AI Events in Amsterdam | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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Meetup - May 28
6-9 PM
F&B SPONSOR:
MotherDuck
VENUE SPONSOR:
NIO House Amsterdam
Meetup
8 days ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck: May Demo Night

Thursday, May 28th 6PM to 9PM
Mikhail Bashkirov Dilan Gecmen Goran Mitevski VADIM ZHAMKOV Hari Rangarajan Nicoleta Spinu Riccardo Bevilacqua Phyllis Linda Bergman Valentine Snijder Haluk Yasan Niclas Haderer Stephane Bellity Anshul Goyal Manouk Draisma Martijn Benjamin Daniel Mouen Makoua Bendik Nikolaisen Hai Anh Nguyen Ethan O’Brien
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam and MotherDuck hosted a demo night showcasing production agent deployment. The event featured live, code-focused demonstrations and community Q&A.

A promotional banner for 'The NL's Shortest Hackathon' event, featuring logos from AI Tinkerers, Google Cloud, and Mindspace.. Text: The World's NL's Shortest Hackathon March 23 5pm - 9pm AI TINKERERS - AMSTERDAM x Google Cloud x Mindspace
HACKATHON
2 months ago

AI Tinkerers - Netherland's shortest hackathon #2

Monday, March 23rd 5PM
Goran Mitevski VADIM ZHAMKOV Lisa Shen Mikhail Bashkirov Matt Feigal Dilan Gecmen Daniel Strebel Hannah Popoola Jules Lukasz Wojciechowski Fulya Uysal Erik Wouters Olivia Berend Krouwels Esma Choho Mark Rademaker Arunima Chowdhury Alejandro Mantilla Hilda HUo Thijs Veltman
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AI Tinkerers hosted a rapid prototyping hackathon focused on agentic applications, utilizing Google Cloud Run and MCP servers. Participants retained IP ownership and showcased functional MVPs.

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Meetup
6 months ago

Trust & Security in AI Demo Night — Amsterdam Edition

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Deepu K Sasidharan Nat Delnova Riccardo Bevilacqua Hilda HUo Ronny Roeller Alex Whyte P Derson Ramos JP Wisler Saikiran Vanamala Ethan O’Brien Diego M Alexandros Batzios Akmyrat Kadyrov Aaron Cooper Mohamed Elsaady Sten Dijk Maxim Kozlov VADIM ZHAMKOV
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AI Tinkerers hosted a demo night showcasing practical AI safety and security in production. Auth0 delivered a security talk.

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HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
6 months ago

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
Paul Asjes Denzil Eden Goran Mitevski VADIM ZHAMKOV Dann Bibas Alex Whyte Sean Winters Wishant Bhajan Sonia Ortiz Maxim Kozlov Alessandro legnazzi Phanos Anastasiou Soren Colton Derson Ramos Karthik Kannan Ben Steenbergen Ihor Katkov Mohamed Adel Naguib Ahmed Richard van t Land Feyseel Nur
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Builders collaborated intensely on ship-ready agent projects during the global hackathon, competing for a significant prize pool supported by ElevenLabs and Miro.

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Meetup
7 months ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam – November 2025 Edition

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Goran Mitevski Gift Egwuenu Sidney Overes Laurynas Keturakis Martijn Schouten Dilan Gecmen Hilda HUo Karl Horky Mohid Butt Sameera Mudgal Jochem Lith Kushagra Baid Rick Lamers Hari Rangarajan Sten Dijk Stefan Nae Julian Holle Gijsbert Westeneng Rajesh Gunasekaran Rolf Verschuuren
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted a hands-on session for builders on production shipping agents, featuring live code demos and networking, with thanks to sponsor Cloudflare.

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Meetup
8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam — October Edition: Agents in production

Friday, October 10th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Goran Mitevski VADIM ZHAMKOV Alessandro Legnazzi Fernando Rejon Barrera Ronny Roeller Sahaja Kanuri Kushagra Baid Nicoleta Spinu Shili Li Laura waldenstrom Joost Verdoorn Alexandra Wernersson Vaibhav Mishra Jasper Schoormans Hilda HUo Alessandro Vozza Alex Bezzubov Stefan Nae Pavlos Zakkas Hai Anh Nguyen
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam explored "Agents in Production," focusing on technical challenges. Active practitioners shared demos and collaborated, with F&B sponsored by Calmo.

