Beyond Automation: AI Agents
AI Insights from 2024 & The Future of Agents
📍 Amsterdam, NL | 📅 April 3, 2025 | ⏳ Doors open 17:30
👥 Limited spots | Networking, nibbles & drinks
This exclusive gathering brings together AI thought leaders, industry experts, and enthusiasts to dive into the latest advancements, challenges, and future of AI-powered agents. Expect engaging discussions, cutting-edge insights, and the chance to connect with like-minded professionals shaping the AI landscape.
🔍 What’s in Store?
Panel Discussion – Experts from academia and industry tackle the biggest AI trends, challenges, and ethical questions, including:
What AI advancements from 2024 made the biggest impact?
How will AI agents reshape businesses in 2025?
What risks do increasingly autonomous AI agents pose?
Hands-on AI Exercise – Build a quick AI chatbot in just 20–30 minutes!
👥 Who Should Attend? AI professionals, researchers, tech innovators, and decision-makers.
🎟️ Limited spots available!
Speakers Feature:
A. Academia Perspectives:
Bas Donkers is a Professor of Marketing Research at the Erasmus School of Economics, with over 25 years of academic experience to date. Holding a PhD in Econometrics and driven by a passion for the intersection of data and consumer behavior, he specializes in Marketing, Marketing Research, Data Science, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Professor Bas will share his extensive academic insights on the influence of AI on behavioral decision-making.
B. Industry Perspectives:
Naima Zemmouri, a Key Account Executive at Google Cloud, bridges legal expertise with commercial acumen in the IT industry. Legally trained with a Master's in International Commercial and Business Law, Naima has been instrumental in helping strategic clients navigate digital transformation for over 15 years, leveraging AI and ML to drive innovation, technology and business success.
Jelle Stienen, cofounder of Latitude, brings a unique mix of business strategy and technical insight to data-driven problem-solving. With a background in IT business analysis and experience as a Data Strategist, Jelle has led projects across cloud platform migrations and machine learning initiatives. His strength lies in translating complex, abstract problems into actionable strategies, with a passion for making data meaningful in real-world contexts.
Bernd van Dijk of Next Epoch helps businesses drive competitive advantage through AI-powered process optimization, leveraging intelligent automation and data-driven decision-making. Bernd's career spans innovation, change management, strategy, and finance. For the last ten years, he's focused on developing and marketing AI concepts in Robotics, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.