Every upcoming startup, investor and founder event we track in Amsterdam, in date order.
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As Amsterdam faces growing climate uncertainty, SustainaLab Talks explores how data, AI and quantum-inspired technologies can improve flood forecasting, climate risk modelling and decision-making. Join experts for talks and a panel discussion on climate risk, interpretable machine learning, insurance and resilient urban planning.
Join us in Amsterdam at Adyen's office for an evening dedicated to how AI is changing the fintech landscape. From agentic copilots in production to what's next for the world's fastest analytical database, this meetup brings together engineers, data practitioners, and fintech builders. Hosts Brought to you by Adyen and ClickHouse, and hosted by Kwok He Chu (Developer Relations @Adyen) and Tyler Hannan (Global Advocate @ClickHouse). 🎤 Session Details: Iftach Arbel, Senior AI Research Engineer at Adyen. Iftach develops agents and bug the hell out of them.Talk: Skills First: How We Shipped an Autonomous Fee Agent Before Writing an Agent Harness Alexey Milovidov, co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse, Inc. Bio. Alexey has 17 years of experience designing, developing, and operating data-intensive applications. Before ClickHouse, he created the data processing engine of the world's 2nd largest web analytics system. His area of interest is data processing algorithms and technologies.Talk: 🪩 On the night: Fun, bring a smile! Food & Drinks provided by Adyen Networking Note: a video/photographer will be taking some snapshots during the event. If you see a picture of yourself later that you want removed, just let us know by email and we'll take care of it, no questions asked! 📅 Current Agenda: 5:15 PM: Doors Open - Food & Drinks by Adyen 6:15 PM: Welcome - Words from your hosts Kwok He Chu, Developer Relations @ Adyen, and Tyler Hannan, Global Advocate @ ClickHouse 6:20 - 6:50 PM: How AI is Made - Alexey Milovidov, Co-founder & CTO @ ClickHouse - TBA (+ Q&A) 6:50 - 7:20 PM: Skills First: How We Shipped an Autonomous Fee Agent Before Writing an Agent Harness - Iftach Arbel, Senior AI Research Engineer @ Adyen (+ Q&A) 7:20 PM: Closing 7:30 - 8:30 PM: Drinks & Networking 👥 Spots: Limited, so register to secure yours! ⚠️ Adyen requires all visitors to bring a valid photo ID (passport/ID card) to enter the building. Show it at reception and you'll be escorted to the top floor, where
Join the Claude Community Meetup for Developers in Amsterdam This edition is about the Second Brain: turning scattered notes and half-remembered decisions into a system that thinks with you. Personal knowledge bases, company knowledge, memory that survives the context window. Expect short talks, live demos, and great conversations with like-minded people. Speakers Max Kahan (Developer Advocate at Stream): He's an enthusiastic Claude Code user with a background in machine learning and a long-standing desire to make developers' lives easier. He'll argue that your second brain has a new reader - the agent - and show you how to make it so easy to use that even Haiku will blow your mind. 🔜 More speakers announced in the coming days Schedule 18:00 — Doors open, drinks, snacks, hellos 18:30 — Welcome 18:40 — Talks and live demos 20:00 — Drinks and deep conversations 22:00 — End Who it's for Developers building with AI — whether you've shipped agents in production or you're just curious what everyone's actually doing with this. All experience levels. Practical Café Belcampo, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 10, Amsterdam. Free to attend. In English. Places are limited, so please only register if you plan to come. And cancel if plans change, so someone else can take your spot. See you soon!
