Tech Events at B. Amsterdam, Amsterdam

The November edition of Data Thursday at B. Amsterdam: practitioner talks on data engineering, analytics and the modern data stack from people running it at Dutch companies, followed by drinks. A dependable monthly room for data engineers and analysts in the city.

with Sjoerd de Kreij (From experiment to organisation-wide application, Typetone) · Ivo Hop (What 150 people do when AI speeds up the work, Smart4Aviation)

Emerce's one-day conference at B.3 Amsterdam on building with Claude Code, and on what happens after the prototype. Eight keynote sessions across two rooms, plus a Build Room where you work on your own case with experts on hand. Sjoerd de Kreij of Typetone on taking an AI tool from experiment to something a large organisation can own and maintain, and how to avoid shadow AI; Sitelane on rebuilding a web agency around agents that generate day plans, wireframes and whole sites; Basedriver on reorganising a development pipeline around dozens of agents; Ivo Hop of Smart4Aviation on what 150 people do once AI speeds the work up. Programme from 09:40. Paid; mostly Dutch, several sessions in English. Why go: the sessions are about ownership, integration and maintenance - the part that kills most AI pilots - rather than demos. Best for engineering and product leads in mid-sized Dutch companies.

The second edition of House of Founders Marokko, from Future of Finance: a founders' meet-up with a panel and a première screening, at B. Amsterdam on Johan Huizingalaan. Held in Dutch. Tickets €99 on Eventbrite, 18:00 to 21:00.

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.

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.

Data Thursday runs monthly out of B. Amsterdam's B3 building and is one of the steadier data-engineering communities in the city. Two talks, food, and a room of people who run pipelines for a living rather than talk about them.