Tuesday, October 27, 2026
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET
Right-Sizing AI: Compute, Cost, and the Right Tool for the Job
About this event
Thirteenth AI Native Netherlands meetup, hosted at the AWS Amsterdam office, on when inference belongs on a CPU rather than a GPU and how to measure price against performance honestly.
AI Native Netherlands holds its thirteenth edition at the AWS office in the Amstelkwartier, with arrival from 18:00 and food and drinks provided.
- The Right Tool for the Right Token: When to Reach for a CPU or a GPU, Christian Melendez, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS
- A second session from William Rizzo, Global Field CTO at Mirantis, with the topic still to be confirmed at the time of listing
Themes across the evening include the CPU versus GPU trade-off for inference workloads, using fine-tuned small language models for narrow tasks, measuring price against performance in a way that survives contact with a finance team, and CPU-first agent architectures running on Kubernetes.
Talks run at 18:45 and 19:30, networking from 20:15, close at 21:00. Free to attend.
Note the timing: this falls after the clocks change on 25 October, so the evening runs on CET rather than CEST.
Organized by
Amsterdam meetup community for engineers and technical leaders building AI-native software. Each edition pairs practitioner talks on agents, AI-assisted development and production ML infrastructure with open networking.