Amsterdam — Week of 21 Sep 2026

Part of Amsterdam's Week of Digitalisation, the Digital Five brings together the five city-government digital partners to work through public-sector digitalisation and AI policy.

A training session at Matrix ONE for impact and climate-tech founders on building an impact narrative investors will actually accept. Workshop format.

The ninth edition of the global IoT event run by The Things Industries, at Kromhouthal in Amsterdam-Noord. Two days of expert talks, hands-on workshops and live demonstrations covering LoRaWAN, cellular IoT, edge AI, embedded systems and connected devices, with more than 100 partners and speakers. The 2026 theme, "Put Your Demo Where Your Mouth Is", pushes working technology over slideware — useful for embedded engineers, IoT product people and hardware founders.

HumanX brings its US AI conference format to Europe for the first time, landing at RAI Amsterdam for three days with 2,500+ senior practitioners and 200+ media. The team behind it built Money20/20, Shoptalk and HLTH, and the programming reflects that: enterprise AI adoption, procurement, governance and deployment rather than research talks. Worth the ticket if your job involves getting AI into production inside a large organisation.

Two-day practical introduction to neural networks with Keras, taught by the eScience Center's digital-skills programme for researchers and engineers moving into ML. €50 for both days, hands-on throughout.

Accel runs an AI-focused morning at Prosus AI House on the Zuidas. VC-hosted programming of this kind is usually worth attending for the room as much as the stage — European AI founders, Accel's own portfolio operators and the investors who track them, in a building that has become the default AI venue in the city. Entry is by application, not RSVP: applications go through BuilderBase (builderbase.com/event/accel-ai-innovate-amsterdam) and are reviewed. It is pitched at technical builders with founder intent who can take an AI product from zero to working in a day — teams or individuals. Registering interest on Meetup alone will not get you a place.

The Blender Foundation's annual conference, run from its home city, covering the open-source 3D pipeline end to end — modelling, geometry nodes, rendering, pipeline engineering and the studios shipping production work on it. Three days of talks from core developers and working artists. A rare case of a genuinely global open-source project holding its flagship event in Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam JavaScript developer meetup on how engineering teams are restructuring around AI tooling. Practitioner talks at StartDock.

Bar-based networking evening for people working in startups and AI in Amsterdam. Recurring format, no speakers listed.

An evening on applying AI to contract review and legal operations, hosted at The Hoxton. Legaltech content with a clear commercial sponsor behind it.

An evening pitch competition at Nes 50 where early-stage founders present to a panel of investors and operators and get direct feedback on the pitch itself rather than generic encouragement. Useful for founders preparing to raise, and for anyone who wants to see how a room of investors actually reacts.

The weekly Wednesday social evening at Technologia Incognita, Amsterdam's volunteer-run hackerspace at ACTA. Open house for members and visitors — hardware projects, electronics, 3D printing and general hacking, with no agenda beyond turning up.

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.

Academic symposium at Amsterdam Science Park on advanced materials and electrochemistry for the energy transition. Research-heavy and aimed at a scientific audience.

The Amsterdam edition of TiE's flagship entrepreneurship conference — a full day on building and funding technology companies, with founder panels, investor sessions and structured mentoring from the TiE charter-member network.

with Ashwin Sreenivas (Co-founder, Helia / formerly Palantir)

A small fireside with Ashwin Sreenivas, whose route from Palantir into founding and selling an AI company gives him an unusually concrete view of enterprise AI deployment. Named-speaker events at this scale on the Keizersgracht fill quickly — register early.

An open, relaxed evening at Mollie's Keizersgracht office for builders working on their own ideas alongside a job or studies. This edition takes distribution as its loose theme — how, why and when to actually ship your product, which is usually the part that kills side projects rather than the building. No pressure and no expectations: bring an idea and a few hours. Hosting at Mollie puts one of the Netherlands' biggest fintech success stories in the room.

A panel at Atlassian's Amsterdam office on the question everyone in tech is quietly asking: will AI take my job, and how do I position myself as the role changes. Aimed at women working in product, engineering and adjacent functions.

Amsterdam.rb at Catawiki, one of the larger Rails shops in the city. A long-running group that has outlasted several Ruby news cycles — talks skew to production experience rather than framework tourism, and the host's own scale makes for good questions.

Data Thursday runs monthly out of B. Amsterdam's B3 building and is one of the steadier data-engineering communities in the city. Two talks, food, and a room of people who run pipelines for a living rather than talk about them.

Amsterdam JUG at Picnic's engineering HQ: JVM talks from a team running one of the country's larger Java estates, followed by food and drinks. Free, and consistently one of the better-attended developer evenings in the city.

Rust Amsterdam meets at the BlockTech campus on NDSM. Systems-level talks with a crypto-infrastructure lean given the venue, but the group has kept its scope broader than that — expect performance, memory-model and tooling content aimed at working engineers. The organiser shares the exact street address with registered attendees only, for security reasons — RSVP on Meetup to receive it. Doors 18:30, ends 21:30.

Code for NL runs an unconference at Marineterrein on digital autonomy — public-sector cloud dependence, open-source alternatives and what sovereignty actually costs to implement. Participant-set agenda, so the value scales with who turns up; the Dutch civic-tech and public-digital community reliably does.

A free careers fair for women graduating into STEM roles, with employers recruiting for engineering, data and technical graduate programmes in the Netherlands. Direct access to hiring teams rather than an online application queue.

Tech Makers' monthly Amsterdam tech-and-startup drinks, this edition hosted at TAG: an open evening for founders, investors and startup people to have a drink, pitch ideas, swap stories and compare scars. Anyone who wants to pitch their startup applies in advance through the organiser's form on the event page — pitching slots are not decided on the night. Note that the organisers state that by registering and attending you consent to photos, video and other media being captured and used for documentation, promotional and community purposes.

An international networking evening at the Novotel Amsterdam City aimed at founders, tech professionals and people new to the Amsterdam ecosystem.

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.

A structured speed-networking evening for Amsterdam tech and AI professionals, run by the Quality Tech Networking meetup group. Venue is announced to registered attendees.

A pop-up co-making day at the Commandantswoning on Marineterrein, hosted through Appsterdam — open working space for creators, coders and makers to bring a project and work alongside other people.