Tech events in amsterdam

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Netherlands edition of Hardwear.io, the hardware security conference, at the Amsterdam Marriott on Stadhouderskade: three days of practical training from 16 to 18 November, then two conference days on 19 and 20 November. Talks go deep on firmware, silicon, side channels and embedded attack surfaces, with competitions alongside. Paid; the organisers have not published a face price for this edition. Why go: hardware security has no substitute for being in the room with the people doing it, and this is the one European gathering that reliably assembles that crowd. Best for embedded and firmware engineers, hardware security researchers, and product teams shipping physical devices.

Afternoon at AI House Amsterdam, powered by Prosus, on where AI and competition law meet. W@CompetitionNL organises. Laura Fitoussi (Prosus) gives the keynote, then Konstantina Bania (Geradin Partners) moderates a panel with Maaike Boomgaard (Just Eat Takeaway.com), Galyna Kostiukevych (ACM) and Victoria de Posson (EU Tech Alliance). Doors at 15:30, keynote and panel 16:00 to 18:00, drinks and bites after. Advance registration is required; the price isn't listed. Why go: you hear the regulator (ACM) next to in-house counsel and the EU Tech Alliance in one room. Best for founders and legal or policy leads at AI companies. Skip it if you want product demos.

The follow-up to the SAAF security challenge on 10 November, and the session where the open parts get closed. The agents, the audit criteria and the shared library are built; this day goes over every agent, fixes what the red teams found, and locks each fix in with a test. Three strands run through the day: repairing agents, checking each one against its audit criteria pass or fail, and tightening access, logging and sign-off across the framework. SAAF brings auditors and builders from more than 65 organisations together to build AI agents for audit work in the open. Hosted by TAG at The Stack, with Ben vanLeeuwaarde, Sofia Frumkina, Tijs Nieuwboer and Mathijs Schouten. BDO is title sponsor. Doors 09:00, hardening until 17:00, drinks to 18:00. Free, 50 places, 36 taken. Why go: agents for regulated audit work get hardened with the auditors who sign them off in the room, not in the review afterwards. Best for security and platform engineers putting agents near compliance decisions.

with Marek Gajda (COO & Co-founder, The Software House) · Sendil Nellaiyapen (Engineering Manager II, Uber) · Koen van Gilst (Principal Engineer, Rabobank) + 1 more

A morning on what a year of building fintech with AI actually delivered, hosted by The Software House and The Financial News Network at Hotel nhow Amsterdam RAI. Marek Gajda, COO and co-founder of The Software House, opens with "One Year of Building with AI. What Worked, What Didn't", drawing on delivery work for banks and fintechs. Then a panel on how fintech teams do and don't build with AI, with Sendil Nellaiyapen (Engineering Manager II, Uber), Koen van Gilst (Principal Engineer, Rabobank) and Dmitry Ivanov (CTO, Finom). Breakfast from 09:00, talks from 09:30, networking until 12:00. Free; register on Luma. Why go: engineering leads from a bank, a neobank and Uber comparing notes on AI in regulated delivery, over breakfast. Best for fintech CTOs, engineering managers and founders selling into banks.

with Simon Schrottner (Engineer, Flagsmith) · Zeljko Kozina (Engineer, Chronomill)

Two talks at Flagsmith's Plantage Kerklaan office, hosted by the Amsterdam Java User Group. Simon Schrottner of Flagsmith covers feature flags once the easy part is over: several languages to support, targeted evaluation, vendor lock-in and retiring dead flags, and how OpenFeature's vendor-agnostic SDKs handle them. Zeljko Kozina of Chronomill follows with wrapping an ageing Java service -- dozens of REST endpoints, a SOAP relic, session auth, nobody left who understands it -- as MCP tools so AI agents can call it without a rewrite. Free, 18:00 to 21:00. The listing is on waitlist. The group takes speaker proposals by email for later editions. Why go: the MCP-over-legacy-Java talk is the problem most enterprise teams are about to hit, and it is rare to hear it addressed without a rewrite pitch attached. Best for Java and platform engineers and architects carrying old services.

