AI Events in Amsterdam | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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comet
AI TINKERERS
AMSTERDAM
MAY 6
hosted by:
NIOHouse
Amsterdam
Event
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - May Edition

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Tomás Arribas Goran Mitevski Robert Hommes Maurice Kleine Vincent Koc Rick Lamers Parul Benien Alex Bezzubov Josefine Quack Ayca Turan Olga Gureenkova Toon Verbeek Jasper Schoormans Kaushik Reddy Linda Bergman Alejandro Mantilla Bruna Baudel Luca Manno Jurgen Gravestein April Cain
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam welcomed technical practitioners to share generative AI demos. The event fostered community and innovation, with support from sponsor Comet.

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April 2
Ünbody
ML6
Meetup
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - April Edition

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Tomás Arribas Goran Mitevski Amir Houieh Ronny Roeller Ayca Turan Alexandra Wernersson Jasper Duijf Parul Benien Sebastian Castano Josefine Quack Carla Canino Aleksandra Gorelova Walter Gonzalez Jasper Schoormans Gaurav Chandrashekar Sahaja Kanuri Wafa Mribah Serda Shehu Robert Hommes April Cain
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Practitioners gathered for hands-on demonstrations and discussions about large language models and generative AI products, supported by ML6 and Unbody.

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www.wearebeyond.work
FEBRUARY 26
AI TINKERERS
AMSTERDAM
Event
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - February Edition

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 5:30PM to 9PM
Goran Mitevski Lennert Jansen Cormick Marskamp Darin Verheijke Carlos León Bruna Baudel Paolo Vicedomini April Cain Rahimuddin Mohammad Ayca Turan Gudmundur Orri Palsson Carla Canino Max Louis Jansen Wafa Mribah Roman Ageev Raduan Al-Shedivat Rik Arends Gijs Dam Luca Berton Jan Wilmake
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Practitioners gathered for hands-on Large Language Model and generative artificial intelligence demonstrations, receiving technical feedback and networking support from the community. The venue sponsor was thanked.

A banner advertising the AI Tinkerers Amsterdam event on November 12th, sponsored by Nebius. A robotic hand and a human hand form a heart shape.. Text: AI TINKERERS AMSTERDAM
NOVEMBER 12
SPONSORED BY
NEBIUS
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - November

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 5:30PM to 9PM
Tomás Arribas Gaurav Chandrashekar Rogerio Chaves Nikita Vdovushkin Thijs Verreck Alessandro legnazzi Nicoleta Spinu Linda Bergman Ebba Olin Rick Lamers Raj Sundararaj Hilda HUo Joost Verdoorn Manouk Draisma Wafa Mribah Fedor Zhdanov Ronny Roeller Riccardo Bevilacqua VADIM ZHAMKOV Toon Verbeek
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AI Tinkerers Amsterdam welcomed practitioners and entrepreneurs to share LLM and generative AI work. Nebius sponsored the event, showcasing their AI cloud infrastructure.

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Amsterdam
September 25
groo NPi=JARD
fiberplane
Vip Event
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - September

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 5:30PM
Tomás Arribas Aravind Putrevu Anke Huiskes Gaurav Chandrashekar Micha Alexander Hernandez Leuffen Lucas Meijer Stefan Nae Muhammad Ibne Rafiq Ronny Roeller Nicoleta Spinu Thijs Verreck Ebba Olin Ruud Visser Jasper Schoormans Ahmed El Meleegy Carla Canino Jan Casteren Wafa Mribah João Pereira Andres Campo
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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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AI Tinkerers
Amsterdam
UvA LAB42 Fireworks AI
Vip Event
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - June

Thursday, June 20th, 2024 6PM
Amir Houieh Aravind Putrevu Tomás Arribas Fernando Rejon Barrera Jasper Schoormans Sarah Mennicken Ryan Lisse Siddharth Thawani Myrthe Reuver Nikolay Vasilishin Hilda HUo Marco Marin Tijs Zwinkels Machiel Kapiteijn Cormick Marskamp Dinos Papakostas Jakub Zavrel Arjen Hoop Konstantin Klimashevich Raduan Al-Shedivat
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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.

A banner advertising an AI Tinkers event in Amsterdam on May 23rd, sponsored by ML6 and Portkey.. Text: AI TINKERERS AMSTERDAM
MAY 23
SPONSORS
ML6
portkey
Vip Event
about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - Inaugural Meetup - May

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 6PM
Tomás Arribas Nishant Aklecha Amir Houieh Lucas Meijer Sebastian Wehkamp Tijs Zwinkels Anke Huiskes Amir Dez Gijs Wijngaard Hilda HUo Aravind Putrevu Carla Canino Job Rietbergen Rehan Fazal Raduan Al-Shedivat Cormick Marskamp Stefan Fountain Ilia Balashov Abdullah T Ahmad
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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

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