Amsterdam — Week of 9 Nov 2026

A morning workshop in the Prosus x Equals AI Nights series on using AI to speed up research, concepts, copy and campaign planning without losing your brand voice. You build a small campaign and a repeatable workflow, and learn to spot generic AI content. For marketers, communications people, copywriters and designers; bring a laptop and a real campaign. Free on Luma.

A one-day hackathon on breaking and then hardening the AI agents now sitting inside audit, risk and compliance work. Red teams from Prosus and Skuridat attack the open-source agents of the Shared Audit Agents Framework live, and the room then builds the defences across the repository. Around 100 auditors, developers and security specialists, deliberately mixed so people who know what an agent should never do sit with people who can make sure it doesn't. Brought together by TAG with SAAF, Mollie, Prosus and Skuridat, hosted by Ben vanLeeuwaarde and Tijs Nieuwboer. Retimed by the organiser on 5 November: doors 13:15, programme 13:30 to 18:30. The start time shown above is wrong - it is 13:30, not 09:00. At Mollie, Keizersgracht 126. Registration needs host approval. Why go: live adversarial testing of agents in a regulated workflow is rare, and rarer with the auditors in the room rather than in the review afterwards.

with Daniel Steinberg (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) · Peter Friese (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) · Tibor Bödecs (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) + 1 more

The Netherlands' iOS developer conference, back for its eighth edition at the NEMO Science Museum beside Amsterdam Centraal: a workshop day followed by two days of talks. Workshops from 09:00 on 10 November — Daniel Steinberg on Apple's Foundation Models, Peter Friese on production AI with Foundation Models, Gemini and Firebase, and Tibor Bödecs on server-side Swift with Feather, Hummingbird and OpenAPI, with drinks at 17:00. The conference days, 11 and 12 November, open at 08:30 for talks from 09:15; Alex Antonov covers getting an iOS medical app ready for FDA testing. Walking dinner on day one. Paid, through the organisers' own ticket shop. Why go: hands-on workshops with the people who write the books on this, and an Apple-Intelligence-heavy programme in the year that matters. Best for iOS and Swift engineers, and mobile leads planning on-device AI work.

A founders' sounding-board session (klankbordgroep) from MeerBusiness Amsterdam, part of its Business Inspiration Series. Held in Dutch at Delta Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 7. Free on Eventbrite, 16:00 to 18:30.

The November meetup of the Dutch Microsoft security community — Entra, Defender, Purview and the rest of the stack, discussed by the people who run it. Venue is announced to registered attendees closer to the date.

with Nikhil Gupta (, ) · Anna Kosek (, RTL Nederland) · Michael Coté (, )

DevOps Amsterdam's first meetup after a break, hosted at ING's Cedar building near Bijlmer Arena station. Three 30-minute talks: Nikhil Gupta on an AIOps design that prepares incident context for an AI agent, Anna Kosek on 23 ways the platform team at RTL Netherlands uses AI agents, and Michael Coté on seven ways to fail at building an internal developer platform. Doors and food from 17:30, talks from 18:30, drinks until 21:00. The organisers are also working towards DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2027 and say more news is coming. Why go: platform teams talking about what went wrong as well as what worked, with food included. Best for SREs, platform engineers and DevOps leads.

with Rafaela Buena (AI trainer and founder, Gigi)

A hands-on, two-hour AI masterclass for business owners and professionals who know AI matters but haven't found their way in, or tried a few tools and quietly gave up. What we'll do together: - Map the AI tools worth your attention right now, and which ones you can safely ignore - Agents in plain language: what they do in a real business, and whether you need one yet - Try it live: run one of your own tasks through AI - Choose one next step for this week, sized to your business The evening: 18:00 doors, 18:15 to 20:15 masterclass, 20:15 to 21:00 drinks. Tickets EUR 28, including a welcome drink. Bring your laptop. Hosted by Rafaela Buena, who teaches non-technical people and teams how to make AI genuinely useful. She runs the AI Labs series at Equals in Amsterdam, has trained teams at companies like Fastned, and built her AI companion Gigi using AI and no engineering team.

