Agenda and speakers
Watch this space as the keynote speakers
will be announced soon!
Photo credits: Esmée van Loon
What to expect at TechSummit 2026
We’re currently shaping the agenda for TechSummit Amsterdam, taking place on September 30, 2026. You can expect a line up of national and international speakers — including CTOs, senior engineers, and architects — who will share practical insights and real-world solutions around this year’s theme: Building Resiliency at Scale.
Get ready to explore the challenges and solutions in designing, operating, and scaling robust, cloud-native, and AI-integrated systems. Stay tuned!
Meet the hosts of TechSummit
Nico Di Rocco
Engineering Manager
Leaseweb
Ares Sanjuan Vicente
Agile Team Manager
Leaseweb
Agenda
This agenda is subject to change
Stay tuned for more updates on the sessions and speakers.
9:00 – 10:00 Registrations – Entrance
10:00 – 10:15 Welcome from Leaseweb – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Sander Poelwijk
CTO
Leaseweb Global
10:15 – 10:45 First keynote speaker – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Secure and Scalable: AI Development at NATO
Michael Street
Chief, Exploiting Data Science & AI
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break – Foyer / Meetingroom – 2nd floor
11:15 – 11:45 Deep Dive talk – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Resilience in Microservices with Congestion Control
Mourjo Sen
Senior Software Engineer
Booking.com
11:15 – 12:00 Panel discussion – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
LLMs in the Wild: AI at Scale Across Enterprise, Industry & Open Source
Moderator
Jessica Greene
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Ecosia GmbH
Speakers
An Dang
AI Engineer
Lufthansa Industry Solutions
Tereza Iofciu
AI & Leadership Coach
Nico Martin
Open Source Machine Learning Engineer
Hugging Face
Daniel Zeitler
Creative Technologist
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch – Foyer / Meetingroom – 2nd floor
13:30 – 14:00 Breakout sessions
The Sovereign Stack: Building Beyond Hyperscalers in the European Cloud
Adriaan Wind
CTO & Co-Founder
anny
Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Your Integration Layer Is Already Legacy – You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Alex Tryshchenko
Senior Engineering Manager
Typeform
IJ zaal – 5th floor
14:05 – 14:35 Breakout sessions
How to bootstrap a fully managed CAPI environment using gitops
Farnaz Babaeian
Senior Platform Engineer
Leaseweb
João Falcão
Senior Platform Engineer
Leaseweb
Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Why Is This Slow, Expensive, and Wrong? Facilitating resilience through observability
Felix Meyer
Chapter Lead – Operations Engineering
Cloudeteer GmbH
IJ zaal – 5th floor
14:40 – 15:10 Coffee break – Foyer / Meetingroom – 2nd & 5th floor
15:15 – 15:45 Breakout sessions
The Invisible Infrastructure: How AI Systems Eliminate Engineer Choices Before Anyone Decides
Jacob Ward
Founder and Journalist
TheRipCurrent.com, CNN
Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Session to be announced
IJ zaal – 5th floor
15:50 – 16:20 Second keynote speaker – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Scaling Reliability with AI: Machine Learning Challenges in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Max Adaloudis
Data Scientist
ASML
16:20 – 16:30 Closing remarks from Leaseweb – Grote zaal – 2nd floor
Sander Poelwijk
CTO
Leaseweb Global
16:30 – 19:00 Drinks & snacks – Expo – 1st floor
Keynote speakers
Michael Street
Chief, Exploiting Data Science & AI
NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency)
Presentation title: Secure and Scalable: AI Development at NATO
Get exclusive insights into how one of the world’s most strategically important defense organizations is developing secure and scalable AI capabilities — supporting complex logistics, decision-making, and mission-critical operations.
Max Adaloudis
Data Scientist
ASML
Presentation title: Scaling Reliability with AI: Machine Learning Challenges in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Gain thought-provoking insights into ASML’s role in the semiconductor industry, where reliability is essential and the goal is to eliminate unplanned downtime. Discover how AI-driven approaches help ASML anticipate system behavior and support proactive decision-making.
About TechSummit
Originally started in Amsterdam in 2014 as a platform for IT experts to share their knowledge, TechSummit has grown into an international forum with events in Amsterdam, Berlin, and the US. Building on the success of previous editions, the TechSummit in Amsterdam brings together technical professionals to discuss current and emerging topics, fostering an ongoing technical conversation among industry peers.
Join us in driving the conversation on practical technical solutions, innovative technologies, and resilient IT infrastructures.
Impression of the previous TechSummit edition in Amsterdam
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