Tech Events at Internet Archive Europe, Amsterdam

with Payal Arora (Author, )

Internet Archive Europe and V2 Lab for the Unstable Media host Dr Payal Arora presenting her new book on what falls outside the logic of algorithms and Big Tech's metrics, drawing on voices from the majority world. Free on Luma.

Amsterdam Cybersecurity Social's last meetup of 2026, hosted at the Internet Archive Europe headquarters on Oudeschans. The organisers are taking December off, so this is the final edition until the new year. It's a community social for people who work in or around security, run near-monthly by two volunteer organisers who find a new host for each edition. The format is a social: the point is meeting people in the field. 17:00 to 20:00 at Internet Archive Europe, Oudeschans 16. RSVP on Meetup. Why go: a relaxed way to meet Amsterdam's security people outside vendor events and big conferences, in a building with its own story. Best for security engineers, pentesters and anyone moving into the field.

Why has ethics become the main framework through which technology, and AI in particular, is governed and legitimised, and can it actually steer where technology goes? A conversation that starts from a novel and ends at AI ethics boards and regulation. Author Morgane Billuart, whose novel The Heat of Others is set in an Arctic facility harvesting human body heat, in conversation with philosophers of technology Jordi Viader Guerrero and Darryl Cressman. Friday 9 October, 18:00 to 20:00, at the Internet Archive Europe space, Oudeschans 16. Supported by the Mondriaan Fund. Free, but the room is at capacity: there is a waiting list on Luma, and the conversation is livestreamed on Zoom from 18:00. Why go: a rare Amsterdam evening that questions the responsible-AI industry rather than selling it. For policy people, AI governance teams and anyone who has sat on an ethics board and wondered what it changed.