An evening for young female entrepreneurs run by PHIA with FEM-START, billed as Female Founders Connect: conversation and short input from experienced founders and PHIA alumni, then networking. 19:00 to 22:00 at Roest on Jacob Bontiusplaats. No speakers are named on the listing, registration runs through a Typeform rather than a public event page, and no ticket price is published - check before you travel.

Netventis' one-day conference on getting AI from prototype to production, at the Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam Zuidas. Practitioners from PwC, Cargill, the University of Amsterdam, Uber, Deloitte and DSM-Firmenich speak on agentic AI, enterprise AI platforms and architecture, AI economics and FinOps, and AI-ready data products, with an agentic AI panel, roundtables and networking. 08:30 to 18:00, lunch and drinks included. Early-bird tickets were on sale; the price was not listed. Why go: speakers who run AI inside large companies, with a focus on cost and architecture rather than demos. Expect an enterprise audience and some consultancy content. Best for AI and data leads at larger firms.

with Pratik Patel (AI Data Engineer and Developer Advocate, Hugging Face)

A hands-on afternoon building a customer-feedback pipeline end to end. Bring a laptop. Starting from 2.1 million real Amazon reviews on the Hugging Face Hub, you use DuckDB to pinpoint which products are sliding, wire that SQL to an LLM through Gradio's gr.Workflow so the model reads only the complaints that matter and reports the themes behind them, then deploy the result as a live Hugging Face Space backed by Storage Buckets and callable as an API. Pratik Patel, AI Data Engineer and Developer Advocate at Hugging Face, runs it. Free, 12:00 to 17:00 at the AWS office on Mr. Treublaan. Why go: five hours of building rather than slides, and you leave with a working app and a pattern that transfers straight to your own data. Best for data and analytics engineers and anyone putting an LLM next to a database.

Two-hour practical workshop for women working in care, welfare, social work, youth services and community organisations. Shows how AI can cut admin such as notes, summaries and planning, how to protect sensitive information, and which tasks AI should not handle. Participants practise on example material and leave with one workflow to use the next working day. Part of the Prosus x Equals AI Nights series.

with Ian Zhai (, TiDB) · Mattias Jonsson (, TiDB) · Daniël van Eeden (, TiDB) + 1 more

AMS DB's November meetup is hosted by TiDB (PingCAP) in the Disruption Hall at Epicenter Amsterdam. The theme is distributed, scalable transactional databases. Ian Zhai of TiDB talks about db9, a PostgreSQL-compatible database written in Rust with autonomous AI agents. Mattias Jonsson and Daniël van Eeden of TiDB cover running transactions on an object store. Rohit Nayak, a core Vitess engineer now at PlanetScale, covers sharding PostgreSQL with Neki. Doors at 18:00, talks from 18:20, food and networking until 21:00. Free, with about 40 spots left when we checked. Why go: three database builders in one evening, including a core Vitess engineer on sharding Postgres. Best for backend engineers and data infrastructure leads comparing ways to scale.

The weekly Wednesday social evening at Technologia Incognita's hackerspace at ACTA — open house for hardware, electronics and software projects.

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.

with Youngjin Yoo (Professor, London School of Economics) · Cristina Alaimo (Professor of Information Systems, ESSEC Business School) · Brando Benifei (Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament) + 4 more

Reshaping Work's tenth-anniversary conference, AI@Work: The Human Frontier, over two days at De Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. Academics, policy makers, executives, workers' representatives and technologists on how AI at work is governed and deployed. Announced speakers include Youngjin Yoo (London School of Economics), Cristina Alaimo (ESSEC), Brando Benifei MEP, Sofyan Mbarki, Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam, Annette Bernhardt (UC Berkeley), Stijn Broecke (OECD) and Uma Rani (ILO). Paid; the organisers have published neither a face price nor a daily start time, and the published agenda does not say which sessions fall on which day.

with Max Welling (Chief Technology Officer, CuspAI) · Steven Latré (Vice President of AI, imec)

