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RAG and Vector Search at tech events

25 write-ups · 23 events · 2024–2026

Here I collect talks and demos on retrieval: RAG pipelines, vector search, embeddings and how agents remember things. The conferences and meetups I go to keep circling the same practical questions, such as how to connect models to legacy and enterprise data, which stores to put vectors in, and how to keep retrieval useful beyond a demo.

2026

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

2025

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

2024

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