Notes from the event floor

303 write-ups · 179 events · 27 cities · 11 countries

I write up the conferences and meetups I go to: the talks worth remembering, the demos, the booth conversations and what I took away for my own work. This page organises all of them by topic and by company. For my speaking calendar, see conferences.

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2026

12 Oct 2026 · Nordic APIs Summit 2026 · Stockholm
Nordic APIs Summit 2026 in Stockholm
Nordic APIs Summit 2026 returns to Stockholm on October 12-14 to explore secure, intelligent, and connected API platform development.
1 Oct 2026 · CTO Network breakfast: State of Agents 2026 · Amsterdam
CTO Network State of Agents 2026 at Databricks Amsterdam
A Builders CTO Network breakfast at Databricks Amsterdam: four people who ship agents, five trend slides and a closing look at the software factory.
30 Sept 2026 · OTEL Meetup; What is IT, really? · Amsterdam
Dash0 OTel Meetup Amsterdam: Weaver, Packaging, Go
Dash0's OTel meetup at Mindspace Dam: OpenTelemetry Weaver, the Packaging SIG, Go compile-time instrumentation and a Cake & Candles hands-on lab.
25 Sept 2026 · Builders & Brews: Hack Edition (Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon, Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
Builders & Brews Amsterdam: Nebius x NVIDIA AI Hackathon
AAIF Community Amsterdam's Builders & Brews: Hack Edition: the hackathon rules, Token Factory, Tavily, Kilo Code and a fast agent recipe before 30 October.
24 Sept 2026 · Clarkson Hyde Global Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
AI Beyond Chatbots: Practical Workflows for Accounting, Tax & Audit
My Clarkson Hyde Global Amsterdam 2026 keynote: practical AI agent workflows for accounting, tax, and audit teams that go well beyond chatbots.
22 Sept 2026 · AI Tech Summit "Filip Avramchev" 2026 · Skopje
AI Tech Summit Skopje 2026: From AI Demo to Production
My keynote at AI Tech Summit Filip Avramchev 2026 in Skopje, the sessions I photographed, and a practical checklist for taking AI from demo to production.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: All the Announcements
Complete roundup of all AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe announcements — MCPA certification, Gates Foundation, Traefik, WSO2, Grape Up, AgentCat, A2A, Envoy.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe lands September 17-18, 2026 at RAI Amsterdam. Preview of the agentic AI + MCP conference from the people building the stack.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 Recap: Agents, MCP, and Production Reality
Two days at RAI Amsterdam. The agentic stack is moving from demos to production — here's what actually works when agents touch real infrastructure.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026: Key Takeaways
AGNTCon + MCPCon 2026 recap: 81% have agents in production, MCP hits 89% adoption, AGENTS.md at 60k repos, and the shift from demos to reliability is real.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Two Days of Real Agentic AI at RAI Amsterdam
Day 1 of AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe at RAI Amsterdam: 2,000+ attendees, keynotes from MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, and agentic AI production data.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-Agent
Day 2 at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — stateless MCP in production, agent identity, and multi-agent orchestration.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People I Met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026
The builders behind the agentic stack — speakers, panelists, and hosts I met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
MCPA Certification: Validating MCP Expertise at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
Agentic AI Foundation launches MCPA certification at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — validating MCP concepts, architecture, and implementation.
16 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon Preday Meetup: Agentic AI in the Wild · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Preday: Agentic AI in the Wild — Securing What Runs in Production
AGNTCon Preday at Adyen Amsterdam: Qodo on verification gates, Snyk on malicious SKILL.md files, Postman on agent gateways, plus a panel on trust.
15 Sept 2026 · ClickHouse Amsterdam Meetup @ Adyen · Amsterdam
ClickHouse Amsterdam Meetup @ Adyen: AI Agents and Vectors
Recap of the ClickHouse Amsterdam Meetup at Adyen: a skills-first autonomous fee agent, and Alexey Milovidov on storing embeddings in ClickHouse.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: How AI Is Reshaping Media Production End to End
From production to distribution, AI is moving from experimentation to infrastructure at IBC 2026.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Audio Innovation from Mixing to Monitoring
From compact broadcast mixers to 192-channel audio monitoring, the audio tools reshaping production.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Camera Innovation and Virtual Production Frontiers
Sony FX5, Kinefinity Vista, DJI Mic Mini 2S, Spline tracking, and the tools reshaping production.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Content Delivery
CDN evolution, MoQ streaming, hybrid cloud delivery, and the technologies reshaping content infrastructure.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Creator Economy Becomes Studio Economy
How creators have become studios and studios have adopted creator logic at IBC 2026.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Future Tech and the Startup Revolution
AI dubbing engines, semantic search, quantum-secure media, and the startups driving Future Tech at IBC 2026.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026 Innovation Awards: Top Projects
From the Collective Newsroom to the IBC International Honour for Excellence, a look at the 2026 award winners.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: The AI Arms Race Against Content Piracy
How AI is being used by both pirates and rights holders in the battle for live sports and premium content.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Sovereign Cloud and Media Data Control
How European cloud infrastructure challenges hyperscale dominance in media workflows.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: How Small Batteries Fuel Green Production
The quiet shift from diesel generators to battery systems on set, backed by BAFTA Albert's SPARK roadmap.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Media & Entertainment Innovation at RAI Amsterdam
A firsthand walkthrough of IBC 2026 at RAI Amsterdam — 14 halls, 1,300+ exhibitors, AI and Future Tech trends.
9 Sept 2026 · Rust AI Europe meetup · Amsterdam
Data Sovereignty and Rust: Robin Everaars at Rust AI
Robin Everaars (HoistIT) at Rust AI Europe in Amsterdam: 10 of 27 Dutch mental-healthcare record systems point to a US cloud, and what Rust ownership adds.
9 Sept 2026 · Rust AI Europe meetup · Amsterdam
Rust AI at Adyen: Building the Next-Gen Data Engine
Zemin Piao on evolving Spark at Adyen, then LakeSail's tour inside Sail: Spark Connect, actors, shuffle, Delta MERGE and its own TPC-H and ClickBench results.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Grafana Labs OTel Amsterdam: Community, Networking, and the People Behind the Code
Beyond the slides: the community connections at the Grafana Labs OpenTelemetry event in Amsterdam — group photos, coffee breaks, and conversations that matter.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale: Grafana Labs Amsterdam Recap
Grafana Labs OpenTelemetry Amsterdam recap: Ted Young on rollouts, Austin Parker on Observability IRL, Hierarchy of Observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Ted and Ed's Hierarchy of Observability Needs
Maslow's Hierarchy for observability: infrastructure visibility at the base, custom logic at the top. Build observability maturity layer by layer.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Maintaining Everything Forever: The Hidden Cost of Observability at Scale
Beyond deployment, the hidden cost of observability: complexity at scale, tracking debt, and costs that grow faster than you can control.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Observability IRL: What Fire Lookout Towers Teach Us About Software Monitoring
Austin Parker's 'Observability IRL' talk at Grafana Labs draws a direct parallel between 1930s fire lookout towers and modern software observability.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Scaling OpenTelemetry with Ted Young (Grafana Labs)
Ted Young, OpenTelemetry co-founder, on the four focus areas that will define OTel's future: clients, stability, AI, and edge.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Installing Everything by Hand Sucks: The Automation Imperative for OpenTelemetry
The pain of manual OpenTelemetry setup and why a one-click deployment experience is the key to adoption at scale.
8 Sept 2026 · How to Roll Out OpenTelemetry at Scale (Grafana Labs) · Amsterdam
Why I Am Dusty: Burning Man, Art Installations, and Observability
Ted Young's 'Why I am dusty' talk: linking a 30-foot Burning Man art tower to building observable software systems.
1 Sept 2026 · End Summer Camp 2026 (ESC {22}) · San Donà di Piave
End Summer Camp 2026: Hacking & Free Software in Italy
My first End Summer Camp — 7 days of hacking, free software, and DIY at Parco della Scultura in San Donà di Piave, Italy.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: The Curious Case of the Missing Memory
Notes from Mohammed Nafees's Go Amsterdam talk on finding missing memory with pprof, RSS, garbage collection, retention, and off-heap allocations.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AI
Notes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam at JetBrains: Event Recap
A recap of the Go Amsterdam meetup at JetBrains, with talks on the select statement, memory debugging, and staying passionate in tech during the AI age.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: A Deep Dive into the select Statement
Notes from Jesús Espino's Go Amsterdam talk on the select statement, channel multiplexing, timer pitfalls, cancellation, and preventing goroutine leaks.
20 Aug 2026 · BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QA
Luca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
18 Aug 2026 · AI Builders Amsterdam · Amsterdam
AI Builders Amsterdam: A Hands-On AI Meetup Recap
AI Builders Amsterdam recap: talks on validating side projects, docs for agents, and running local LLM agents at StartDock.