This meetup will be hosted by Adyen, in their office at Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6 - 50, 1011 DJ Amsterdam. ⚠️ IMPORTANT: Please bring a valid ID document with you. You’ll need it to enter the building ⚠️ AI agents are moving into production. The question is no longer whether to use them, but whether you can trust what they ship. This AGNTCon PreDay meetup brings together security researchers, developer advocates, and platform engineers integrating AI agents into real codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems. Hosted by: Amsterdam Java User Group Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community Group Codex Community Qodo Dev Community AI Security Engineers Community The evening focuses on conversations that rarely fit into conference talks: what breaks when an agent has write access to your dependencies, how to encode your team's standards into machine-readable guardrails what changes when agentic systems run at cloud-native scale Under the theme Security, Quality, and Scale, we'll explore agentic supply-chain risk, AI-powered code review, and Java and cloud-native's evolving role in agentic systems. No vendor pitches. Just practical lessons from systems running in production. AGENDA 18:00 – Doors Open, Drinks and Networking 18:30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks 18:40 – Nnenna Ndukwe, Developer Relations, Qodo 19:00 – Break, Food and Networking 19:15 – Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild (details below) 19:55 – Break, Food and Networking 20:10 – Liran Tal, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Snyk 20:30 – Speaker TBA 20:50 – Closing Remarks SPEAKERS Liran Tal – Senior Director, Developer Relations, Snyk Nnenna Ndukwe – Developer Relations, Qodo Surprise speaker – TBA PANEL AGENTIC AI IN THE WILD What does it take to move AI agents from proof of concept into systems that operate reliably? Practitioners from across the technology stack will discuss context management, governance, production workflows, failure modes, and what changes when agent
Hey everyone! Our next event is on the way, and it's one you won't want to miss. This event features Monumental, the Amsterdam-based company building autonomous construction robots that are already laying bricks. This time we'll have two speakers. Engineers from both the software and hardware side, sharing how they're actually building these robots. And to top it off, there'll be a live demo of a robot at work, which we think you'll find pretty fascinating to see up close. Thursday, September 17th 18:30 Monumental office, Amsterdam Meet the speakers! Speaker #1: Philip Joubert Bio: Chemist who got bored in the lab, so I started teaching high school and running a robotics club instead. Built robotic instruments with students, took a team to first place in two age groups at the WRO World Finals in Delhi in 2015. Been 3D printing since the days of wooden Ultimakers and duct-taped RepRaps. Moved to Amsterdam in 2017, prototyping for an ed-tech NGO, built mechatronics for light artists, and eventually landed at Monumental as employee #3. Still making things, just at a different scale. Talk: We don't build precision robots, we build robots that work. Robots that run in the mud, get hit with a wrench, and keep going. "Crappy robots powered by incredible software and AI". Phil will walk through the hardware philosophy behind Monumental's machines: why off-the-shelf truck parts, bits off a Fiat Panda, and scaffolding tubing beat custom aerospace components. Speaker #2: Ross Gardiner Bio: Ross has been at Monumental for four years working on all parts of the software stack. Right now his focus is on how we map the construction site and adapt the on-paper architectural designs to fit into the real world. Talk: I'll look at how we decided to build the software stack behind our bricklaying robots systems, where we make heavy use of Rust, Typescript and Nix. How is it panning out? What did it take to get a working robot? What would we like to improve in future? Stay tuned! Fol
Impact is becoming a key factor in venture funding. Join Dune Partners for a hands-on training on how to build a credible, quantified impact story that strengthens your position with investors, customers and talent. Learn how to measure, communicate and monetise your impact.
How can startups turn impact ambitions into a credible, quantified story? This hands-on training by Dune Partners explores what impact means, why measuring it matters, practical approaches to impact measurement, and how to communicate a clear, credible story that supports decision-making, fundraising, and accountability.
HumanX Amsterdam is not another AI conference. It is the only event that moves from inspiration to implementation — curated programming for every function, built around the people actually building and deploying AI inside the world's most ambitious organisations.
Join us for the first Grok Bot meetup in Amsterdam. We'll spend the evening building Bots and hear from Naoufal El hassnaoui (field engineer at SpaceXAI.) Come by for an hour or stay the whole night. Bring a laptop and we'll be providing credits! Thank you to Dealroom for hosting us!
