Amsterdam's biggest AI meetup is coming to the VU!

On June 2nd, Amsterdam's biggest AI meetup is coming to the VU! The AI on the Amstel meetup will be holding a panel with some of the top AI researchers in the Netherlands discussing cutting-edge AI models and the future of AI. We'll also celebrate the start of the summer ☀️

👉👉 This meetup covers two topics the community has requested. First, how are frontier AI models (like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, etc.) actually built and improved? Second, the community has requested a hype-free discussion of the future and how cutting-edge models may evolve over the next one to two years. So we'll be covering both topics in the June AI on the Amstel meetup!

🎤🎤 We'll have leading AI researchers on this panel, including Rick Lamers (researcher at NVIDIA) and Thomas Mensink (researcher at Google DeepMind). We'll announce the third panelist soon. We've got an excellent third panelist, but it takes a while for top researchers to "check all the boxes" internally for public speaking. You can sign up for the event here. It's a free event. 

🧑‍💻👩‍💻 Now, we certainly know that most attendees are not AI engineers. We'll make sure the panel strikes the balance of getting into the details of how this works without getting too technical that you can't understand what they're saying : )

🏖️🏖️We'll also celebrate the start of the summer with a twist on the usual meetup format. From 17:00 to 18:00, we will gather in an outdoor area for networking and drinks. From 18:00 to 19:15, we'll all walk to the NU building right nearby and sit in the VU's biggest lecture hall for the panel. It's a two minute walk away. After the panel concludes, we'll go back to the outdoor area for more networking.

📍📍 The address for the outdoor party/networking area is De Boelelaan 1095a, 1081 HV Amsterdam. It's the VU StartHub, a blue container village in the middle of the VU campus square. If you arrive a little late (which is fine) and are going straight to the lecture hall, the address for the lecture hall is De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam. The lecture hall is Theaterzaal 1.

🅰️ℹ️ For background, the AI on the Amstel meetup is a monthly technical meetup that features knowledgeable speakers discussing "in the weeds" AI topics and challenges. The AI on the Amstel meetup is the largest monthly AI event in Amsterdam. The meetup gets 200-400+ people a month depending on the size of the venue that month. The meetup has over 5,000 members on Meetup.com, and has a 4.7/5 rating. 

 

We hope to see you there! You'll learn a lot about the cutting edge of AI!