We’re excited to announce the launch of Find & Mind – The Search & AI Meetup, a new community based in Amsterdam, Netherlands for everyone passionate about the intersection of Search, Information Retrieval, and Applied AI/LLMs.
Why This Community?
Over the years, Amsterdam has seen plenty of vibrant meetups focused on either applied AI/LLMs or on search/IR. Many of these have been tied to vendors, academic circles, or very specific technologies.
But there has been a gap: a vendor-neutral, community-driven meetup that brings together practitioners and researchers across these worlds — ranking, relevance, retrieval, RAG, and agentic workflows — into the same room.
Find & Mind aims to fill that gap by:
- 🌐 Creating a space where Search meets AI in practice
- 🎤 Sharing talks, demos, and case studies from the field
- 🤝 Building a community of professionals and enthusiasts across the Netherlands
What To Expect
At Find & Mind, you can look forward to:
- Talks introducing new techniques and practical applications
- Case studies and lessons from real-world systems
- Demos that showcase where search and AI are headed
- Plenty of time for open discussion and networking
We want this to be a place where engineers, researchers, and product folks learn from each other — and where the Dutch Search & AI scene grows stronger together.
The First Edition
📅 The inaugural meetup will take place in Amsterdam on September 17, 2025.
We’ll share full details on talks and venue soon — but this is just the beginning.
👉 RSVP Here: Find & Mind Meetup: The First Edition
Organizers
Find & Mind is organized by:
- Ravindra Harige (Searchplex)
- Daniel Spee (Luminis)
Both of us believe the most exciting work happens when retrieval meets reasoning — and we’re looking forward to creating a community where that happens in the open.
Join Us
If you’re interested in ranking models, RAG, applied LLMs, agentic systems, or evaluation/observability of modern AI search, we’d love for you to be part of this community.