Tech Events at The Social Hub Amsterdam City, Amsterdam

with Hisham Al Hashemi (Business Development, TechMeUp) · Karen Gordon (Recruiter, KGT Consulting) · John Clancy (Co-founder, UpLeveled) + 2 more

A career evening for people trying to get into Dutch tech, run by Kooch Community with UpLeveled, TechMeUp and KGT Consulting: what recruiters here actually look for, the routes in that do not need a traditional tech background, and how training gets financed. 18:00 to 20:00 at The Social Hub Amsterdam City on 20 October — short talks then open networking, with Hisham Al Hashemi of TechMeUp, recruiter Karen Gordon of KGT Consulting, John Clancy and Karl Horky of UpLeveled, and Kooch organiser Nazanin Mirsharifi. Free. Why go: the financing half is the part nobody else covers, and you can put your CV in front of a working Dutch recruiter in the same evening. Best for career switchers, people who have recently moved to the Netherlands, and junior developers job-hunting.

with Anna Valenti (GTM expert, Weeve) · Babette Schilte-Toekaja (UX research lead, Weeve) · Sander Heikens (Serial entrepreneur, Weeve) + 1 more

An evening from Weeve's founders-and-builders community on building AI workflows that improve as they are used: saving the feedback a team already generates, folding it back into how the work is done, then checking whether the next result is better. The worked example is turning a correction to an AI-written draft into an instruction for every future draft. 18:00 to 20:00 at The Social Hub Amsterdam City, with short talks and practical examples across product, research and go-to-market. Speaking: Anna Valenti on AI in marketing and GTM, Babette Schilte-Toekaja on turning customer research into product decisions, Sander Heikens on product strategy and automation, and Stefan Weiss on building a company brain. Free. Why go: the subject is the unglamorous part most AI adoption skips — the feedback loop — and the speakers are operators rather than vendors. Best for founders and product or GTM leads putting AI into a small team's daily work.

An industry session on the technology layer powering domestic payroll providers — covering localisation, compliance and the infrastructure behind modern payroll and HR-tech. Aimed at fintech and HR-tech builders, product leaders and operators working on payments and workforce systems.

Tech Makers brings Amsterdam's tech and entrepreneurial community together at The Social Hub for their fifth monthly gathering. The format is drinks-first, with short pitches woven in — founders grab the mic to share what they're building, and the rest of the room does what it's there for: meeting the people building Amsterdam's next wave of startups. Powered by Qonto, this is one of the city's genuine grassroots tech gatherings — the kind of room where you're as likely to meet a founding engineer as you are an angel or a corporate innovation lead. No panels, no agenda, no pitch decks — just Amsterdam's tech community doing what it does best.