Sign up here ## For builders who ship This one is built for technical builders with founder intent. You'll thrive here if you can take an AI product from zero to working in a single day, you've built real things before (bring a demo, GitHub or portfolio), you understand a real customer and the problem you're solving for them, and you're seriously exploring something that could become a company. Come as a founding team with complementary product and technical skills, or solo if you move fast alone. This is a room for people who ship. If that's you, apply. ## Leave with a running start Win here and you leave with a Founders Pack: everything you need to turn a one-day build into a company. A stack of AI credits, tools, mentorship, and a direct line to investors. Every builder gets the Builder Pack Nebius Token Factory credits to build with, plus credits from partners Founder swag from day one Winners take the Founders Pack Follow-on Nebius Token Factory credits to keep building after the day Major AI credit grants from ElevenLabs, Lovable, OpenAI A year of n8n Cloud Pro Mentorship with the Accel and Lovable teams A Pocket device and the AI Innovate winner's backpack ## Substance over showmanship Winners are chosen by a panel, including a Nebius Token Factory judge, with the emphasis on substance over showmanship: Product and user value Problem and company potential Measurable model advantage Technical execution and use of Token Factory Demo clarity Responsible design To enter, each team submits a working product, a named customer and the problem it solves, the model and Token Factory architecture, evidence or a benchmark of the advantage, a short business case, and a live demo. Every entry is reviewed, the strongest teams pitch live, and winners are announced on the day. ## Runs on BuilderBase The hackathon runs on BuilderBase. Approved applicants are added to the event there and contacted with next steps. You can also
An AI-Native Workflow Gathering for Leaders in Tech 📍 StartupDock, Singel 126 - Amsterdam 🕙 17:00–19:00 - Sessions 🥂 19:00 - 21:00 - Rooftop Networking, Bites & Drinks 👉 RSVP Here: https://luma.com/x3ksuigr A high-signal gathering for Engineering Leaders, CTOs and product leaders shaping how engineering Teams become next. Expect engaging sessions, deep dives & conversations on: 1️⃣ Architecting for engineering velocity by Joel Milligan, Founding AI Engineer at Neno As a team of 8 engineers at Neno, last month we did a total of 322 PRs, with 266 production deploys. How did we do it? And what are the systems that enable such a high throughput? I’ll use this talk to cover how we built from 0 and scaled into our recent 6.6 million seed round while spending almost nothing on infrastructure 2️⃣ Guarding consistency and reliability in AI workflows by Gert Hengeveld, Engineer at Storybook. Storybook offers skills and MCP tools to ensure proper component reuse in front-end applications, but AI is inherently random. How do we make sure agents evaluate our skills and workflow descriptions to yield consistent results reliably? In this talk I'll explain the concept of evals, and how to run them in CI to guard against inevitable regressions. This is not another mixer. This is where the next AI relationships begin. 🎟 Limited seats. Application-only access. 👉 RSVP Here: https://luma.com/x3ksuigr
Join the Amcel Annual Open Symposium, bringing together researchers, educators and industry professionals working in electrochemistry and its applications. Discover cutting-edge research, connect with the Amsterdam electrochemistry community, and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Decagon is valued at $4.5 billion and has become one of the standout success stories in Silicon Valley - all in under two years. On September 24, Ashwin Sreenivas, Co-founder & President of Decagon, joins Whale for a fireside chat with Bas (leading growth at Duna). We'll revisit the decisions that shaped Decagon's earliest days — and what it takes to build a company from 0 to 1. We'll cover: Traversing the idea maze Winning the first customers Building the team and the culture Staying focused in a competitive market How to think about defensibility in AI Agenda 17:00 – Doors open 17:15 – Fireside chat & Q&A with Ashwin 18:00–19:00 – Drinks and bites About Ashwin Sreenivas [LinkedIn] Co-founder and President of Decagon, the conversational AI platform powering customer experiences at companies like Avis Budget Group, Block, and Oura. Earlier this year, Decagon raised a $250 million Series D round led by Coatue and Index, tripling its valuation to $4.5 billion in under 6 months. About Whale 🐳 We bring the next generation of operators and founders together - through expert-led sessions, dinner and hackathons.
