Free AI events in Amsterdam
You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Amsterdam's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.
Sep
14
Mon
4:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
Builders & Brews: Hack Edition
JetBrains N.V. (Main Building)by Builders & Brews Amsterdam
Hands-on Amsterdam build evening for AI developers, founders and students, with technical workshops, mentoring and space to prototype with open-source models, Nebius infrastructure and Tavily.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
Product Build Day: Amsterdam
House of Wattby Product Build Day Amsterdam
Small, in-person Amsterdam build evening for product people who do not code, using AI tools to create, test and pitch a working app around a shared challenge.
Sep
15
Tue
Sep
21
Mon
Sep
23
Wed
Sep
29
Tue
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
The AI Coding Adoption Ladder & The MCP Wire
Studytubeby AI Native Netherlands
Technical Amsterdam meetup on scaling AI-assisted software development, covering organisational adoption of coding agents and a practical approach to MCP servers using sandboxed code execution.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
The AI Coding Adoption Ladder and The MCP Wire
Studytubeby AI Native Netherlands
Twelfth AI Native Netherlands meetup at Studytube, on how teams climb from AI tool adoption to software factory patterns, and a sandboxed alternative to conventional MCP server design.
Oct
6
Tue
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST
Vibe Coding vs AI-Driven Development
StartDock Keizersgrachtby Streamlogic
World AI Week session at StartDock Keizersgracht contrasting intuition-led AI code generation with engineer-supervised development, and what it takes to turn a fast prototype into a system worth funding.
4:00 PM – 7:30 PM CEST
Women Building AI: What Holds Up in 2026
AI House Amsterdamby Women in AI Benelux
Curated World AI Week roundtable at AI House for engineers, researchers, product builders and founders discussing production agents, AI-generated code, evaluation and AI-system infrastructure.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST
LangChain Amsterdam Meetup with Harrison Chase
by LangChain Amsterdam
Amsterdam AI-agent meetup with LangChain co-founder Harrison Chase, sharing practical lessons from customer deployments, a session on building agents and peer networking.
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM CEST
Pre-World Summit AI: Pitch Night
Singel 126by DutchBasecamp
DutchBasecamp pitch night on Singel the evening before World Summit AI, putting early-stage AI founders in front of investors and corporate partners gathering in Amsterdam for the week.
Oct
7
Wed
Oct
13
Tue
Oct
14
Wed
Oct
26
Mon
Oct
27
Tue
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET
Right-Sizing AI: Compute, Cost, and the Right Tool for the Job
AWS Amsterdamby AI Native Netherlands
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.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET
Right-Sizing AI: Compute, Cost, and the Right Tool for the Job
AWS Amsterdamby AI Native Netherlands
AI Native Netherlands meetup at AWS Amsterdam on choosing CPU, GPU, small models and LLMs for practical AI workloads, with a production-focused talk on cost and performance.