Techdays 2026 : Applied AI
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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, organized by KickstartAI. This year’s edition centers not on what AI can do, but on the how. How it works in practice. How teams navigate the hard decisions. How technology, applied with care, can make the world better. 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.
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Meet the speakers
Lokke Moerel
Theme:Professor and Director, Tilburg University
Almer S. Tigelaar
Theme:Staff Engineering Manager & Tech Lead, Google
Shahin Shahkarami
Theme:Global VP of AI & Automation, IKEA Retail
Sako Arts
Theme:CTO, Wonderful NL
Pratyush Sinha
Theme:Head of Responsible AI (Senior Director), Decathlon
Kevin Kewal
Theme:Data & AI Engineering Lead in Global Financial Crime and Fraud Prevention, ING
Bauke Brenninkmeijer
Theme:AI Research Engineer, orq.ai
Jacek Golebiowski
Theme:CTO, Distil Labs
Felicity Fan
Theme:Data Scientist, CorrelAid Netherlands
Charles de Leau
Theme:Data Scientist, UvA
Liangliang Zheng
Theme:MLOps Engineer, ING
Sebastiaan van Duijn
Theme:AI Manager, Trivium Packaging
Sjoerd de Kreij
Theme:CEO, Typetone
Marco van der Werf
Theme:Founder, Bit AI Studio
Frans Cruijssen
Theme:Professor & Director, Zero Hunger Lab, Tilburg University
Henk Snepvangers
Theme:AI Project Lead, KickstartAI
Sarthak Anand
Theme:Senior Data Scientist, Libra AI
Tom Kersten
Theme:LLM Engineer, Brainbay
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