Amsterdam — Week of 28 Sep 2026

A one-day conference at Hotel Casa on platform engineering across hybrid and multi-cloud estates — internal developer platforms, the Kubernetes layer under them, and the operating model that makes them stick. Aimed at platform teams and the architects who fund them.

A book discussion with Gerd Junne on decentralised hydrogen systems, hosted at Matrix ONE on Amsterdam Science Park.

Women in Product NL launch their mentoring programme for people moving into product and digital roles, hosted at Worldline. Career-development format with structured matching. Entry condition: Worldline building security requires the attendee list in advance, so your Meetup profile must carry your full name and you must bring photo ID that matches it. The organiser states that without a matching name and ID you will not be admitted.

A hands-on evening for the Go programming language at Technologia Incognita's hackerspace — bring a laptop and a problem, work through Go code with other developers. Free, informal and beginner-tolerant.

CTO Craft brings its engineering-leadership conference to Amsterdam for two days — scaling teams, technical strategy, hiring and the parts of the CTO job that are not code. The community behind it is one of the better-run peer networks for engineering leaders in Europe, and the talks reflect people who have actually done the job.

Five minutes to pitch an early-stage idea to the Achmea Impact Ventures team — no deck required — followed by feedback from the team and the room. Strong concepts can go on to validation work with their research team and, for the best of them, the Achmea Venture Studio. Focus areas are digital businesses in health, wellness, financial health, sustainability and future of work in the Dutch market. Free, and there is pizza.

The Dutch Postgres user group's autumn meetup, hosted at ABN AMRO on the Zuidas. Deep operational content — query planning, replication, upgrades — from people running Postgres at bank scale.

A bar-based pitch and networking evening for Amsterdam founders and investors. Recurring commercial format with no published investor line-up.

A recurring Startup Valley networking evening at I Dock for founders, investors and tech professionals in Amsterdam.

AI Native Amsterdam looks at how engineering organisations actually climb from AI autocomplete to agentic workflows, plus a technical walk through the MCP wire protocol. Hosted at Studytube.

A one-day cross-disciplinary technology summit in Amsterdam covering software engineering, cloud and applied AI. Broad programme aimed at developers and technical leads.

The Benelux GCP user group at Xebia — platform, data and Vertex AI content from practitioners rather than from Google's field team. Consistently one of the better-attended cloud meetups in the region.

An informal monthly gathering for Amsterdam's security community — practitioners from blue team, red team, GRC and security engineering meeting over drinks in the centre of town. No talks, no pitches; the point is the people.

A hands-on OpenTelemetry workshop hosted at Dash0: instrument a JVM service properly, get traces and metrics flowing, and see what good observability actually costs to run. Bring a laptop.

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 weekly Wednesday social evening at Technologia Incognita, Amsterdam's volunteer-run hackerspace at ACTA — open house for members and visitors working on hardware, electronics and software projects.

A one-day hackathon at NEMO Science Museum run through the Amsterdam AI partnership, bringing University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences teams together to build conversational AI applications. Open to developers and researchers outside the universities as well.

A fast-paced pitch afternoon at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam's Zuidas business district, where early-stage founders take the stage in front of investors, corporates and fellow entrepreneurs. Run as part of the I amsterdam business calendar, it pairs short pitches with structured networking, so the value is as much in who is in the room as in the pitches themselves. Useful for founders sharpening their story and for investors and operators wanting an efficient read on what is coming out of the Amsterdam pipeline right now.

A short, practical session from Qonto at Spaces Keizersgracht on grounding AI tools in your own business data rather than generic models. Free, one hour, aimed at operators and finance teams.

A build-along evening: ship a working AI app from a blank editor in three hours, live with the Biscuit team. Aimed at people who can read code but have not yet put an LLM feature into production.

Three days, real robots, real problems. Tech Makers runs its first robotics hackathon across a full weekend: Friday evening kickoff and team formation, Saturday and Sunday hacking, then a demo day and celebration on Sunday afternoon. Teams get hands-on access to two sets of Hugging Face SO-101 robotic arms, with 20+ robots on site and a judging panel. Open to developers, engineers and makers, and also to designers, entrepreneurs, students and beginners — teams are mixed by skill on purpose. How to get in: registration is on Luma and is approval-gated — you request to join and wait for the hosts to accept. Places are capped by the number of robots available, so applying early matters. Registering commits you to the whole Friday-to-Sunday programme; if you only want the Sunday demo night and afterparty, that is a separate registration at luma.com/5ajkd2ak. The venue address is released to attendees on approval and is not published in advance.

The Turkish tech community in Amsterdam gathers in Vondelpark for an informal autumn get-together — engineers, founders and operators from one of the city's larger international tech diasporas. No programme, just the network.

A two-day weekend hackathon at the Kauwgomballenfabriek in Amsterdam Noord, aimed at building working prototypes against social-impact problems rather than writing decks about them. Teams form on site, so it suits engineers, designers and product people who want to ship something in 48 hours alongside people they have not worked with before. A genuine build event in a week otherwise dominated by conference programming.

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.