Great to moderate the AICamp AI Meetup in Amsterdam, hosted at ML6’s office on Geldersekade. Over 110 RSVPs for an evening of deep-dive tech talks on AI agents, in collaboration with Google Cloud and ML6.
The Talks
Agent2Agent (A2A Protocol) — Holt Skinner, Google
The first talk provided a deep dive into Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol — the architectural standard for building interoperable autonomous systems where AI agents securely discover, negotiate, and collaborate on complex tasks.
A2A addresses a fundamental challenge: as organizations deploy more AI agents, these agents need to communicate with each other across organizational boundaries. The protocol defines how agents:
- Discover each other’s capabilities
- Negotiate task delegation and handoffs
- Collaborate on multi-step workflows
- Maintain security throughout the interaction
This is directly relevant to platform engineering — as AI agents become part of infrastructure operations, standardized communication protocols prevent the “integration spaghetti” that plagues enterprise systems.
Deep Search AI Agents and the Olof Palme Case — Thomas Vrancken, ML6
The second talk was remarkable: ML6 built an Agentic Deep Research solution using exclusive police archives to investigate one of history’s largest unresolved cases — the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986.
Investigative journalists now use this AI system to navigate decades of police records. The technical architecture included:
- Custom AI agentic workflows for document analysis
- Deep Research patterns for cross-referencing evidence
- Google Cloud infrastructure for processing massive archives
- Guardrails to distinguish correlation from causation
The talk covered the implemented agentic workflows, custom Deep Research, and the Google Cloud architecture of the solution. The question of whether AI found a guilty party kept the audience on the edge of their seats.
Why Agent Interoperability Matters
The A2A protocol represents a shift in how we think about AI infrastructure. Today, most AI deployments are isolated — a chatbot here, a code assistant there. A2A envisions a world where specialized agents collaborate:
- A security agent discovers a vulnerability and delegates patching to an infrastructure agent
- A monitoring agent detects anomalies and tasks a debugging agent with root cause analysis
- A compliance agent audits changes made by a deployment agent
This is the agentic AI future in practice — not a single superintelligent agent, but an ecosystem of specialized agents working together through standardized protocols.
Amsterdam’s AI Developer Community
With 110+ attendees packed into ML6’s Amsterdam office, the energy in the room was strong. The AICamp community has grown to 5,000+ members in Amsterdam and 500K+ developers worldwide.
Events like this, combined with the AI House Amsterdam sessions and the upcoming KubeCon Europe 2026, make Amsterdam one of the strongest AI developer hubs in Europe — exactly the kind of density the Prosus report argues Europe needs.
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