TechDays 2026

KickstartAI's annual Dutch AI conference for people who build and run AI systems, organised around four tracks: AI in production, strategy, engineering practices and societal impact. The stated editorial line is depth over hype — how things work once they leave the notebook, rather than what AI might do next — and previous editions have honoured it. 09:00 to 18:00 on 15 October at Circa Amsterdam. The audience is engineers, data scientists and ML leads, together with the technical leaders who have to fund the decisions. Tickets EUR 395. Why go: one of the few AI conferences in the Netherlands pitched at practitioners rather than buyers, and the track split means you can spend the whole day on engineering without sitting through a strategy keynote. Best for ML and data engineers shipping models, and the leads who sign them off.