Conferences / MLCon (ML Conference)
MLcon Amsterdam 2026
Apr 20–24, 2026 · Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam-Amstel, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Conference
- MLCon (ML Conference) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Apr 20, 2026 – Apr 24, 2026
- Venue
- Van der Valk Hotel Amsterdam-Amstel
- Place
- Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- mlconference.ai
- Recorded
- 9 sponsors · 34 speaker appearances
- Notes
- First Amsterdam edition. Sponsors from the organizer's partner database as shown on the Amsterdam sponsors page ('Sponsors, Exhibitors & Media Partners MLcon Amsterdam 2026'); the organizer brand devmio is omitted. Prices are regular list prices excluding VAT ('instead of' prices). Speakers: every program session listed for this edition in the organizer's program database (as rendered on the program/archive pages); role follows the session type (keynote/workshop/session).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Day Pass | €599 | — | plus VAT | web.archive.org |
| 2-Day Pass | €999 | — | plus VAT | web.archive.org |
| Bootcamp Pass | €1,199 | — | plus VAT | web.archive.org |
| 3-Day Pass | €1,499 | — | plus VAT | web.archive.org |
| 4-Day Pass | €1,899 | — | plus VAT | web.archive.org |
| All Conference Days + Bootcamp Days | €2,099 | — | plus VAT; from EUR 1,889 incl. 10% team discount | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 9
Silver 3
- Harness · Silver Sponsors
- Jozu · Silver Sponsors
- Sopra Steria · Silver Sponsors
Bronze 3
- Pancompany · Bronze Sponsors
- Thisworkz · Bronze Sponsors
- Unleash · Bronze Sponsors
Community 1
- Kubernetes Podcast · Community Partner
Speakers and talks 34
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Pieter Buteneers | Emma Legal | Keynote | Product Innovation in the Age of GenAI | — |
| John Davies | Incept5 | Keynote | The LLM Smörgåsbord | — |
| Lucía Conde-Moreno | Info Support | Keynote | Welcome and Opening Keynote of MLcon Amsterdam 2026 | — |
| Mads Thines Coello | Dash0 | Keynote | How to Use AI Without Burning Out | — |
| Russell Miles | TechTalk | Keynote | How Developer Platforms Fail (And How Yours Won’t) | — |
| Susanne Pieterse | EDSN | Keynote | Welcome and Opening Keynote of MLcon Amsterdam 2026 | — |
| Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza | Microsoft | Speaker | Run Evals Like a Pro | — |
| Alex Shershebnev | Zencoder | Speaker | From $19 to CFO Attention: The Pricing Spiral of AI Assistants | — |
| Alexey Grigorev | DataTalks.Club | Workshop | Build Your Own AI Coding Agent | — |
| Awar Abdulkarim | Sopra Steria | Speaker | MCP Security: Keep Your AI Agents from Spilling the Tea | — |
| Bernhard Merkle | SICK AG | Speaker | TypeAgent: From RAG to Structured RAG: Building Long-Context, Precise, and Fast AI Systems | — |
| Brad Micklea | Jozu | Speaker | How a Global Logistics Company is Leading with Private AI/ML | — |
| Eileen Kapel | ING | Speaker | AIOps at ING: Correlating Signals for Smarter Incident Response | — |
| Frederik Pietzko | iits-consulting | Speaker | Ditch Python and build Enterprise-Ready AI Agents on the JVM with Koog | — |
| Gorkem Ercan | Jozu | Speaker | Unsigned, Unverified, In Production: The State of ML Supply Chains | — |
| Jan Lennartz | ING | Speaker | AIOps at ING: Correlating Signals for Smarter Incident Response | — |
| John Davies | Incept5 | Speaker | Breaking down an LLM for its parts | — |
| John Davies | Incept5 | Workshop | Hands-On Bootcamp: Vibe Coding & GenAI Development [Day 2] | — |
| John Davies | Incept5 | Workshop | Hands-On Bootcamp: Vibe Coding & GenAI Development [Day 1] | — |
| Keno Dreßel | SQUER | Speaker | Prompt Injection, Poisoning & More: The Dark Side of LLMs | — |
| Lorenzo Satta Chiris | University of Washington | Speaker | AURA: A Practical Risk Framework for Autonomous AI Agents | — |
| Manfred Bjørlin | Sopra Steria | Speaker | MCP Security: Keep Your AI Agents from Spilling the Tea | — |
| Martin Förtsch | TNG | Speaker | AI Hits Different - Music From the Machine Room | — |
| Pieter van der Meer | Dataworkz | Speaker | Agentic AI: From the Trenches — What Most Talks Skip | — |
| Rabieh Fashwall | Galeria | Speaker | Kubernetes as the Universal Control Plane: From Pods to Multi-Cloud Infrastructure | — |
| Rabieh Fashwall | Galeria | Workshop | Solving the ML Production Puzzle: A Practical Guide to Modern MLOps | — |
| Rainer Stropek | software architects | Workshop | Workshop: A Technical Deep Dive in Model Context Protocol (MCP) [Friday, 24th April] | — |
| Rainer Stropek | software architects | Speaker | Customizable Code Interpreter Experience With Azure Dynamic Sessions | — |
| Russell Miles | TechTalk | Workshop | Two Day Mastering Platform Engineering – From Design to Value - Day 2 | — |
| Russell Miles | TechTalk | Workshop | Two Day Mastering Platform Engineering – From Design to Value - Day 1 | — |
| Saumya Goyal | Datamics GmbH | Speaker | You Can’t Improve What You Can’t See: Making LLMs Transparent & Accountable | — |
| Soham Dasgupta | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Developer Odyssey: Navigating Use Cases, Models, and Technical Patterns | — |
| Sohan Maheshwar | AuthZed | Speaker | How to Prevent AI Agents from Accessing Unauthorized Data | — |
| Susanne Pieterse | EDSN | Speaker | RAG in the Wild: Real-World Lessons from Modernizing Legacy Systems | — |
Sources
- https://mlconference.ai/amsterdam/program-amsterdam/
- https://mlconference.ai/amsterdam/sponsors-exhibitors-amsterdam/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260406121154/https://mlconference.ai/amsterdam/sponsors-exhibitors-amsterdam/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260406121736/https://mlconference.ai/amsterdam/tickets-amsterdam/
- https://mlconference.ai/amsterdam/location-amsterdam/