Founders Running Club :: Amsterdam

🤖 Get ready for Robo Con @ Amsterdam's biggest basketball arena! We have over 30 robots coming to the event, and more than 1,300 people have signed up to attend across Luma and Meetup.com! 🤖 🏀🏀🏀 We'll have an open robotics expo where you can walk around the basketball arena, check out the robots, and network. We'll also have some fun entertainment (more on that below) at the event. The doors open at 16:00, although of course you can get there later. We know work can be busy! 🤖🤖🤖 We have over 30 robots coming to Robo Con! The TU Delft, VU, and UvA robotics departments are bringing a variety of robots. We'll also have robots from large organizations like Monumental, Nebius, the Dutch police force, and Prosus, as well as robotics startups like Antfarm, BTScout, Manus, and VNYX. 🍿🍿🍿 We'll have some entertainment for this event, including a robot football match (known as a "RoboCup"), a robot dance contest, a robot race, and a t-shirt cannon firing free t-shirts into the crowd! The UvA RoboCup team will be bringing a mobile football pitch, they'll set it up on the court, and we'll hold a football match between two teams of robots! 🚓🚓🚓 For a fun twist, the Dutch police force's "RoboCop" robot will play in the RoboCup football match. RoboCop vs. RoboCup! Try saying "RoboCop vs. RoboCup at Robo Con" three times fast!! Anyway, the show and entertainment will start around 18:00. 🎤🎤 🎤 But it's not just silly entertainment. We'll have an excellent panel after the entertainment portion of the event. The panel will discuss the cutting edge of AI in robotics, and features Sebas Visser, (the founder and CTO of Monumental), Laura Ferranti (a professor in the Cognitive Robotics department at TU Delft), and Pepijn Kooijmans (leads Hugging Face's open-source robotics initiative). Seb Vaessen will moderate the panel. Seb leads venture investing in Europe at Prosus, and is investing in robotics companies. After the panel ends, we'll go back to an open expo and networking until they

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Our friends at Eraneos are hosting the upcoming event at their office at Amsterdam arena offices! 17:30 – 🍕🍔🥗 Welcome & Light Dinner 18:00 \- Talk 1: Jasper Stoop \(Eraneos\) \- Closing the gap between business context and warehouse engineering with DIMO Dimo is an agentic web application that helps transform business context, source data, and analytical requirements into a Kimball-style dimensional model. It starts from business processes, entities, and use cases, links those concepts to real warehouse tables, and incrementally shapes facts and dimensions into a validated star schema. The project is grounded in live warehouse metadata and testing, so the resulting model is not just conceptual but checked against actual source data and expected business outcomes. From that validated design, Dimo generates fully documented SQL or a native dbt project with table and column descriptions and core data tests. The result is a production-ready analytics engineering asset that connects business understanding directly to runnable dbt code. 18:30 - Talk 2: Sean McIntyre (dbtLabs + Fivetran) - Congratulations! You're a context engineer Sean is a Solutions Architect based in Vienna. He helps the largest and best companies in Europe with their data, analytics, and AI. He’s a dad to two awesome boys and enjoys riding bikes on the weekend. He'll discuss how data engineers and analytics engineers can think about the roles in their companies, and advocate to bring in more data sources into their existing workflows that AI models help process, and make well-governed data as context for AI agents. 19:00 - Talk 3: Eva van Kalmthout & Stan Verwer - A data platform that fits in a git repo As an open source integrator of open source data platform tooling, datavloot runs dlt, DuckDB, dbt, Dagster and Elementary out of one repository, started with one command. On stage we will take you through our demo project and dbt standardizations. After that we show the boat we plan to build next,