with Sako Arts (CTO Netherlands, Wonderful) · Joris Dekker (Leading Deployment, Duna)

A fireside chat on forward deployed engineering: embedding engineers inside customers to make AI work in production, rather than shipping one-size-fits-all SaaS and hoping. Sako Arts, CTO Netherlands at Wonderful, talks with Joris Dekker, who leads deployment at Duna. Wonderful raised a $550 million Series C in September led by Insight Partners, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion, and operates in more than 35 countries. They cover what marks out a good forward deployed engineer, why embedding with customers beats generic SaaS in an AI-first environment, the tension between white-glove service and scale, managing executives alongside day-to-day stakeholders, and how to structure change management. Doors 17:00, fireside chat and Q&A 17:15, drinks and bites 18:00 to 19:00, at Norrsken House Amsterdam, VOC-kade 10. Free, registration subject to host approval. Why go: forward deployed engineering is the role everyone is hiring for and almost nobody has defined. Best for engineering leaders and founders selling AI into enterprise accounts.

The Benelux Google Cloud user group meets at Xebia for an evening of practitioner talks — platform engineering, data, and the current state of Google's AI tooling, presented by the people running it in production rather than by Google marketing. Hosted by Google Cloud User Group Benelux at Xebia Netherlands, from 17:30. Talks and open discussion, free, sign-up through the group's Meetup page. Why go: a vendor-community room that has stayed technical — the talks are about what broke and what it cost, not product launches. Best for cloud and data engineers, platform teams and architects working on GCP in the Dutch market.

The November edition of AI Builders Club's monthly technical meetup for people shipping with generative AI: devtools, APIs, RAG and agent frameworks, models, and what is actually holding up in production. Three short slots make up the programme and the speakers are announced closer to the date. At StartDock Coworking on Prins Hendrikkade. Walk-in 17:30, pizza at 18:00, talks from 18:30, drinks and networking from 19:15, ends at 21:00. Tickets are name-your-own-price from a 20 euro suggestion, with a 10 euro student and bootstrapper tier that needs approval. Basic LLM knowledge is assumed. Why go: the room is builders rather than buyers, which keeps the questions technical and the demos honest. Best for AI and ML engineers, developers and technical founders already building with LLMs.

with Annie Sullivan (Speaker, ) · Patrick Meenan (Speaker, ) · Nazım Can Altınova (Speaker, ) + 1 more

The official pre-conference meetup for performance.now(), sponsored by Mozilla, on the evening before the conference. Eight short talks from people who build web performance tooling: Annie Sullivan on soft navigations in Core Web Vitals, Patrick Meenan on optimising for performance in the age of AI, Nazım Can Altınova on agentic profiling with the Firefox Profiler, plus Jad Joubran, Estela Franco, Marko Ilić, Dan Gayle and Karlijn Löwik on declarative partial updates, Next.js, DevTools MCPs, LLM-assisted audits and RUM. Drinks and snacks after. 19:00 to midnight at Desmet Studio's, Plantage Middenlaan 4A. Free on Luma. Why go: the line-up is the people behind the metrics everyone else optimises for, and it costs nothing. Front-end and platform engineers should go even if they skip the main conference.

with Helen Rijkes (Partner (keynote and moderator), Rewire) · Daniel Gebler (Founder and CTO, Picnic) · Daan Klein Douwel (Head of Data & AI, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) + 3 more

A one-day, 40-person gathering of European data and analytics chiefs at Rewire on the Mauritskade, on codified knowledge and scaling agentic AI in the enterprise. Helen Rijkes of Rewire opens and moderates a panel with Daniel Gebler (founder and CTO, Picnic) and Daan Klein Douwel (head of data and AI, KLM). Three roundtable blocks follow - governance with autonomy, measuring agent impact beyond efficiency, and grounding agents with knowledge graphs - led by data directors from adidas, Mondelez, dsm-firmenich, Elsevier, Decathlon and Unilever, with curated 1:1 matchmaking in between. Registration 08:00, close 15:30. Paid, with early-bird tiers well below the standard price. Attendance is limited to data leaders at companies above roughly 500 staff. Why go: forty people who each own a real data estate, in roundtables rather than on a stage. Not useful if you are not one of them.

The Amsterdam edition of Security BSides, the community-run information security conference, at KIT Amsterdam on Mauritskade. The organisers are aiming at over 400 practitioners this year. Talks skew technical and unpolished in the good way: BSides programmes are built by the local infosec community rather than a vendor committee. Paid. The organisers' site reports first-wave tickets sold out with a final wave still to come, so check availability before planning around it. Why go: the Dutch security community's own conference, where talks come from the people who found the thing rather than the people selling the fix. Best for security engineers, pentesters, researchers and blue-team practitioners.

with Harry Roberts (, ) · Tim Kadlec (, ) · Pat Meenan (, ) + 4 more

performance.now() is a single-track web performance conference at the Oosterkerk on 19 and 20 November. Talks cover JavaScript and CSS performance, framework performance, performance budgets and culture, perceived performance, monitoring and compression. The 2026 line-up includes Harry Roberts, Tim Kadlec, Pat Meenan, Tammy Everts, Jeremy Keith, Scott Jehl and Stéphanie Walter, with Robin Marx and Jason Pamental as MCs. Day 1 starts at 09:30. Tickets start at 700 euros plus VAT, and a live stream is offered. Why go: many of the best-known names in web performance on one stage, and single-track means everyone sees everything. Best for front-end and platform engineers with a performance budget to defend.

with Jasper Wognum (, avocado pitch)

Startup Village's monthly community drinks, this time built around pitching, run with avocado pitch and Graduate Ventures. From 17:00 Jasper Wognum and the avocado pitch team share practical tips for making a pitch stand out. Then 20 selected founders get one minute each on stage, followed by a minute of feedback on delivery from avocado pitch and a minute on content and business potential from Graduate Ventures. Drinks and networking with founders, alumni and student entrepreneurs from 19:00. Walk-in from 16:30 at Startup Village, Science Park 608. Free. To pitch, answer the three questions when you register; the organisers confirm the 20 slots. Why go: fast, specific feedback on your one-minute story from Graduate Ventures, in the room where Science Park's AI and deeptech founders actually hang out. Best for pre-seed founders.

with Matt Sidley (Senior Manager, Product Management, Snowflake) · Shreyam Sinha (, Booking.com) · Viktor Kessler (Co-Founder, Vakamo) + 2 more

Community meetup on Apache Iceberg, the open table format behind a growing share of data lakes. Presented by Vakamo, the team behind the Lakekeeper catalog, and co-hosted by Booking.com at Oosterdokskade 163. Five talks. Matt Sidley of Snowflake on what Iceberg V4 changes in the metadata layer. Shreyam Sinha of Booking.com on moving from AWS Glue to Snowflake Horizon. Viktor Kessler of Vakamo on catalogs and agentic readiness. Amit Gilad of lakeOps on running several engines over one table. Will Martin of Dremio/SAP on data sovereignty with open source. Doors 17:00, talks from 18:00, close 21:00. Free, in person or remote-only livestream. In-person guests are pre-registered by name for building access, so bring ID. Why go: V4 is the live design question for the format, and you hear it from people implementing it, next to a real migration story from a large Iceberg shop. Best for data engineers and platform leads choosing or running a catalog.

A free evening run by AI Natives for teams trying to get real work out of the AI tools they already pay for, rather than evaluating new ones. The pitch is deliberately narrow: measurable value from Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude, starting the week after. Two short talks from people who use AI in their day jobs, covering what they built, what changed and what went wrong, followed by a walkthrough of things you can apply immediately on work like your own. Hosts Evgeny Kalinin and Gleb Starchikov close with networking over drinks so you can push back on the speakers directly. 18:00 to 20:00. Free, seats are limited, registration is approval-based and the exact Amsterdam address is sent to approved guests. Why go: a practical counterweight to conference-stage AI talk, aimed at people who have to show a result at work. Best for team leads, ops people and engineers rolling AI out internally.

