Tech events in amsterdam

with Hisham Al Hashemi (Business Development, TechMeUp) · Karen Gordon (Recruiter, KGT Consulting) · John Clancy (Co-founder, UpLeveled) + 2 more

A career evening for people trying to get into Dutch tech, run by Kooch Community with UpLeveled, TechMeUp and KGT Consulting: what recruiters here actually look for, the routes in that do not need a traditional tech background, and how training gets financed. 18:00 to 20:00 at The Social Hub Amsterdam City on 20 October — short talks then open networking, with Hisham Al Hashemi of TechMeUp, recruiter Karen Gordon of KGT Consulting, John Clancy and Karl Horky of UpLeveled, and Kooch organiser Nazanin Mirsharifi. Free. Why go: the financing half is the part nobody else covers, and you can put your CV in front of a working Dutch recruiter in the same evening. Best for career switchers, people who have recently moved to the Netherlands, and junior developers job-hunting.

The European conference for the BEAM ecosystem — Erlang, Elixir, Gleam and the runtime underneath them — with language creators and core maintainers on the programme. Distributed systems, fault tolerance and concurrency treated as engineering rather than folklore. Two days from 09:00 on 21 October at the Philharmonie in central Haarlem, about fifteen minutes by train from Amsterdam Centraal. New this year is an unconference room that attendees self-organise — the hallway track with a door on it. Tickets from EUR 595; the Amsterdam Elixir group publishes a community discount code, and an RSVP on Meetup is not a ticket. Why go: the one European week when the people who maintain the BEAM are all in one building, and the unconference makes it easy to get time with them. Best for backend engineers running Elixir or Erlang in production.

A practical legal clinic for early-stage founders, run by Zebra Legal as part of Startup Village's Nursery programme and open to public registration. Two topics across 10:00 to 11:30. First, choosing a co-founder: the firm's framing is that it is more consequential than any hire and more lasting than most partnerships, and the session gives pointers for choosing well. Second, employment law from day one — interns, the choice between employees and independent contractors, and what nought-hour contracts mean for flexibility, cost and compliance. At Startup Village, Science Park 608. Free. Why go: founder legal advice is usually either a generic blog post or a billed hour, and this is neither. Best for first-time founders about to make a first hire or formalise a co-founder split.

A hands-on AI-literacy afternoon from PWN Netherlands, co-designed and facilitated with Bureau Veritas: small-group work on where AI genuinely helps in professional work and where it quietly does not. 16:00 to 19:00 on 21 October at Apollo — Merin, Herikerbergweg 1 in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Open to non-members as well as PWN members; tickets EUR 43.13. Why go: a facilitated working session rather than a panel, which means you leave with a view on your own tools instead of notes on someone else's. Best for professionals outside engineering who are being asked to adopt AI at work and want an honest read on what it is good for.

with Matthijs Huiskamp (CEO, Altura) · Jasper Spiegeler (CEO, OMRT) · Saumitra Dubey (Partner, Smartfin) + 2 more

A founder-and-investor panel at AI House on what raising actually looks like in 2026: what investor-ready means now, which numbers matter, how long a round takes, and where deals stall in diligence. Matthijs Huiskamp (CEO, Altura) and Jasper Spiegeler (CEO, OMRT) give the founder side; Saumitra Dubey (Partner, Smartfin) and Arun Bhahirathan (Principal, Prosus Ventures) the investor side, moderated by Jitse Rupp of 0Delta. Doors 17:30, panel 18:10, audience Q&A 18:55, drinks until 20:30. Free, co-hosted with Prosus and Cloudflare. Attendance is curated, so you request to join rather than book. Why go: it is pitched at late-seed and Series A founders who have raised before, and the Dutch-versus-international question gets aired properly, which it rarely does. Not a first-time fundraising session.