Join WMN& x Atlassian for an exclusive panel on navigating your career in the AI era. “Will AI take my job?”, “how do I position myself as my role changes?” and “how do I reinvent my career with AI?” With the rise of AI, roles and career paths in Tech/Software have changed a lot in the last two years, and that's not slowing down. That brings incredible opportunities and many questions, whether you’re hoping to move into (senior) leadership, change roles, or completely change your career. WMN& and Atlassian’s Women ERG are joining forces and bringing together senior female leaders from Atlassian, IBM, Adyen, and Staedean for an insightful conversation on what (non-technical) skills are more important than ever, how roles and career paths are changing, and what it takes to futureproof your career. Come get inspired and walk away with practical ways to build your BIG career, with AI on your side. ✨ What's the plan? We start with drinks in the Atlassian café, so you can meet other women in Tech before the panel starts. Then we move into the event space for the panel itself, with nibbles while you listen. Once it wraps, we head back to the café to keep talking and connecting with the speakers and other attendees. 👯 Who's coming? This event is specifically designed for women working in Tech/Software or women working in deeply Tech-embedded roles. Women working in Product, Marketing, Engineering, Sales and everything in between join our events, from companies such as Miro, Netflix, Bynder and Deel. 90% of our attendees join our events solo, we're here to make you feel welcome and help you make new connections, so come as you are 💕 Meet our speakers Sierra Dasso - Head of Sales for TWC EMEA/ APAC @ Atlassian Marije Ferwerda - Managing Director High-Tech Customers @ IBM Alla Minkina - Head of Learning & Development Tech @ Adyen Deborah Salomon - Chief Human Resources Officer @ Staedean 📍 Where? Singel 236, 1016 AB Amsterdam 📅 Date/time Thursday 24 September 17:30 - 20:30
Join us for an evening of cutting-edge Rust talks, real-world use cases and great conversations hosted at BlockTech. This meetup is open to anybody who has an interest in the Rust programming language. We are planning two great talk for you all to enjoy! The schedule is as follows: 6:30 - Doors open 7:00 - Welcome and announcements 7:05 - waffle: "Breaking changes as a social construct" 7:35 - Q&A with waffle 7:45 - Beers and bites (on us!) 8:10 - Gabor Kozar: "The API That Doesn't Return Result" 8:40 - Q&A 8:50 - Hang out and chat 10:00 - Doors close Our event will be hosted by BlockTech: BlockTech is a crypto-native trading firm specializing in algorithmic derivatives and spot trading. Since 2018, we’ve combined deep trading expertise with a passion for building cool, high-performance systems in the spirit of open source. We’re proud to support the Rust community and continue to push the boundaries of real-world applications in crypto and high-performance systems. Disclaimer: The talks may be recorded, and there will be photos taken. Please let us know if you do not want to appear in the photos. Come for the talks. Stay for the beers. Leave inspired!
Join QDNL Amsterdam on 6 October, 15:00–18:00 at Meet Berlage to discover how quantum computing could transform molecular modelling, scientific discovery and innovation. Expert insights, quantum fundamentals and networking. No prior quantum knowledge required.
Built By Few is the Summit by Connect Ventures that brings together Europe’s most ambitious founders and outlier companies. About the event: Over the past couple of years, we’ve hosted our flagship Built By Few event in London, as well as satellite events across Europe (so far in Ghent, Milan, Barcelona and Berlin), with the builders behind some of the most-loved products, including Aikido Security, TrueLayer, Soldo, Pinterest, Typeform, Supersonik, Arduino and ai-coustics. We’ve seen a wave of exceptional founders and companies emerge from Amsterdam - one of Europe’s most exciting and inventive ecosystems. The density of ambitious teams, strong talented culture, and globally-minded builders made choosing Amsterdam for our next international edition an easy decision. We hope you can join us and your peers for this highly curated event. Speakers include: Paul Veugen, Desert Ant Labs Salar al Khafaji, Monumental Bob van Luijt, Weaviate What to expect 16:00: 👋🏽 Arrivals 16:30: 🎤 Speakers and content 18:00: 🥂Networking Drinks & Bites 19:00: 👋🏽 Departures Connect Ventures is a London-based venture firm backing outlier pre-seed and seed founders across Europe since 2012.
