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 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.

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.

Guest - topic4
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🚗 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.