TechDays 2027
The KickstartAI's flagship AI conference for technical practitioners and strategic leaders in the Netherlands
Organized by KickstartAI, TechDays is the annual AI conference in the Netherlands for AI practitioners and technical leaders building and deploying AI systems, organised by KickstartAI. With leading speakers from the Netherlands and Europe, emerging tools, and sessions designed for genuine exchange, TechDays is where engineers and technical decision-makers come to share practices, compare learnings, and push the field forward together
TechDays 2026 took place on 15 October at Circa Amsterdam, with ~370 AI practitioners and 17 sessions. Read the highlights.
About TechDays
Built for people who've been in the trenches
TechDays brings together the most advanced applied AI use cases from the Netherlands and across Europe, alongside the international state of the art. Engineers, data scientists, ML practitioners, technical leads, CEOs and CTOs, all in the same room, challenging assumptions, and pushing the field forward together. The focus is on technical depth and hard-won perspective.
Five things you can count on at TechDays
Depth over hype. Every session is selected for technical substance, not speaker brand or vendor reach.
State-of-the-art, hands-on. Exposure to the tools, models, and methods defining the current frontier.
Practical application on every track. Tradeoffs, decisions, real learnings, real outcomes. The agenda is organized around how, not what.
Responsible application. AI applied with care and intelligence in the industries and institutions where it actually matters.
Who attends TechDays
AI engineers · Data scientists · ML practitioners · MLOps engineers · CEOs · CTOs · Technical leads · Product Owners · Applied researchers · AI architects
Look back at TechDays 2026
TechDays2026 was all about applied AI, hard-won lessons, and a room full of people working in the field. Together, sharing perspectives and practical knowledge for a stronger Dutch society.
See the full program and speaker lineup of TechDays 2026
TechDays 2027
14 October, 2027
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Q & A
TechDays is primarily a technical AI conference. Sessions focus on real-world AI engineering, machine learning systems, deployment challenges, MLOps, infrastructure, LLM applications, architecture decisions, and practical implementation lessons from teams building AI products in production environments.
TechDays is designed for AI Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, MLOps Engineers, Software & Data Engineers, CTOs and Technical Leaders, AI Architects, Applied Researchers, PhD Candidates and Technical Product Leaders
The conference is especially valuable for professionals actively building, deploying, scaling, or managing AI systems.
TechDays prioritizes technical depth and practical substance over trend-driven presentations or vendor marketing. Speakers are selected because they have built and shipped AI systems, solved difficult engineering problems, and learned lessons worth sharing with the wider AI community.The conference focuses on:
production AI systems
real implementation challenges
architecture tradeoffs
applied machine learning
responsible AI deployment
state-of-the-art tooling and methods
Yes, TechDays is one of the few AI events that combines C-suite strategic perspective with practitioner-grade technical substance. CTOs, CEOs, founders, and heads of data science make up 15% of the professional audience, and the agenda is structured around real architectural and product decisions, not vendor showcases. Speakers are chosen because they've built and shipped things, so the perspective shared is earned, not theoretical. It is a rare setting where a CTO can test ideas against both engineers and other strategic leaders in the same room.
TechDays exists to help the people building the future of AI in the Netherlands, do it better, faster, and together. The belief behind it is that technology, applied with care, intelligence, and responsibility, can make the world meaningfully better, not as a tagline, but as an operational standard held against every speaker, session, and track. The event is annual, community-driven, and mission-oriented: each year the urgency of that mission grows, and each year the community that shows up to meet it becomes stronger.