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TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs

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echLead Conf Amsterdam 2026 brings together hands-on engineering leaders to explore and master AI adoption within organizations. The two-day event features talks, panels, and real-world case studies from both startups and large enterprises. Attendees participate in interactive sessions, an unconference, live Q&As, and workshops designed to deliver actionabl…

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28Voices
18Underwriters
0Exhibitors
35On the bill · sessions
39Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at TechLead, in alphabetical order.
Alfonso Graziano
AI Tech Lead · Nearform
Andrew Eacott
Principal Software Engineer · Miro
Anna J McDougall
Engineering Manager, Author · HashiCorp / IBM
Asparuh Hristov
AI Craft Lead and Engineering Manager · Bol
Ben Brandt
Zed
Daniel Frey
Tech Lead and AI Architect · FiveTimesFaster.com
Denis Ermakov
Lead Software Engineer · Tehpotok
Dünya Kirkali
Remote.com
Eric Kontargyris
Solutions Engineer · Braintrust
Fabrice Bernhard
Tech Cofounder · Theodo
Gregor Ojstersek
Engineering Leadership newsletter
HT Sahin
IKEA Digital
Ilya Pukhalski
Founder and Partner · ENDGAME
Jessica Andersson
Technical Architect and Team Lead · Jesande
Jonida Mersinllari
Technical Lead · Consentmo
Julia Wallin
Director of Engineering
Kristiyan Velkov
Tech Lead · Docker
Kseniia Korostelova
Senior Engineering Leader · Aristocrat Interactive
Lindsey Simon
VP of Engineering · Vercel
Matija Lukic
Director of Engineering · Workera AI
Mo Khazali
Head of Mobile and Tech Lead · Theodo
Nick Kuilman
Engineering Manager · Eye Security

— and 6 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
BraintrustPlatinum
RenderGold
AI & ML EventsPartner
AllConfsBotPartner
Amsterdam.devPartner
Cloud Native RejektsPartner
DevITJobsUKPartner
Digital ExpertsPartner
Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community GroupPartner
FocusReactiveTech Partner
HygraphTech Partner
Le WagonPartner
Platform Engineering AmsterdamPartner
SentryPartner
TechDogsPartner
VercelPartner
VihattechnologiesPartner
Women's Coding ClubPartner
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The Programme

Selected from 35 sessions on the bill.
  • 07:00

    Registration

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:10

    Opening Ceremony

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:30

    Effective Thinking in the Age of Augmented Tooling

    AI tools are writing more code than ever — but the engineers and leaders getting the most from them aren't the ones with the best prompts. They're the ones who think most clearly.D…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 09:50

    QnA with Lindsey Simon

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:00

    Agentic AIrways: Orchestrating a Dev Team with Multi-Agent Systems

    Workshop
  • 10:00 - 13:00

    Unconference - Redefining Engineering Careers in the AI Era

    Unconference & After-party
  • 10:15

    Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era

    The role of engineers is evolving in the AI era. As development tools become more powerful and accessible, the expectations for engineers are shifting from simply writing code to c…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:35

    QnA with Gregor Ojstersek

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
  • 10:50

    Building Blocks of an Agentic Engineering Platform: What SRE Taught Us About Running Agents

    Agents are the next distributed system: non-deterministic, autonomous, and tool-connected. Some patterns we rely on to run distributed systems reliably transfer directly; others br…

    AI & Tech Innovation Track
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 39 companies show up — and 4 bet on three roles at once?

39 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
4All threespeak · spons · exh
14Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
21Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Braintrust·Render·Sentry·Vercel

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

25% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Founder / Owner27%
  • VP-level14%
  • Director / Head of414%
  • Manager / Lead1346%
  • Engineer · IC27%
  • Other roles621%

Of 28 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01BraintrustSp·P1V
  2. 02RenderSp·G1V
  3. 03SentrySp·P1V
  4. 04VercelSp·P1V
  5. 05AI & ML EventsSp·P
  6. 06AllConfsBotSp·P
  7. 07amsterdamdevSp·P
  8. 08Cloud Native RejektsSp·P
  9. 09DevITJobs.ukSp·P
  10. 10Digital ExpertsSp·P
  11. 11Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community GroupSp·P
  12. 12FocusReactiveSp·T
  13. 13HygraphSp·T
  14. 14Le WagonSp·P
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
6% of 18
gold1
6% of 18
partner14
78% of 18
tech partner2
11% of 18
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters