What's happening: Week of 1 June 2026
Europe's largest fintech conference returns to RAI Amsterdam for its 15th edition. Money20/20 Europe 2026 draws 7,400+ senior leaders from 100+ countries — banking and payments executives, fintech founders, investors,…
An hour-long, interactive workshop inside the PublicSpaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger — Amsterdam's best-known venue for tech-and-society programming. The session reframes the standard 'tech in your organisation' question: what would democratic technology actually look like in practice — collective ownership and governance instead of centralised control, technology serving the mission rather than serving the platform? Run by DIGISET in collaboration with PublicSpaces, the workshop is built for senior people at SMEs, non-profits and cooperatives thinking about their digital choices. Ticket includes free full-day access to the PublicSpaces Conference.
A working hackathon-style afternoon at Huis De Pinto — the historic merchant house turned community venue in the Nieuwmarkt area — built around the Public Stack model. Run as part of the PublicSpaces Conference and funded by the EU's DIGISET programme, the session has participants map their organisation's full digital landscape (materials, protocols, business model, interfaces) and explicitly test how their values translate into technology choices. The format is most useful for impact-driven founders, non-profit and cooperative SMEs, and tech companies working on public-interest infrastructure. Ticket includes free access to the morning and afternoon PublicSpaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger the same day.
Femke Halsema (City of Amsterdam) · Guido van Rossum (Python Software Foundation) +3 more
The day before Hello Tomorrow Summit — Europe's premier deep tech event — lands in Amsterdam for the first time, the city makes its own statement. Amsterdam Deep Tech Showcase…
The Benelux Regional final of the Startup World Cup — a global pitch competition with regional rounds in 100+ countries feeding into a Silicon Valley grand finale with a $1M…
PROVADA is the largest real estate fair in the Netherlands and a major meeting place for real estate professionals — but it is also where proptech, smart-building tech, real estate data platforms and digital construction tools find their audience. In 2025 the fair attracted over 27,000 visitors. Worth attending if you build, market, sell or invest in technology applied to real estate, construction or the built environment, or if you work in proptech-adjacent fields (smart buildings, IoT, location data, ESG/energy software).
The world's largest React conference returns to Amsterdam, drawing 1,500+ in-person attendees and 10,000+ online participants to Kromhouthal for a full day of technical sessions aimed squarely at senior and full-stack engineers. The 2026 edition goes deep on React Server Components in production, the newly released React Compiler and its performance implications, and the rapidly evolving space of AI integration in frontend workflows — prompt engineering for UI generation, LLM-powered product features, and architecting applications that leverage AI without sacrificing performance. Workshops, the legendary React Party, and the Open Source Awards round out the programme. This is not an introductory event: the talks assume production experience and reward engineers who want to work at the edge of what the React ecosystem can do.