6 Aug 2026 · Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony 2026 · Hiroshima
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony 2026: Attending in Person
I attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on 6 August 2026. Here is what the minute of silence, 120 nations, and two hibakusha testimonies taught me.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
KubeCon Japan 2026 Keynotes: AI Platforms at Scale
The KubeCon Japan 2026 day 1 keynotes from Yokohama: SoftBank's infinite agents, Fujitsu's GPU-centric Kubernetes, PFN multi-tenancy and Hyundai's Argo CD.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Cloud Native in the Real World: Optics, Subaru & Uber (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: an optics maker and Subaru running AI on cloud-native infrastructure, plus a walk through the Uber booth on the show floor.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
KubeCon Japan 2026: the CNCF Briefing and Lightning Talks
From the KubeCon Japan 2026 press briefing: Japan's 950K cloud native developers, HAMi and Confidential Containers in incubation, and the IOWN partnership.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Community & Takeaways from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026
From KubeCon Japan 2026: the growing CNCF platform-engineering community in Japan, hallway-track moments, and how AI helped me discover volcanic eggs.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Open Source Building Blocks for AI Platforms (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: the AI conformance framework for portability, a CNCF+in-house research platform, and dynamic resource composition in CNCF sandbox.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Photonic Networks: the Standout Tech at KubeCon Japan 2026
From KubeCon Japan 2026: photonic networks could reshape the AI data center by moving data optically — Fujitsu leads this work in Japan.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Security, Isolation & Sovereign AI on Kubernetes (KubeCon Japan 2026)
From KubeCon Japan 2026: holding AI isolation without killing efficiency, the hybrid namespace/dedicated-tools pattern, and open-source sovereign orchestration.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Tuning Kubernetes for AI: the Real Trade-offs from KubeCon Japan 2026
From KubeCon Japan 2026: why AI on Kubernetes needs tuning, not just more GPUs — LLMD caching/routing and the real GPU, memory and electricity cost.
29 Jul 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 · Yokohama
Post KubeCon Japan 2026: Reflections on AI, Cloud Native, and the Developer Journey
Straight from KubeCon Japan 2026: the shift from CPUs to GPUs, exploding AI models, and the new accelerator landscape — what it means for developers.
28 Jul 2026 · Cloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026 · Tokyo
Cloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026 at NTT DOCOMO Open Lab Odaiba: My Recap
Cloud Native Telecom Meetup Japan 2026: docomo agentic AIOps, a 300+ cluster vRAN upgrade, KDDI on CNFs, DRA/DRANET, LF Networking and AI energy metering.
1 Jul 2026 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam #10: This is FIN(e)TECH · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam: This is FIN(e)TECH Meetup Recap
Recap of the 10th Platform Engineering Amsterdam meetup: Kubernetes security at ING, dark matter supply-chain vulnerabilities, and secure platforms for AI.
1 Jul 2026 · Wiz Club Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
Wiz Club Amsterdam 2026: Machine-Speed Cloud and AI Security
Recap of Wiz Club Amsterdam: machine-speed cloud defense, AI threats, and lessons from security leaders at Booking, Mews, Nebius, and Philips.
30 Jun 2026 · EU-Nough Tech Rules? · Amsterdam
EU-Nough Tech Rules? The Realities of Scaling in Europe — Amsterdam 2026
52% of EU founders avoided another EU market over compliance. Notes from DutchBasecamp's EU-Nough Tech Rules event in Amsterdam, June 30, 2026.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
AI Agents in Healthcare: A Floor Chat at RoachFest London
A spontaneous RoachFest London 2026 conversation on where AI agents could take healthcare: pattern recognition, microbots, and cancer detection.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Inside Cockroach Labs' AI Playbook: The Database Reckoning
From Cockroach Labs' own floor at RoachFest London 2026: 1,000 AI-built internal apps, an AI support engine, and why agents have no natural ceiling.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Will AI Make Us the Humans From WALL-E?
A candid RoachFest London 2026 floor conversation on automation creep, agent autonomy, and Cockroach Labs' Felipe on the honest fear behind the hype.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Form3: How a Payments Platform Survives Cloud Outages
Kevin Holditch of Form3 on why regulators forced a V1 to V2 rebuild across three clouds, and how CockroachDB keeps quorum writes safe across all of them.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Surviving a Real GCP Outage: A Multi-Cloud CockroachDB Story from RoachFest London 2026
A RoachFest London account of a real GCP outage with zero platform impact thanks to a multi-cloud CockroachDB architecture.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Human in the Loop: AI and Database Migrations
A RoachFest London 2026 floor chat on why AI-assisted database migrations still need a human to decide the ambiguous schema calls.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
When Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets Aren't Enough for Multi-Cloud CockroachDB
Why cluster-scoped Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets can silently break quorum for multi-cloud CockroachDB, and how a custom cross-cluster PDB fixes it.
25 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon 2026
PlatformCon 2026: Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI
Lessons orchestrating multi-tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI: GPU sharing, workload isolation, scheduling efficiency, and cost control.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
RoachFest London 2026: Distributed SQL Meets AI Resilience
Recap and full video playlist from RoachFest London 2026: CockroachDB's AI agent vision, Form3 multi-cloud payments, and Primer's migration.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
CockroachDB C-SPANN vs pgvector: RoachFest Workshop
What the RoachFest London 2026 vector search and RAG workshop showed: C-SPANN vs HNSW and IVFFlat, orphaned vectors, and multi-tenant retrieval in SQL.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Spencer Kimball: From 'We're Not Google' to CockroachDB's Agentic Future
Spencer Kimball on CockroachDB's agentic future, the old 'we're not Google' objection, and distributed SQL as a mainstream need.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Major Tim Peake at RoachFest London: What Space Missions Teach Engineers
Major Tim Peake's RoachFest London keynote on launch day nerves, spacewalk training, psychological safety, and a decision framework for incident response.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Vik Bhatti (Primer): Move Before You Hit the Write Ceiling
Vik Bhatti of Primer on zero-downtime CockroachDB migration, rejecting self-managed sharding, and a post-cutover write bug.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Managing AI Agents at Platform Scale: Cloudsmith's Take
Nigel Douglas of Cloudsmith on why LLMs running on individual workstations are shadow infrastructure platform teams need to own, not ignore.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Securing Agentic AI Traffic: Gravitee at PlatformCon 2026
Gravitee evolved its API and event-stream management platform into a full agent management layer covering MCP, LLM, and agent-to-agent traffic.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Isovalent (Now Part of Cisco) on Simplifying Kubernetes Networking
Isovalent, now part of Cisco, showed EVPN at PlatformCon London 2026 — consistent policy and connectivity from Kubernetes clusters through to the data center.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Kief Morris on AI Agents and Being 'Human on the Loop'
Kief Morris of Thoughtworks on what engineering identity means when agents write the software: build the system that builds the software, not just the software.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Kyverno Graduates CNCF, and Nirmata Adds AI Governance
Kyverno reached CNCF graduation. Nirmata's CEO on layering AI agents over the policy engine for compliance automation, plus a new LLM governance layer.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
OpenBao Founder on Secrets Management for AI Agents
OpenBao founder Alex Scheel on why short-lived, fine-grained tokens matter more than ever once AI agents start holding credentials.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
Your IDP Is the Foundation for Agentic AI
A PlatformCon London 2026 session mapped how internal developer platforms evolve for the agentic era: agent paths, a governance plane, and agentic PR review.
23 Jun 2026 · PlatformCon Live Day London 2026 · London
PlatformCon London 2026: The AI Era Runs on Platforms
Recap and full video playlist from PlatformCon Live Day London 2026: AI agents, IDPs, governance, observability, Kubernetes, and DevEx.
18 Jun 2026 · ing.tonic. (Anonimi ma identificabili: quando la matematica salva la nostra privacy) · Padova
Differential Privacy: How Math Protects Your Privacy
How differential privacy uses intelligent noise to protect personal data without losing its value — explained at the ing.tonic. talk in Padova.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
EPIC Semi's RISC-V AI Server Runs Ubuntu
At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 I met Chloe Jian Ma of EPIC Semi to discuss the first RISC-V AI server — 48 cores, 16 AI cores, and Ubuntu booting live.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
Why 9 in 10 High-Tech Startups Stall
At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 I met Frederik on the business side of deep tech — go-to-market, market strategy, and a playbook to grow from unknown to player.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
InspireSemi & NextSilicon: RISC-V HPC
A show-floor look at RISC-V Summit Europe 2026: InspireSemi's RISC-V supercomputing accelerators and NextSilicon's high-performance compute for HPC and AI.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
OmniTrust: Visibility & Control for AI
At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 I met Toby from OmniTrust, building an ecosystem of visibility, control and transparency so AI can speed up innovation safely.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
One Student One Chip: 18,861 Students Build RISC-V Chips
BOSC's One Student One Chip teaches students to design RISC-V processors from ISA to GDSII tape-out. At RISC-V Summit Europe 2026, 18,861 enrollments revealed.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
RISC-V Summit Europe 2026: Open Hardware Meets AI in Bologna
On-the-ground coverage from RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna — SiFive, ETH Zurich, Qualcomm, and Luxottica on open silicon for AI and smart eyewear.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
RISC-V Summit Europe 2026: Hardware Innovation from Bologna
My experience at RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna — from Tenstorrent Blackhole to Monte Cimone v3 HPC, ESWIN server CPUs, and open-silicon research.
8 Jun 2026 · RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 · Bologna
RISC-V: From Dev Boards to AI Servers
A floor tour at RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 showing how RISC-V now scales from small embedded dev boards to Tenstorrent AI compute and Scaleway servers.