The October edition of AI Builders' technical meetup for AI engineers and founders, at StartDock on Prins Hendrikkade: three short talks, then drinks. Walk-in 17:30, pizza 18:00. Arian Pasquali of Orq.ai on benchmarking LLMs head-to-head on your own prompts in Orq Arena; Giorgio Orsucci on AI design work; Marko Ladika of Producting.ai on how his multi-agent orchestration failed. Networking from 19:15, finishing at 21:00. Free, with tickets issued through Luma. The organisers say basic LLM knowledge is assumed. Why go: a failure post-mortem on the programme is a good sign — this is a room where people compare what actually broke rather than demo the happy path. Best for engineers and founders building with agents and RAG.

with Chris Howard (Lightning talk: Agentic Open Source, Uber) · Melda Salhab (Michelangelo AI, Uber) · Qiushen Wang (Michelangelo AI, Uber) + 1 more

An evening at Uber's Amsterdam office on two open-source projects, run by AAIF Community Amsterdam with Uber and Polars. Uber has released the core of Michelangelo AI under Apache 2.0 - the platform its engineers have used since 2016 to build, train, deploy and monitor ML, from ETAs and pricing to fraud detection, and now its agent workloads. Chris Howard opens with a lightning talk on agentic open source; Melda Salhab and Qiushen Wang demo Michelangelo; Chiel Peters, CTO of Polars, covers the Rust query engine, lazy evaluation and growing a company around an open project. Doors 17:30, talks from 18:00, food and drinks from 19:15. Free. Why go: architecture, trade-offs and real production numbers rather than a product pitch. Best for ML, data and platform engineers who run this infrastructure themselves.

The Amsterdam Java User Group's autumn meetup, hosted in ING's Cedar building on Bijlmerdreef: four talks on security culture, AI on the JVM and keeping language models alive in production. Doors and food 17:30, talks from 18:00. Sarah Gruneisen on when silence becomes a security vulnerability, built around a five-layer model that starts with human safety rather than tooling; Zoran Sevarac on AI in Java for the financial industry; Hossein Kazemi on building durable AI workflows for regulated work; Iudzhin Uord on an LLM pipeline that survived two years in production. Free. Why go: four substantial talks is a long programme for a user group, and three of them are about running this in regulated production rather than prototyping it. Best for JVM engineers and platform teams in finance.

This edition asks how account executives at Dutch SaaS companies are actually using AI to hit target and build pipeline — peer talks from working AEs rather than a vendor demo, followed by drinks at Bonnie's canal-side office on Herengracht 107. 17:30 to 21:30 on 22 October. Free, but registration closed on 8 October and the Eventbrite checkout no longer shows any ticket tiers, so contact the organisers rather than turning up. Why go: revenue-side events are usually tool pitches, and a room of practising AEs comparing what works is the exception. Best for AEs, sales leads and founders selling B2B software in the Netherlands — if you can still get in.

with Ayan Banerjee (Feature Platform, Adyen) · Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi (Fraud Detection, Adyen) · Pedro Mazala (Engineer, Ververica)

Production stories about Apache Flink, hosted by Ververica on the 11th floor at Adyen. Ayan Banerjee and Vitalii Zhebrakovskyi, from Adyen's Feature Platform and Fraud Detection teams, explain how Flink computes the real-time features behind fraud detection, scheme routing and bot detection across millions of payments a day. Pedro Mazala of Ververica covers Flink with Iceberg at scale - checkpoint frequency, small files, compaction, snapshot management, sink parallelism and the trade-off between freshness and query performance - and where streaming storage such as Apache Fluss is heading. Engineers from Booking.com also speak. 18:00 to 21:00, free. Why go: one of the few Amsterdam rooms where people running streaming infrastructure at payment scale say what it actually costs. For data and platform engineers already on Flink, or weighing event-driven systems.

Edition 72 of the Line Up lecture series at design studio Thonik in Amsterdam Oost, with designer Fanny Hamelin taking the room through her practice — from her very first typeface to the realities of running a type foundry. Doors from 19:00 for a 19:30 start at Thonik, Grensstraat 47, finishing around 21:00. Paid: a general admission tier is live on Eventbrite, but the studio does not publish the price on the listing. Why go: a working designer talking about the business of a foundry rather than showing a portfolio reel, in the studio of one of the Netherlands' better-known design practices. Best for type and graphic designers, and for product people who care where visual craft comes from.

A full-day, hands-on AI workshop for women, pitched at beginner-to-intermediate users: working through real tasks with Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini rather than watching demos. Run by SimpleAI at the Vrije Universiteit on De Boelelaan 1105. 09:00 to 17:00 on 23 October, lunch included. Women only. Free — the Eventbrite listing confirms a zero-priced general ticket, which is unusual for a day of this length and means places will go. Why go: a supervised full day changes how you work in a way a lunchtime webinar does not, and the beginner-to-intermediate framing means nobody is expected to arrive fluent. Best for women in any role who are being asked to use AI tools at work and want practice with someone to ask.

