Amsterdam — Week of 14 Sep 2026

A co-working build session for product people at House of Watt — bring the thing you are shipping and work on it in company. Small and low-key.

Creative-coding meetup for TouchDesigner users at AMAZE — real-time visuals, installation work and generative systems. Niche tooling, strong community.

SustainaLab's talk series at Matrix ONE on Amsterdam Science Park, this edition on flood-risk modelling and its consequences for housing. Climate and data modelling applied to the city itself.

An hour-long online session on building AI products, run by an Amsterdam-based organiser. Short format, remote-only.

The Dutch ClickHouse user group at Adyen, whose own analytics stack makes the host a credible source of war stories. Real-time analytics at volume, schema design and the operational side of running ClickHouse in production — a technical evening with an audience of data engineers.

The Amsterdam WordPress community's monthly evening at Stayokay Oost — plugin and theme development, hosting and the agency side of building on WordPress.

Pakhuis de Zwijger and Amsterdam AI put generative tooling in front of the people whose work it displaces and the people building it, in the format Pakhuis does best — an argument on stage rather than a product demo. Strong choice if you work anywhere near design, media or creative production in the city.

An AGNTCon pre-day session hosted at Adyen and co-run with the Dutch Cloud Native and AI security communities: what agentic AI looks like once it is actually in production — tool calls, failure modes and securing what the agents can reach.

The City of Amsterdam, WTC Amsterdam and nlmtd put innovative corporates, startup-friendly investors and founders around the same dinner tables. Curated seating rather than a standing drinks crowd — the point is that the introductions actually land.

A builder-first AI meetup at StartDock on the Keizersgracht — demos and short technical talks from people shipping AI features, with graph and retrieval infrastructure a recurring theme. Practical rather than strategic, and small enough that you can actually talk to the presenters.

An evening for international professionals in Amsterdam exploring a career pivot or simply looking to widen their professional circle. Informal networking in a relaxed hotel-bar setting — ideal for anyone navigating a new direction in the Dutch job market.

React Amsterdam is the largest front-end community in the city and this edition takes on AI-assisted web engineering — what actually changes in a React codebase when agents write part of it. Front-end engineers, and one of the better rooms in Amsterdam for finding a job by talking to people.

Appsterdam's long-running weekly social at Café Bax — developers, designers and makers from across the Amsterdam app and web scene, no agenda and no tickets. Turn up and find a table.

The Linux Foundation's European summit for the Model Context Protocol — the interface layer most agent tooling is now standardising on. Two days of keynotes and technical sessions for the people actually building MCP servers, clients and agent infrastructure, co-located with AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe. If you write agent code, this is the developer conference of the month.

A two-day technology expo at the Johan Cruijff ArenA covering internet, mobile, adtech, martech and SaaS, with the DigiMarCon digital marketing conference co-located alongside it. Visitor passes start at EUR 27 early-bird and a limited number of free passes are released to local residents. Useful for marketers and commercial teams at SaaS businesses more than for engineers.

Billed as the flagship conference for the open agentic AI ecosystem, bringing developers, researchers and enterprise teams building agent systems together for two days of keynotes, technical sessions and an expo hall, with an attendee reception on the opening evening. Runs alongside MCP Dev Summit Europe on the same dates.

A working session at Startup Village on the Dutch and EU grant landscape for deeptech — WBSO, MIT, EIC and the rest — run with Sira Incentives. Non-dilutive funding is the least glamorous and most useful topic for a hardware or deeptech founder in the Netherlands, and this is a practitioner walking through it rather than a pitch.

A capital-readiness session for founders at Orchid House, part of the VOCALS programme. Limited public detail on the format or the speakers.

An afternoon session at BASE on the canal ring arguing that innovation has stopped being a discretionary programme for established companies. Talks plus drinks; hosted by the BASE team.

Ladies that UX Amsterdam's monthly evening, this edition on where human judgement still beats the dashboard in design decisions. Hosted at Van Lanschot Kempen. A reliably well-run design community with a broad audience — researchers, product designers and content people.

Amsterdam's database meetup, hosted at Adyen. AMS DB stays deliberately vendor-neutral and runs across Postgres, distributed stores and the query-engine layer, which makes it a better read on what Dutch engineering teams actually run than any single-product user group.

Femme Palette's Amsterdam networking evening for women working in tech and business, mixing structured introductions with open conversation. Career-focused rather than technical.

The Amsterdam Robotics Club hosts Monumental, the local company building bricklaying robots for real construction sites. An evening on what it takes to move robotics out of the demo video and onto a scaffold, with the team that is doing it.

The European edition of the DigiMarCon digital marketing conference: a day of sessions on search, paid social, marketing automation and AI-assisted content for in-house marketing teams, at the Arena Towers.

A hands-on afternoon on attacking and hardening LLM applications — prompt injection, tool-use abuse, data exfiltration through agents — hosted at Nebius. Security work on AI applications is badly under-served in the Amsterdam meetup calendar, which makes this worth the half-day.

Appsterdam's weekly Saturday morning co-working session at The Coffee Room — bring your laptop and whatever you are working on. Long-running, informal, open to anyone who writes code.

Amsterdam's indie game developers meet at De Nieuwe Anita to show work in progress and talk shop. Informal, long-running, and welcoming to people outside the games industry.