials — prompt engineering, conversation memory, RAG for context enrichment, Tools for external services, and MCP for standardized integration — we’ll focus on the agentic patterns that turn a reactive AI assistant into something that can reason, plan, and act.

Venue

Special thanks to our partners at Miro for hosting this months edition of the AI Collective NL meetup!

Miro Headquarters @ Fred. Roeskestraat 100
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Zg7aGXSkkRV5wdNq6

Paid parking is available on the street.

About the AI Collective Dutch Chapter

The Dutch Chapter is the Netherlands extension of the AI Collective, a global non-profit uniting 200,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 100+ forums worldwide. Our purpose is to build the human layer for the AI era: creating common ground to learn faster, meet the right people, and tap into a global ecosystem.As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!

Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!

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