Tech Events at NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam

with Daniel Steinberg (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) · Peter Friese (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) · Tibor Bödecs (Workshop host, Do iOS 2026) + 1 more

The Netherlands' iOS developer conference, back for its eighth edition at the NEMO Science Museum beside Amsterdam Centraal: a workshop day followed by two days of talks. Workshops from 09:00 on 10 November — Daniel Steinberg on Apple's Foundation Models, Peter Friese on production AI with Foundation Models, Gemini and Firebase, and Tibor Bödecs on server-side Swift with Feather, Hummingbird and OpenAPI, with drinks at 17:00. The conference days, 11 and 12 November, open at 08:30 for talks from 09:15; Alex Antonov covers getting an iOS medical app ready for FDA testing. Walking dinner on day one. Paid, through the organisers' own ticket shop. Why go: hands-on workshops with the people who write the books on this, and an Apple-Intelligence-heavy programme in the year that matters. Best for iOS and Swift engineers, and mobile leads planning on-device AI work.

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.

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.