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AI Summer Jam 2026

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AI Summer Jam 2026 ran on Sep 22, 2026 at HQ Xebia Hilversum in Hilversum, Netherlands. It is a Technology conference. ConferenceGrid lists 14 speakers and 18 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Jun 24, 2026 · dates verified May 6, 2026

AI Summer Jam is an in-person community event organized by the Global AI Hilversum chapter, held in Hilversum, Netherlands. The event brings together AI enthusiasts for a vibrant evening of talks, networking, and technology showcases.

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14Speakers
0Sponsors
18Sessions
10Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at AI, in alphabetical order.

Albert-Jan Schot
CTO & MVP · Blis Digital
Alexandru Turcu
AI Engineer · TNO
Barbara Forbes
Azure Architect @ Zure | Azure MVP | GitHub Star · Zure
Bert Jan Schrijver
CTO · OpenValue
Claartje Barkhof
Machine Learning Researcher · TNO
Daniel Laskewitz
Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft
Eduard van Valkenburg
Senior Software Engineer on the Semantic Kernel team · Microsoft
Hari Rangarajan
Developer Advocate · Solace
Jesse Wellenberg
Software Engineer · Xebia
Marco Casalaina
VP of Products, Azure AI · Microsoft
Olaf Molenveld
Technology advisor · CircleCI
Oleksandra Bovkun
Developer Advocate · Databricks
Stuart van der Lee
Software Engineer · Sopra Steria
Willem Meints
Chief AI Architect/Microsoft AI MVP

Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions.

  • 08:30

    Registration

  • 09:30

    Welcome

  • 09:45

    The Evolution of Agents at Microsoft and Everywhere

  • 10:45

    Coffee break

  • 11:00

    Cascading Failures in Multi-Agent Systems: Tracing and Evaluating Multi-Agent Deployments

  • 11:30

    Coding smarter with GitHub Copilot

  • 12:00

    Agent Framework v1 and what's next!

  • 12:30

    Lunch

  • 13:15

    Agentic DevOps for the Real World

Quick answers

When is AI Summer Jam 2026?
AI Summer Jam 2026 ran on Sep 22, 2026 at HQ Xebia Hilversum in Hilversum, Netherlands.
Where is AI Summer Jam 2026 held?
AI Summer Jam 2026 was held at HQ Xebia Hilversum in Hilversum, Netherlands.
Who is speaking at AI Summer Jam 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 14 speakers, including Albert-Jan Schot (CTO & MVP, Blis Digital), Alexandru Turcu (AI Engineer, TNO) and Barbara Forbes (Azure Architect @ Zure | Azure MVP | GitHub Star, Zure).
Company intelligence

An audience of 10 companies, parsed from the program.

Ten companies in attendance.

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.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
10Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

29% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite321%
  • VP-level17%
  • Manager / Lead17%
  • Engineer · IC750%
  • Research / Science17%
  • Advisor / Investor17%

Of 14 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Microsoft3
2TNO2
3Blis Digital1
4CircleCI1
5Databricks1
6OpenValue1
7Solace1
8Sopra Steria1
9Xebia1
10Zure1
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.