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May 01, 2025
AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI
⏰ 10:00 - 11:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://lu.ma/yiaccf39

PLNT Borrel
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/plnt-borrel-29/

Monthly Community Drinks - Startup Village Amsterdam
⏰ 17:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/may-1st-monthly-community-drinks-startup-village-amsterdam-tickets-1249269993179

AI Builders Amsterdam Monthly
⏰ 17:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/amsterdambuilders-1may

tecTalk: Urban Future in 3D
⏰ 19:30 - 21:30
📍 Eindhoven
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-tectalk-urban-future-in-3d-1333781248619

Team Epoch Presentation
⏰ 19:30 - 21:00
📍 Delft Netherlands
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-team-epoch-presentation-1289496140669

May 02, 2025
Round Table on cyber security for BHoC
⏰ 09:30 - 13:00
📍 Eindhoven Netherlands
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/round-table-on-cyber-security-for-bhoc-tickets-1331007873379

Urban Futures meetup
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://tally.so/r/mKGdyz

TNW Monthly Friday Drinks
⏰ 17:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://thenextweb.com/spaces/events/tnw-monthly-friday-drinks-2

AI Film Screening [NFA x AIxDESIGN Festival]
⏰ 19:30 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://lu.ma/vajwj3p2

May 06, 2025
AI Tinkerers Amsterdam - May Edition
⏰ 17:30 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-amsterdam-may-edition

May 07, 2025
Mastering Your Message through effective Media Training
⏰ 09:00 - 10:00
📍 Event Space, Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://thenextweb.com/spaces/events/mastering-your-message-through-effective-media-training

Vention’s 10th Anniversary: The Future of Product Development
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍 Eindhoven
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-ventions-10th-anniversary-the-future-of-product-development-1309531336479

ClimateHack Amsterdam: Spotlight on Deep Tech
⏰ 17:00 - 19:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/yxkpb55c

May 08, 2025

NVAIR bijeenkomst: AI in een juridische werkomgeving
⏰ 13:45 - 17:00
📍 's-Hertogenbosch
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiTCC3navT3VijKiEHSfmwVFoH0cCIOYNBb8z86q-AGsEtog/formResponse

ETHDam Hacker Speed Dating
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/ogdaiwn4

Web3privacy Now Meetup x ETHDam 2025
⏰ 16:00 - 21:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/73go30ij

AMS Circle: Foundations First: Data for AI, Growth, & Sustainable Impact
⏰ 17:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/ams-circle-foundations-first-data-for-ai-growth-sustainable-impact-tickets-1318846528469

PLNT Borrel
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/plnt-borrel-30/

Amsterdam JUG meetup with Victor Rentea
⏰ 17:00 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/amsterdam-java-user-group/events/307210525/

Digital Memory Erosion: Designing Personal Archives for 2050
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-memory-erosion-designing-personal-archives-for-2050-tickets-1292639873659

Business After-Hours: Encouraging Sustainable Hospitality
⏰ 18:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/business-after-hours-encouraging-sustainable-hospitality-tickets-1334901699919

Swell Connect - Monthly Meetup
⏰ 19:00 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swell-connect-monthly-meetup-tickets-1304976944169

Hackers & Founders (Amsterdam, NL) Meetup
⏰ 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/hackers-and-founders-amsterdam-nl/events/304380937/

May 09, 2025
ETHDam III - Conference & Hackathon
⏰ 10:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/30ghw4ot

May 12, 2025
Inside House of Quantum: Brunch & Tour
⏰ 12:00 - 15:00
📍 Delft
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/house-of-quantum

Delft Quantum Showcase
⏰ 14:00 - 18:00
📍 Delft
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/delft-quantum-showcase

Pizza Baking Evening
⏰ 17:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://lu.ma/6xyjdigg

May 13, 2025
Quantum Internet Alliance Conference Day
⏰ 10:00 - 17:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/quantum-internet-alliance-conference-day

2nd Annual World ESG and Climate Summit
⏰ 10:00 - 18:00
📍 Schiphol
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-world-esg-and-climate-summit-tickets-1302833452929

Real talk on User Research
⏰ 17:30 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/women-in-product-nl/events/307085829/

Founders Growth Night: Connect with Fellow Entrepreneurs & Get Inspired
⏰ 18:30 - 21:45
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/founders-growth-night-connect-with-fellow-entrepreneurs-get-inspired-tickets-1122857730699

Winter Sleep
⏰ 19:15 - 22:30
📍 Eye Filmmuseum
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/winter-sleep/1374021

May 14, 2025
NKI Early Cancer Detection Conference 2025
⏰ 08:30 - 18:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.nki.nl/news-events/calendar/nki-early-cancer-detection-conference-2025-from-research-to-implementation/

Q-Expo
⏰ 09:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/q-expo

Quantum Policy Academy: Navigating Geopolitics & Business Strategy
⏰ 09:30 - 11:15
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/policy-academy

