The Goodbye Meetup

We are pleased to announce The Goodbye Meetup with our long-standing headquarters.

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 leave our iconic headquarters, we want to say a proper goodbye to our Developer Community! This is also one of the last chances to see (part of) Bank's head office occupied from 1999, from the inside; you definitely wouldn't like to miss out!

🗓️ 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: Goodbye, Manual SDLC? Architecting the AI-Driven SDLC: What’s Left for Humans?, Gaurav Sehrawat, Verifone
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

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.

Gaurav Sehrawat - Manual SDLC? Architecting the AI-Driven SDLC: What’s Left for Humans?
Most teams use AI as autocomplete. This talk goes further: a single feature goes from a spoken idea to production, with AI handling requirements, estimation, specs, code, review, deployment and log monitoring. Humans step in only at decision gates, where diagrams, tables and charts make every call quick and clear.

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.