ClickHouse Amsterdam Meetup @ Adyen
Join us in Amsterdam at Adyen's office for an evening dedicated to how AI is changing the fintech landscape. From agentic copilots in production to what's next for the world's fastest analytical database, this meetup brings together engineers, data practitioners, and fintech builders.
Hosts
Brought to you by Adyen and ClickHouse, and hosted by
Kwok He Chu (Developer Relations @Adyen) and Tyler Hannan (Global Advocate @ClickHouse).
🎤 Session Details:
Iftach Arbel, Senior AI Research Engineer at Adyen. Iftach develops agents and bug the hell out of them.
Talk: Skills First: How We Shipped an Autonomous Fee Agent Before Writing an Agent Harness
We built an autonomous agent for a task where reliability mattered most. We will describe agent design patterns to explain our decisions: deterministic vs. agentic behavior, predictability vs. flexibility, auditability vs. adaptiveness, and routing vs. parallelization. These are the four patterns that applies to many agentic systems.
Using the agent design patterns, we decided for each behavior whether it belonged in deterministic code or should stay agentic. The surrounding structure (the flow, its guardrails, and the routing between pieces of domain knowledge) moved into code. The core reasoning stayed agentic: the model's calls remained open-ended wherever that flexibility earned better results.
Alexey Milovidov, co-founder and CTO of ClickHouse, Inc. Bio. Alexey has 17 years of experience designing, developing, and operating data-intensive applications. Before ClickHouse, he created the data processing engine of the world's 2nd largest web analytics system. His area of interest is data processing algorithms and technologies.
Talk: How AI is Made
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🪩 On the night:
Fun, bring a smile!
Food & Drinks provided by Adyen
Networking
📅 Current Agenda:
5:15 PM: Doors Open - Food & Drinks by Adyen
6:15 PM: Welcome - Words from your hosts Kwok He Chu, Developer Relations @ Adyen, and Tyler Hannan, Global Advocate @ ClickHouse
6:20 - 6:50 PM: How AI is Made - Alexey Milovidov, Co-founder & CTO @ ClickHouse - TBA (+ Q&A)
6:50 - 7:20 PM: Skills First: How We Shipped an Autonomous Fee Agent Before Writing an Agent Harness - Iftach Arbel, Senior AI Research Engineer @ Adyen (+ Q&A)
7:20 PM: Closing
7:30 - 8:30 PM: Drinks & Networking
👥 Spots: Limited, so register to secure yours!
⚠️ Adyen requires all visitors to bring a valid photo ID (passport/ID card) to enter the building. Show it at reception and you'll be escorted to the top floor, where the event will be held. If you don't have ID with you, you may not be able to access the event.