2 Jun 2026 · AI on the Amstel (June 2026): frontier models panel · Amsterdam
AI on the Amstel: DeepMind, NVIDIA & Mistral Panel
Recap of the June 2026 AI on the Amstel meetup at VU Amsterdam — a panel with Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Mistral on how frontier models are built.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible MCP Server Demo: AI Automation in Cursor IDE
Live demo of the Ansible MCP Server from Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: agentic job management, root cause analysis, and NL automation in Cursor.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible VS Code Extension with MCP Server
Red Hat's Ansible VS Code extension now embeds an MCP server for AI-assisted playbook creation, context-aware linting, and compliant scaffolding.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
AAP 2.7 Automation Portal & Execution Environment Builder
What's new in Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: the Automation Portal with a visual Execution Environment Builder, self-service templates and guided workflows.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible Intelligent Assistant & MCP Server: BYOK RAG
Red Hat's Automation Intelligent Assistant (AIA) brings BYOK RAG, a hosted MCP server exposing AAP to LLMs, and multi-provider BYOM flexibility.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible Automation Orchestrator (Q3 2026 Preview)
Red Hat Ansible Automation Orchestrator (Q3 2026) combines event detection, AI reasoning and deterministic execution in one governed pipeline with approvals.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Upgrading to Ansible Automation Platform 2.6+ (EOL Guide)
AAP 2.4 reaches end of life in June 2026 and AAP 2.7 is GA on June 3, 2026: the upgrade timeline, Extended Update Support costs and a 5-phase plan.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026 · Netherlands
OpenClaw + Ansible: Agentic CVE Remediation
Live demo of OpenClaw orchestrating end-to-end CVE remediation: agent detection, ServiceNow ticketing, OPA policy review, and AAP playbook execution.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Red Hat AI Model-as-a-Service with llm-d
How Red Hat's llm-d transforms LLM inference into a composable Kubernetes-native architecture: disaggregated serving, smart autoscaling, and MaaS.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026 · Bunnik
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: Harness Engineering
Inside Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: 30 speakers and 34 sessions on AgentOps, agentic AI, Quarkus, LangChain4j, and hybrid cloud inference.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
vLLM Inference Optimizations on Red Hat OpenShift AI
Deep dive into vLLM inference optimizations: KV cache, continuous batching, quantization, and distributed inference with Tensor Parallelism.
27 May 2026 · Amsterdam Java User Group meetup at Doctolib · Amsterdam
I Lost a Day to @Retryable — Amsterdam JUG at Doctolib
Kath Alfaro Ramirez shares how a silent Spring AOP proxy bug cost a day of debugging at Doctolib, and why @Retryable is the dangerous outlier.
27 May 2026 · AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Production-Ready AI Agents
Inside the Bedrock AgentCore session at AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 — architecture for production AI agents: Runtime, Gateway, Memory, and Identity.
27 May 2026 · AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 Keynote: Bedrock AgentCore
Live from the AWS Summit Amsterdam keynote: Bedrock AgentCore, Managed Agents on GPT 5.5, S3 as a unified data platform, and enterprise stories.
27 May 2026 · AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
Anthropic Fireside Chat at AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026
Inside the AWS Startup Theatre at AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 — Veronica Östring and Alex King on scaling startups with AWS and Anthropic Claude.
27 May 2026 · AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026: AI for Real-World Impact
Attending AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 — from Martin Elwin's keynote on choosing the right tools to Ecolafaek's AI-powered waste management in Timor-Leste.
21 May 2026 · Who's Watching the Agents? · Amsterdam
Who's Watching the Agents? AI Observability Meetup at
SRE NL and Coralogix hosted 'Who's Watching the Agents?' at Miro's Amsterdam office — covering AI-powered observability, MCP servers for telemetry, custom.
20 May 2026 · Voice AI Space Amsterdam Meetup · Amsterdam
Voice AI Space Amsterdam Meetup: Voice Agents Live
Voice AI Space Amsterdam: sarcasm detection, speech recognition, voice assistants for labs, and a voice agent vibe-coded live with Vapi.
19 May 2026 · AI Security Night Amsterdam · Amsterdam
AI Security Night Amsterdam: Breaching LLM-Powered
Brian Vermeer from Snyk presented 'Breaching LLM-Powered Applications' at AI Security Night Amsterdam, covering prompt injection, data privacy, agentic AI.
13 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Day 2: OpenShift, Ansible, Agents
Notes from the Red Hat Summit 2026 day two keynote: OpenShift for AI and VMs, zero trust, agentic operations, Ansible governance and a live agent red team.
May 2026 · AgentOps in Production hands-on lab (Red Hat Summit 2026) · Atlanta
AgentOps in Production: Hands-On Lab at Red Hat Summit 2026
Inside the AgentOps lab at Red Hat Summit 2026. End-to-end agentic observability with Red Hat AI, with demos from Roberto Carratala and Taylor Smith.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Keynote: Metal to Agents and Tokens
Notes from the Red Hat Summit 2026 day one keynote: open models, token economics, the metal to agents stack and an NVIDIA conversation on agent governance.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Summit 2026 Floor Chats: RUGs, Coder, RISC-V
Short conversations from the Red Hat Summit 2026 expo floor: Red Hat User Groups, sovereign coding agents, OpenShift DRA, RISC-V, Nagios and open source AI.
12 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 Keynote: Eight Announcements That Matter
NASA, Fedora Hummingbird, Red Hat Desktop, Hardened Images, OpenShell, RHEL Long-Life Add-On, and the NVIDIA partnership from Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
AI-Powered RHEL Management with MCP Servers at Red Hat
Hands-on lab at Red Hat Summit 2026 — managing RHEL fleets with Model Context Protocol servers for Lightspeed and Satellite, presented by Nathan Kinder.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Building Digital Sovereign AI: Red Hat and MetaX at Red
Li Ming Tsai and Jiaju Zhang present China's sovereign AI stack at Red Hat Summit 2026 — MetaX GPUs, Qwen/DeepSeek powering 30% of global tokens.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Christian Gafner, Adfinis: Digital Sovereignty Meets OpenBao's Open Governance
Christian Gafner on digital sovereignty, OpenBao's TSC governance, and why Adfinis backs open source secrets management with a 24/7 enterprise SLA.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
GPUs Take Flight: Multi-Tenant Platform Engineering at
I presented safety-first multi-tenant GPU platform engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 Discovery Theater in Atlanta.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Hyve Managed Hosting: Sovereign Cloud and VMware-to-OpenShift Migration
Jack Ridgway of Hyve Managed Hosting on European sovereign cloud demand, VMware-to-OpenShift migration, and building agentic AI into managed hosting platforms.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Jessie Lacome on Lenovo's ThinkSystem SR675 V3 AI Server
Jessie Lacome walks through Lenovo's ThinkSystem SR675 V3, an AMD EPYC server for OpenShift Virtualization and AI headroom.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
NASA's Josiah Johnson on the Data Behind Artemis 2
NASA Marshall's Josiah Johnson on the 907 virtual workloads and 340,000 parameters that will help engineers make real-time calls during Artemis 2.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026: KV-Cache Aware Routing for vLLM
Red Hat presented llm-d at Summit 2026: cache-aware load balancing for vLLM. Cold 4.3s vs warm 0.6s (7x faster), $0.30 vs $3.00 per 1M tokens with caching.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Upgrading to OpenShift AI 3.x at Red Hat Summit 2026
RHOAI 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 release channels, support windows, supported configurations and a 5-step migration from OpenShift AI 2.x to 3.x.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
OpenShift Virtualization Storage at Red Hat Summit 2026
Storage decision trees, CSI driver testing, and PVC gotchas from the OpenShift Virtualization storage session at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Operationalizing OpenShift Virtualization at Red Hat
Hands-on workshop covering VM lifecycle, hardware optimization, resilience, and advanced live migration strategies on OpenShift Virtualization.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Pete Cheslock: From RAG to Roll-Your-Own Models in One Year
Pete Cheslock on the one-year enterprise AI leap from RAG pilots to self-hosted inference and model training on vLLM and llm-d at Red Hat Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Free Practical RHEL AI Book at Red Hat Summit 2026
I am giving away copies of my latest book Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. Meet me at the Lawn Lounge at 16:45 to grab your free copy.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Book Signing Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026
Signing copies of Practical RHEL AI at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta. From the Lawn Lounge to booths and hallways, here is how the book found its readers.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat NVIDIA AI Factory: OpenShift Sandboxed Containers
Inside the Red Hat and NVIDIA joint session at Summit 2026 — OpenShift sandboxed containers, confidential compute, and AI Factory workload projection.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta: Open Source Meets AI at
My experience at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta — from platinum sponsors to late-night labs, product spotlights, and Turkish Airlines scaling 60+ AI.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 Partner Day · Atlanta
Red Hat Desktop, Kaiden and Omdia Data at Summit 2026
Red Hat Desktop with Kaiden on Intel Core Ultra, plus Omdia partner-day data on agentic AI adoption and digital sovereignty, from Red Hat Summit 2026.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026: GPU Platform Engineering Talk
Luca Berton presents 'GPUs take flight: Safety-first multi-tenant Platform Engineering with NVIDIA and Red Hat OpenShift AI' — a lightning talk at Red Hat.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Training Hub: Unified LLM Fine-Tuning at Summit 2026
Red Hat AI Innovation Team unveiled Training Hub at Red Hat Summit 2026 — a unified Python API for SFT, LoRA, OSFT, and GRPO fine-tuning with MLFlow.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
llm-d Maintainer Sally O'Malley on Enterprise AI Inference
llm-d maintainer Sally O'Malley on vendor-neutral, Kubernetes-native distributed inference and what enterprise AI adoption looks like from inside the project.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Scott McBrien on the RHEL Roadmap: 10.2, Zero-CVE Images, and DNF5
Scott McBrien, Red Hat, on RHEL 10.2, Fedora Hummingbird zero-CVE images, the Long-Life Add-On's flexible lifecycle, and why DNF5 waits for RHEL 11 in 2028.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Shuchi Sharma on Open Source AI's World of Infinite Possibilities
Shuchi Sharma on leading Red Hat's Open Source and AI Program Office, operationalizing open source AI at enterprise scale, and a new foundation in the works.
8 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
DevWorld 2026 Day 2: Building Got Easier, Growth Harder
Notes from DevWorld 2026 day two in Amsterdam: a GitBook CEO fireside and a startup talk on why AI is not enough to create a company, with real numbers.
7 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
Checkmarx at DevWorld 2026: AI Is Not Enough for AppSec
Checkmarx presented a compelling case at DevWorld Conference 2026: AI-only security scanning creates noise, not safety. The hybrid approach combining.
7 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
Agentic Commerce at DevWorld 2026: UCP and Agent Demo
DevWorld 2026, Amsterdam: Stripe's session on building a checkout agent, the agent loop, commerce tools, shared payment tokens and the UCP.
7 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
DevWorld 2026: The Next Generation of AI Is Powered by
A DevWorld 2026 keynote argued that the next generation of AI depends on infrastructure, not models — six pillars from latency to 100K req/s scale.
7 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
DevWorld Conference 2026: Stripe's Machine Payment
Key takeaways from DevWorld Conference 2026 featuring Stripe's Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) for AI agent commerce and Tailscale's vision of an AI.
7 May 2026 · MLOps Community Amsterdam: agent memory evening · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam: Agent Memory and Chunking
MLOps Community Amsterdam, 7 May 2026: Qdrant on token cost and chunking, Nextcloud memory with verify-on-read, and LangWatch on agent evals.
6 May 2026 · GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam · Amsterdam
GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam: Agentic SDLC and the
Recap of GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam at TrueFullstaq — live demos of Agentic SDLC, AI-assisted code reviews, incident triage, and the big question.
4 May 2026 · Inko meetup · Amsterdam
Inko: The Rust-Compiled Language with Erlang-Style
Inko is a new programming language that compiles to native code via Rust's LLVM backend. It combines single-ownership memory management with Erlang-style.
4 May 2026 · RustNL Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Pixi: Building a Package Manager in Rust at RustNL Meetup
Live coverage of Tim de Jager and Bas Zalmstra from prefix.dev presenting Pixi — a fast, cross-platform package manager built in Rust on the conda.
May 2026 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck Demo Night · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam x MotherDuck Demo Night
Live demos of conversational BI with DuckDB WASM, proactive AI coaching agents, and event-driven orchestration at NIO House Amsterdam.
30 Apr 2026 · Amsterdam Java User Group evening (Project Valhalla) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG: Project Valhalla and Java's Pain Points
Amsterdam JUG, 30 April 2026: a talk on Project Valhalla's JEPs, Java's checked-exception pain in streams, and a career talk on reputation.
23 Apr 2026 · A Real Founder Story: Manage your Ego, before it Manages your Company · Amsterdam
Zeal Partners Founder Story: Manage Your Ego
Notes from a founder-story evening in Amsterdam with Anthony Meijer zu Schlochtern of ZEAL Partners: the Brains, Power and Social model of founder ego.
22 Apr 2026 · Platform Engineering Meetup NL (inaugural) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Meetup NL: Multi-Tenant
I am presenting 'Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI' at the first Platform Engineering Meetup NL in Amsterdam.
15 Apr 2026 · Huawei Benelux & Ireland Partner Summit 2026 · Lake Como
Huawei Partner Summit 2026 at Lake Como: Recap
Huawei's Benelux & Ireland Partner Summit 2026 at Lake Como: the 2026 Key Strategy keynote, eKit for SMEs, partner programmes and the 2026 event calendar.
15 Apr 2026 · Huawei Benelux & Ireland Partner Summit 2026 · Lake Como
Huawei Storage Storm Shield: OceanStor Dorado
Huawei launches the Storm Shield Program with all-flash OceanStor Dorado and OceanProtect backup appliance — 4-6 week delivery, 72:1 data reduction.
15 Apr 2026 · Huawei Benelux & Ireland Partner Summit 2026 · Lake Como
Huawei Wi-Fi 7 AirEngine: Pay for Wi-Fi 7, Get Wi-Fi 8
Huawei launches pre Wi-Fi 8 AirEngine access points with Wi-Fi 7 pricing — AirEngine 8776, 6776, spycam-detecting, IP68, MACsec, and Passive Ethernet Network.
15 Apr 2026 · Huawei Benelux & Ireland Partner Summit 2026 · Lake Como
Reijer van Wegen at Huawei Summit 2026: ICT
A conversation with Reijer van Wegen, CEO of Veldwerk, at Huawei Summit 2026 on digital transformation, AI adoption, and ICT for hospitality and transport.
9 Apr 2026 · From Models to Machines: AI, World Models, and the Next Generation of Robotics · Amsterdam
AI House Amsterdam: Models, Machines, and Robotics
Recap of the Models to Machines robotics event at AI House Amsterdam. 331 attendees, ADRA president on EU robotics strategy, Manus data gloves, General.
1 Apr 2026 · European Playbook: Scaling European Tech Leaders (VivaTech Tour Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
European Playbook: Scaling Tech Leaders at AI
Insights from the European Playbook event at AI House Amsterdam. Miro's Andrey Khusid, Prosus strategy, Qonto growth, and Upway expansion — why Europe.
April 2026 · OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam
Recap of the OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam. Company pitches from Picnic, Kilo Code, Azin, Orq.ai, and Google. Full-day hacking, demo prep.
26 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Guido Laout (OVHcloud) at KubeCon EU 2026: Sovereignty
OVHcloud's Guido Laout on why European digital sovereignty keeps heating up, managed services and Kubernetes, and exit plans, at KubeCon EU 2026.
26 Mar 2026 · Building Autonomous Systems KubeCon Meetup + AfterParty · Amsterdam
Building Autonomous Systems: KubeCon Meetup
Recap of the Building Autonomous Systems meetup during KubeCon EU 2026 week. LangChain sandboxed agents, Qodo hidden failure modes, SurrealDB knowledge.
25 Mar 2026 · Advancing Platform Engineering on AI, K8s, and the Product Mindset · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering, AI, and K8s: KubeCon Amsterdam Meetup
Recap of the Advancing Platform Engineering meetup in Amsterdam during KubeCon EU 2026, covering AI-ready platforms, Kubernetes, and product mindset.
24 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Speaking at KubeCon Europe 2026
Luca Berton presents 'Lessons Learned Orchestrating Multi-Tenant GPUs on OpenShift AI with NVIDIA KAI' at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in London.
24 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Paulo Menon at KubeCon EU 2026: GenAI and Kubernetes
Reconnected with former colleague Paulo Menon at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. We talked about AI, MLOps, GitOps and DevOps converging, plus a book tip.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026: Dutch Kubernetes Podcast and Community
Connected with the team behind De Nederlandse Kubernetes Podcast and Nate Waddington from CNCF at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. The ecosystem is built.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Keynotes and Sessions: On the Slides
What was on the slides at KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: Saxo's service blueprint, SNCF on-prem autonomy, Red Hat sovereign AI and Tekton CI.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Events · Amsterdam
KubeCon EU 2026 Co-located Day: Talks and Slides
The talks I sat in on at KubeCon Europe 2026's co-located day: golden paths, zero-day prep, backend-first IDPs, OpenTelemetry and a $10,000 Argo CD mistake.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
People of KubeCon Europe 2026: Hallway Interviews
Fifteen short hallway interviews from KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: contributors, a co-chair, observability vendors and a cluster in a cat carrier.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
KubeCon Europe 2026 Recap: My Week in Photos
KubeCon Europe 2026 in photos: co-located days, two Kubernetes Recipes book signings, my multi-tenant GPU talk on OpenShift AI, and the keynote hall.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 book signings (Signal Overflow and vCluster booth) · Amsterdam
Kubernetes Recipes Book Signing at KubeCon Europe 2026
Meet Luca Berton at two Kubernetes Recipes book signing events during KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam. Get your signed copy at the Apress and Packt booths.
23 Mar 2026 · OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 in Photos
OpenShift Commons Gathering Amsterdam 2026 at Strandzuid: AI security survey numbers, LLMs in public health, etcd tuning and a Siemens road trip, in photos.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Rootly at KubeCon EU 2026: AI SRE Agents That Go On-Call
Met JJ Tang, co-founder and CEO of Rootly, at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. AI SRE platform that triages incidents automatically, only paging humans when.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 Amsterdam: MC Experience
Co-hosting Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 with Julia Hahn — 300+ engineers, deep technical talks, and the best B-side conference before KubeCon.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Master of Ceremonies at Cloud Native Rejekts 2026
What it takes to MC Cloud Native Rejekts — the 300-person unconference that sets the tone for KubeCon week in Amsterdam.
21 Mar 2026 · Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2026 · Amsterdam
Steve Wade (Platform Fix) at Rejekts 2026: Fewer Tools
Two hallway interviews from Cloud Native Rejekts 2026 at Miro HQ: Steve Wade on deleting platform complexity, and Rodrigo on Miro's compute platform.
19 Mar 2026 · Amsterdam Java User Group meetup at IKEA · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG at IKEA: Virtual Threads, ECC and Testing
Amsterdam JUG at IKEA, March 2026: Java virtual threads, elliptic curve signatures and JWS, and a system test suite for deploying on a Friday.
18 Mar 2026 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam: Human Intelligence · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering MeetUp Amsterdam: Human
Recap of Platform Engineering Amsterdam meetup at Tolhuistuin — agentic dev, inner sourcing IDPs, and cloud migration war stories.
17 Mar 2026 · When AI Agents Hold Wallets: Building the New Transaction Layer · Amsterdam
AI Agents Holding Wallets at AI House Amsterdam
Takeaways from the AI House Amsterdam event on agentic commerce. What happens when AI agents can not only recommend but also transact.
13 Mar 2026 · Superteam NL Launch Event · Amsterdam
Superteam NL Launch on the Solana Boat
Joining the Superteam NL launch event on the Solana boat in Amsterdam. Builders, operators, and crypto-native talent coming together.
11 Mar 2026 · The Future of Product #3 · Amsterdam
The Future of Product #3: AI Product Meetup Amsterdam
The Future of Product #3 in Amsterdam: Miro on everyone as a builder, miyagami's AI product lifecycle and Orq.ai's single vs multi-agent eval results.
10 Mar 2026 · AICamp AI Meetup Amsterdam (A2A Protocol and Deep Search) · Amsterdam
AICamp Amsterdam: A2A Protocol and Deep Search
Moderating the AICamp AI meetup in Amsterdam at ML6. Talks on Google A2A Protocol and Deep Search AI Agents solving the Olof Palme murder case.
6 Mar 2026 · OpenClaw Demo + Hackathon Amsterdam · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Demo + Hackathon Amsterdam, March 2026
My live OpenClaw demo in Amsterdam, from a Discord message to a git push and CI deploy, plus agent hosting, a multi-agent workspace and an apartment hunter.
25 Feb 2026 · Becoming a 10x Engineer in the Age of AI Devtools (LangWatch x AI Foundry) · Amsterdam
Becoming a 10x Engineer: AI Devtools Meetup Amsterdam
LangWatch and AI Foundry's 10x engineer evening in Amsterdam: Claude Code workflows, OpenClaw goodies, a real AI stack and a feedback-loop takeaway.
24 Feb 2026 · An Evening with Cursor: Advanced Workflows · Amsterdam
Nick Miller (Cursor) at AI House: Advanced Workflows
Nick Miller of Cursor at AI House Amsterdam on dynamic context discovery, long-running cloud agents, hooks, debug mode, skills, subagents and plugins.
19 Feb 2026 · Claude Code Meetup Amsterdam (2nd edition) · Amsterdam
Claude Code Meetup Amsterdam 2026: Hooks, Skills, Agents
The second Claude Code meetup in Amsterdam: a policy server behind Claude Code hooks, e-commerce skills for Shopify and SFCC, and Claude Code turning one.
17 Feb 2026 · SRE NL: What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You · Amsterdam
SRE NL at Elastic: OpenTelemetry and Your Brain's Biases
SRE NL's 'What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You' at Elastic Amsterdam: an OpenTelemetry demo, then the cognitive biases behind bad incidents.
12 Feb 2026 · OpenClaw Builders Community | AMS · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Builders Community at AI House Amsterdam
OpenClaw builders at AI House Amsterdam: a Copilot-to-Autopilot panel, demos on cloud apps, WhatsApp secrets and agent memory, and a Clawdbot + OTEL PR.
11 Feb 2026 · Xebia meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
kro and Config Connector at a Xebia Meetup in Amsterdam
Notes from a February 2026 evening at Xebia in Amsterdam: kro ResourceGraphDefinitions over Config Connector, then an infrastructure self-service agent.
5 Feb 2026 · Agentic AI: From Code to Commerce · Amsterdam
Agentic AI: From Code to Commerce at AI House Amsterdam
Agentic AI: From Code to Commerce at AI House Amsterdam: Claude Cowork and plugins, a Cursor demo, JET's voice assistant, ElevenLabs and a commerce panel.
4 Feb 2026 · AI in Robotics Meetup (AI on the Amstel) · Amsterdam
AI in Robotics Meetup Amsterdam
Attending the largest AI on the Amstel meetup on AI in robotics. Panelists from Monumental, Picnic, and TU Delft on moving from demos to scalable systems.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2026: The Devroom Talks I Saw
Seven FOSDEM 2026 talks from the ULB campus: Fedora on RISC-V, ClickHouse, open source funding, FreeSewing, Linux power saving and pre-silicon upstreaming.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
People of FOSDEM 2026: Hallway Interviews
Short hallway interviews from FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels: EU funding, the CRA, Weblate, Percona, PostgreSQL, FreeIPA, Foreman, Ansible and RISC-V hardware.
31 Jan 2026 · FOSDEM 2026 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2026: Open Source, RISC-V & Community Energy in...
Luca Berton's experience at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels — connecting with DeepComputing, RISC-V International Foundation, and 8,000+ open source minds.
31 Jan 2026 · Udienza 2026 conference coverage (FOSDEM, KubeCon EU/Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon, OSS Europe)
Where Udienza Films: Conferences and Media Partnerships
Where Udienza filmed in 2026: FOSDEM, KubeCon Europe and Japan, AGNTCon + MCPCon and Open Source Summit Europe, and what a media partnership means.
29 Jan 2026 · MLOps Community Amsterdam: AI Strategy & Sovereignty Special · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam: AI Sovereignty and GPT-NL
The MLOps Community Amsterdam sovereignty special at UvA: a policy panel on Europe's compute gap and TNO's talk on training GPT-NL, a Dutch LLM, from scratch.
28 Jan 2026 · Build Meetup Amsterdam (Uber x EngFlow) · Amsterdam
Build Meetup Amsterdam 2026: Bazel, Buildbarn, Bonanza
My recap of the Uber x EngFlow Build Meetup in Amsterdam: Python versions in a Bazel monorepo, Bonanza from the Buildbarn creator, Maven and designers.
19 Jan 2026 · Forecasting the 2026 AI Agent Economy · Amsterdam
Forecasting the 2026 AI Agent Economy at Zoku Amsterdam
Four Amsterdam AI founders on agents in 2026: an executive pattern library, PMs owning the LLM lifecycle, the death of the prompt box and agent fleets.
15 Jan 2026 · AI Native Netherlands: Applied AI: Navigating Legacy Systems and Building Agentic Workflows · Amsterdam
AI Native Netherlands at Elastic: Agents, MCP, Workflows
AI Native Netherlands at Elastic Amsterdam: ANWB on forecasting roadside assistance demand, then Elastic on moving from RAG to agents, MCP and workflows.
13 Jan 2026 · Amsterdam tech meetups, January 2026 (roundup) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam Tech Meetups, January 2026: A Roundup
Five January 2026 evenings: a YC founder panel at Miro, Polarsteps product principles, BitBash Jurassic Edition, a Xebia book launch and a pitch night.

2025

12 Dec 2025 · Microsoft Power Platform community meetup · Amsterdam
Patrick Debois on Coding with AI Agents at Power Platform
Notes from Patrick Debois's talk at a Microsoft Power Platform meetup on 12 December 2025: reviewing, specs, prototypes, knowledge and the manager role.
9 Dec 2025 · The Future of Development Tools: Demo Day · Amsterdam
JetBrains Demo Day 2025: The Future of Dev Tools
JetBrains and Dutch Basecamp's Demo Day in Amsterdam, December 2025: a keynote on human connection, then startup pitches from SAAScade, CodeBoarding and onky.
3 Dec 2025 · n8n Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
n8n Amsterdam: Eight Agents on TV and Guardrails
Notes from the n8n meetup in Amsterdam on 3 December 2025: a multi-agent marketing workflow shown on Dutch TV, and a Hack my Chat demo of the Guardrails node.
2 Dec 2025 · AI House Amsterdam coding assistants series: Google session (Gemini CLI and Antigravity) · Amsterdam
AI House Amsterdam: Google on Vibe Coding with Gemini CLI
Notes from the Google coding-assistants session at AI House Amsterdam on 2 December 2025: Gemini CLI, GEMINI.md, checkpoints, Antigravity and a code migration.
27 Nov 2025 · GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam · Amsterdam
GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025 at the Heineken Experience
GitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025: security and compliance facts, Booking.com's SaaS migration, AWS on agentic coding and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
26 Nov 2025 · TiDB, AWS and Bolt Meetup (plus 4 Dec database night) · Amsterdam
TiDB, AWS and Bolt Meetup Amsterdam 2025
Two Amsterdam database evenings, late 2025: TiDB vector and full-text search, Bolt on the TiKV in-memory engine, and a tour of dirty writes, MVCC, 2PL and SSI.
19 Nov 2025 · HOPE 2025 (HCS Open Platform Experience) and Agents in Production (MLOps x Prosus) · Amsterdam
Agents in Production at AI House and HOPE 2025
One day in Amsterdam: a platform maturity model at HCS company's HOPE 2025, then Just Eat Takeaway's CTO on cultural lag at Agents in Production, AI House.
18 Nov 2025 · Azure Heroes Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Azure Heroes Amsterdam: Testing, Chaos and AI Safety
Notes from the Azure Heroes meetup in Amsterdam: Playwright, load testing, Chaos Studio, PSRule, red teaming, GitHub Models and Prompt Shields.
13 Nov 2025 · MongoDB Day Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
MongoDB Day Amsterdam 2025 and the AI House Opening
MongoDB Day Amsterdam 2025: Helvetia on Atlas, relational to document modelling, JSONB vs MongoDB, agent labs. Then the official AI House Amsterdam opening.
11 Nov 2025 · Friends of OpenJDK at Uber (Amsterdam Java User Group) · Amsterdam
Friends of OpenJDK at Uber: Upgrades and Supply Chain
Notes from the Friends of OpenJDK meetup at Uber Amsterdam, 11 November 2025: JVM monorepo upgrades with OpenRewrite and a live supply chain attack demo.