with Anna Forlati (Speaker, ) · Emilie Barrow (Speaker, )

Two talks on doing UX while AI and team structures shift under you, hosted by Ladies that UX Amsterdam at Fairphone's office. Anna Forlati covers responsible AI and the role of design: why designing with AI means looking past the immediate user to the environmental and social systems around a product, drawing on her work across UX, business design and sustainability. Emilie Barrow gives the early-career view: teams drifting into silos, documenting workflows in the AI era, async communication, and building a career while the field keeps moving. 18:00 to 21:00 at Fairphone, Van Diemenstraat 200. Free on Eventbrite. Why go: a practical UX evening hosted by a company that ships sustainable hardware, with a speaker on each end of the career ladder. Good for product designers and researchers, especially anyone working on AI features.

Two days of Qiskit, run by We in Quantum Development (WIQD) as the Amsterdam edition of IBM's Qiskit Fall Fest. Expert lectures open it on the Friday afternoon, then a hackathon takes over and runs into Saturday evening, solving real-world quantum problems on the Qiskit stack rather than sitting through slides about them. It starts 13:30 on Friday 20 November at the University of Amsterdam's Science Park campus, Science Park 904, and finishes 19:00 on Saturday 21 November. Free, registration through Eventbrite. Why go: two days is long enough to get from a lecture to writing your own circuits, next to people who do it daily. Best for engineers, students and researchers who keep meaning to try quantum and haven't.

The tenth edition of CONVERSATIONS, the international symposium on chatbots and human-centred AI, at the University of Amsterdam on Nieuwe Achtergracht for three days. Participation is free. Papers are published in Springer's LNCS proceedings, so the programme is peer-reviewed research rather than vendor content: conversational agent design, evaluation, trust, and the human factors that decide whether any of it works in practice. Hosted by the UvA School of Communication Research with SINTEF, TH Lubeck and international partners. Why go: if you build agents commercially, this is an unusually cheap way to see where the evidence actually is, a year or two before it reaches the conference circuit. Best for conversational AI product teams, researchers, and anyone responsible for agent quality.

Amsterdam AI's annual festival takes over NEMO Science Museum for an afternoon and evening on how AI is changing Dutch society and who gets to shape it. From 14:00, free. Amsterdam AI is the coalition behind the UvA, VU and HvA AI research programmes, so the room is the city's academic AI community plus the public and private organisations working with it. The Amsterdam AI Thesis Awards are presented during the programme. Conducted largely in Dutch. Why go: the most representative single gathering of the Amsterdam AI ecosystem in the autumn calendar, and the one place the university, municipal and commercial strands are in the same room. Best for researchers, public-sector technologists, and anyone whose AI work touches Dutch institutions.

with Ricky van Rijn (Engineer, MetaFactory) · Makan Sepehrifar (, Productboard) · Ana-Maria Mihalceanu (Developer Advocate, Oracle)

The Amsterdam Java User Group's November meetup, hosted at MetaFactory near Westerpark, with three talks and the usual food, drinks and networking from 18:00. Ricky van Rijn (MetaFactory) on building an in-house AI agent orchestrator with Embabel, Skills and spec files, and how a visual dashboard for agents and tasks reshaped who does what on the team. Makan Sepehrifar (Productboard) on "Capability Mesh", an architecture that coordinates agents by capability rather than endpoint, carrying the service-mesh ideas of discoverability and observability into the agentic era. Ana-Maria Mihalceanu (Oracle) on readying Java cryptography for the quantum era, with a hands-on look at post-quantum hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3. Free, register through Meetup. Why go: one of the city's longest-running and best-attended JVM communities, and this edition lands squarely on the agentic-AI problems Java teams are hitting in production. Best for backend and platform engineers working on the JVM.

Chatbot Summit brings its agentic-AI edition to the Movenpick on the IJ for two days: multi-agent systems, orchestration, and what enterprise agent deployments look like once they leave the demo. At Piet Heinkade 11, from 09:00. Paid; the organisers have not published a face price. The conference has run long enough to have a genuine practitioner audience rather than a purely speculative one. It also lands in the same week as CONVERSATIONS and the Agentforce World Tour, which makes the last week of November the densest agent-focused week of the Dutch year. Why go: the enterprise end of agents, where the interesting detail is governance and failure modes rather than the capability demo. Best for product and platform leads putting agents into regulated or large-scale operations.