Appsterdam's Saturday morning co-working session at The Coffee Room on Kinkerstraat: bring a laptop and whatever you are stuck on, and work alongside other programmers who can unblock you. Runs 09:30 to 11:30 sharp, so arriving near the start matters if you want help. Maike and Daniel host, and the regulars cover Android, iOS, Flutter, C++, JavaScript, Python, Rust and UX tooling including Figma and Sketch. All levels explicitly welcome; free, no ticket. Why go: the cheapest way in Amsterdam to get a second pair of eyes on your own project rather than listening to someone else's talk. Best for solo developers, learners and anyone whose side project has stalled.

with Floris Weers (Co-founder, Biscuit) · Ives van Hoorne (Co-founder, Biscuit)

The fifth in UvA Founder Space's FOUNDERS fireside series, with Floris Weers and Ives van Hoorne, co-founders of Biscuit - a platform that connects vibe-coded apps into one evolving system and runs the infrastructure underneath. Weers was previously on Apple's foundation models team; van Hoorne co-founded CodeSandbox before joining Together AI. Run with Young Creators at The Floor, Building J/K on UvA's Roeterseilandcampus. Doors 16:30, fireside chat from 17:00, wrap and drinks at Krater from 18:00. Free, with spots capped to keep the session interactive. Why go: two founders who have shipped developer tooling at Apple and CodeSandbox scale, taking open questions in a small room. Best for technical founders and students building developer or AI products.

with Christian Melendez (Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS) · William Rizzo (Speaker, Mirantis)

The 13th AI Native Netherlands meetup, hosted at AWS's Amsterdam office, on a single engineering question: what should run where, on what hardware, and how do you keep it reliable in production. Christian Melendez, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS and author of Kubernetes Autoscaling, makes the case for CPUs and small language models on the structured, high-frequency work - classifying, routing, embedding, reranking - with a live pipeline demo. William Rizzo of Mirantis takes the same question to the far edge: LLM inference on immutable, disconnected clusters in factories, vehicles and retail sites, where connectivity is unreliable and remote access cannot be assumed. 18:00 to 21:00, with food and drinks provided by the host. Free. RSVP on Meetup in advance. Why go: a rare evening about cost and constraint engineering rather than model hype, from two people who run this in production. Best for platform and ML engineers weighing a GPU bill against a smaller model.

An evening at Picnic's Amsterdam headquarters, hosted by Net Impact Amsterdam, on how a data-driven online grocer approaches sustainability: an all-electric last-mile fleet, demand forecasting to cut food waste, and using purchase data to shift customer baskets toward healthier and more sustainable choices. From 18:00 on 27 October at Picnic HQ. Free, with registration on Eventbrite. Why go: one company opening its own numbers and trade-offs beats a panel of consultants on the same topic, and Picnic's model is unusual enough to be worth understanding whether or not you work in retail. Best for climate-tech and retail-tech people, data scientists working on forecasting, and operations leads.

The first conference dedicated to FastAPI, one day and one track at the Transformatorhuis, a former industrial hall in Amsterdam's Westerpark. Sebastian Ramirez, who created FastAPI, gives the opening keynote at 09:30. Also speaking: Jason Liu of OpenAI on building with FastAPI in Codex, Samuel Colvin of Pydantic on constrained optimism, Marcelo Trylesinski on the framework's performance history, Francois Voron of Polar on API versioning without a /v2, Pieter Cailliau of Redis on what agents need beyond an API, and Ben Falk of the Space Telescope Science Institute on data delivery. Mark Smith of JetBrains hosts, an open panel with the FastAPI team closes at 17:30, and there is an after party from 19:00. Check-in from 08:30. Invited speakers only for this first edition. Paid. Why go: the maintainers of FastAPI, Pydantic, Starlette and Uvicorn in one room, which has not happened before. For Python backend and ML-platform engineers.

