Amsterdam Java User Group

This meetup will be hosted by Adyen, in their office at Simon Carmiggeltstraat 6 - 50, 1011 DJ Amsterdam.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Please bring a valid ID document with you. You’ll need it to enter the building ⚠️

AI agents are moving into production. The question is no longer whether to use them, but whether you can trust what they ship.
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This AGNTCon PreDay meetup brings together security researchers, developer advocates, and platform engineers integrating AI agents into real codebases, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native systems.

​Hosted by:

• Amsterdam Java User Group
• Dutch Cloud Native & AI Community Group
• Codex Community
• Qodo Dev Community
• AI Security Engineers Community

​The evening focuses on conversations that rarely fit into conference talks:

• what breaks when an agent has write access to your dependencies,
• how to encode your team's standards into machine-readable guardrails
• what changes when agentic systems run at cloud-native scale

​Under the theme Security, Quality, and Scale, we'll explore agentic supply-chain risk, AI-powered code review, and Java and cloud-native's evolving role in agentic systems.
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No vendor pitches. Just practical lessons from systems running in production.

​AGENDA

• 18:00 – Doors Open, Drinks and Networking
• 18:30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 18:40 – Nnenna Ndukwe, Developer Relations, Qodo
• 19:00 – Break, Food and Networking
• 19:15 – Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild (details below)
• 19:55 – Break, Food and Networking
• 20:10 – Liran Tal, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Snyk
• 20:30 – Speaker TBA
• 20:50 – Closing Remarks

​SPEAKERS

• Liran Tal – Senior Director, Developer Relations, Snyk
• Nnenna Ndukwe – Developer Relations, Qodo
• Surprise speaker – TBA

​PANEL
AGENTIC AI IN THE WILD What does it take to move AI agents from proof of concept into systems that operate reliably? Practitioners from across the technology stack will discuss context management, governance, production workflows, failure modes, and what changes when agentic systems scale. Expect concrete lessons, not talking points.

• ​Moderator: Dana Fine
• Panelists:
• Brian Vermeer (Java Community),
• Carlos Mestre del Pin (Microsoft),
• Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza (Cloud Native Community),
• Speaker TBA (OpenAI)

Join in with the latest Amsterdam JUG Workshop at Dash0 (which is at Dash0, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 162/Suite 401, 1012SJ Amsterdam), in which we learn all the basic principles of OpenTelemetry, while eating pizza, (and celebrating Yoeri Krom's birthday).

Note:

• Bring Your own laptop because this is a hands-on workshop where you'll be learning about OpenTelemetry from scratch!
• Limited seats, exclusive workshop, sign up quick!

Agenda

17:30 — Doors Open (and Food and Drinks)
18:00–18:20 — OpenTelemetry for Complete Beginners (Part 1).
18:20–18:50 — OpenTelemetry for Complete Beginners (Part 2).
18:50–19:20 — Hands on Lab 1: Instrumenting a demo app.
19:20–19:35 — Break.
19:35–20:10 — Hands on Lab 2: From data to answers.
20:10–20:40 — Hands on Lab 3: Break things on purpose.
20:40–21:00 — Wrap-up.

Details on Labs

Lab 1: Instrument a demo app. Add OpenTelemetry to a small service from scratch: SDK, auto-instrumentation, and a collector. You'll send the resulting traces, metrics, and logs into a demo environment so you can see what your instrumentation actually produces.

Lab 2: From data to answers. With telemetry flowing, we'll work through real questions: which service is slow, why, and what changed. The environment that we set up in Lab 1 is our workbench, but the techniques (correlating traces with logs, reading resource attributes, querying by semantic conventions) apply to any OTel-compatible backend.

Lab 3: Break things on purpose. Introduce latency, errors, and a misbehaving dependency into the demo app, while tracing the failure back to its cause using only what OTel gives you. The goal is to see how much of a real incident you can reconstruct from the signals, using the demo environment to check whether your diagnosis continues to makes sense.