7 Nov 2025 · SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4 · Amsterdam
SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStack
Notes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
6 Nov 2025 · Apidays Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
Apidays Amsterdam 2025: MCP, API Security, Terraform
Notes from Apidays Amsterdam on 6 November 2025: a MuleSoft founder fireside, an MCP lifecycle workshop, API security talks and AWS serverless with Terraform.
4 Nov 2025 · Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO (evening) and Arch9 by Levi9 (day) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO: JMH and Microbenchmarks
Pet projects, ABN AMRO's open source secret scanner RESC, and François Martin proving which HTML unescape library is fastest with JMH. Plus Arch9 by day.
3 Nov 2025 · No-Code and AI Builders Evening (Create With community) · Amsterdam
No-Code and AI Builders Evening in Amsterdam: Notes
Notes from a no-code and AI builders evening at StartDock Amsterdam on 3 November 2025: the Excel-users argument and a marketing automation founder's playbook.
30 Oct 2025 · ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future · Amsterdam
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future Recap
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025 at the Beurs van Berlage: the agenda, AWS and Google Cloud sessions, TVH's observability road, and A-CORN filtered vector search.
30 Oct 2025 · SRE NL meetup (Learning from Incidents) · Amsterdam
SRE NL Amsterdam 2025: Learning from Incidents
SRE NL at Datadog Amsterdam, October 2025: Busra Koken on why people, not systems, learn from incidents, then SRE culture and why engineers skip postmortems.
28 Oct 2025 · ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam · Amsterdam
ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: Picnic and Langfuse
ClickHouse Open House Amsterdam 2025: the 30 PB keynote, lightweight updates, ClickStack, Picnic's Grafana row policies and Langfuse's move off Postgres.
23 Oct 2025 · Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community Group meetups (23 Oct and 15 Dec 2025) · Amsterdam
Dutch Cloud Native & AI: Spegel and Dash0 Meetups 2025
Philip Laine on Spegel, the stateless P2P image mirror, then Dash0's December meetup: Kasper Borg Nissen on OpenTelemetry and a Rust Kafka alternative.
16 Oct 2025 · TalosCon 2025 · Amsterdam
TalosCon 2025 Amsterdam: Talos, KubeVirt and Dairy Farms
TalosCon 2025 in Amsterdam, from the slides: Talos and Omni updates, a Roche edge registry cache, KubeVirt VM migration and Cloud Native Dairy Farming.
15 Oct 2025 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2025: AI and Sovereignty
Notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 in the Netherlands: Dutch AI priorities, open source sovereignty, vLLM and llm-d, Intel TDX and supply chain security.
14 Oct 2025 · AI meetup at ING Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Writing a Book with AI: Pini Reznik at ING Amsterdam
Pini Reznik on hacking the authoring process with AI at an ING meetup in Amsterdam: 17 prompts, patterns, and the hallucination nightmare, from an author.
10 Oct 2025 · FikaWorks Day 2025 · Amsterdam
FikaWorks Day 2025: Writing Technical Books That Sell...
Luca Berton shares his journey from engineer to six-time published author at FikaWorks Day 2025—learn how to write, pitch, and scale your impact through.
8 Oct 2025 · World Summit AI 2025 · Amsterdam
World Summit AI 2025 Amsterdam: Data Centres and Agents
World Summit AI 2025 at Taets, Amsterdam: Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, $3–8T data-centre capex, Groq on sovereign AI, quantum-safe crypto and agents.
29 Sept 2025 · Dutch Cloud Native Community Group meetup at ASML · Veldhoven
Dutch Cloud Native at ASML: Kubewarden, Argo CD, GitOps
ASML's Kubewarden guardrails across 26 Rancher clusters, Octopus Deploy on scaling Argo CD, then the 2025 State of GitOps report over breakfast.
25 Sept 2025 · Datadog User Group Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Datadog User Group Amsterdam 2025: Spec-Driven Development
Datadog User Group Amsterdam, September 2025: Brent McLean on platforms you inherit, then Gunnar Grosch of AWS on moving from vibe coding to specs in Kiro.
25 Sept 2025 · TechEx Europe 2025 · Amsterdam
TechEx Europe 2025: Eight Booth Interviews in Amsterdam
Eight short booth interviews from TechEx Europe 2025: Cloudflare, Redamp.io, AIminify, Ververica, Snowflake and AAEON on AI, streaming and the edge.
24 Sept 2025 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam 2025: Kafka in Grafana
Grafana & Friends Amsterdam, 24 September 2025: community plugins, plugin signature levels and a live demo of the Kafka data source plugin in Grafana Explore.
23 Sept 2025 · EDGECASE 2025: The Multiverse Saga · Amersfoort
EDGECASE 2025 Amersfoort: Talk, Booths and Interviews
EDGECASE 2025 in Amersfoort: Justin Garrison's Disney+ story and booth interviews with Chainguard, Dell, Veeam, Sysdig, Sidero, HCS and TrueFullstaq.
19 Sept 2025 · AI4Devs Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
AI4Devs 2025 Amsterdam: Spring AI, Iceberg and Strands
AI4Devs Amsterdam, September 2025: Josh Long built a RAG assistant with Spring AI, Pratik Patel queried Iceberg with LLMs, then Koog and Strands Agents.
17 Sept 2025 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam (September and November 2025) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetups, Autumn 2025
Two Platform Engineering Amsterdam evenings in 2025: maturity data, OWASP LLM pen tests, fintech resilience, event sourcing, S3 savings and KubeDNA.
12 Sept 2025 · IBC 2025 · Amsterdam
IBC 2025 Amsterdam: S3 Vectors, AI QoE and ST 2110
IBC 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: an AWS media-search demo on S3 Vectors and OpenSearch, AI for QoS and QoE, private 5G, ST 2110 cards and creator cameras.
10 Sept 2025 · Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025 (roundup) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025: A Roundup
Twelve smaller Amsterdam tech events from autumn 2025: LangChain, ClimateHack, AI House coding sessions, Apidays, SREday, OpenJDK and sustainable UX.
10 Sept 2025 · Cybersec Netherlands 2025 · Utrecht
Cybersec Netherlands 2025: CYRA and the Regulatory Wave
Cybersec Netherlands and Data Expo 2025 at Jaarbeurs Utrecht: FME's regulatory wave, the CCV's CYRA growth model for IT and OT, DIVD and the expo floor.
28 Aug 2025 · AI_dev Europe 2025: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit · Amsterdam
AI_dev Europe 2025 Amsterdam: CERN, Cerebras and LanceDB
AI_dev Europe 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: CERN's MLOps platform, five Cerebras inference lessons, LanceDB's multimodal lakehouse and Neo4j graph agents.
25 Aug 2025 · Open Source Summit Europe 2025 · Amsterdam
Open Source Summit Europe 2025 Amsterdam: Recap
Three days at Open Source Summit Europe and ELC 2025 in Amsterdam: agentgateway, DocumentDB, COSSA, RISC-V interviews, Zephyr testing and NIS2 vs CRA.
7 Aug 2025 · World RISC-V Days Hanoi 2025 · Hanoi
RISC-V World Days Hanoi 2025: Five Talks in Photos
World RISC-V Days at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, 7 August 2025: DeepComputing, VNU-ITI, ExpressVPN and open hardware, in slide photos.
23 Jul 2025 · AI on the Amstel (July 2025, hosted by Prosus) · Amsterdam
AI on the Amstel July 2025: Prosus Panel
AI on the Amstel, 23 July 2025, hosted by Prosus: a panel on DeepSeek and on what AI will look like in July 2028, as shown on the slides.
14 Jul 2025 · Data Agent Builders Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
LlamaIndex Data Agent Builders Meetup, Amsterdam 2025
LlamaIndex's Data Agent Builders meetup in Amsterdam, 14 July 2025: GUI-agent datasets, what makes an agent, MCP tools and an agentic OCR pipeline.
9 Jul 2025 · MLOps Community AI Agent World Tour Amsterdam · Amsterdam
MLOps Community Amsterdam, July 2025: Agents in Production
AI Agent World Tour Amsterdam, 9 July 2025: Lumina, an agent control tower, secure agent-to-agent protocols and JetBrains Koog, plus the panel on agents.
8 Jul 2025 · Netherlands dbt Meetup (8 July 2025) and Amsterdam JUG (22 July 2025) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam Meetups, Summer 2025: Java JUG and dbt
Talk notes from two July 2025 Amsterdam evenings: dbt Projects on Snowflake and dbt Fusion, then Java warm-up with Leyden and CRaC, and the Miro monolith.
3 Jul 2025 · Dutch Cloud Native Day 2025 · Utrecht
Dutch Cloud Native Day 2025 – Field Notes from Utrecht
A one-day deep-dive into the Benelux cloud-native scene covering Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and platform engineering best practices.
1 Jul 2025 · Kubernetes for Developers: Security! (CodeLab workshop) · Amsterdam
Kubernetes Security Codelab at ING Amsterdam, July 2025
Hands-on Kubernetes security workshop for Java developers at ING Amsterdam: a hacked container, security context, read-only filesystems, secrets.
19 Jun 2025 · TNW Conference 2025 · Amsterdam
TNW Conference Amsterdam 2025: AI, Startups, and Deep Tech
TNW Conference 2025 Amsterdam recap. Highlights from two days of AI demos, startup pitches, and deep tech talks at the NDSM wharf. Photos and key takeaways.
18 Jun 2025 · DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025: OpenTelemetry and OpenSSF
DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025 in photos: an OpenTelemetry adoption story, OpenSSF supply chain practices, trust-driven teams, and Identity Week Europe.