Meet LangChain customers and our CEO Harrison Chase in Amsterdam. Is your company exploring ways to build AI solutions? Join us to learn how other companies have successfully leveraged the LangChain ecosystem, and hear directly from our founder Harrison Chase about the latest developments. Agenda 18:00 - 18:20: Walk-in, Welcome & Introductions 18:20 - 18:40: Mohamed Elkady (System Architect – Data & AI @ Philips Hue - Signify): "Building Reliable AI Systems with Graphs and Agents: Lessons from Philips Hue" 18:40 - 19:40: Harrison Chase: "Building Great Agents" + Q&A 19:40 - 21:00: Networking Drinks & Bites About Signify's talk: Building agentic applications is easy. Building ones that are reliable in production is much harder. In this session, Mohamed shares practical lessons from designing and operating AI systems at Philips Hue, showing how combining structured graph-based workflows with autonomous agents creates solutions that are both flexible and dependable. Due to high interest and limited capacity, we're unable to approve all requests to attend, and we sincerely apologise that we can't accommodate everyone. Please don't be discouraged, we encourage you to continue requesting spots at future events About LangChain: LangChain enables every company to own their intelligence. LangChain's open, model-agnostic harnesses give teams choice and control over how they build their agent architecture. LangSmith brings testing, deployment, and monitoring together so teams can continuously improve their agents, compound intelligence, and govern them at scale. More than 7,000 customers, including Nvidia, Bridgewater, LinkedIn, Workday, Harvey, and Rippling trust LangSmith to improve their agents across the Agent Development Lifecycle. Learn more: www.langchain.com
Join SustainaLab Talks to explore how MOF-based sensors could improve nitrogen monitoring, enable more precise farming and support smarter environmental policy. Hear perspectives from science, technology and industry, followed by discussion and networking.
🤖🏀 Get ready for Robo Con @ Amsterdam's biggest basketball arena! We're hosting a massive robotics event! 🤖🏀 🦾🦾🦾 We’ll have top robotics companies and student projects showing off their robots in Amsterdam's largest sports hall. We'll be transforming the city's biggest basketball arena (the stands can hold up to 4,000 people) into a robotics expo. So you can walk around the hall and the court, check out the robots, and network. We’ll also hold a panel session on the court with top robotics executives discussing the current state of robotics, AI, and computer vision. 🏅🏅🏅 We’re working on some silly challenges for the robots — we'll have some entertainment before the panel starts! We’ll announce the full robot lineup soon. For now, sign up to reserve your spot! It's free to attend! ❌❌❌ We're also partnering with the City of Amsterdam for this event, through Amsterdam Trade & Invest and StartupAmsterdam. The City of Amsterdam is committed to promoting deep tech and robotics. One example is the city's recent investment in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) robotics lab, which brings together students, researchers and startups. Learn more about this fresh initiative at Robo-Con! 🅰️ℹ️ 🌊 Robo-Con Amsterdam is organized by AI on the Amstel. The AI on the Amstel meetup is Amsterdam's largest monthly AI event. We get 250-400+ people/month depending on the size of the venue that month. We go to a new location each month. Founded in 2024, we have over 6,500 members and a 4.7/5 rating on Meetup. We just started using Luma. Now you can also sign up on Luma! 🤖🤖🤖 We held our first AI on the Amstel meetup on AI and robotics in February 2026, but the venue ultimately wasn't big enough for the topic! We hit the capacity of the space (pictures of the 400 people who attended), and we could only fit relatively small robot demos. So we're going MUCH bigger for v2 of the robotics meetup! 📣📣 Finally, a shout-out to our meetup sponsor — Qwen! Qwen is the leading AI mode
Bringing together the Dutch startups shaping what’s next! Join this exclusive gathering for startups funded in the past 12 months and their investors. Connect with ambitious founders, leading investors, and key ecosystem players. Brought to you by FundFest in collaboration with the Dutch Startup Association.