A two-day academic and policy conference at Felix Meritis on governing algorithmic systems in healthcare — regulation, clinical validation and accountability. Serious healthtech and AI-governance content.
An invite-led executive round table on accountability for automated decisions, part of World Exec Summit's World AI Week programme. Venue confirmed on registration.
A working session that puts numbers on AI product decisions — compute cost, environmental footprint and the trade-offs teams make when they scale a model into a product. Hands-on rather than a panel, opening World AI Week at EDGE Olympic.
The Amsterdam Java User Group's October session, hosted in Mollie's canal-house engineering office. Two talks on JVM practice from engineers who run it at payment-scale, then pizza and drinks.
A full-day commercial training day on enterprise AI strategy, governance and delivery, run during World AI Week.
A World AI Week session on converting research teams into commercial output — spin-outs, tech transfer and hiring researchers into product organisations. Venue confirmed on registration.
A two-hour World AI Week morning session on AI in physical systems and robotics. Venue confirmed on registration.
A full-day conference on AI-assisted software development held in the VIP room of the Tuschinski — how teams actually ship when models write a large share of the code, and what breaks. One of the more interesting new additions to the Amsterdam conference calendar.
Figma brings its Commons format to Amsterdam for two days at COKO Space: hands-on sessions, craft talks and community time for designers, design engineers and product people working in Figma every day. Commons events sit closer to a working workshop than a keynote conference, which makes them one of the better places to pick up technique rather than trends. Worth it for anyone in product design or design systems in the Dutch market.
World Exec Summit's financial-services round table during World AI Week. Venue confirmed on registration.
A hands-on workshop on building automated AI workflows, run on the Raamgracht during World AI Week.
A session on digital inclusion in the Dutch healthcare system out to 2040, at Felix Meritis. Policy-facing healthtech.
A short afternoon session at StartDock drawing the line between prompting your way to a prototype and running a disciplined AI-assisted development process. Practical, for working engineers.
A World AI Week forum on applying AI to regenerative and ecological systems work, held in Amsterdam Zuid. Venue confirmed closer to the date.
A World AI Week session at Meet Berlage on where quantum computing is genuinely useful today in chemistry, pharma and materials — simulation workloads rather than the general-purpose promise. Technical audience, free to attend.
A founder-focused summit running alongside World AI Week for small teams building outsized products — sessions on staying lean, shipping fast and the operating practices of very small companies.
The official opening reception for World Summit AI at Circa, the night before the main summit. The whole visiting AI crowd in one room before the conference floor swallows them.
AI House hosts a World AI Week afternoon on what has actually held up in AI practice through 2026, with women building and funding AI systems on the programme. AI House has become the default AI venue on the Zuidas and its events fill fast.
Climate Canals (formerly ClimateHack Amsterdam) takes over Epicenter for an evening on how AI, robotics and next-generation sensing are actually being used against the climate crisis — AI-powered climate models, autonomous ecological monitoring, sensor networks, machine learning for renewables, and the uncomfortable question of AI's own footprint. Speaker talks are followed by community pitches and drinks. Hosted in partnership with World AI Week and Epicenter, so expect a crowd that spans climatetech founders, researchers and engineers.
Amsterdam UX's monthly evening. Venue announced closer to the date; the group is one of the larger design communities in the city and rotates hosts among Amsterdam product teams.
An AI startup pitch night on the Singel the evening before World Summit AI opens, with the investor traffic that week brings into the city.
with Harrison Chase (CEO and co-founder, LangChain)
Harrison Chase brings the LangChain community meetup to Amsterdam the night before World Summit AI. If you build agent systems, this is the highest-signal free room of the week — the person who wrote the framework most of them run on, in a meetup rather than a keynote setting. Venue released on registration. Entry conditions: the event has hit capacity and is now waitlist-only. The host will admit ONLY guests holding a confirmed, approved registration — anyone on the waitlist or without a confirmation email will be turned away at the door, so do not travel without one. The organiser says they are looking for larger venues for future editions.
Femme Palette's Amsterdam networking evening at Werkplaats for women working in tech and digital roles — mentoring-adjacent conversation, career talk and introductions.
The Dutch Perl Mongers meet at Mintlab. Small, long-running and genuinely technical — Perl, Raku and general systems scripting.
One of World AI Week's curated stranger dinners — a table of AI-week attendees who have not met, on the Leliegracht.
with Daphne Koller (Founder & CEO, insitro) · Zico Kolter (Professor / OpenAI Board, Carnegie Mellon University) · Audrey Tang (Cyber Ambassador, Taiwan) + 2 more
The tenth-anniversary edition of World Summit AI, the anchor of Amsterdam's World AI Week — 300+ speakers across ten tracks, 10,000+ attendees and 100+ exhibitors. Daphne Koller, Zico Kolter, Audrey Tang, Harrison Chase and Karen Hao headline. For one week the global AI community relocates to Amsterdam and the fringe programme fills the city; this is the centre of it.
A curated matchmaking day connecting AI startups with VCs, regional development funds and corporate investors through focused 15–20 minute one-on-one conversations. Organised by Amsterdam AI during World AI Week, capacity is limited and applications are screened.
