Google at tech events
25 write-ups · 19 events · 2024–2026
Every event write-up on this site where Google spoke, hosted, sponsored or was interviewed, newest first. Each post covers what was presented, in my own words, with photos of the slides.
2026
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in AmsterdamAGNTCon + 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 RealityTwo 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 TakeawaysAGNTCon + 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 Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-AgentDay 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 2026The builders behind the agentic stack — speakers, panelists, and hosts I met at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: How AI Is Reshaping Media Production End to EndFrom production to distribution, AI is moving from experimentation to infrastructure at IBC 2026.
11 Sept 2026 · IBC 2026 · Amsterdam
IBC 2026: Future Tech and the Startup RevolutionAI dubbing engines, semantic search, quantum-secure media, and the startups driving Future Tech at IBC 2026.
1 Jul 2026 · Wiz Club Amsterdam 2026 · Amsterdam
Wiz Club Amsterdam 2026: Machine-Speed Cloud and AI SecurityRecap of Wiz Club Amsterdam: machine-speed cloud defense, AI threats, and lessons from security leaders at Booking, Mews, Nebius, and Philips.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Form3: How a Payments Platform Survives Cloud OutagesKevin 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.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Red Hat AI Model-as-a-Service with llm-dHow 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 EngineeringInside Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026: 30 speakers and 34 sessions on AgentOps, agentic AI, Quarkus, LangChain4j, and hybrid cloud inference.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 · Atlanta
Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta: Open Source Meets AI atMy experience at Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta — from platinum sponsors to late-night labs, product spotlights, and Turkish Airlines scaling 60+ AI.
April 2026 · OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House AmsterdamRecap of the OpenClaw Hackathon at AI House Amsterdam. Company pitches from Picnic, Kilo Code, Azin, Orq.ai, and Google. Full-day hacking, demo prep.
10 Mar 2026 · AICamp AI Meetup Amsterdam (A2A Protocol and Deep Search) · Amsterdam
AICamp Amsterdam: A2A Protocol and Deep SearchModerating the AICamp AI meetup in Amsterdam at ML6. Talks on Google A2A Protocol and Deep Search AI Agents solving the Olof Palme murder case.
11 Feb 2026 · Xebia meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
kro and Config Connector at a Xebia Meetup in AmsterdamNotes from a February 2026 evening at Xebia in Amsterdam: kro ResourceGraphDefinitions over Config Connector, then an infrastructure self-service agent.
2025
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 CLINotes 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 ExperienceGitLab Epic Tour Amsterdam 2025: security and compliance facts, Booking.com's SaaS migration, AWS on agentic coding and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform.
30 Oct 2025 · ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future · Amsterdam
ElasticON Amsterdam 2025: Forge the Future RecapElasticON Amsterdam 2025 at the Beurs van Berlage: the agenda, AWS and Google Cloud sessions, TVH's observability road, and A-CORN filtered vector search.
8 Oct 2025 · World Summit AI 2025 · Amsterdam
World Summit AI 2025 Amsterdam: Data Centres and AgentsWorld 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.
10 Sept 2025 · Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025 (roundup) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam AI and Dev Meetups, Autumn 2025: A RoundupTwelve smaller Amsterdam tech events from autumn 2025: LangChain, ClimateHack, AI House coding sessions, Apidays, SREday, OpenJDK and sustainable UX.
1 Jul 2025 · Kubernetes for Developers: Security! (CodeLab workshop) · Amsterdam
Kubernetes Security Codelab at ING Amsterdam, July 2025Hands-on Kubernetes security workshop for Java developers at ING Amsterdam: a hacked container, security context, read-only filesystems, secrets.
1 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025: DRA GPU Sharing and CERN KubeflowFrom 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.
2024
25 Oct 2024 · Ubuntu Summit 2024 · The Hague
Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague: AI, RISC-V and SnapsDay 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.
26 Sept 2024 · Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam, September Edition · Amsterdam
Google Cloud User Group Amsterdam: bunq and ML6 GuardrailsGoogle Cloud User Group Amsterdam at ML6, September 2024: bunq on explainable fraud detection with synthetic fraud data, and ML6 on LLM guardrails.
12 Jun 2024 · AdvancedJS Amsterdam (16th edition) · Amsterdam
AdvancedJS Amsterdam 2024: SolidStart and AngularAdvancedJS Amsterdam, 16th edition: a SolidStart demo, Minko Gechev on web frameworks at Google, and lightning talks on the TypeScript compiler API and Zod.