AI Builders Amsterdam - Fri 21 Nov

​Join our technical meetup for the biggest AI nerds!
We share the latest AI devtools, APIs, RAG & Agent frameworks, techniques, models and much more!

​:: FOR WHO ::
✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
⚠️ Basic LLM knowledge required to fully enjoy the talks!*

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:: FORMAT ::

• ​💻⚡️ Speed Demos (10 min)
  Builders share real-world AI solutions and how it's built. Including code, prompts & architecture examples!

• ​🎤 🦄 Pioneer Talks (20 min)
  Inspiring talk/demo from emerging Gen-AI leaders from Europe or Silicon Valley

• ​🐠🪑 Fish Bowl Discussion (20 min)
  An open collaborative exploration of topics, problems that we have on our minds

• ​🤝🍕🍻 Informal Vibes
  Lots of time to network with other builders over some yummy pizza & drinks.
  

​:: AGENDA ::
17:30 🤝 Walk-in
18:00 🍕 Pizza (be early!)
19:00 🎤 The Art of Fine-Tuning Small Language Models with a Prompt
Jacek Golebiowski (Cofounder / CTO) Distil Labs.ai

19:20 💻 Emotional Slacking: How AI Delegation Can Undermine Human Autonomy
Daniel Bracker
Delegating emotionally demanding reasoning to AI—difficult conversations, ethical dilemmas, relationship decisions—risks cognitive atrophy. Drawing from motor slacking research in robotics, I explore how systematic AI delegation erodes practical and epistemic autonomy. The core question for builders: are we augmenting human capacity or replacing it?

19:30 ---- 💬 BREAK ------

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20:00 🎤 The Sovereign AI Individual
Kieran Donnelly
Connecting 1M talented AI experts to businesses by 2035

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20.30 🍻 Drinks
21.00 End

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:: FAQ ::
• What is AI Builders?
We're a self-organizing nonprofit community of 3000+ AI Nerds in Europe. Yes.. we're building our own AI CEO.

• Why do I need to pay?
1). So we know how many people will come (max capacity of the space and reduce food waste)
2). Sponsor money doesn't cover all of our costs yet.

• Can I volunteer as co-host?
Message Cris (+31636420602) if we still need co-hosts or request a free ticket. Co-hosts arrive 1.5h early and help with set-up, welcoming and facilitating. Grow your network even faster!

• *I'm not technical. Can I come?
Yes. To fully enjoy the meetup, we recommend chatting with AI to explain these concepts: LLMs, Multimodal, Vector Embeddings, RAG, Chaining, Structured Output, Function Calling, API calls, Knowledge Graphs, Reinforcement Learning, Fine-tuning, AI Agents.

• Why go to AI Meetups?

• ​Networking Opportunities: Connect with 80+ technical attendees and a larger community of 3000+ in Europe

• ​The latest practical insights: We focus on demo's and slides with diagrams, code & more.

• ​Good vibes: We're an informal community, so enough fun and shenanigans.