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

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AI Tinkerers - Amsterdam
Demo Night: Agents in Various Forms
September 3, 06:00 PM
Meetup
10 days ago

AI Tinkerers Demo Night: Agents in Various Forms

Thursday, September 3rd 6PM
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AI Tinkerers hosted a demo night focused on "Agents in Various Forms," showcasing builder insights on agent internals, with support from Gradium and ML6.

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

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck: May Demo Night

Thursday, May 28th 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted a demo night focused on agents in production, featuring practical learnings and live code demonstrations. MotherDuck sponsored the event.

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HACKATHON
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers - Netherland's shortest hackathon #2

Monday, March 23rd 5PM
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AI Tinkerers hosted a short hackathon where participants coded and deployed AI agent apps on Google Cloud Run.

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Meetup
9 months ago

Trust & Security in AI Demo Night — Amsterdam Edition

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers hosted a demo night showcasing practical AI safety and security in production. Auth0 sponsored the event, offering insights into securing AI systems.

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HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
9 months ago

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
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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
10 months ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam – November 2025 Edition

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted an in-person meetup on agents in production, featuring live demos and code walkthroughs. Cloudflare sponsored the event.

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Meetup
11 months ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam — October Edition: Agents in production

Friday, October 10th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
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The meetup explored "Agents in Production" challenges, fostering community among AI practitioners. Sponsors Mr. Green and Calmo supported the event.

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Summer Social
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Summer Social

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 3PM to 6PM
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The AI Tinkerers Summer Social brought together AI startups and investors for networking, rapid-fire pitches, and science fair showcases, culminating in a barbeque.

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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
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - July Edition

Thursday, July 24th, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam featured the Google Cloud AI Team, offering insights into building AI agents with Google's tools and providing community demos and networking.

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Meetup
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers x AdvancedJS Amsterdam

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers and AdvancedJS Amsterdam collaborated to explore JavaScript's role in AI. The event featured hands-on demos and networking for practitioners building with foundation models, hosted by Xebia.

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May 22
6pm - 9pm
HACKATHON
over 1 year ago

The Netherland's Shortest Hackathon

Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 5PM to 10PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted a short hackathon focused on AI tool acceleration for MVP creation. A unique AI Prize was awarded, and sponsors included Fiberplane, NP-Hard Ventures, and Groq.

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Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - May Edition

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted an in-person meetup for AI practitioners. Attendees showcased generative AI demos and engaged in technical discussions, supported by Comet.

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Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - April Edition

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
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AI Tinkerers gathered for an in-person meetup focused on foundation models and generative AI. Attendees showcased demos, fostering community among practitioners, with support from ML6, Unbody, and Tomás Arribas.

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Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - February Edition

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 5:30PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted an in-person meetup for practitioners building with foundation models and generative AI. Attendees showcased demos and networked.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - November

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 5:30PM to 9PM
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam hosted a meetup for AI practitioners to showcase demos and network. Nebius sponsored the event, highlighting their cloud infrastructure.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - September

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 5:30PM
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Engineers, researchers, and founders gathered for an in-person meetup focused on building with foundation models, featuring hands-on demos and technical discussions, supported by sponsors.

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Meetup
about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - June

Thursday, June 20th, 2024 6PM
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Practitioners gathered for a hands-on evening of technical showcases on foundation models, featuring short presentations and lightning demos, supported by Lab42 and Fireworks.ai.

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MAY 23
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portkey
Meetup
over 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - Inaugural Meetup - May

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 6PM
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The inaugural hands-on meetup for AI builders and researchers featured applied and technical talks and demos, supported by ML6 and Portkey.

Meet the Organizers

Goran Ambika Dilan Mikhail Tomás
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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 261-city global network with 132,000+ 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
7 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 261-city network with 132,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Amsterdam

arXiv

arXiv (pronounced 'archive') is the premier, open-access repository for e-prints in physics, mathematics, and computer science, facilitating rapid, pre-peer-review scholarly communication.

Attio

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

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

Claude Haiku

Claude Haiku is Anthropic's fastest, most cost-efficient large language model, engineered for near-instant responsiveness and high-throughput AI applications.

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's latest Sonnet model, offering enhanced performance for coding, agentic tasks, and professional workflows at scale, with near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet pricing.

Codex

Codex is OpenAI's autonomous AI software engineering agent: it executes full development tasks in a sandboxed cloud environment.

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.

GET

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

Gradbot

An open-source prototyping framework to build and test real-time voice agents in under 50 lines of Python code.

Gradium Voice AI models

Gradium Voice AI models deliver ultra-low latency, high-fidelity text-to-speech, accurate speech-to-text, and state-of-the-art voice cloning for developers.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Amsterdam

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Gradium: Voice AI Agents
Sep 3
A voice agent that takes in a user's prompt or expectations of the kind of voice they want to use or have their agent speak in ...
Pratim Amsterdam
Gradium Voice AI models PhoneLLM
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Mini-Swarms: Orchestrating AI Agents
Sep 3
The word "swarm" brings to mind dozens of agents, but if you can orchestrate 3-4 of AI coding agents in parallel, you're alread...
James Amsterdam
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Tau-bench: Recursive Self-Improvement
Sep 3
I did build a system that autonomously evaluates and improves agents. The approach is backed by this paper: https://arxiv.org/a...
Cormick Amsterdam
Claude Code Python
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QAgent: Agentic Data Science
Sep 3
QAgent acts like a data scientist, completing end-to-end tabular ML projects via a web app, demonstrating reliable agentic data science with enforced action space constraints.
Louis Amsterdam
Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Haiku
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Killing Voice Agents
Sep 3
We build a voice-first conversational AI platform for European mid-market and micro businesses: independent car dealers, home s...
Nick Amsterdam
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Beyond the Prompt: Orchestrating Scalable Agentic AI with Event-Drive…
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 Amsterdam
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Proactive agents that learn from user behavior
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 Amsterdam
Most relevant for this one: Langchain Postman
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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 Amsterdam
Firebase Gemini
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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 Amsterdam
Intel SGX Open-source LLMs
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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 Amsterdam
GPT-4 LangChain
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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 Amsterdam
mcp-lite Claude Code
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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 Amsterdam
GPT-4 LangChain

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Last updated: September 2026