The Goodbye Meetup

We are pleased to announce the Goodbye Meetup at our long-standing office. This will be our last meetup at the Amsterdam Zuidas office, Gustav Maherlaan 10. Next year, we'll be relocating to our new headquarters, currently under renovation, at Bijlmer Arena, Foppingadreef 22. As we're leaving our iconic headquarters, we want to say a proper goodbye to our Developer Community! 🗓️ Thursday 15 October 2026 🕰️ 17:30 Walk-in 📍 ABN AMRO Corporate Headquarters - Gustav Mahlerlaan 10 PROGRAM 17:30 - 18:20: Walk-in, Food & Drinks 18:20 - 18:30: Welcome Presentation 18:30 - 19:00: Why Doesn't Frontend Have a Patch Button?, Jurgen Sweere, ABN AMRO 19:00 - 19:30: Your Biggest New Customer Can't See Pixels, Tim Damen, ABN AMRO 19:30 - 19:40: Break 19:40 - 20:10: Modernizing Legacy Landscape - One Line of Code at a Time, Valeriya Komarnitskaya, ABN AMRO 20:10 - 20:40: topic4, open for audience, XYZ 20:40 - 21:30: Networking, Food & Drinks SPEAKERS Jurgen Sweere - Why Doesn't Frontend Have a Patch Button? When a platform team ships a change, why do hundreds of developers end up performing the same migration by hand? This talk looks at the hidden economics of frontend maintenance and how Warp Drive uses automated migrations to apply upgrades across hundreds of applications consistently, predictably, and with far less effort than traditional documentation-driven approaches. Tim Damen - Your Biggest New Customer Can't See Pixels For decades we've argued that accessibility is the right thing to do. The argument just got a lot easier, because your next customer probably isn't human. Whether you like it or not AI agents from are now browsing, comparing, and interacting on behalf of users. And here's the twist: they consume your site through the exact same accessibility tree screen readers do. Semantic HTML, proper labels, ARIA states, keyboard support, the same patterns that serve disabled users determine whether an agent can efficiently complete a checkout, fill a form, or even