Tech Events at AI House Amsterdam, Amsterdam

with Max Welling (Chief Technology Officer, CuspAI) · Steven Latré (Vice President of AI, imec)

Day one of ChemAI 2026, at AI House Amsterdam in the Prosus building: how AI is changing chemistry and materials science, with the emphasis on execution rather than theory. Speakers include Max Welling, CTO of CuspAI, and Steven Latre, VP of AI at imec, alongside deeptech founders and investors on scaling, industrial adoption and autonomous laboratories. Run with Techleap, Hello Tomorrow, TTT-AI, StartupAmsterdam and Amsterdam AI. From 12:00, free. Why go: chemistry people and AI people are usually in separate rooms, and this is the one where materials researchers, deeptech founders and the investors funding them argue about the same bottleneck. Best for deeptech founders, ML researchers working on scientific problems, and investors in materials and chemistry.

Afternoon at AI House Amsterdam, powered by Prosus, on where AI and competition law meet. W@CompetitionNL organises. Laura Fitoussi (Prosus) gives the keynote, then Konstantina Bania (Geradin Partners) moderates a panel with Maaike Boomgaard (Just Eat Takeaway.com), Galyna Kostiukevych (ACM) and Victoria de Posson (EU Tech Alliance). Doors at 15:30, keynote and panel 16:00 to 18:00, drinks and bites after. Advance registration is required; the price isn't listed. Why go: you hear the regulator (ACM) next to in-house counsel and the EU Tech Alliance in one room. Best for founders and legal or policy leads at AI companies. Skip it if you want product demos.

AI House hosts a World AI Week afternoon on what has actually held up in AI practice through 2026, with women building and funding AI systems on the programme. AI House has become the default AI venue on the Zuidas and its events fill fast.

A morning session at AI House on the Zuidas about what changes when AI stops being a tool and starts behaving like a colleague. For decades enterprise software was built for people; the argument here is that platforms are now being designed for humans and AI agents together — digital coworkers that reason, collaborate and execute work end to end. Aimed at people responsible for how AI actually gets adopted inside an organisation rather than at the engineers building the models. Free.

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 investment prize. Selected Benelux startups pitch to a panel of investors at AI House Amsterdam (powered by Prosus), with the regional winner advancing to the global final in San Francisco later in 2026. A high-quality evening for founders, investors and operators interested in the strongest deep-tech and AI-driven companies coming out of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.