EuroHPC & Quantum: Tackling the Challenges of an Integrated Future
⏰ 11:15 - 12:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/quantum-excellence-centres

Scaling-up Quantum Networks — Beyond EuroQCI
⏰ 15:00 - 15:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/the-future-of-your-digital-infrastructure

FemTech Unite
⏰ 15:30 - 19:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/33kxfk6f

Partnering for Progress: How Collaboration Accelerates Quantum Innovation
⏰ 16:00 - 17:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/partnering-for-progress

Amsterdam Tech Connect | AI & data edition
⏰ 18:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/amsterdam-tech-connect-ai-data-edition-tickets-1262580043899

Quantum Meets the Q-Expo Networking Dinner
⏰ 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.quantummeets.com/events/quantum-meets-the-q-expo-networking-dinner

Shift Launch Party
⏰ 19:00 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shift-launch-party-tickets-1323503457469

May 15, 2025
NKI Early Cancer Detection Conference 2025
⏰ 08:30 - 18:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.nki.nl/news-events/calendar/nki-early-cancer-detection-conference-2025-from-research-to-implementation/

Leiden Meets Circulair
⏰ 14:00 - 17:00
📍 Leiden
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/leiden-meets-circular/

PLNT Borrel
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/plnt-borrel-31/

Kickstart AI - AI and Energy: Smarter Power for a Smarter Future
⏰ 17:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://meetup-may15.kickstartai-events.org/

Almere Tech #27
⏰ 17:30 - 20:00
📍 Almere
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/almere-tech/events/305045942/

Out in Tech Amsterdam | Third Thursdays
⏰ 18:00 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/out-in-tech-amsterdam-third-thursdays-registration-751242274867

OPEN MIC Amsterdam SWAN
⏰ 20:00 - 22:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-mic-amsterdam-swan-tickets-1113747983199

May 16, 2025
XR Creators Connect Day 2025
⏰ 14:00 - 19:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/xr-creators-connect-day-2025-tickets-1312783052449

Legal Frontier Hackathon: AI & Beyond
⏰ 15:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/3zq3hk2j

May 19, 2025
She secures AI: Autonomy, Risks, Defense
⏰ 17:30 - 21:00
📍 Eindhoven
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/fp8cmle4

Chill & Pitch: The AI Founders Icebreaker
⏰ 18:00 - 22:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/mjue22hj?tk=L1ayE8

May 20, 2025
Het Nationale AI in de Zorg Congres
⏰ 09:00 - 17:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.events.iqvia.com/event/b3a10e75-f317-400e-ada9-3012bd30640d/summary

Future Of Risk: Shaping What's Next | Expo by Plug and Play Insurtech
⏰ 12:00 - 16:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-of-risk-shaping-whats-next-expo-by-plug-and-play-insurtech-tickets-1203252152579

RSM BSc Entrepreneurship: Pitch Finals (Upstream Festival side event)
⏰ 13:00 - 15:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/rsm-bsc-entrepreneurship-pitch-finals-upstream-festival-side-event-tickets-1359860612699

A.I. FOR GOOD CHALLENGE ROTTERDAM
⏰ 13:00 - 17:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-ai-for-good-challenge-rotterdam-1321119998479

WAI Connect Zuid-Holland: Women in AI Benelux x Zuid-Holland AI Hub (Side event of Upstream festival 2025)
⏰ 16:00 - 18:30
📍 Delft
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/sly60fjv

Wine, Cheese & AI
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/wine-cheese-ai-tickets-1251040599109

To MCP or not to MCP
⏰ 17:30 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://meetu.ps/e/P34Gq/HfSd5/i

Get to Pitch at Pitch4Capital#15
⏰ 17:30 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/0w8uzkdi

AI Leaders: Future Proofing AI to Deliver Resilient AI Systems
⏰ 17:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/6jzp3hhi

Startup Investor Dinner 2025
⏰ 17:30 - 21:30
📍 Delft
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://yes-delft.typeform.com/to/A2ZY9HwJ

OutGeek Women in Tech - Amsterdam Team Ticket
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-outgeek-women-in-tech-amsterdam-team-ticket-1107253818979

Business After-Hours: Better for Bees, Better for Business
⏰ 18:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/business-after-hours-better-for-bees-better-for-business-tickets-1334924839129

May 21, 2025
Upstream Startup Festival 2025
⏰ May 21-22 | 8:00 - 21:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/upstream-startup-festival-2025-tickets-1118832390799

B'WISE Founders Breakfast - How to price your startup for success
⏰ 08:00 - 09:30
📍 Breda
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/2ir1cMfFwRNKRMQ53n6O1hAfegmg

Optimorrow X UPSTREAM | Your AI wake-up call
⏰ 08:00 - 10:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/optimorrow-x-upstream-your-ai-wake-up-call-tickets-1320088673759

Embodied Success
⏰ 09:00 - 11:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embodied-success-tickets-1332643856649

Investor Roundtable
⏰ 09:00 - 13:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.vntr.vc/events/rotterdam-644

