Startup Events in Amsterdam

AI Native Netherlands is back! We'll be hosting our 13th edition at the AWS office. Before anything else - thank you. This community has grown faster than we ever imagined, and it's been great to watch the connections be made, and the conversations getting better at every edition. The AI landscape keeps moving fast, and there's no better way to keep up than in a room full of people working through it alongside you. We've got two amazing speakers lined up and a great venue for the evening — we'd love to see you there. A huge thank you to our friends at AWS for hosting us at their Amsterdam office. Food and drinks will be provided! We'll cover: When to run a task on a CPU versus a GPU — and what that choice does to cost. Using fine-tuned small models (SLMs) for classifying, routing, embedding, and reranking. Building a real CPU-first agent on Amazon EKS that calls an LLM only when needed. Measuring price/performance in practice — and the design assumptions that turned out to be wrong. Speaker 1: Christian Melendez (AWS) Christian Melendez is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. He helps the region's largest enterprises build efficient, resilient AI and cloud-native workloads on Kubernetes, with a focus on compute efficiency, cost optimisation, and autoscaling at scale. Author of Kubernetes Autoscaling and creator of Karpenter Blueprints, a best-practices repository that grew Karpenter adoption 16.5x across EMEA, he also built Slemify, an open-source framework for fine-tuning and serving Small Language Models on Kubernetes. A regular speaker at AWS re:Invent, KCDs / CNDs, ContainerDays, and others, Christian focuses on making infrastructure simple, observable, and cost-effective at scale. Talk: The Right Tool for the Right Token: When to Reach for a CPU or a GPU While hard reasoning problems require an LLM and a GPU, other tasks can be solved with simpler means. Classifying, routing, embedding, and reranking are structured, high-frequency jobs

Three founders get on stage and tell the story they never share publicly. The deal that almost brought down the business. The disastrous investment. The night they almost walked away from everything they built. The speakers 🎙️ David Beckett: Founder of Best3Minutes, TEDx speech coach and pitch expert who has spent over a decade helping founders turn ideas into stories people remember. 🎙️ Rosie Turner: Founder of ADHD Untangled, coach, speaker and advocate on a mission to change the way we understand and talk about ADHD. 🎙️ Stella Romana Airoldi: Founder of 22STARS Foundation. Supporting communities in Uganda through education and entrepreneurship. Social impact advisor for donors and changemakers. Building sustainable futures with local leaders. The program: 18:45 — Doors open 19:00 — Fuckup stories 20:30 — Networking & drinks 21:30 — End of event Included ✅ Three founders’ stories, all with an entrepreneurial lesson ✅ First drink included VIP Dinner upgrade: Everything above, plus: ⭐ ️ Private dinner at 17:00 with the speakers, organizers, and other VIP ticket holders. Tickets: Standard: €59 VIP: €149 🛡️ Our promise to you: If you feel the event wasn't worth it, let us know within 24 hours after the event and you'll get a full refund or a free ticket to our next one. 📷 Photos and videos We'll capture photos and videos during the event. We may use these for future promotion, including on our website, social media, and marketing materials. 🤩 We can't wait to welcome you! Limited seats - save your spot today.

Every B2B founder or sales leader wants the same thing: to consistently meet targets, and know why it's working (or not). But last quarter you might have hit your target. This quarter you didn't. And nobody can say exactly why. Meanwhile: Most of the results hang on you personally, or two or three top performers Playbooks aren't clear, or don't exist (be honest) Your CRM isn't used the way it's supposed to be Every LinkedIn guru claims they can fix your pipeline, your outbound, or your forecasting with a snap of the fingers In short: do you actually have a setup that will get you to the next stage? Sounds familiar? If this is your day to day, come join us. Scaler Company and Gradient, with the Breaking Barriers program of the AI Coalition for the Netherlands (AIC4NL, http://www.aic4nl.nl/breakingbarriers), are hosting an afternoon for AI & B2B tech founders and commercial leaders scaling sales sustainably and predictably. What you get: Interaction. You bring your own challenges to the table, and work it out live with fellow founders, supported by specialists in the field Peers. 25 to 40 people, the kind of conversation you don't get on LinkedIn Inspiration session: the system to overcome your growth ceiling, and what it takes to get your team to run it Relevance. What's actually working right now, AI included, from experts running and building it every day of the week Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 13:00 to 18:00, drinks from 16:45, B Amsterdam For founders, heads of and VPs of Sales, Growth, or Marketing at B2B tech companies (preferably AI), 5 to 150 employees (we'll make sure you're at a table with people having similar experience. Group sizes can therefore be mixed, depending on the experience level of the attendees). Event sponsor: B Amsterdam The place to work, connect with others, and bring your ideas to life, whether that's in the workplace or while organizing your event. At B. Amsterdam, you'll find an environment where entrepreneurs, creators, and teams insp

