Tech Events by AI Native Netherlands

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 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.

with Raul Tavares (Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare) · Michiel van der Ros (Staff Engineer / Web Development Tech Lead, TomTom)

The 11th AI Native Netherlands meetup gathers engineers and technical leaders for an evening on doing real production engineering with AI agents — beyond demos and theory. Raul Tavares (Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare) presents “From Building to Orchestrating: Engineering with Multi-Agent AI”, covering agentic workflows that cut a website deployment from four hours to four minutes, plus the messier side of agent orchestration — managing code you didn’t write and correcting hallucinated API integrations. Michiel van der Ros (Staff Engineer, TomTom) follows with “Rerouting: From Tech Debt to a Codebase Agents Can Actually Navigate”, on introducing agents into an existing production frontend and making legacy repositories agent-ready. Expect practical takes on multi-agent orchestration, validating AI-generated changes in production, and turning postponed refactors into agent-ready tasks. Amsterdam’s most technical AI-in-production community — for platform, ML-infra and software engineers shipping real systems.