Amsterdam Cybersecurity Social's last meetup of 2026, hosted at the Internet Archive Europe headquarters on Oudeschans. The organisers are taking December off, so this is the final edition until the new year. It's a community social for people who work in or around security, run near-monthly by two volunteer organisers who find a new host for each edition. The format is a social: the point is meeting people in the field. 17:00 to 20:00 at Internet Archive Europe, Oudeschans 16. RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a relaxed way to meet Amsterdam's security people outside vendor events and big conferences, in a building with its own story. Best for security engineers, pentesters and anyone moving into the field.

with Pavel Kolesnikov (Head of Product, Semrush)

How AI agents change who does what in a product team, from two very different team sizes, hosted by the Vibe Coding Amsterdam community at the Semrush office. Pavel Kolesnikov, Head of Product at Semrush, leads Online Visibility with 13 PMs across SEO, AI search visibility and content, and grew the AI SEO product from zero to $30M+ ARR. He'll show what changed in that org once AI prototyping became part of the process. The second view comes from a founder running growth with a two-person team, then a fireside chat and time to meet builders. Food and drinks on Semrush. 17:30 to 20:30 at Semrush, Parnassusweg 719. Free but approval-based: register on Luma, a Meetup RSVP alone doesn't get you in. Why go: agent-era product work from a large PM org and a tiny team, side by side. Best for PMs, designers and founders working out team shape.

The fourteenth edition of AI Native Netherlands, at the Xebia office on Wibautstraat, on two problems that come with AI-assisted development. Vladislav Ramazaev, a senior software engineer at BlueDolphin, goes inside real coding-agent sessions on what gets stored, what survives context compaction and what the model can actually retrieve later, using Claude Code as the main example with contrasts from Codex and Pi. Alexander Fisher of Xebia follows on how team conventions break down when AI changes development speed, and what a process-based approach puts in their place. Free. Arrival and food 18:00, talks 18:45 and 19:30, open conversation from 20:15, close 21:00. Xebia hosts and provides food and drinks. Why go: the memory talk is the clearest account going of what a coding agent does and does not keep, and it is pitched at engineers rather than buyers. Best for software and AI engineers, architects and tech leads.

with Holger Hoos (Professor, RWTH Aachen University) · Sumeet Kumar (Speaker, Innatera Nanosystems) · Marco van Hurne (Speaker, ASML) + 1 more

A one-day conference on the hardware end of AI - chips, compute, energy and the data layer underneath the models - rather than another applications day. The AICA Foundation runs it, and the programme is built around three plenaries: The Stack Under Strain: Bytes, Joules, Trust at 09:10, a position debate at 14:30 on whether pre-training scaling is over with the audience voting before and after, and Physical Computing Strikes Back closing at 17:20. Speakers include Holger Hoos of RWTH Aachen, Sumeet Kumar of neuromorphic chip firm Innatera, Marco van Hurne of ASML and Olivier Oomen of HallTech. The hosts are Etienne van 't Kruys, Eman Cickusic, Bauke Brenninkmeijer and Robert Caulk. General admission is 200 euro plus booking fees, at KIT Amsterdam. Why go: the only Amsterdam room this autumn where semiconductor, infrastructure and ML-research people argue the same question in front of each other. Best for anyone whose work touches inference cost, hardware or model efficiency.

AI Builders' two-day buildathon at the World Trade Center on Strawinskylaan: challenge briefing and one-minute pitches, team matching over a sponsored lunch, then build time with a vibecoding workshop at 14:00 and a hardware workshop at 15:00, dinner, an overnight hack session, and demos and judging from 16:00 on the second day. Doors 10:45. Run by AI Builders Club, the volunteer community behind more than a hundred meetups and hackathons a year across Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Lisbon, Rotterdam and Miami. 10 euro, 5 euro for students - a contribution that covers venue and food rather than a ticket price. Why go: two days with hardware on the table and overnight build time is a different thing from an evening hackathon, and teams form in the room rather than beforehand. Expects you to be comfortable with LLMs, RAG and agents.

