AI Coding Assistants at tech events
37 write-ups · 35 events · 2023–2026
This page collects talks, workshops and demos on AI-assisted development, from Claude Code and Copilot to Gemini CLI and newer agentic IDEs. Across the meetups and conferences I attend, the recurring themes are how coding agents change daily workflows, what teams should put around them, and how hackathon-style experiments carry over into real projects.
2026
1 Oct 2026 · CTO Network breakfast: State of Agents 2026 · Amsterdam
CTO Network State of Agents 2026 at Databricks AmsterdamA 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, GoDash0'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 HackathonAAIF Community Amsterdam's Builders & Brews: Hack Edition: the hackathon rules, Token Factory, Tavily, Kilo Code and a fast agent recipe before 30 October.
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.
16 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon Preday Meetup: Agentic AI in the Wild · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Preday: Agentic AI in the Wild — Securing What Runs in ProductionAGNTCon Preday at Adyen Amsterdam: Qodo on verification gates, Snyk on malicious SKILL.md files, Postman on agent gateways, plus a panel on trust.
26 Aug 2026 · Go Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Go Meetup Amsterdam: How to Stay Passionate in Tech in the Age of AINotes from Ainsley Clark's Go Amsterdam talk on staying passionate in tech during the AI age, covering career, craft, community, and motivation.
20 Aug 2026 · BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam · Amsterdam
BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam: AI's Impact on QALuca attended the BrowserStack Meetup Amsterdam 2026, exploring how AI is reshaping QA — from Claude + Playwright to GenAI in quality engineering.
June 2026 · Red Hat Tech Day Netherlands 2026
Ansible MCP Server Demo: AI Automation in Cursor IDELive 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 ServerRed Hat's Ansible VS Code extension now embeds an MCP server for AI-assisted playbook creation, context-aware linting, and compliant scaffolding.
21 May 2026 · Who's Watching the Agents? · Amsterdam
Who's Watching the Agents? AI Observability Meetup atSRE NL and Coralogix hosted 'Who's Watching the Agents?' at Miro's Amsterdam office — covering AI-powered observability, MCP servers for telemetry, custom.
11 May 2026 · Red Hat Summit 2026 Partner Day · Atlanta
Red Hat Desktop, Kaiden and Omdia Data at Summit 2026Red 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.
8 May 2026 · DevWorld Conference 2026 · Amsterdam
DevWorld 2026 Day 2: Building Got Easier, Growth HarderNotes 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 AppSecCheckmarx presented a compelling case at DevWorld Conference 2026: AI-only security scanning creates noise, not safety. The hybrid approach combining.
6 May 2026 · GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam · Amsterdam
GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam: Agentic SDLC and theRecap of GitHub Copilot Dev Days Amsterdam at TrueFullstaq — live demos of Agentic SDLC, AI-assisted code reviews, incident triage, and the big question.
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.
6 Mar 2026 · OpenClaw Demo + Hackathon Amsterdam · Amsterdam
OpenClaw Demo + Hackathon Amsterdam, March 2026My 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 AmsterdamLangWatch 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 WorkflowsNick 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, AgentsThe 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.
5 Feb 2026 · Agentic AI: From Code to Commerce · Amsterdam
Agentic AI: From Code to Commerce at AI House AmsterdamAgentic 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.
2025
12 Dec 2025 · Microsoft Power Platform community meetup · Amsterdam
Patrick Debois on Coding with AI Agents at Power PlatformNotes 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 ToolsJetBrains and Dutch Basecamp's Demo Day in Amsterdam, December 2025: a keynote on human connection, then startup pitches from SAAScade, CodeBoarding and onky.
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.
26 Nov 2025 · TiDB, AWS and Bolt Meetup (plus 4 Dec database night) · Amsterdam
TiDB, AWS and Bolt Meetup Amsterdam 2025Two 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.
4 Nov 2025 · Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO (evening) and Arch9 by Levi9 (day) · Amsterdam
Amsterdam JUG at ABN AMRO: JMH and MicrobenchmarksPet 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: NotesNotes 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.
14 Oct 2025 · AI meetup at ING Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Writing a Book with AI: Pini Reznik at ING AmsterdamPini Reznik on hacking the authoring process with AI at an ING meetup in Amsterdam: 17 prompts, patterns, and the hallucination nightmare, from an author.
25 Sept 2025 · Datadog User Group Amsterdam · Amsterdam
Datadog User Group Amsterdam 2025: Spec-Driven DevelopmentDatadog 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.
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.
19 May 2025 · DevOops #8 (with Amsterdam.dev) · Amsterdam
DevOops x Amsterdam.dev 2025: OSPOs and Code ChatDevOops 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 VMwareNotes from the AWS Modernization Roadshow in Amsterdam with partner kloia: migration patterns, Amazon Q Developer for .NET and VMware, and database advice.
26 Mar 2025 · DevSecCon community meetup at Mollie · Amsterdam
Responsible AI and Anyshift at a Mollie Meetup, AmsterdamSlide 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 · Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht · Utrecht
Microsoft AI Tour Utrecht 2025: Agents and FoundryNotes 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.
3 Feb 2025 · Config Management Camp 2025 · Ghent
CfgMgmtCamp 2025 in Ghent: The Talks I SawMy notes from the CfgMgmtCamp 2025 talks in Ghent: an AI model leaderboard, Chef history, Salt internals, SOPS for Ansible secrets, ARA and tox-ansible.
2024
15 Oct 2024 · Sustainable IT Netherlands Meetup · Amsterdam
Green AI at Accenture: Sustainable IT Meetup Amsterdam 2024Sustainable IT Netherlands at Accenture, October 2024: green code with GitHub Copilot, EcoLogits, demand shaping, and VU Amsterdam's 30 green AI tactics.
2023
13 Jul 2023 · Ansible Automates London 2023 · London
Ansible Automates London 2023: Lightspeed and EDAMy notes from Ansible Automates London 2023 at CodeNode: the ROI keynote, a live Lightspeed demo, Event-Driven Ansible rulebooks, Builder 3.0 and mesh.