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Summer Social
9 months ago

AI Tinkerers Summer Social

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 3PM to 6PM
Tomás Arribas Goran Mitevski Michiel Krake Jeroen wevers Rens Dommerholt Ahmed ElGazzar Joost Wijstma Ayca Turan Kaspar Rothenfusser Elisabeth Bühler Edwin Vlieg Bekk Blando Ruben Poppink Kushagra Baid
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AI Tinkerers hosted a summer social in Enschede, featuring startup pitches, technical showcases, and networking, supported by Novel-T.

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AMSTERDAM
Google Cloud
MINDSPACE.
Building AI Agents with Google AI
An evening with AI Tinkerers and Google Cloud
- demo what you've built with Google AI -
July 24th | 5:30pm
Meetup
11 months ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - July Edition

Thursday, July 24th, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Tomás Arribas Goran Mitevski VADIM ZHAMKOV Naz Bayrak Nimo Beeren Pratim Bhosale Khashayar Mansourizadeh Fleur Prince Heather Shrewsbury Adelina Varatinskaite Kevin Kolo Yiting Wu Shivli Gupta Jasper Schoormans Stan Groenen Marija Efremova Paul Spencer Carla Canino Arje Cahn Naoufal Ahaytaf
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam featured a deep dive into building AI agents with Google Cloud AI. Community demos showcased innovative projects, and Naz Bayrak from Google shared technical insights.

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Meetup
12 months ago

AI Tinkerers x AdvancedJS Amsterdam

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 5:30PM to 8PM
Tomás Arribas Nimo Beeren Amir Houieh Mohamad Shiralizadeh Alexandra Wernersson Jasper Duijf Ali Pala Linda Bergman Ethan O’Brien Shili Li Paul Spencer Rishika Saini Ulas Can Cengiz Heather Shrewsbury Karthik Kannan Olena Ignatovych Fatemeh Mashreghi Stan Groenen Simon Karman Boris Wolfson
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AI Tinkerers and AdvancedJS Amsterdam collaborated for a specialized meetup showcasing JavaScript and TypeScript for AI development. The event featured hands-on demos from active practitioners and engineers.

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Shortest
Hackathon
AI TINKERERS - AMSTERDAM groq NP-Hard fiberplane
May 22
6pm - 9pm
HACKATHON
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The Netherland's Shortest Hackathon

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 5PM to 10PM
Tomás Arribas Denzil Eden Goran Mitevski Aravind Putrevu VADIM ZHAMKOV Micha Alexander Hernandez Leuffen AI Judge Laurynas Keturakis Rick Lamers Said Mabrouk Thomas Metcalfe Jochem Lith Julian Holle Oscar Martijn Castro Cagri Demir Amey A Joost Verdoorn Vladyslav Rudakevych Omar Khafagi Manoj
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AI Tinkerers hosted a short hackathon testing AI's impact on MVP creation. Participants presented demos judged by humans and AI, with sponsors Fiberplane, Groq, and NP-Hard Ventures supporting the event.

Meet the Organizers

Tomás Arribas Ambika Joshi Dilan Gecmen Goran Mitevski Mikhail Bashkirov
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Best AI meetup in Amsterdam for builders

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.

The Amsterdam chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Amsterdam chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Amsterdam meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Amsterdam chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
9 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Amsterdam for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam is the best AI meetup in Amsterdam for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Amsterdam chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.

What makes AI Tinkerers Amsterdam different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Amsterdam chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Amsterdam

AMD SEV

AMD SEV isolates virtual machines by encrypting memory with up to 509 unique keys managed by a dedicated on-die security processor.

ARM TrustZone

A hardware-enforced security architecture that partitions a single processor into two distinct environments (the Normal World and the Secure World) to protect sensitive data at the silicon level.