An afternoon for AI and B2B tech founders and commercial leaders at B. Amsterdam, run by Scaler Company and Gradient with the Breaking Barriers programme of the AI Coalition for the Netherlands (AIC4NL). The premise is the quarter you hit target and the quarter you missed with nobody able to say why: results resting on two or three people, playbooks that do not really exist, a CRM nobody uses as intended. 25 to 40 people, seated by experience level - you bring your own problem and work it through live with peers and specialists, alongside a session on getting past a growth ceiling and what it takes to make a team run the system. 13:00 to 18:00, drinks from 16:45. For founders, heads and VPs of sales, growth or marketing at companies of 5 to 150 staff. Why go: small enough that your own situation gets looked at rather than someone else's in a keynote. Best for second-stage B2B teams whose sales still depends on the founder.

Appsterdam's long-running weekly social at Cafe Bax in Oud-West: developers, designers and makers from across the Amsterdam app and web scene, with no agenda, no tickets and no talks. From 19:00 until late. Find the table and join it. Why go: it has run every week for years, which makes it the one social in the city where you can turn up alone on a Wednesday and reliably find someone to talk to. Best for people new to Amsterdam or between jobs. Not where you go for technical content.

The Wednesday open evening at Technologia Incognita, Amsterdam's hackerspace in the ACTA building on Louwesweg. It runs every week and is explicitly aimed at newcomers: members are around, projects are out on the benches, and you can see what the space holds - electronics, hardware, software, the machines - before deciding whether to join. 19:00 to 22:00, free, nothing needed beyond the Meetup RSVP. Why go: the lowest-friction way into Amsterdam's hardware and maker scene, and the one evening a week when someone will walk you round and explain it. Best if you have a project that needs tools or people rather than a talk to listen to.

October's WordPress Amsterdam meetup, at the Stayokay hostel on Timorplein in Amsterdam Oost, on AI in development and in back-office work. Hussain Bharmal opens at 19:15 on getting more out of WordPress development with whichever AI tool you already use; Jens De Beule follows after the break on agentic workflows. Walk-in from 19:00, finish at 21:00. Free, and the group runs it monthly. Why go: WordPress still runs a large share of Dutch small-business sites, and this is the room where the people maintaining them compare what AI tooling actually saves them. Best for freelance developers and agency builders rather than platform engineers.

Two days at the Vrije Universiteit on AI in education, where the research meets the classroom: assessment integrity, tutoring systems, what the evidence actually supports and what it does not. Run by VU researchers, it draws teachers, university staff, policy people and the companies selling into them. Starts 09:00 on 29 October at De Boelelaan 1105. Why go: relevant to edtech founders and product people as much as to educators - this is the room where the buyers explain their constraints in public, before you build against them. Worth the two days if education is your market; a single morning will do if you are only curious.

with Feifei Li (CTO and President, International Business, Alibaba Cloud) · Xudong Guo (Research Scientist, Qwen, Alibaba Token Hub) · Zhao Xu (Head of AI Application and Products, MaaS, Alibaba Token Hub) + 3 more

Alibaba Cloud brings its Apsara Conference to the Beurs van Berlage for a day on the Qwen model family and agent-native cloud infrastructure. Welcome remarks at 09:30; Feifei Li, CTO of Alibaba Cloud and president of its international business, opens the keynote at 09:40. Xudong Guo of the Qwen research team covers real-world agents, Zhao Xu the Qwen AI platform, William Yao the Qoder coding agent, and Joaquin Cuenca Abela, CEO of Magnific, the multimodal work his company does with Alibaba. Two parallel forums follow - Foundation Model and Applications, and Agentic Cloud - alongside an exhibition where you can try the coding and e-commerce agents. Free to register. Why go: the Qwen team answering questions in person is rare in Europe, and the agenda is engineering rather than sales. For AI engineers, platform teams and anyone evaluating open-weight models in production.

A structured co-founder matchmaking afternoon at the Kohnstammhuis on Wibautstraat, run jointly by AMS Institute, Venture Centre HvA, Demonstrator Lab and Startup Village Amsterdam. Participants are profiled in advance, then put through one-to-one introductions followed by open networking. Built for founders looking for a complementary co-founder, and for experienced people willing to commit at least sixteen hours a week to an early-stage team. 16:00 to 19:00, free, registration via Eventbrite. Why go: the sixteen-hour commitment in the sign-up filters out the browsers, and the pre-profiling means the introductions are deliberate rather than a room of strangers with drinks. Go if you are ready to start something; skip it if you only want to look.

