amsterdam

A full-day Money20/20 side event at Fosbury & Sons' canal-side member club on the Prinsengracht. The (un)Banked Conference brings together leaders from banking, fintech and crypto to debate how financial systems are actually changing — beyond the conference-stage talking points — and what banking will plausibly look like over the next decade. Format is curated and intentionally tight: keynote talks, focused panels and properly facilitated networking, in a setting designed for senior conversation rather than badge-scanning. For founders, operators and investors working on the unbanked, embedded finance, stablecoins, real-time rails and the regulatory edges that connect them.

with Victor Knaap (Co-Founder, Media.Monks)

Intimate lunchtime session with Victor Knaap, co-founder of Media.Monks — the Dutch creative production company that scaled globally as part of S4 Capital. Knaap shares how he approached brand-building at the intersection of technology, creativity and content, and how early-stage founders can think about narrative, positioning and distinctive identity. Hosted by Startup Village at Amsterdam Science Park as part of The Nursery programme. Small format — sign up early.

with Flavia Zimbardi (Type designer / Host, Women in Type) · Aleksandra Samuļenkova (Type designer, Panellist) · Lara Captan (Type designer, Panellist) + 1 more

68th edition of Women in Type at Amsterdam design studio Thonik. Brazilian type designer Flavia Zimbardi hosts a panel with Aleksandra Samuļenkova, Lara Captan and Pooja Saxena on representation in type design — voice and visibility in visual culture for digital products. Niche but high quality for designers in the Amsterdam tech scene.

The 68th edition of the recurring Women in Type evening, hosted at Amsterdam design studio Thonik. A focused conversation about visibility, voice and representation in type design and the broader visual culture of digital products. Speakers from established type foundries and design studios share work in progress and the questions behind it. Strong fit for designers, design-leads at tech companies and anyone interested in how typography and design choices shape the brands, products and platforms we use every day.

Fourth volume of the intimate AI practitioner meetup run by Netventis at Nook in De Pijp. The format is deliberately small — about ten seats — for working AI professionals (data scientists, product owners, ML engineers, innovation leads and tech-forward marketers) to swap real applied lessons on what AI is changing inside their organisations. Lightning intros from each attendee, then open conversation over drinks. A different kind of room from the big AI conferences: fewer attendees, no badges, more honest exchange about what's actually working in production.

An hour-long, interactive workshop inside the PublicSpaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger — Amsterdam's best-known venue for tech-and-society programming. The session reframes the standard 'tech in your organisation' question: what would democratic technology actually look like in practice — collective ownership and governance instead of centralised control, technology serving the mission rather than serving the platform? Run by DIGISET in collaboration with PublicSpaces, the workshop is built for senior people at SMEs, non-profits and cooperatives thinking about their digital choices. Ticket includes free full-day access to the PublicSpaces Conference.

A working hackathon-style afternoon at Huis De Pinto — the historic merchant house turned community venue in the Nieuwmarkt area — built around the Public Stack model. Run as part of the PublicSpaces Conference and funded by the EU's DIGISET programme, the session has participants map their organisation's full digital landscape (materials, protocols, business model, interfaces) and explicitly test how their values translate into technology choices. The format is most useful for impact-driven founders, non-profit and cooperative SMEs, and tech companies working on public-interest infrastructure. Ticket includes free access to the morning and afternoon PublicSpaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger the same day.

Demo Day for the eighth cohort of the AMS Startup Booster — AMS Institute's 20-week urban-tech accelerator. Ten ventures present what they have built after months of customer discovery, prototyping and testing, working on circular materials, climate resilience, digital infrastructure for cities and social inclusion. Audience includes corporate innovation leads, public sector partners, academic researchers and investors looking for Amsterdam-grounded urban-tech deal flow.