5 Jun 2025 · AI Salon Amsterdam (8th edition) · Amsterdam
AI Salon Amsterdam June 2025: AI Factories and Pitches
AI Salon Amsterdam, 5 June 2025 at The Flow: Nebius on the US-EU AI funding gap, supercomputers versus AI factories, and a round of one-minute demo pitches.
4 Jun 2025 · Platform Engineering MeetUp & BBQ · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering BBQ Amsterdam 2025: Observability
Platform Engineering Amsterdam's summer meetup and BBQ, June 2025: SUSE on observability from ice age to AI, and a fintech platform startup story.
4 Jun 2025 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025 · Bunnik
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2025: ACM, InstructLab
Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands, 4 June 2025: ACM Global Hub, Vault on OpenShift, AI on Azure Red Hat OpenShift, image mode for RHEL and InstructLab.
2 Jun 2025 · Security in AI: an afternoon with Sarah Young (Global AI Utrecht) · Utrecht
Sarah Young on AI Security: Global AI Utrecht 2025
Sarah Young of Microsoft at Global AI Utrecht, June 2025: threat stats, keyless auth, layered controls, data oversharing, MCP security and a short interview.
27 May 2025 · AI Native Netherlands meetup #1 · Amsterdam
re:cinq AI Native Meetup 2025: MCP Security Wild West
First AI Native Netherlands meetup, May 2025: re:cinq on AI-native platforms, plus a Wild West tour of MCP risks, protocol competition, privacy and regulation.
22 May 2025 · Databricks Fundamentals Bootcamp · Amsterdam
Databricks Fundamentals Bootcamp with RevoData 2025
A day at the Databricks Fundamentals Bootcamp with RevoData in Amsterdam: lakehouse, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, Genie and Spark real-time mode.
22 May 2025 · Unlock the Power of FinOps (Tergos meetup) · Amsterdam
Tergos FinOps Meetup Amsterdam 2025: Cloud Cost Tips
Tergos 'Unlock the Power of FinOps', Amsterdam Zuidas, May 2025: engineers as procurement, usage and rate optimisation, and Azure cost management.
20 May 2025 · To MCP or not to MCP (Treblle / Push to Main Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
Treblle MCP Meetup Amsterdam 2025: To MCP or Not
Treblle's 'To MCP or not to MCP' meetup at ML6 Amsterdam: ClickHouse on MCP in production, Cloudflare on remote servers, ML6 on Agent2Agent.
19 May 2025 · DevOops #8 (with Amsterdam.dev) · Amsterdam
DevOops x Amsterdam.dev 2025: OSPOs and Code Chat
DevOops x Amsterdam.dev at Datadog Amsterdam, May 2025: developer experience through OSPOs and InnerSource, then code chat with Candle and Tree-sitter.
15 May 2025 · AWS Modernization Roadshow (EMEA) · Amsterdam
AWS Modernization Roadshow Amsterdam: .NET and VMware
Notes from the AWS Modernization Roadshow in Amsterdam with partner kloia: migration patterns, Amazon Q Developer for .NET and VMware, and database advice.
13 May 2025 · AWS Activation Day: Container Security on Amazon EKS
AWS EKS Security Activation Day: Cilium and OSSM Labs
Notes from an AWS Activation Day in the Netherlands: EKS container security, Cilium zero-trust labs on the agenda and an SLTN talk on OpenShift Service Mesh 3.
24 Apr 2025 · Celebrating 10 years of K8s · Amsterdam
KubeHound and 10 Years of K8s at Datadog Amsterdam
Notes from the Kubernetes 10 years meetup at the Datadog office in Amsterdam (24 April 2025): KubeHound attack graphs, an observability talk and SRE.
23 Apr 2025 · Amsterdam.dev meetup (Airflow vs Dagster, Overstory) · Amsterdam
Airflow vs Dagster at Amsterdam.dev, April 2025
Amsterdam.dev meetup at Vandebron, 23 April 2025: an Airflow vs Dagster talk, a Jenkins-to-orchestrator history and Overstory's wildfire-prevention platform.
10 Apr 2025 · KubeCon EU Recap and special guests from Nutanix and AWS (Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community Group) · Hoofddorp
Dutch Cloud Native Recap: Nutanix NKP and AWS Triton
Dutch Cloud Native & AI meetup, Hoofddorp, 10 April 2025: air-gapped Kubernetes bootstrapping with Nutanix NKP, then Triton on EKS with Karpenter from AWS.
3 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
Kubernetes at Scale: LinkedIn and New Relic, KubeCon 2025
Two Kubernetes at scale talks from KubeCon London 2025: LinkedIn's bare-metal platform with ~5k-node clusters and New Relic's cell-based multi-cloud design.
3 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
Benchmarking GPU Workloads on Kubernetes with Triton
A KubeCon London 2025 talk on benchmarking AI and GPU workloads in Kubernetes: Triton, GenAI-Perf, fmperf and a time-slicing versus MPS comparison.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025 Interviews: OpenShift to KitOps
Twelve short interviews from the ExCeL London floor: OpenShift Virtualization, Trilio, vCluster, Cloudsmith, Coder, Kubeflow, KitOps, Qodo and the CNCF.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025: Kernel Lockup and Safety Rules
Day two of KubeCon London 2025: keynote slides on CNCF at ten years, and a Fastly talk with a kernel lockup postmortem and five production safety rules.
1 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025: DRA GPU Sharing and CERN Kubeflow
From the AI co-located day at KubeCon London 2025: NVIDIA DRA driver examples for GPU sharing and MIG, and how CERN runs ML challenges on Kubeflow.
1 Apr 2025 · Platform Engineering Day Europe 2025 · London
Platform Engineering Day London 2025: Abstraction Debt
Platform Engineering Day Europe at KubeCon London, 1 April 2025: a platform-hero quiz and a talk on abstraction debt, escape hatches and policy guardrails.
1 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon Europe 2025: Highlights with Luca Berton
Join Luca Berton as he takes you inside KubeCon Europe 2025 — from the Kube Train to the keynotes, automation, and AI talks!
27 Mar 2025 · OpenTelemetry with Elastic · Amsterdam
OpenTelemetry with Elastic Meetup, Amsterdam 2025
Notes from Elastic's OpenTelemetry meetup in Amsterdam: EDOT, the OTel Operator and Kibana demo, Collibra's collector pipeline and a Kafka log design.
26 Mar 2025 · DevSecCon community meetup at Mollie · Amsterdam
Responsible AI and Anyshift at a Mollie Meetup, Amsterdam
Slide notes from a March 2025 meetup at Mollie in Amsterdam: security risks of coding copilots and Responsible AI, then Anyshift on GenAI for infrastructure.
20 Mar 2025 · Cloud Optimization 2025 · Amsterdam
ABN AMRO's FinOps Journey at Xebia Cloud Optimization 2025
Notes from Xebia's Cloud Optimization 2025 evening in Amsterdam: ABN AMRO's six-year FinOps timeline, a maturity assessment, Wehkamp's cost bot and wiv.ai.
20 Mar 2025 · Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht · Utrecht
Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht 2025: Agents and Foundry
Notes from the Microsoft AI Tour in Utrecht, 20 March 2025: the keynote's agent demo, Copilot and Foundry claims, and an afternoon AI-apps session.
13 Mar 2025 · Neo4j GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
Neo4j GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025: GraphRAG and Vectors
GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025 at A'DAM Tower: Neo4j's GenAI timeline, GraphRAG, vector search, 50+ graph algorithms and hands-on notebooks, in photos.
13 Mar 2025 · Neo4j GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025 · Amsterdam
Stephen Chin (Neo4j) at GraphSummit Amsterdam: GraphRAG
My GraphSummit Amsterdam 2025 interview with Neo4j's Stephen Chin: grounding LLMs with knowledge graphs, graphs as agent memory, and GraphAcademy.
11 Mar 2025 · Data Union Amsterdam: MLOps in Practice · Amsterdam
MLOps in Practice: Data Union Amsterdam Panel 2025
Data Union Amsterdam's MLOps panel: Adyen, Picnic, Ahold Delhaize and Schiphol on MLOps teams, platform blueprints and the Schiphol AI techstack.
27 Feb 2025 · DevWorld Conference 2025 · Amsterdam
DevWorld Conference 2025 Amsterdam: A Throwback
A throwback to DevWorld 2025 at RAI Amsterdam: modelling side effects as effects, Event Sourcing vs Transaction Script, the AI track and the evening.
26 Feb 2025 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam February Edition · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam February 2025: Demo Night
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam, February 2025: LLM evaluation with orq.ai, DeepSeek-R1 on Featherless.ai, Airweave's open-source sync engine, all as live demos.
25 Feb 2025 · Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup · Amsterdam
Cloudflare Founders & Developers Meetup Amsterdam 2025
Cloudflare's February 2025 meetup in Amsterdam: Workers resources, why software is 1000x slower than hardware, and the case for lean engineering.
13 Feb 2025 · PostgreSQL User Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
PostgreSQL Meetup Amsterdam 2025: Mastodon, CNPG, Indexes
Three PostgreSQL talks in Amsterdam: scaling mastodon.world with Sidekiq and PgBouncer, CloudNativePG at the Dutch police, and partial and hash indexes.
12 Feb 2025 · Platform Engineering Amsterdam (February 2025) · Amsterdam
Platform Engineering Amsterdam Meetup, February 2025
Platform Engineering Amsterdam, February 2025: Kyverno and VPA for cost optimisation, building a platform team, and a talk from free kicks to git commits.
3 Feb 2025 · Config Management Camp 2025 · Ghent
Configuration Management Day 2025: Automation, DevOps & IaC
From Chef to Ansible, hear automation leaders at Configuration Management Camp 2025. Expert interviews on Infrastructure as Code and open source.