A session from the Kin Center for Digital Innovation at the OZW building on De Boelelaan, on femtech data: what period-tracking apps infer from what you enter, where their models are wrong, and who ends up holding the data. 16:30 to 18:30, free and in person - note that registration runs through a separate Luma page linked from the Meetup listing. Why go: health apps are one of the few consumer categories where a bad inference has real consequences, and this is a research group taking the category apart rather than a vendor defending it. Best for builders and researchers shipping health features, and for anyone handling cycle or fertility data.

A hands-on masterclass on Nieuwe Herengracht where attendees build and ship a working AI application live during the session, using the Biscuit tooling. Aimed at people who can follow along technically but have not yet put an AI app in front of real users. Starts 17:30, registration via Eventbrite. Why go: the gap between a notebook demo and something with a URL is where most first AI projects die, and this session closes it in one evening with someone in the room to unstick you. Best for product people, analysts and junior developers. Too basic if you already ship AI in production.

with Daphne Laan (Speaker, Data Tribes)

October's Data Thursday, organised by Data Tribes at B. Amsterdam B3 on Johan Huizingalaan, with a Climate Week theme: moving from planetary thinking to planetary action. Doors 18:00, pizza and drinks 18:30, presentations from 19:00. Daphne Laan speaks at 19:15 on turning planetary thinking into action, followed by an hour of discussion and collective idea-building, then networking until the 21:30 finish. Free. Why go: a data-engineering community meetup that has picked a subject with stakes rather than another tooling talk, and the format leaves real time for discussion instead of a token Q&A. Best for data engineers and analysts, and for anyone working on climate or sustainability data.

Appsterdam's weekly Saturday morning co-working session, this week at The Coffee Room on Ferdinand Bolstraat. Bring a laptop and whatever you are working on; there is no programme, no speaker and no ticket. From 09:30. It has run for years and is open to anyone who writes code. Why go: a standing Saturday slot where you can get three focused hours done with company, and ask the person next to you when you get stuck. Best for freelancers and side-project builders who find working alone at home unproductive.

A pop-up co-making day at the 001 Commandantswoning on Marineterrein, hosted through Appsterdam: an open, low-barrier space where people from any discipline work alongside each other. Bring your own project, whatever it is - code, hardware, textiles, writing. 10:00 to 18:00 on Sunday 1 November, free. Why go: a full Sunday of quiet working space on the Marineterrein, with a deliberately mixed room rather than a developers-only one. Best if you want to finish something while surrounded by people doing the same, and would rather not sit through a programme.

The monthly computer-controlled-making session at Technologia Incognita's hackerspace in the ACTA building: laser cutter, 3D printers and CNC router all running. This edition opens with a basic FreeCAD tutorial, then goes into open machine time with members on hand to troubleshoot your model. 13:00 to 20:00 on Sunday 1 November, free, newcomers welcome. Why go: practical maker time on machines most people cannot justify owning, with someone there who has already made your mistake. Best if you have a part you want cut or printed and have never touched the software.

with Peter Marshall (Speaker, Imply) · Lewis Isaac (Speaker, Coralogix)

The Q4 Amsterdam edition of SREday: four parallel tracks of site-reliability and observability talks, hosted in ING's Cedar building in Amsterdam Zuidoost. 09:30 to 18:00 on 2 November, across a main room, an upstairs room and two meeting rooms. The programme opens with an ING keynote on SRE inside the bank, then Peter Marshall of Imply on why agentic observability needs a different storage and compute engine, and Lewis Isaac of Coralogix on measuring whether AI coding agents actually make delivery teams more effective. Much of the day is about operating systems that AI agents are now writing and investigating. Paid; registration through the SREday site. Why go: observability events are usually vendor-led, and this one has practitioners from a large bank and several platform companies arguing about the same problem in the same room. Best for SREs, platform engineers and anyone running production inside a regulated business.

The first summit built specifically around what FMCG brands in the Benelux need from digital commerce. One day at Hotel Jakarta on the Java-eiland, 08:00 to 18:00. Senior retail, FMCG and technology people working through omnichannel, retail media, shopper marketing and revenue growth management. More than three quarters of the room is brand- or retailer-side, which is unusual for a commerce event — most are vendor-heavy. Paid conference; the ticket price is not published on the registration page. Why go: the brand-side majority is the reason to be in this room rather than at a retail-media vendor day. Best for commerce, growth and digital leads at consumer brands selling in the Netherlands and Belgium.