Forrester's CX Summit EMEA is the annual gathering for customer experience, B2C marketing and digital leaders who need more than a conference — they need a change of direction. Three days at Beurs van Berlage, backed by Forrester's research, designed to help leaders turn customer insights into measurable business outcomes. The 2026 summit addresses the real tensions in enterprise CX: fragmented customer journeys, proving ROI to leadership, and aligning CX, digital and marketing teams around a shared direction. Sessions move from strategic frameworks to practical frameworks, with Forrester analysts providing direct guidance rather than vendor pitches. Particularly relevant for heads of digital, CX directors, and CMOs at organisations where customer experience is a board-level priority.

Green IO is the conference for technology leaders who are serious about making IT sustainable — not as a PR exercise, but as an engineering and operational discipline. The 2026 Amsterdam edition arrives at a pivotal moment: generative AI is exploding energy demand across data centres, while European climate policy faces headwinds and tech giants tighten their grip on infrastructure. Green IO responds with high-quality technical sessions — latest research, real-world case studies, deep dives into responsible AI, green software engineering, carbon-aware stacks, green cloud architecture and sustainable hardware. The 150+ attendees are practitioners: engineers, architects, sustainability leads and executives genuinely trying to reconcile performance with planetary cost. Part of the Future of Software Technology conference at Tolhuistuin.

PROVADA is the largest real estate fair in the Netherlands and a major meeting place for real estate professionals — but it is also where proptech, smart-building tech, real estate data platforms and digital construction tools find their audience. In 2025 the fair attracted over 27,000 visitors. Worth attending if you build, market, sell or invest in technology applied to real estate, construction or the built environment, or if you work in proptech-adjacent fields (smart buildings, IoT, location data, ESG/energy software).

GreenTech Amsterdam is the world's #1 horticulture technology event — the place where robotics in greenhouses, precision growing, climate-control AI, vertical farming, water and energy systems, and ag-data platforms come together. Three days of exhibitions, knowledge sessions and structured matchmaking with market leaders, scale-ups and researchers from across the global horticulture-tech sector. If you work in agritech, foodtech, robotics, sensors/IoT, climatetech or data platforms applied to food production, this is a key event in the European calendar.

with Femke Halsema (Mayor, City of Amsterdam) · Guido van Rossum (Creator of Python, Python Software Foundation) · Kiki Lauwers (CEO, Thorizon) + 2 more

The day before Hello Tomorrow Summit — Europe's premier deep tech event — lands in Amsterdam for the first time, the city makes its own statement. Amsterdam Deep Tech Showcase is a city-organised day at CRCL Park, Marineterrein, designed to show exactly where Amsterdam has earned the right to play in the global deep tech conversation. Three focus areas: Future of Compute (AI and quantum algorithms); Future of Sustainable Systems (climate tech and green chemistry); Future of Life Sciences & Health (biotech and medtech). Speakers include Mayor Femke Halsema, Guido van Rossum (creator of Python), Kiki Lauwers (CEO, Thorizon), Jelle Prins (co-founder, Cradle) and Sander van Deventer (co-founder, VectorY Therapeutics). An Innovation Market and 10 breakout sessions complete the programme. Brought to you by the City of Amsterdam, with Amsterdam University, VU, Amsterdam UMC and Amsterdam Science Park. Registrations are curated — apply early.

The Benelux Regional final of the Startup World Cup — a global pitch competition with regional rounds in 100+ countries feeding into a Silicon Valley grand finale with a $1M investment prize. Selected Benelux startups pitch to a panel of investors at AI House Amsterdam (powered by Prosus), with the regional winner advancing to the global final in San Francisco later in 2026. A high-quality evening for founders, investors and operators interested in the strongest deep-tech and AI-driven companies coming out of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