3 Feb 2025 · Config Management Camp 2025 · Ghent
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 in Ghent: The Talks I Saw
My notes from the CfgMgmtCamp 2025 talks in Ghent: an AI model leaderboard, Chef history, Salt internals, SOPS for Ansible secrets, ARA and tox-ansible.
1 Feb 2025 · FOSDEM 2025 · Brussels
FOSDEM 2025 Brussels: The Devroom Talks I Saw
Three FOSDEM 2025 devroom talks from the ULB campus: Linux on RISC-V in H.1309, Podcasting 2.0 transcripts, and zero-knowledge queries over credentials.
1 Feb 2025 · FOSDEM 2025 · Brussels
Top Interviews from FOSDEM 2025 by Luca Berton
Watch the most popular interviews from FOSDEM 2025, where Luca Berton sits down with open-source innovators shaping the future of tech.
30 Jan 2025 · AI Salon Amsterdam (6th edition) · Amsterdam
AI Salon Amsterdam 2025: Schiphol Ramp AI and an AI VC
AI Salon Amsterdam at The Flow, January 2025: computer vision on Schiphol's ramp to predict delays, and how the AI VC curiosity invests in AI startups.
25 Jan 2025 · BitBash 2025 · Veenendaal
BitBash 2025 Veenendaal: Quantum, IAM and Dev Box
BitBash 2025 at Info Support in Veenendaal: a Q# quantum session, Henry Been on IAM for engineering platforms, and Erwin Staal on Dev Box and ADE.
16 Jan 2025 · Dutch Kubernetes/Cloud Native Meetup · Amsterdam
Dutch Kubernetes Meetup at Palo Alto Networks Amsterdam
Dutch Kubernetes/Cloud Native Meetup at Palo Alto Networks Amsterdam: securing the container lifecycle with Prisma Cloud, then AI for attack and defence.
14 Jan 2025 · Picnic Tech Meetup (Developer Experience) · Amsterdam
Picnic Tech Meetup Amsterdam 2025: Measuring DevEx
A developer experience panel at Picnic in Amsterdam asked the room how to quantify DevEx. What people answered, and how DORA, SPACE and DevEx measure it.

2024

12 Dec 2024 · Rust Meetup Amsterdam (December 2024) · Amsterdam
Rust Meetup Amsterdam December 2024: RustRover and Biome
RustNL's December 2024 meetup at JetBrains: RustRover's borrow-checker diagnostics, Biome's Rust architecture with Rowan and GritQL, and RustWeek 2025.
25 Nov 2024 · Elastic Meetup Amsterdam and ElasticON Amsterdam 2024 · Amsterdam
Elastic Meetup and ElasticON Amsterdam 2024: BBQ and int8
Two Elastic days in Amsterdam, November 2024: Steve Kearns on int8 and BBQ, Kaufland's search upgrade lessons, Devoteam on ECE, then ElasticON.
21 Nov 2024 · Ansible London Meetup · London
Ansible London, November 2024: Lockdown, goss and Hetzner
Notes from the November 2024 Ansible London meetup: Ansible-Lockdown and goss for compliance, Hetzner Cloud IaC, and a Dell RAG talk.
14 Nov 2024 · Databricks Data + AI World Tour Amsterdam 2024 · Amsterdam
Databricks Data + AI World Tour Amsterdam 2024
A stage on the Ajax pitch and a hands-on Get Started with Databricks for Data Engineering class: compute, Delta Lake, Workflows, DLT and Unity Catalog.
13 Nov 2024 · OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
OpenSearch Meetup Amsterdam 2024: Vectors and Embeddings
OpenSearch meetup at AWS Amsterdam, Nov 2024: local LLMs and hybrid search, Bedrock, vector tuning tips, and Zeta Alpha on InPars and e5-mistral.
25 Oct 2024 · Ubuntu Summit 2024 · The Hague
Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague: AI, RISC-V and Snaps
Day 2 of Ubuntu Summit 2024 at the World Forum, The Hague: Intel's OPEA, Google's TCPX, KDE Plasma as snaps, Penpot's Rust pivot and Ubuntu Kylin AI OS.
16 Oct 2024 · Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 · Utrecht
Red Hat Summit Connect Utrecht 2024: AI, Ansible, OpenShift
My notes from Red Hat Summit: Connect 2024 in the Netherlands: the ChRIS keynote, OpenShift Virtualization, an Ansible journey and supply chain security.
15 Oct 2024 · Sustainable IT Netherlands Meetup · Amsterdam
Green AI at Accenture: Sustainable IT Meetup Amsterdam 2024
Sustainable IT Netherlands at Accenture, October 2024: green code with GitHub Copilot, EcoLogits, demand shaping, and VU Amsterdam's 30 green AI tactics.
3 Oct 2024 · Snowflake World Tour Amsterdam 2024 · Zaandam
Snowflake World Tour Amsterdam 2024: Cortex and EU AI Act
Snowflake World Tour Amsterdam 2024: the Enterprise AI keynote, Cortex Analyst and Search, the EU Data Act and AI Act, Native App security and Cortex SQL.
1 Oct 2024 · TechEx Europe 2024 · Amsterdam
TechEx Europe 2024: Puppet on DORA, NIS2 and Desired State
Puppet's Confidence as Code keynote at TechEx Europe 2024 in Amsterdam: DORA, NIS2, XZ Utils, CrowdStrike, configuration drift and the Interhyp case study.
26 Sept 2024 · Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam, September Edition · Amsterdam
Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam: bunq and ML6 Guardrails
Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam at ML6, September 2024: bunq on explainable fraud detection with synthetic fraud data, and ML6 on LLM guardrails.
25 Sept 2024 · AI Tinkerers Amsterdam (September and November 2024 editions) · Amsterdam
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam 2024: Groq, Fiberplane and Nebius
Two AI Tinkerers Amsterdam demo nights from autumn 2024: Fiberplane's AI API testing, Groq-powered apps, an AI-native React compiler and Nebius AI Studio.
23 Sept 2024 · Ansible London Meetup · London
Ansible London Meetup 2024: GraphRAG and Neo4j
Luca Berton demos GraphRAG deployment with Ansible + OpenAI at Ansible London Meetup 2024 — a night full of innovation, automation, and community.
3 Sept 2024 · Azure Platform Engineering Meetup · Utrecht
Azure Meetup Utrecht 2024: Verified Modules and Private DNS
Rabobank's Azure platform team on Template Specs, Azure Verified Modules and template tests, then Mark Scholman (CA8) on Private DNS in landing zones.
18 Jul 2024 · Mindstone AI Meetup Amsterdam and Datadog User Group Benelux GenAI Meetup (2024) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam GenAI Meetups, Summer 2024: LangWatch to Bedrock
Two Amsterdam GenAI meetups from summer 2024: LangWatch, STRUCK and Pandria at Mindstone, then AWS Bedrock, Cloutive and Datadog LLM Observability.
4 Jul 2024 · Sustainability meetup (Amsterdam) · Amsterdam
Carbon-Aware HPC with KEDA: Sustainability Meetup 2024
A July 2024 Amsterdam sustainability meetup: Sailfish-HPC on Kubernetes with KEDA, carbon-aware space shifting, and cutting Azure emissions.
3 Jul 2024 · Grafana & Friends Amsterdam Summer Meetup · Amsterdam
Grafana Tempo, OpenTelemetry and Backstage: Meetup 2024
Notes from Grafana & Friends Amsterdam on 3 July 2024: a Tempo and OpenTelemetry migration tracked with Backstage, plus Grafana's move to Scenes.
13 Jun 2024 · Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native Meetup: Happy Birthday, Kubernetes! · Amsterdam
Kubernetes 10th Birthday Meetup in Amsterdam
The Dutch Kubernetes / Cloud Native meetup celebrated 10 years of Kubernetes at Datadog in Amsterdam: a timeline, a cake, and an RTL platform adoption story.
12 Jun 2024 · AdvancedJS Amsterdam (16th edition) · Amsterdam
AdvancedJS Amsterdam 2024: SolidStart and Angular
AdvancedJS Amsterdam, 16th edition: a SolidStart demo, Minko Gechev on web frameworks at Google, and lightning talks on the TypeScript compiler API and Zod.
21 May 2024 · CIO & CISO Inspired Summit
CIO & CISO Inspired Summit 2024: GenAI Risk and Leadership
Notes from the CIO & CISO Inspired Summit, 21 May 2024: a fast-moving GenAI roadmap, the ADKAR model and GenAI security slides.

2023

20 Sept 2023 · Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 · Berlin
Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023
Join Luca Berton as he captures the best moments from Ansible Community Day Berlin 2023 — featuring interviews with Red Hat experts and open source leaders.
13 Jul 2023 · Ansible Automates London 2023 · London
Ansible Automates London 2023: Lightspeed and EDA
My notes from Ansible Automates London 2023 at CodeNode: the ROI keynote, a live Lightspeed demo, Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, Builder 3.0 and mesh.
16 Jun 2023 · DevConf.cz 2023 · Brno
DevConf.cz 2023 — DevOps, Automation & Ansible Highlights
Explore Luca Berton’s interviews and key moments from DevConf.cz 2023 in Brno — from open source leadership to the future of Ansible and automation.

2015

25 Mar 2015 · Community Days 2015 · Peschiera Borromeo
Community Days Milan 2015: Microsoft IoT Then and Now
Slides I photographed at Community Days 2015 near Milan, from Event Hubs to Windows Embedded and Intel Galileo, and what each one became by 2026.