DDMA's relaunched NEXT conference at Capital C on Weesperplein, themed 'Beyond the AI-driven organisation' - how companies stay competitive once AI is infrastructure rather than innovation. Three tracks: Build covers marketing cases, frameworks and working applications of AI, first-party data, personalisation and marketing automation; Rethink takes the strategic question of staying distinctive when the same technology is available to everyone; Exchange is roundtables and open discussion on ethics, content production and the future of marketing teams. The nominees for the DDMA Customer Data Awards present their cases live on stage. 12:30 to 17:00, in Dutch. Why go: the award cases are practitioners describing what actually worked and what it cost inside their organisations, not pitches. Best for marketing, data and strategy leads working in the Dutch market.

with Daan Gorsse (, Netherlands Red Cross) · Olaf de Graaff (, Xomnia) · Saana Sirkkala (, Rainforest Alliance) + 1 more

Data & Drinks gives this edition to AI for Good: three talks from organisations using AI where the goal is impact, not profit, at Xomnia's new office. Daan Gorsse (Netherlands Red Cross) and Olaf de Graaff (Xomnia) on analysing humanitarian feedback at scale with LLMs. Daniel Uosukainen and Saana Sirkkala (Rainforest Alliance) on using AI to reach millions of farmers with the right training. Derek Loots (Doctors Without Borders) on building the foundations for safe AI adoption across MSF. Food and drinks from 17:30, talks from 18:20, networking until 21:00 at Xomnia, Vierwindenstraat 149. Free. Why go: real deployments inside three big humanitarian organisations, told by the people doing the work. Best for data scientists and ML engineers who want use cases beyond ad tech and fintech.

A panel plus a hands-on simulation on putting AI agents to work across a company, hosted by NovaLex and Epicenter. The panel brings legal, technical and business voices together on AI fluency across departments, who sets an agent's authority and owns its mistakes, spotting duplicated tools and rising token spend, and fitting AI Act requirements into daily operations. Then small groups work a deployment decision: what the agent may do alone, how to test and pause it, what budget is acceptable, and whether to launch. Everyone gets a printed deployment pack with a risk checklist and an oversight worksheet. Joining in is optional; you can just watch. 17:30 to 22:00 at Epicenter, Piet Heinkade 99. Free on Eventbrite. Panellists not yet named. Why go: legal, product and engineering in the same exercise on agent governance, which most companies still skip. Best for product leads and in-house counsel rolling out agents.

An evening on what happens when AI agents start working with maps, hosted by RevoData for the Databricks Community NL at The Collection on Westermarkt. Speakers from Databricks and from Felt, the AI-native GIS platform, give a 30-minute talk each plus Q&A, then a guided hands-on session on an agentic geospatial use case. No coding or Databricks experience needed. Walk-in 17:45, pizza at 18:00, talks from 18:30, hands-on at 20:00, networking until 21:30. Spots are limited; tickets go through RevoData. Why go: a concrete look at agents on geospatial data, with a hands-on slot instead of slideware. Expect vendor content from Databricks and Felt. Best for GIS specialists, data teams with location data and product owners.

A one-day build for women working in AI, hosted by Equals with Prosus. Small teams take a real challenge, shaped with organisations that support women, and turn it into an AI-powered prototype or concept. Programme: 10:00 welcome and challenge briefing, 10:30 teams form and start building, 12:30 lunch (included), 13:30 build and test, 15:45 team presentations, 16:30 drinks, close at 17:00. Open to developers, data scientists, researchers, PMs, designers and founders; you don't need to code. Bring a laptop and your usual AI tools. Registration is request-to-join and subject to host approval; the page shows no ticket price. Why go: a rare hackathon with a concrete brief and a presentation at the end, not a loose build day. Best for women in AI who want to ship something small with a team in a day.