AI Builders Amsterdam Monthly

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

​:: FOR WHO ::
✅ Anyone actively building with Generative AI
✅ Devs, Product peeps, Data lovers, ML engineers, Founders
⚠️Technical LLM knowledge required!*

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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

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

​:: AGENDA ::
17:30 🤝 Walkin'
18:00 🍕 Pizza (be early!)

18:30 🎤 What's Hard About Developing Applications Powered by LLMs?
Ian Massingham - griptape.ai (website)

​18:40 🎤 Building Agentic AI Assistants with Unbody

​Amir Houieh - unbody.io (github)

19:00 ---- 💬 BREAK TIME ------

19:30 💻 Building a Cursor-clone for SME websites & Low-code AI Lead Gen Hacks
Simos Mikelatos - siteboon.ai

​19.45 💻 TBA

20.00 🍻 Drinks
21.00 End



:: TALK DETAILS ::

What's Hard About Developing Applications Powered by LLMs?
Griptape.ai - Ian Massingham

Learn about common challenges in developing meaningful applications with large language models.

​Building on non-deterministic systems is a new frontier, but not hopeless. This session explores key issues in using LLM APIs, whether from providers like OpenAI or open models like Mistral, Llama, and DeepSeek.

​We'll also dive into solutions—Tools, RAG, and Agentic Systems—to tackle these challenges, mitigate LLM behaviors, and build more reliable, robust applications in this evolving paradigm.

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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 get a free ticket? 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 set-up the event or welcome people.

• *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.