Join a Claude Code Community Event, organized by local Claude Community Ambassador Vincent Bruijn! Welcome to my 5th Claude Meetup in Amsterdam. Since December 2025, this evening has turned into a recurring spot for developers, builders, and the AI-curious to swap notes on what works, what doesn’t, and what’s weird about coding with Claude. This edition is hosted at Anthropic Technology partner ML6 in Amsterdam. We’re putting together a lineup with a mix of voices, backgrounds, and angles on Claude: different ways of working, different problems being solved, different stories worth telling. Agenda 19:00 Doors open 19:30 Talk (more info follows soon) 21:30 Drinks Supported by Anthropic Claude Community reserves the right to approve or reject any registration. Registrations with missing or fake information will be rejected. We reserve the right to deny entry to registered attendees at the door if the venue safety limits are exceeded. The main language will be English. Space is limited. This is an in-person only event in Amsterdam. No online streaming available.

Save the date: The monthly Tech Drinks are back on Friday, 30th of October The Monthly Tech Drinks & Pitching, by Tech Makers, is the meet-up for the Dutch tech and startup community, hosted in Amsterdam. Each month we bring people together to have a drink, pitch ideas, swap stories, share scars, and plot world domination. Want to pitch your startup? Apply via this form. Follow Tech Makers here for news about upcoming events, meet fellow founders and potential investors, and join one of the largest startup communities in the Netherlands! P.S. Looking for a cofounder? Try the matching platform we created, https://findyourcofounder.nl P.P.S. By registering and attending, you consent to photos, videos and other media being captured by the organisers and partners, and used for documentation, promotional and community purposes connected to Tech Makers.

DISCLAIMER: We are experiencing an overwhelming number of subscription requests. We won't be able to accommodate all of them, as we have a strict capacity of 200 seats. Please be patient with your approval, and de-register if you are not coming. Thank you for your understanding. Day 1 of the ChemAI conference. Artificial Intelligence is driving a fundamental shift in chemistry and materials science — from intuition-led research to predictive design and increasingly autonomous laboratories. We invite you to an exclusive gathering of top voices and actual builders discussing scaling businesses, industrial innovation, and strategic investments. 30% Vision, 70% Execution. Hear from: Prof. Max Welling - CTO at CuspAI Prof. Steven Latré - VP of AI at IMEC Dr. Greg de Temmerman - Director Deeptech at TechLeap Dr. Dmitri Jarnikov - Sr Director Data Science at Prosus Dr. Aaike van Vugt - CEO at VSParticle Dr. Maksym Plakhotnyuk - CEO at ATLANT 3D Dr. Maryam Ghadrdan - CEO at Planck Technologies Dr. Stefano Martiniani - NYU, co-founder of Matterstack.ai Dr. Hanne Falsig - Scientist at TOPSOE Investor Panel by Hello Tomorrow In partnership with Techleap, Hello Tomorrow, TTT-AI, Startup Amsterdam, Amsterdam Chemistry Network, and AmsterdamAI. If you’re joining us for ChemAI Deep Tech Builders, why stop there? Join us for the Conference on Nov 13 www.acnetwork.nl/chemai Note: When approaching the event capacity (200), we might prioritize those who already have a ticket for Day 2. ChemAI was founded as an independent, international platform to connect technology leaders, industry innovators, and top academics shaping this transformation. It is where AI meets real-world chemical and materials discovery, offering you real OMG-moments. Check the winter Amsterdam edition, and the summer New York edition, at www.chemai.world

Product People is bringing together 20-30 local product professionals for a morning meetup. Expect breakfast & coffee, meaningful networking, and a panel discussion covering the realities of product strategy, roadmapping, and the endless challenge of stakeholder management. 🗓️ Agenda 09:30 - 10:00 Arrival, Coffee & Food 10:00 - 10:45 Panel Discussion with Q&A 10:45 - 12:00 Casual Networking 😊 Who’s coming? AI enabled and AI native product builders. Typical titles include: CPO, CPTO, CTO VP Director Head of (AI) Product, Engineering or Growth Director Head Lead Product Operations Group Product Manager, (AI) Product (Strategy) Lead Senior Principal (AI) Product Manager Our events tend to be oversubscribed so attendee applications are subject to approval by Product People team members. Selection criteria include fit with our theme, target audience, previous show/no show rate, time of registration and venue capacity. 🍙 About Product People We are the premier destination for product management services in Europe. Our in-house consultants fill gaps on short notice and lead key initiatives. Whether you need to grow revenue or save costs, move fast, validate strategic bets, or show your team what good looks like: we make it happen and make it matter. Curious to become our client? Schedule a quick intro call calendly.com/productpeople/client 🙌 Get involved Host our events, sponsor, be on the panel or introduce us to great speakers -> offline-events@getproductpeople.com ℹ️ Please note Registration is subject to approval by our team. Selection criteria include alignment with the event’s target audience, diversity of backgrounds, event capacity, and order of registration.

