Maarten Grootendorst

Employers on the program

2026Google3 talks

Events3

Conferences3

Talks32 keynotes

Years active2026

Talk freshness983 different talks in 3 · 2 circuits, 24 months Miles between events2683 in-person events · 2 countries

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
PyData

Talks

Date	Event	Conference	Role	Title
Sep 23, 2026	AI Engineer Paris 2026	AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)	speaker	The Efficiency of Gemma 4 as Google DeepMind Wonder what makes Gemma 4 so efficient for local usage?
Sep 17, 2026	AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026	MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon	keynote	Keynote: Inside AI Agents -- Offloading Human Tasks - Maarten Grootendorst, Creator of BERTopic, KeyBERT & PolyFuzz, Member of Technical Staff - Google DeepMind as Google DeepMind This keynote will cover the foundation of what makes an AI Agents (a reasoning LLM, memory, tooling, and planning) and how the transition into an era of Agentic…Show less This keynote will cover the foundation of what makes an AI Agents (a reasoning LLM, memory, tooling, and planning) and how the transition into an era of Agentic AI is reflected in the development of LLMs.
Sep 10, 2026	PyData Amsterdam 2026	PyData	keynote	From LLMs to Agents and from words to actions as Google DeepMind The title is self-explanatory but we will cover this transition to the realm of Agents and how actions speak louder than words.

Frequent co-speakers

Speaker	Shared events	Shared talks	Last together
Bauke Brenninkmeijer	2	—	2026
Sohan Maheshwar	2	—	2026
Jay Alammar	1	1	2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.