Day one of ChemAI 2026, at AI House Amsterdam in the Prosus building: how AI is changing chemistry and materials science, with the emphasis on execution rather than theory. Speakers include Max Welling, CTO of CuspAI, and Steven Latre, VP of AI at imec, alongside deeptech founders and investors on scaling, industrial adoption and autonomous laboratories. Run with Techleap, Hello Tomorrow, TTT-AI, StartupAmsterdam and Amsterdam AI. From 12:00, free. Why go: chemistry people and AI people are usually in separate rooms, and this is the one where materials researchers, deeptech founders and the investors funding them argue about the same bottleneck. Best for deeptech founders, ML researchers working on scientific problems, and investors in materials and chemistry.

A session with Nic Weiroster of Ground State Ventures on raising a first round as a deeptech or quantum founder: what a pre-seed investor is underwriting, and how the initial funding available to Dutch quantum founders is structured. Venue is not published on the organiser's page.

TEDxAmsterdam's sixteenth main event takes After Growth as its theme: what comes next for technology, business models and cities once endless expansion stops being the goal. A full afternoon and evening of stage talks at Pakhuis de Zwijger on Piet Heinkade, from 14:00. Tickets are 48.15 euro. Why go: it is the closest thing Amsterdam has to a cross-sector stage, so the growth question gets put by people outside tech as well as in it, which is usually where the uncomfortable version of the argument comes from. Best for founders and product people thinking hard about what they are optimising for, and anyone who wants a day off the AI conference circuit.

with Saskia Heyster (Data analyst, DDMA Digital Analytics)

A DDMA Digital Analytics meetup hosted at Digital Power on the Wenckebachweg, on what conversational analytics can and cannot do. Saskia Heyster - a data analyst who has worked across retail, e-commerce, hospitality and FMCG - presents experiments comparing AI-generated analysis with the work human analysts do, showing where the tools already hold up, where they fall over, and what data democratisation looks like once you try it in practice rather than in a vendor deck. 15:30 to 19:00, free for DDMA members and non-members alike. Why go: a named analyst showing her own test results instead of a platform roadmap, which is rare in this corner of the market. Best for analysts, data leads and anyone being asked whether an LLM can replace their dashboard.

with Nelly Lund (AI experience and adoption lead, Philips Healthcare Informatics)

AI4ALL's community meetup at Equals. Nelly Lund, AI experience and adoption lead at Philips Healthcare Informatics, talks on "You're More Qualified for AI Than You Think": linking existing skills to real problems without a data science or coding background. Aimed at people new to AI at work. Ticket price was not listed.

A speculative design session at the Digital Society School: participants work through what contracts, consent and trust between people and AI systems might look like in 2040, and what that implies for what we build now.

TechMeetups has been running its Amsterdam job fair since 2017, and the format hasn't changed because it works: an exhibition-style evening with no talks and no speeches, just one-on-one conversations between job seekers and hiring companies. It's open to people in IT, software, data, digital, sales, operations, marketing and finance. Exhibitors confirmed so far include UbiOps (AI model serving) and Salute (data centre services), with the University of Amsterdam and DevITJobs as partners. The last Amsterdam edition drew 698 registrations, with data and analytics people the biggest group, followed by software and IT. The venue will be announced closer to the date. Recruiters are expected to buy an exhibitor package or an HR pass rather than come in on a candidate ticket. Why go: if you're job hunting in Amsterdam tech, three hours here puts you in front of more hiring managers than a month of applications, and there's no keynote to sit through first.

An evening of founder talks on how AI is changing products and work, run by COnext TECH events at Berghaus Amsterdam (Koningin Wilhelminaplein 2A). Three speakers: Chingiskhan Kazakhstan, co-founder and CEO of SELANA, on starting a tech company as a non-technical founder; Sven Brookhuis, co-founder of Oasy, on saving digital publishers in the agentic era; and Ilan Lewin on building a $100,000 sensor from $100 of hardware. Welcome at 18:00, talks from 18:30, open discussion on building in Europe from 19:30, drinks until 21:00. Ticket price isn't listed on the page. Why go: the sensor talk is the draw for hardware-curious builders, and the non-technical-founder session helps if you're pitching without a CTO. Expect a networking-heavy crowd, not deep technical content.

