Every upcoming startup, investor and founder event we track in Netherlands, in date order.
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Join the global media and entertainment industry in Amsterdam and explore 1,250+ exhibitors, show-floor theatres and Future Tech. The Visitor Pass also includes a free travel pass for all event days.
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
After two years of hype, many enterprises feel they’ve overspent on AI infrastructure without realizing the promised value. In this session, Dan Ciruli, Kelsey Hightower, and Luca Galante cut through the buzzwords to show what enterprise AI infrastructure actually looks like in production. In most cases, it is often less about training models from scratch and more about how platform engineering teams can fold AI inference and fine-tuning directly into their existing infrastructure. Join the discussion to learn: 1. Why you don’t need infrastructure for training models from scratch, and how to start treating inference and fine-tuning just like serving standard web APIs. 2. Strategies for folding AI workloads and autonomous agents into your existing heterogeneous environments (VMs + containers + legacy databases) without rebuilding everything. 3. How to build an Agentic Development Platform (ADP) based on actionable reference architectures to deploy real-world AI applications. Speaker: Kelsey Hightower Retired Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud. Author, Investor, and Technical Advisor Speaker: Dan Ciruli VP and General Manager, Cloud Native Speaker: Luca Galante
Hello indies! On Sunday September 20th, let's get together at De Nieuwe Anita in Amsterdam from 1:30pm onward! Come to meet your fellow indie devs in a relaxed atmosphere, have a drink and chat about video game development. Anyone in the game development community is welcome: developers, artists, musicians or simply videogame enthusiasts who are starting their game development journey. If you are working on some project and would like to show it, playtest it or get some feedback, don't be shy and bring your laptop or notes! We also have a Discord channel: https://discord.gg/StY3uCyAyR See you soon! Mirko & Rutger
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
Welkom! Het is bijna herfst! Leave the high-pressure sales pitches and posturing at the door, this is a collaborative space built for honest conversations, meaningful connections, and creative clarity. Conversion still happens when humans interact as their true selves. What to Expect Grounded Brand Sharing: Share what you’re building, what you’re proud of, or where you need help—without the need to perform or impress. Collective Minds: Explore an entrepreneurial topic chosen by a group member. Gain fresh perspectives, solve real challenges, and meet potential partners rather than just swap business cards. Creative Clarity Session: Take part in a hands-on, reflective creative exercise designed to continue connection, reflect on the session, and/or perhaps be a reminder of how good it feels to be open from creative practices. Takeaways: Real peer connections, fresh clarity on action items/goals, your own creative piece to take home. Ticket Includes: Your drink and all creative materials. About the Host Facilitated by Justin (J.W.) Nadolski —artist, producer, and founder of JWN Creative Change Studio in The Hague. Justin creates open, human-centered environments where business owners can drop their guards, share authentically, and build lasting professional relationships and future collaborations to expand their visions and businesses. 🇳🇱 Nederlands: Dit evenement is in het Engels, maar iedereen is van harte welkom! Lees hieronder de details.
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.
On September 24, 2026, TrueFullstaq returns with the 5th edition of Edgecase — the largest Kubernetes-focused event in the Netherlands. Join 400+ cloud native professionals, platform engineers, architects, CTOs, and platform leaders at the brand-new Gooiland venue in Hilversum. Easily accessible by train and with parking just around the corner. Hosted by Bart Farrell, Edgecase combines deep technical content with strategic insight. Expect top industry speakers, advanced platform engineering sessions, and sharp discussions on cloud native operations, emerging trends, and digital sovereignty. Special discount for this meetup members, free access pass with the code EC26-DYONEFRIEND !