Tech Events by Amsterdam AI

Amsterdam AI's annual thesis prizes for BSc and MSc work from UvA, VU and AUAS (HvA), presented at NEMO Science Museum on the same afternoon as the AI Impact Festival. Winners are announced about three weeks beforehand and present their work at the ceremony; each prize carries a cash award and a certificate. Nominations come from supervisors, and eligible theses need a final grade of at least 8.0 and a completion date between 25 September 2025 and 25 September 2026. The selection committee is co-chaired by Stefano Di Giorgis and Mina Ghadimiatigh, with a steering committee drawn from the three universities including Evangelos Kanoulas, Peter Bloem, Somaya Ben Allouch, Laura Hollink, Saskia Robben and Cees Snoek. The only link on the page is the EasyChair nomination portal; no separate attendee registration is published.

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.

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.

An Amsterdam AI discussion evening on the Roeterseiland campus of the University of Amsterdam, bringing researchers and practitioners together around the societal questions raised by AI. Conducted in Dutch.

A curated matchmaking day connecting AI startups with VCs, regional development funds and corporate investors through focused 15–20 minute one-on-one conversations. Organised by Amsterdam AI during World AI Week, capacity is limited and applications are screened.

A session on digital inclusion in the Dutch healthcare system out to 2040, at Felix Meritis. Policy-facing healthtech.

A two-day academic and policy conference at Felix Meritis on governing algorithmic systems in healthcare — regulation, clinical validation and accountability. Serious healthtech and AI-governance content.

A one-day hackathon at NEMO Science Museum run through the Amsterdam AI partnership, bringing University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences teams together to build conversational AI applications. Open to developers and researchers outside the universities as well.

Part of Amsterdam's Week of Digitalisation, the Digital Five brings together the five city-government digital partners to work through public-sector digitalisation and AI policy.

Pakhuis de Zwijger and Amsterdam AI put generative tooling in front of the people whose work it displaces and the people building it, in the format Pakhuis does best — an argument on stage rather than a product demo. Strong choice if you work anywhere near design, media or creative production in the city.

A Dutch-language discussion evening at the UvA's Roeterseiland campus on the societal questions around AI, run by the Amsterdam AI network. Conducted in Dutch.