Amsterdam UX marks World Usability Day with an evening of talks, on the 2026 theme "Designing a Sustainable Future with Ethical AI". 18:00 to 21:00, free. Registration opens 5 November. The organisers have not set a venue on the listing, which currently reads "Needs a location".

with Francesca Cortesi (CPO, Vend) · Alexandru Bleau (Senior Product Manager, E.ON)

ProductTank Amsterdam's November meetup is about growing a product without losing focus. Two talks, then drinks. Francesca Cortesi, CPO at Vend, covers the growth playbook for scaling a product and the team around it. Alexandru Bleau, Senior Product Manager at E.ON, talks about leading through outcomes when the people you depend on don't report to you. Funda sponsors the location, food and drinks. It runs 18:00 to 21:00 at Piet Heinkade 167. Why go: a proper product-leadership evening with two named operators from scaled companies, not a vendor pitch. Best for PMs and heads of product whose team is outgrowing the founder's instincts.

with Gloria Baeuerlein (Founding Partner, Puzzle Ventures)

A seated dinner for founders and operators with Gloria Baeuerlein, founding partner at Puzzle Ventures, hosted by Whale with Puzzle Ventures and Index Ventures. Capped at 20 people. Hosts are Bas van den Brande, Alexander Kempen and Joris Dekker. 18:30 to 22:00. Registration is subject to host approval and the exact location is shared only once you are approved. Why go: a 20-seat table with a founding partner is a different conversation from a panel, and Whale curates who is in the room. Best for founders raising now or about to, who want a pre-seed investor's unfiltered read over dinner rather than in a pitch.

Day two of ChemAI 2026, the science-heavy conference day at Hotel Casa Amsterdam (Eerste Ringdijkstraat 4), run by the Amsterdam Chemistry Network. 09:00 to 18:00, doors open 08:30. The programme is presentations, panels, an innovation market and a poster session on machine learning for chemistry and materials. Listed speakers: Heike Riel, Tonio Buonassisi, Aron Walsh, Thibault Géoui and Alexander Hammer. Day one (12 November, AI House) is a separate registration. The ticket page shows no price we could confirm; startups can email info@acnetwork.nl for a promo code. No refunds. Why go: this is the research-heavy day after the founder-facing day one, with posters and an innovation market where you can corner the people building the models. Best for researchers and deeptech founders working on materials; less useful for general startup networking.

The flagship annual day of the UvA Data Science Centre, at the University Library in the University Quarter: research talks, demos and discussion across data science and AI at the University of Amsterdam. Friday 13 November from 09:30. The full programme and the exact room were not published when this listing was written.

Morning panel on whether AI is a force multiplier or a replacement for product teams, presented by Product People with Miro as partner and hosted by Hasan Naqvi. Topics are product strategy, roadmapping and stakeholder management in an AI-enabled team. Arrival, coffee and food from 09:30, panel and Q&A 10:00 to 10:45, networking until 12:00. The exact Amsterdam address goes to registrants. Registration is subject to approval based on audience fit, and the target room is 20 to 30 local product professionals. Panelists aren't named yet and the price isn't stated. Why go: breakfast with a curated room of working product people. Best for PMs and product leads working out how to restructure teams around AI. Expect a Miro angle.

An afternoon at AI House built around the grand finale of the EIT AI Entrepreneurs Lab 2026, where a selected cohort pitches after five days across Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. Around the pitches: perspectives from the AI and robotics ecosystem, interactive sessions and networking with investors, corporates and university research groups, run as part of European AI Innovation Month. 14:00 to 17:00, free. Places are limited and registration is an expression of interest - the organisers confirm attendance afterwards to keep the mix of founders and investors balanced. Why go: the pitching founders were filtered by EIT rather than self-selected, so the quality floor is higher than an open pitch night. Best for investors looking at early AI and robotics, and founders who want to be in that room.

Appsterdam's Saturday-morning Coffee Coding at The Coffee Room — open co-working for developers over coffee.