Tech Events at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam

TEDxAmsterdam's sixteenth main event takes After Growth as its theme: what comes next for technology, business models and cities once endless expansion stops being the goal. A full afternoon and evening of stage talks at Pakhuis de Zwijger on Piet Heinkade, from 14:00. Tickets are 48.15 euro. Why go: it is the closest thing Amsterdam has to a cross-sector stage, so the growth question gets put by people outside tech as well as in it, which is usually where the uncomfortable version of the argument comes from. Best for founders and product people thinking hard about what they are optimising for, and anyone who wants a day off the AI conference circuit.

The annual Trendrede - a Dutch trend-forecast address delivered at Pakhuis de Zwijger, setting out what a group of trend watchers expects to shape the coming year in work, technology and society. Delivered in Dutch.

Pakhuis de Zwijger and Amsterdam AI put generative tooling in front of the people whose work it displaces and the people building it, in the format Pakhuis does best — an argument on stage rather than a product demo. Strong choice if you work anywhere near design, media or creative production in the city.

The Amsterdam edition of the global DevOpsDays community returns to Pakhuis de Zwijger for a single packed day: a morning of curated 25-minute talks, lightning-fast Ignite sessions after lunch, and an afternoon of participant-driven Open Spaces where the real conversations happen. DevOpsDays is deliberately community-run and discussion-first — ideal for engineers, SREs, platform and operations people who want practical, vendor-neutral insight on culture, automation and reliability rather than a sales pitch. Small enough to actually meet people, serious enough to leave with new ideas.

An hour-long, interactive workshop inside the PublicSpaces Conference at Pakhuis de Zwijger — Amsterdam's best-known venue for tech-and-society programming. The session reframes the standard 'tech in your organisation' question: what would democratic technology actually look like in practice — collective ownership and governance instead of centralised control, technology serving the mission rather than serving the platform? Run by DIGISET in collaboration with PublicSpaces, the workshop is built for senior people at SMEs, non-profits and cooperatives thinking about their digital choices. Ticket includes free full-day access to the PublicSpaces Conference.