Tech Events by Tech Makers

Tech Makers' live problem-solving evening: a panel of senior technology leaders works through two or three real engineering and AI problems submitted by the people in the room. Attendees can submit a problem in advance and present it live. Networking with food and drinks from 18:00, main event 19:00, close 20:00. Led by Joel Milligan and Maggie Minton.

Tech Makers' monthly open evening for the Dutch tech and startup community: drinks, short startup pitches from the floor, and the kind of conversation where people compare what actually went wrong. Founders apply in advance through the organisers' form for a pitch slot. At TAG on Jacob Bontiusplaats, 18:00 to 21:00, free to attend. Tech Makers runs one of the larger founder communities in the Netherlands and also operates a co-founder matching platform, so the room skews early-stage, with the investors who look at that stage. Photos and video are taken for community and promotional use. Why go: the pitching is what lifts this above drinks. You leave knowing what three or four new Amsterdam companies are building and who is behind them. Best for early-stage founders, people hunting a co-founder, and angels.

Three days, real robots, real problems. Tech Makers runs its first robotics hackathon across a full weekend: Friday evening kickoff and team formation, Saturday and Sunday hacking, then a demo day and celebration on Sunday afternoon. Teams get hands-on access to two sets of Hugging Face SO-101 robotic arms, with 20+ robots on site and a judging panel. Open to developers, engineers and makers, and also to designers, entrepreneurs, students and beginners — teams are mixed by skill on purpose. How to get in: registration is on Luma and is approval-gated — you request to join and wait for the hosts to accept. Places are capped by the number of robots available, so applying early matters. Registering commits you to the whole Friday-to-Sunday programme; if you only want the Sunday demo night and afterparty, that is a separate registration at luma.com/5ajkd2ak. The venue address is released to attendees on approval and is not published in advance.

Tech Makers' monthly Amsterdam tech-and-startup drinks, this edition hosted at TAG: an open evening for founders, investors and startup people to have a drink, pitch ideas, swap stories and compare scars. Anyone who wants to pitch their startup applies in advance through the organiser's form on the event page — pitching slots are not decided on the night. Note that the organisers state that by registering and attending you consent to photos, video and other media being captured and used for documentation, promotional and community purposes.

Tech Makers brings Amsterdam's tech and entrepreneurial community together at The Social Hub for their fifth monthly gathering. The format is drinks-first, with short pitches woven in — founders grab the mic to share what they're building, and the rest of the room does what it's there for: meeting the people building Amsterdam's next wave of startups. Powered by Qonto, this is one of the city's genuine grassroots tech gatherings — the kind of room where you're as likely to meet a founding engineer as you are an angel or a corporate innovation lead. No panels, no agenda, no pitch decks — just Amsterdam's tech community doing what it does best.