After more than a decade in Paris, Europe's leading deep tech summit moves to Amsterdam for the first time. Hello Tomorrow 2026 brings 3,000+ founders, investors, researchers, corporates and policymakers to NDSM Producties — Amsterdam's iconic waterfront industrial space — for two days of serious deep tech programming across 4 stages and 125 exhibitors. The summit focuses on the breakthroughs and strategic priorities that matter most to the deep tech sector right now: healthcare innovation, climate technology, advanced computing, food & agriculture systems, resilience and sovereignty. The Deep Tech Days programme (June 8–10) also runs across Amsterdam this week, offering additional side events for the global deep tech community arriving in the city. This is the flagship event for anyone investing in, building on, or partnering with Europe's most ambitious science-to-market ventures.

with Anna McDougall (Engineering Leader & Author, Independent) · Kevin Ball (VP of Engineering, Mento) · Maxim Salnikov (Senior UX Engineer, Microsoft)

Two-day conference at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam Noord for hands-on engineering leaders — VPs, CTOs, heads of platform, staff engineers — wrestling with how AI actually changes how teams ship software. Day one is talks, panels and case studies from startups through to scale-ups: rethinking engineering roles in an AI-disrupted org, measuring ROI on AI initiatives, managing AI-generated technical debt, developer experience, cognitive load and the supply-chain risk that comes with third-party AI dependencies. Day two flips to an Unconference — attendees set the agenda and bring the hard questions to open peer sessions. Speakers include Anna McDougall (engineering leader and author), Kevin Ball (VP Engineering, Mento), Maxim Salnikov (Senior UX Engineer, Microsoft) and Gregor (fractional CTO). Practical, peer-led, light on vendor pitches.

An unofficial Hello Tomorrow side event held at the STRAAT Museum, pulling in the international deep tech community arriving in Amsterdam that week. Curated showcase of ventures emerging from the DT Launch Pad — a year-long European programme that supports research-based teams from leading universities through training, mentoring and early commercialisation. Short pitches followed by structured networking. No Hello Tomorrow ticket required — this is an open evening for investors, founders and operators who want early visibility on the strongest research-driven deep tech companies in Europe.

Hello Tomorrow week side event at Amsterdam Science Park. Cuts past the AI hype to look at where AI is actually moving the needle on cleantech and sustainability — energy systems, materials, climate modelling. Practical sessions and networking with operators, researchers and climate-tech investors gathered in town for Hello Tomorrow.

The world's largest React conference returns to Amsterdam, drawing 1,500+ in-person attendees and 10,000+ online participants to Kromhouthal for a full day of technical sessions aimed squarely at senior and full-stack engineers. The 2026 edition goes deep on React Server Components in production, the newly released React Compiler and its performance implications, and the rapidly evolving space of AI integration in frontend workflows — prompt engineering for UI generation, LLM-powered product features, and architecting applications that leverage AI without sacrificing performance. Workshops, the legendary React Party, and the Open Source Awards round out the programme. This is not an introductory event: the talks assume production experience and reward engineers who want to work at the edge of what the React ecosystem can do.

Practical morning session for early-stage AI founders at Startup Village Amsterdam. Sira Incentives — a Dutch consultancy specialising in public funding for innovation — walks through which EU and Dutch grant schemes AI startups can realistically apply for, what the application process actually looks like, and case studies of companies that have successfully secured non-dilutive support. Run as part of The Nursery programme.

One-day Amsterdam edition of the AfricArena Tour — the long-running African tech ecosystem accelerator that culminates each year in the Grand Summit in December. Held at Google Amsterdam, the programme features curated pitches from African startups raising in Europe, keynotes from senior investors and corporates active across the continent, and structured networking with LPs, GPs and founders. Strong fit for European VCs looking at African deal flow and for diaspora founders connecting back to the continent.

Third edition of Finder — Amsterdam's structured co-founder matching event — and the opening event of Amsterdam Tech Week. Designed for two audiences: joiners looking for a 16+ hour role in an Amsterdam-based startup (as co-founder or early hire), and founders looking for business or technical talent to add to a young team. A structured Finder Session 16:00–17:30 walks participants through guided introductions, followed by open drinks 17:30–19:00 at AMS Institute. Hosted by AMS Institute, Venture Centre HvA, Demonstrator Lab and Startup Village Amsterdam.