A two-day practitioner conference for the Apache Flink community, billed as "one day talking, one day doing — no pitches, no filler". Day one covers real-time AI, Flink architecture at scale, streamhouse systems and migration strategy; day two is small-group hands-on training with Ververica engineers. Venue is confirmed to registered attendees.

with Nadia Edwards-Dashti (Spotlight talk: AI-era resilience research, EWPN) · Sam Emery (Spotlight talk: AI-era resilience research, EWPN)

The European Women Payments Network's annual conference, a full day at AI House on keeping AI in financial services human, inclusive and accountable. The programme runs from a keynote on human-centred design as a strategic requirement, through panels on leadership in the AI era, who the real customer is once autonomous agents start making payment decisions, designing for high-stakes life events, and separating AI-native products from AI-washed ones, to a closing session on data dignity and consent. Spotlight talks cover the EU AI Act and UK resilience research from Nadia Edwards-Dashti and Sam Emery. Lunch included, free to attend. Why go: payments people arguing about agent-initiated transactions and AI Act compliance a year before most firms have to. Best for fintech product, risk and compliance leads.

The November meeting of the Dutch Microsoft security community — Entra, Defender, Purview and the rest of the stack, discussed by the people who run it in production. Hosted by Microsoft Security NL, 17:00 to 21:30, with talks and open discussion. The venue is in Amsterdam and the exact address is shared with registered attendees closer to the date. Free. Why go: a practitioner room rather than a vendor briefing — the people presenting are the ones operating these tools day to day. Best for security engineers, identity admins and IT leads running Microsoft estates.

Women in Product NL and Picnic on what AI tooling is actually changing about product management, and which parts of the job it is leaving alone. Held at Picnic's headquarters on Van Marwijk Kooystraat. Doors and networking from 17:30, a talk by Leah Bekkering at 18:10, then a hands-on workshop run by Women in Product NL at 18:40, followed by drinks and bites. It is the second of three workshops in the group's 2026 mentorship cohort, but the organisers are explicit that the session is open to everyone regardless of experience, profession or gender, and that newcomers to the Netherlands are welcome. Free. Why go: most AI-and-product events are speculation; this one is a working session on discovery, spec-writing and prioritisation with people who do the job. Best for product managers and anyone moving into product who wants practice rather than predictions.

The monthly Amsterdam Perl Mongers gathering at Mintlab — talks and informal discussion for Perl and general systems-programming people.

The day before Meet Magento Netherlands, Mage-OS runs a contribution hackathon at Bold Commerce: core fixes, extensions and documentation with maintainers on hand. The most direct route into the Magento and Mage-OS codebase if you work in Dutch e-commerce, and a natural add-on for anyone already travelling in for MMNL.

An evening summit bringing together around 500 business and technology leaders to look at where AI adoption actually stands in Dutch companies. Talks and panels are followed by open networking in the Zuiderkerk.

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.

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

The Dutch edition of the global Meet Magento conference: a full day of e-commerce engineering, platform architecture and merchant strategy talks for the Magento and Adobe Commerce community, closing with an evening social.

A two-day business-growth summit at the WTC aimed at founders and commercial leaders looking for partnerships, investment and distribution. Programme mixes stage content with structured matchmaking.

DDMA's annual afternoon on experimentation and conversion optimisation, with practitioners from Dutch digital teams presenting the tests that worked and the ones that did not. Useful for growth, product and CRO people who run experiments for a living.

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 Keizersgracht 127. 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 Dutch Bitcoin podcast Satoshi Radio holds its Amsterdam meetup at Cafe de Roemer — an evening of protocol and market talk with the show's listeners, developers and the Dutch crypto community. Mostly conducted in Dutch. One of the few reliably recurring Web3 rooms in the city, and a distinct crowd from the AI-heavy rest of the calendar.

A recurring evening meetup for people in the Dutch startup ecosystem — founders, early employees and the investor-curious — at Mulligans on the Amstel. Low-key, no pitches from the stage, just introductions over a drink.

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