ABN AMRO Developer

🗓️ Thursday 15 October 2026
🕰️ 17:15 Walk-in
📍 ABN AMRO Corporate Headquarters - Gustav Mahlerlaan 10

PROGRAM
17:15 - 18:15: Walk-in, Food & Drinks
18:15 - 18:20: Welcome Presentation
18:20 - 18:50: Modernizing Legacy Landscape - One Line of Code at a Time, Valeriya Komarnitskaya, ABN AMRO
18:50 - 19:20: Java, LEGO & AI: Teaching the Next Generation to Build, Not Just Prompt, Edwin (Eddy) Vos, Albert Heijn
19:20 - 19:30: Break
19:30 - 20:00: Physically virtual: how information technology obeys physical laws, Marianne Hoornenborg, Kamer van Koophandel (KvK)
20:00 - 20:30: Your Biggest New Customer Can't See Pixels, Tim Damen*, ABN AMRO
20:30 - 21:45: Networking, Food & Drinks

* We are open to giving the chance for an external Speaker to close our meetup's history.

SPEAKERS
Valeriya Komarnitskaya - Modernizing Legacy Landscape - One Line of Code at a Time
Modernizing legacy systems in a bank is rarely about one big rewrite. It is a journey of continuous improvements, trade-offs and learnings. In this talk, we will explore how we are evolving a complex legacy landscape, what tools and technology facilitate us in this ongoing journey and how we reduce technical debt without disrupting the business.

Edwin (Eddy) Vos - Java, LEGO & AI: Teaching the Next Generation to Build, Not Just Prompt
Generative AI can write code in seconds. So does it still make sense to teach programming to children?We at Devoxx4Kids think it does.In our workshops, we use LEGO SPIKE robots to teach problem-solving, software design and computational thinking. There is just one challenge: LEGO SPIKE does not officially support Java.Rather than accepting that limitation, we explored alternative approaches to bring Java to the platform and make LEGO robots accessible to our next generation Java developers.In this session, we'll share our journey, demonstrate how Java can be used to control LEGO SPIKE robots, discuss the technical challenges we encountered, and show real-world examples from educational settings.

Marianne Hoornenborg - Physically virtual: how information technology obeys physical laws
How often do you explore the physical foundations of information and computation? Do you know how data is transmitted, stored, and processed within our physical systems? Are you ready for a renewed sense of awe for the technology we rely on every day?

Marianne examines light, energy, and the physical nature of information. Be prepared to surrender some headspace as she ventures into the subatomic volatility from which our remarkably stable digital states emerge.

Come peek beneath abstractions and leave greateful for their existence.

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 find your product.

In this talk we'll look at how agents actually use the web, where they fail (and why those failures map to WCAG violations), and what web development teams should do today. If you've been waiting for a business case for accessibility that lands with execs, this is it.

🚗 yes, parking is possible at our location. Please send an email to daniel.danielecki[at]nl.abnamro.com at least 24 hours before the start of the meetup. However, due to ongoing renovations in the building complex, parking is limited; if you can, please use public transport.