Four-day hands-on information security training event in Amsterdam from SpecterOps — the US offensive-security firm behind BloodHound and a regular fixture on the conference circuit. Two parallel courses run across the week: Adversary Tactics: Identity-Driven Offensive Tradecraft (deep-dive into attacking modern hybrid identity, including Entra ID and on-prem AD), and Adversary Perspectives: Azure (foundational Azure / Entra ID attack and defence, with hands-on labs). Paid professional training — relevant for security engineers, blue-team leads and red-team operators. Virtual attendance option for those who can't make it to Amsterdam.

Evening session in Amsterdam's Zuidas finance district on how major financial institutions are repositioning their risk frameworks for the next cycle — AI-driven decisioning, climate exposure, trade and supply-chain shocks, and the new regulatory stack. Panel-led discussion aimed at risk officers, compliance leads, fintech operators selling into banks, and investors tracking the financial-services tech stack. Networking afterwards at Van der Valk Zuidas.

Afternoon pitch competition and networking at TNW City run by ACT | The App Association to open Amsterdam Tech Week. Eight European startups from the App Association's Scale Lab cohort pitch live to a panel of mentors, policymakers and industry insiders — with the angle that regulatory intelligence (AI Act, DSA, compliance-as-moat) is becoming a real competitive edge for early-stage tech companies, not just a tax. Programme includes opening remarks, a policy-leader keynote, a panel on Compliance as a Competitive Edge, the lightning pitches, a winner announcement (with a spotlight slot at the App Association's TNW Conference booth), and networking that flows into the larger TNW opening party. Free to attend, registration required.

Grand finale of Innovators Arena 2026 at the E|SPORTS TECH CAMPUS (H20 Esports Stadium) in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Eight selected startups pitch on stage to a room of investors, corporate innovation leads and partners; all programme participants — including teams not pitching — showcase live demos and real-world applications from 18:30. Notable because the venue itself is a Living Lab — innovations are tested in operation, not just on slides.

Headline event of Amsterdam Tech Week: a 45-hour AI builder tournament at The HUBB bringing together 500+ vetted founders, engineers and designers to ship real startup work, not weekend toys. Mentors and operators from Codex, Mollie, Miro, Peak Capital, Visa, Wispr Flow, Tulip Ventures and BabyVC are in the room throughout the weekend; €100K+ prize pool. Hosted by TAG — the Amsterdam builder community behind weekly ship sprints and demo nights. Applications vetted; free tickets via the public video-pitch route.

Litecoin Summit's first European edition opens Dutch Blockchain Week at the iconic TOBACCO Theater. Two days of panels, workshops and break-out rooms on payments, scaling and Web3 infrastructure, plus an exhibitor and networking area. Combined passes available with the DBW Summit on Jun 24–25.

Ascent Valley's recurring Amsterdam tech and AI networking evening, this month at Side Quest Bar in the city centre. Founders, operators and investors from across 23 cities in Ascent Valley's network; a credible alternative if you're looking for a smaller-room conversation during Dutch Blockchain Week. Light pitching plus structured intros.

Third edition of the Digital Twin Tech Summit at Park Plaza Victoria. Two days bringing decision-makers, innovators and technologists together around the practical adoption of digital twins — manufacturing, smart buildings, energy, mobility. Case studies, panels and structured networking; useful for product, engineering and ops leaders at companies digitising physical operations.

Flagship two-day Web3 summit at Johan Cruijff ArenA, anchoring Dutch Blockchain Week (Jun 22–28). 5,000+ attendees, 40+ side events around the city. Bitvavo, bunq, Visa, Kraken, OKX, Mastercard, Deloitte, Fireblocks and Worldpay all confirmed; deep-dives on institutional adoption, regulation, payments, and digital assets. Best week of the year to be in Amsterdam if you work in or around crypto, payments or Web3.