Women’s Health TeamingUP: Entrepreneurs, Investors & Clinicians Collaborate for Impact
⏰ 09:30 - 11:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/hnc9hz3w

Future Mobility Park x UpstreamFestival
⏰ 12:00 - 17:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-mobility-park-x-upstreamfestival-tickets-1260719950309

Upstream Festival: How to overcome common GTM challenges for early-stage B2B SaaS companies
⏰ 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/a2cgb0wb?tk=ADO2nK

Superconnectors Rotterdam 2025
⏰ 14:00 - 16:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/superconnectors-rdam?tk=ZQcc9Z

Business Shower: Side-event Upstream 2025
⏰ 14:00 - 16:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-business-shower-side-event-upstream-2025-1312862289449

Founders Frustrations & Relievers
⏰ 14:00 - 16:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://form.typeform.com/to/GPSEXm0K

Upstream Side Event: Not Just Transitions
⏰ 14:30 - 17:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/upstream-side-event-not-just-transitions-tickets-1325210152239

Leading the Future: Women Building the Next Wave of AI Startups
⏰ 15:00 - 17:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/leading-the-future-women-building-the-next-wave-of-ai-startups-tickets-1341987112579

Brew Your Investor Pitchdeck
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.greyt.nl/event/brew-your-investor-pitchdeck/

WAI Connect Oost NL: Powering Tomorrow - How AI Transforms Energy Grid Reliability
⏰ 17:30 - 20:00
📍 Arnhem
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/eafzhdsn

Java Project Loom: an introduction + workshop (Open Hack Night #044)
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Utrecht
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-java-project-loom-an-introduction-workshop-open-hack-night-044-1295654219649

Founders’ Speakeasy: Cocktails, Confessions, Liberations & Libations 🍸
⏰ 20:00 - 21:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/6oin5tai

May 22, 2025
Deep Tech Breakfast
⏰ 08:00 - 09:45
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/3mrx1wwi

Hello World @Upstream Festival
⏰ 08:00 - 11:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/hello-world-upstream-festival-tickets-1295594470939

StartupRoulette
⏰ 15:00 - 16:00
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://startuproulette.vc/upstream/

Moonshot Thinking - Elif Boorn, director at Workday
⏰ 15:30 - 17:30
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moonshot-thinking-elif-boorn-director-at-workday-registration-1312623665719

Kickstart AI - Energy Efficient Soil Flow Simulation and Optimization
⏰ 18:00 - 21:00
📍 Rotterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://meetup-may22.kickstartai-events.org/

Utrecht Circle by AI4AllWomen: Making AI Sound Human
⏰ 18:00 - 20:30
📍 Utrecht
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/utrecht-circle-by-ai4allwomen-making-ai-sound-human-tickets-1336090876779?aff=oddtdtcreator

Brave Ideas, Big Results - How being Gutsy drives business
⏰ 18:00 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/brave-ideas-big-results-how-being-gutsy-drives-business-tickets-1360568088779

PLNT Borrel
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/plnt-borrel-32/

Builders Investor House 10th edition x Rabobank
⏰ 17:00 - 21:30
📍 Rotterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://lu.ma/builders-rabobank

Let's Touch BASE: ELEVATE your business
⏰ 17:30 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-touch-base-elevate-your-business-tickets-1317559619289

May 27, 2025
May meetup – optimizing AI to minimize latency/costs and maximize the ROI
⏰ 17:00 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/ai-on-the-amstel-meetup/events/306531208/

SheSays AMS presents UNSTUCK: Self-Promotion Without the Ick
⏰ 17:30 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
✴️ Creativity
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/shesays-ams-presents-unstuck-self-promotion-without-the-ick-tickets-1350034592809

Tech Networking Event by Startup Valley
⏰ 18:00 - 21:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-networking-event-by-startup-valley-in-amsterdam-tickets-1317975743929

May 28, 2025
AI & Automation: Beyond the Bullsh#t
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍 Amsterdam
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-automation-beyond-the-bullsht-tickets-1321114953389

Building Diverse AI Startups: Challenges and Opportunities
⏰ 17:30 - 20:30
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/building-diverse-ai-startups-challenges-and-opportunities-tickets-1363967586769

Green Software - The Netherlands
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Utrecht
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/green-software-the-netherlands/

May 29, 2025
PLNT Borrel
⏰ 17:00 - 19:00
📍 Den Haag
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://plnt.nl/evenementen/plnt-borrel-33/

May 30, 2025
Tech Makers Monthly Tech drinks - Meeting for entrepreneurs
⏰ 18:00 - 20:00
📍 Amsterdam
❇️ Entrepreneurship
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/tech-maker-amsterdam/events/307174228/

May 31, 2025

The Hague AI Walk: History Meets the Future
⏰ 12:00 - 13:30
📍 Den Haag
🛜 Technology
🔗 https://lu.ma/z8vclj1f?tk=mwTWMF