Attio

A data-driven CRM built for modern teams that automates pipeline management through real-time data enrichment and custom workflows.

Cursor

The AI-native code editor designed for high-velocity development through deep LLM integration.

Data warehouse

A Data Warehouse (DW) is the central, integrated repository for historical and current data, optimized exclusively for reporting, business intelligence (BI), and analytical querying.

Firebase

Firebase is Google's mobile and web app development platform: a comprehensive, serverless Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) for building, improving, and scaling applications.

Gemini

Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.

GET

GET is the core HTTP request method: it retrieves a representation of a specified resource without altering server state.

Intel SGX

Intel SGX secures sensitive data in-use by isolating code and information within hardware-encrypted CPU enclaves.

Intel TDX

Hardware-isolated virtual machines that shield sensitive data and code from the hypervisor and host OS using silicon-level encryption.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Amsterdam

Hari Rangarajan
Solace: Event-Driven Agent Orchestration
May 28
I will show a working demo using the Solace Agent Mesh where it integrates multiple agents like a RAG agent, Bedrock agent, SAP...
Hari Rangarajan Amsterdam
Christoph Hartmann
DoneThat: Proactive AI Agents
May 28
For my startup https://donethat.ai I have an agent that can do two things: Send people a daily email and open a chat window pro...
Christoph Hartmann Amsterdam
Most relevant for this one: Langchain Postman
Christoph Hartmann
DoneThat: Preventing Prompt Injection
Dec 16
DoneThat is an AI work tracker - it takes screenshots and analyzes those to automate time tracking. It has several opportunitie...
Christoph Hartmann Amsterdam
Firebase Gemini
Nat Delnova
Intangle: Secure Stateful AI
Dec 16
This talk presents the architecture and live technical demonstration of Intangle, a stateful AI system built around a self-lear...
Nat Delnova Amsterdam
Intel SGX Open-source LLMs
Martijn Schouten
Altura: LLM Evaluations
Nov 11
LLM evaluation is quite a new field: in production applications where you can't use unit tests to test your code because LLM ou...
Martijn Schouten Amsterdam
GPT-4 LangChain
Laurynas Keturakis
Programmatic MCP Tool Optimization
Nov 11
Building MCP servers feels like run-of-the-mill API development, but testing and optimizing an MCP server requires a unique ble...
Laurynas Keturakis Amsterdam
mcp-lite Claude Code
Wessel Pannebakker
AI science agent
Nov 11
an experiment of ai using gpt-5-codex cli to automate scientific research within limitations, which resulted in the ai writing ...
Wessel Pannebakker Amsterdam
GPT-4 LangChain
Gift Egwuenu
Cloudflare AI Model Routing
Nov 11
This session will feature a code-first demo of an AI agent, demonstrating the use of the Cloudflare Agents SDK. We’ll show its ...
Gift Egwuenu Amsterdam
Cloudflare Agents SDK AI Gateway
Usman Zafar
Finetuning SLMs for Agents
Nov 11
I will be presenting our efforts in finetuning a range of small language models (SLMs) for both fun and useful use-cases. I sha...
Usman Zafar Amsterdam
Distill Labs Transformers
Abhimanyu Selvan
RoboTaxi Multi-Agent Communication
Oct 10
What happens when autonomous vehicles need to communicate with passengers, dispatchers, traffic systems, and each other in real...
Abhimanyu Selvan Amsterdam
Claude Docker
Fernando Rejon Barrera
Deep Research: Auto-Optimizing Agents
Oct 10
Research we did comparing different methodologies for self-optimizing complex agent systems. In particular we evaluated a Deep ...
Fernando Rejon Barrera Amsterdam
LLM-as-a-judge TextGrad
Alessandro Legnazzi
Calmo Demo
Oct 10
Calmo is an AI Agent that debugs production issue, we will showcase how Calmo brings engineering teams from alert to resolution...
Alessandro Legnazzi Amsterdam
Next Google Cloud Platform

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Last updated: June 2026