SaaSiest brings its B2B SaaS community event to Amsterdam — go-to-market, pricing, retention and the operating detail of scaling a software business, presented by operators rather than by consultants. Strong choice for commercial leadership at Dutch SaaS companies.
Two days on steward ownership — company structures that lock mission and control away from pure shareholder value — aimed at founders, investors and advisors weighing alternatives to a conventional cap table. The subject matter is governance and ownership design rather than technology, but the audience skews heavily to purpose-driven startup founders.
The Netherlands' main fintech gathering returns to the World Trade Center for two days under the banner of building the new financial infrastructure. Run by the Holland Fintech Association, AFE pulls together banks, PSPs, regulators, infrastructure providers and the startups selling into all of them — which makes it the most efficient place in the Dutch calendar to cover the whole stack in one go. Relevant well beyond fintech specialists: anyone selling software into financial services will find the buyers here.
IAB Europe's summit on retail media — the fastest-growing slice of digital advertising — covering measurement standards, clean-room data and what retailers' ad networks mean for brands. Senior adtech and commerce audience at Felix Meritis.
A World AI Week executive round table on redesigning work and organisations around AI. Venue confirmed on registration.
A SUSE-hosted session inside World Summit AI on European digital sovereignty and what running AI infrastructure independently actually requires.
MongoDB's session inside World Summit AI on why AI pilots stall before production and the data architecture that gets them across.
An introductions evening at the Embassy of the Free Mind during World AI Week, pairing the Source Library collection with the visiting AI crowd.
A World AI Week evening on the human and organisational consequences of AI adoption rather than the technology itself. Venue confirmed closer to the date.
AI Salon runs a special late edition on the World Summit AI site — the structured small-group discussion format applied to a room full of visiting summit speakers and attendees.
A curated World AI Week dinner at De Luwte for attendees who want conversation rather than a conference floor.
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.
An evening at Dead End Gallery on generative AI and the art market, during World AI Week. Creative-technology crossover rather than industry programming.
World Exec Summit's round table on the energy and data-centre infrastructure behind AI growth. Venue confirmed on registration.
The Dutch research-software-engineering community meets for international RSE day: short talks on sustainable scientific code, with time to talk afterwards. Note the building carefully - the meet-up is in Matrix 1 at Amsterdam Science Park, which the organisers stress is a different building from the Netherlands eScience Center (Matrix 3). Hybrid: registrants who prefer to join online are sent a Zoom link. Walk-in from 12:30 with coffee, tea and cake; the programme starts at 13:00. No parking spaces can be booked for this event and the organisers advise public transport. Bring a laptop if you want to take part actively in Christiaan Boerkamp's session.
Google's session at World Summit AI on where enterprise agent investment is actually paying back and what integration work sits underneath it.
Can Metal-Organic Framework sensors improve nitrogen monitoring, enable more precise farming and support smarter environmental policy? Join experts from science, technology and industry at SustainaLab for talks and a panel discussion on MOF-based sensing, followed by networking at Matrix ONE on Amsterdam Science Park.
IAB Europe's annual MIXX Awards ceremony at Felix Meritis, recognising the year's strongest digital advertising and marketing work across Europe. Evening ceremony with drinks.
The closing party for World Summit AI's tenth edition, on the Taets site.
Case-study session on AI deployments that actually shipped, hosted in the Magnum Ice Cream Company's town hall during World AI Week.
The fifth edition of Founders Meet brings several Amsterdam business communities together for a founder evening built around structured matching rather than open-floor mingling: a business-game icebreaker, AI-assisted introductions, a founders mastermind, and short sales and client-acquisition sessions, with a follow-up check-in five days later.
World Exec Summit's AI awards evening, closing its World AI Week programme. Venue confirmed on registration.
Drinks at The Hoxton for the World AI Week crowd, run by Drive Europe. Networking, no programme.
Amsterdam's database meetup, October edition, hosted by Oracle at The Warehouse. Vendor-neutral programming despite the host — the group runs across engines.
A PyData NL evening on working with data that comes off sensors and instruments rather than out of a warehouse — collection, cleaning and modelling of physical-world measurements, with talks from practitioners and the usual PyData question-heavy audience.
A Dutch-language book talk at the Slotermeer branch of Amsterdam's public library (OBA) on 'Dit is AI' — what artificial intelligence actually is, where it is already embedded in daily life, and what the honest limits are. Pitched at a general audience rather than practitioners, so useful mainly for anyone who wants a plain-language framing to reuse with non-technical colleagues. Conducted in Dutch.
The long-running Hackers & Founders monthly at Cafe de Muurbloem in the Jordaan. No stage, no pitch deck — technical founders and engineers in a bar. One of the oldest continuously running tech communities in the city.
The closing World AI Week stranger dinner, in the Waag on Nieuwmarkt.
A creative lab at the Embassy of the Free Mind closing World AI Week — AI-assisted coding pointed at humanities research rather than at products. An unusual room and an unusual venue.
A hands-on agent-building workshop followed by a roundtable, run by the Amsterdam Data Academy at Matrix ONE on Science Park. Bring a laptop; the closing technical session of World AI Week.
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 Dutch-language workshop for freelancers on writing a business plan, comparing an AI-assisted approach with the conventional one. Practical small-business content.