Tech Events at Xebia Netherlands, Amsterdam

The Benelux Google Cloud user group meets at Xebia for an evening of practitioner talks — platform engineering, data, and the current state of Google's AI tooling, presented by the people running it in production rather than by Google marketing. Hosted by Google Cloud User Group Benelux at Xebia Netherlands, from 17:30. Talks and open discussion, free, sign-up through the group's Meetup page. Why go: a vendor-community room that has stayed technical — the talks are about what broke and what it cost, not product launches. Best for cloud and data engineers, platform teams and architects working on GCP in the Dutch market.

The fourteenth edition of AI Native Netherlands, at the Xebia office on Wibautstraat, on two problems that come with AI-assisted development. Vladislav Ramazaev, a senior software engineer at BlueDolphin, goes inside real coding-agent sessions on what gets stored, what survives context compaction and what the model can actually retrieve later, using Claude Code as the main example with contrasts from Codex and Pi. Alexander Fisher of Xebia follows on how team conventions break down when AI changes development speed, and what a process-based approach puts in their place. Free. Arrival and food 18:00, talks 18:45 and 19:30, open conversation from 20:15, close 21:00. Xebia hosts and provides food and drinks. Why go: the memory talk is the clearest account going of what a coding agent does and does not keep, and it is pitched at engineers rather than buyers. Best for software and AI engineers, architects and tech leads.

with Willem Veelenturf (Software Engineer and co-founder, Flock.community) · Jerre van Veluw (Software Engineer, creator of Wirespec, Flock.community) · Alejandro Serrano Mena (Researcher, JetBrains)

Two talks on contracts, from opposite ends: the integration kind and the compiler kind. Willem Veelenturf and Jerre van Veluw of Flock.community walk through Flock's architecture and Wirespec, their tool that turns an API contract into type-safe code on both sides of an integration, then build contract-based integration tests from scratch live with Kotest. Alejandro Serrano Mena of JetBrains follows on in-place, return and flow contracts in Kotlin, what the compiler does with them, and how they are turning into new language features. Free, at Xebia on Wibautstraat. Doors 17:45 with food and drinks, talks at 18:40 and 19:40, drinks from 20:30. Hosted by the Dutch Kotlin User Group with Flock Community and Sourcelabs. Why go: a JetBrains engineer explaining contracts in person, and a live-coded testing demo you can copy on Monday. Best for JVM and Kotlin developers and anyone maintaining API integrations.