Building the company and growing yourself are not competing priorities. The most effective founders work on both at the same time. Sharper under pressure. Stronger relationships. A quality of presence that compounds. 🌱 The next level asks for a different kind of capacity. Most founders have built the discipline to push. Fewer have built the capacity to recover cleanly, decide well under volume, and lead from depth. That gap is where this weekend works. Perform at Depth is a two-day in-person cohort in Amsterdam, followed by two months of applied integration. The focus is the person behind the company. You work in a curated group of peers: founders navigating similar terrain. The methodology is rigorous and playful in equal measure. The quality of the shared space is both the resource and the practice. Together, you'll repeatedly enter a deeply resourceful collective state and immediately use it to recover, repair, learn, solve real founder challenges, and make meaningful progress on your work. By the end of the weekend, in addition to having experienced it, you'll know how to intentionally recreate the conditions that make it possible in your own workflow, meetings, teams, and daily leadership. You leave with a clearer map of where you are, what is creating drag, and the most important lever to work with next. 🎯 Then the work continues. Four hours of post-event group integration sessions and eight weeks of weekly calls mean you do not lose what you built in the room. BEFORE YOU ARRIVE You complete a short self-assessment across five leadership capacities and a questionnaire on your current challenges and recurring patterns. This shapes part of the weekend so the work is directly relevant to what is most live for your cohort right now. THE METHODOLOGY 🌊 We-Flow , developed by a collective of practitioners in Amsterdam, brings applied collective intelligence and relational leadership practice. It works with the live dynamics between people: how attention, trust, commu

Join us at the last H&F meetup of 2026 for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem. This is the end of year Christmas edition and the next meetup will be February 2027. We are also on lu.ma/hackersandfounders We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.

Join us for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem. We are also on lu.ma/hackersandfounders We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.

Join us for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem. We are also on lu.ma/hackersandfounders We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.

Join us for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem. We are also on lu.ma/hackersandfounders We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.

Building the company and growing yourself are not competing priorities. The most effective founders work on both at the same time. Sharper under pressure. Stronger relationships. A quality of presence that compounds. 🌱 The next level asks for a different kind of capacity. Most founders have built the discipline to push. Fewer have built the capacity to recover cleanly, decide well under volume, and lead from depth. That gap is where this weekend works. Perform at Depth is a two-day in-person cohort in Amsterdam, followed by two months of applied integration. The focus is the person behind the company. You work in a curated group of peers: founders navigating similar terrain. The methodology is rigorous and playful in equal measure. The quality of the shared space is both the resource and the practice. Together, you'll repeatedly enter a deeply resourceful collective state and immediately use it to recover, repair, learn, solve real founder challenges, and make meaningful progress on your work. By the end of the weekend, in addition to having experienced it, you'll know how to intentionally recreate the conditions that make it possible in your own workflow, meetings, teams, and daily leadership. You leave with a clearer map of where you are, what is creating drag, and the most important lever to work with next. 🎯 Then the work continues. Four hours of post-event group integration sessions and eight weeks of weekly calls mean you do not lose what you built in the room. BEFORE YOU ARRIVE You complete a short self-assessment across five leadership capacities and a questionnaire on your current challenges and recurring patterns. This shapes part of the weekend so the work is directly relevant to what is most live for your cohort right now. THE METHODOLOGY 🌊 We-Flow , developed by a collective of practitioners in Amsterdam, brings applied collective intelligence and relational leadership practice. It works with the live dynamics between people: how attention, trust, commu

Join us for drinks and chats at Café de Muurbloem. We are also on lu.ma/hackersandfounders We have a Slack for the Hackers & Founders community. If you want to join the Hackers & Founders conversations in Slack (#jobs etc) please DM on Twitter (https://twitter.com/feargal) and I will send you a sign up link and follow on Twitter for irregular updates on the meetup.