🧠The AI Collective Netherlands | Amsterdam Meetup
​​Join us for the another AI Collective Netherlands gathering, an evening connecting people who are shaping and applying artificial intelligence in meaningful ways.
​​This meetup brings together practitioners, leaders, and learners from across the country to exchange ideas, share practical experience, and explore how AI is being built and adopted responsibly.
​​Agenda
​​18:00 – 18:30 Welcome, light walking meal, and networking
​​18:30 – 20:00 Lightning talks on current AI topics and real-world applications.
​Anderson Imes, Director at Databricks
​AI for Technical Non-Coders: From Quick Questions to Real Projects
​Most of us use AI the same way we use a search engine: ask a question, get an answer, move on. But what if AI could do so much more? In this talk, Anderson Imes shares how technical professionals who don't write code can use AI agents to tackle real projects—combining data from scattered sources, synthesizing research across the web and internal docs, and automating the tedious work that eats up your week. Through live demos and practical examples, you'll learn how to move from transactional AI interactions to collaborative project work. No coding required—just a willingness to think differently about what AI can do for you.
​Grigory Panov, Senior Software Engineer at Uber
​How AI Agents Reshaped the Way I Build Projects
​AI tools and AI agents are rapidly transforming modern software development. In this talk, we explore what an AI-augmented development workflow actually looks like for a software engineer - not in theory, but through real engineering challenges, experiments, and lessons learned over the last year. Along the way, we'll discuss the habits and skills that make AI tools truly powerful. We will explore how new tools and skills create more room for clarity, deeper focus, and faster innovation.
​Paul Epping, Executive Coach and Foresight Leader
​Governance of the Transition to Artificial General Intelligence
​Artificial General Intelligence is no longer a distant concept. Its arrival raises a harder question. How do you govern a force powerful enough to accelerate human progress and capable of causing irreversible harm if left unchecked. In this keynote, Paul Epping frames AGI as a leadership and governance challenge rather than a technical one. Drawing on his work across healthcare, global foresight networks, and AI policy, he explores how misalignment with human values becomes a systemic risk. You will leave with a clear view of what responsible governance looks like in practice and why readiness matters more than speed. The future will not wait. Leadership must
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​As always, food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!
​​Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!
​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
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