Mendix Community Netherlands

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Join us for another exciting Mendix Meetup in Rotterdam, where we'll dive deep into the latest advancements of Generative AI for Mendix applications!

We're thrilled to invite you to an evening dedicated to exploring how you can leverage cutting-edge GenAI capabilities for your even more intelligent, efficient, and powerful Mendix apps. Learn how to optimize your AI solutions, discover new ways to create dynamic agents, and ensure your applications are future-proof.

What We'll Explore:

• 🤖 GenAI Foundations & Mendix Components: Kick off with a short introduction to Generative AI and a look at the essential Mendix components and GenAI Resources that empower you to integrate AI seamlessly into your applications.
• 🚀 GenAI Token Consumption - Basic Tips: Learn crucial strategies for managing your application effectively, focusing on how to maximize efficiency and avoid overconsuming valuable tokens. We'll share practical tips to optimize your GenAI solutions.
• 💡 Building Intelligent GenAI Agents: Get a sneak peek into the exciting world of agents within Mendix, including a demonstration of powerful new features that will change how you build them 😉.
• ✅ Ensuring AI Trustworthiness: Delve into relevant topics like traceability and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) processes, ensuring your smart applications are robust, transparent, and reliable.
• ❓ Interactive Q&A Session: Bring your questions and engage with our experts!

This is our current plan, and we might adapt or add more exciting content closer to the event – so stay tuned for potential surprises!

🍕 Of course, there will be food, drinks, and plenty of time to connect with fellow Mendix developers, architects, and enthusiasts.

Agenda

🍕 17:30 Walk in & Dinner
👨‍🏫 18:30 Presentations
🍺 19:30 Drinks & networking

Do you have any allergies? Please indicate in the registration question which allergies and/or what dietary restrictions you have (if any)?

About Our Speakers

Tom Warmerdam
Tom is a Mendix developer with 8 years of experience and currently part of the GenAI Innovation team at Mendix. Together with the team, he works on integrating AI capabilities into the platform and has published a range of platform-supported GenAI components in the Mendix Marketplace. With a focus on developer experience and by making advanced AI features easily accessible to Mendix users, Mendix allows developers to create smarter AI-augmented applications with ease.

Emily E. von Bergen T.
Emily is a Product Manager in the Agentic Application and Orchestration team (Smart Apps) at Mendix, bringing over 6 years of experience in the data and AI field. With a background in data science, she focuses on understanding customer AI adoption journeys, particularly in generative AI. Emily is instrumental in understanding customer demand, and orchestrating communication between engineers, solution architects, and product managers.

Media Policy
We’ll take photos and videos during the event to share on social media or use in future promotions by Mendix or our event partners. If you prefer not to appear in any photos or recordings, just let us know when you register, or kindly speak to the photographer during the event.

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, sharing knowledge, and learning something new.
The meetups are NOT about Sales, Marketing, or Recruitment.
To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at mendix dot com.
Any questions on this Meetup? Contact the community at mendix dot com for more details.

Mendix extensions are one of the most powerful ways to extend the platform. Curious how Mendix extensions are built? This meetup is a hands-on, developer-focused session where you’ll get your hands dirty.

After a short introduction, we move quickly into doing. You’ll explore the structure, tooling, and best practices behind Mendix extensions.

## What you’ll learn

• How Mendix extensions work
• How to set up and structure an extension project
• Best practices for building extensions

## Why attend?

Mendix extensions unlock a whole new level of what you can build with the platform. This meetup is designed to spark excitement around Mendix extensions and show how small, focused extensions can create big value.

## Indicative timetable (12 May)

17:30 – 18:30
Walk-in, drinks, snacks, informal networking
18:30 – 19:00
Short introduction and technical overview
19:00 – 20:00
Hands-on building and coding session
20:00 – 20:30
Wrap-up, discussion, sharing learnings

## Practical info

• Bring your own laptop
• Basic Mendix development experience recommended
• No recording will be made

📍 Location: Mendix Office
🍕 Food: Pizza provided

## Speakers

🎤 Peter Mudde
🎤 Jonathan Diehl
🎤 Andrej Koelewijn

## About this event

This is an in-person Mendix Meetup focused on community, learning, and knowledge sharing.
No sales pitches. No recruitment. Just building together.
Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, sharing experience, and learning something new.

Join us at the Valcon Meetup in Utrecht .

Schedule
17:45 - 18:45 - Walk in, networking and dinner
18:45 - 19:20 - Part 1: Bridging a gap at DISA
19:20 - 19:30 - Short break
19:30 - 20:00 - Part 2: Mendix Mystery
20:00 - 21:00 - Drinks and networking

Part 1: Bridging a gap at DISA
DISA was founded to bridge a gap. A gap in one of the most critical processes in the Netherlands: identifying and screening every asylum seeker entering the country. They started from zero, with nothing but paper forms and urgency. That paper process needed to become digital, fast. That's where Mendix came in. But how do you turn something so unpredictable into a reliable workflow application? Every asylum seeker brings a different story, different documents, and different needs. The workflow needed guardrails, but also freedom.
Add to that a UX challenge: newly hired staff, many with limited computer experience, had to use this every single day. And behind the scenes, integrating with the national immigration partner chain, each with their own systems, on-premise, across multiple servers, turned every connection into a technical puzzle.
Come hear how we built a Mendix application that is structured enough to be trusted, flexible enough to be useful, and simple enough for anyone to use.

Part 2: Mendix Mystery
You've been building in Mendix.... But have you ever stopped to wonder — are you really using it to its full potential? There's a concept most developers walk past every single day. Simple on the surface. Powerful underneath. Once it clicks, you'll never build the same way again

Dinner
Two diner options are being served from 17:45 - 18:45h. Both options are also available as vegetarian options.

Parking
The Valcon office is situated at Leidsche Rijn central area. It is a short walk from train station Utrecht Leidsche Rijn. If coming by car there are ample parking spots available in the parking garage below the Jumbo foodmarket.

Entrance
Please enter the Valcon office from street level, not from the parking garage. A clear meetup banner and host will be there to register and welcome you into our office.

About Mendix Meetups
The Mendix Community Meetups are about meeting other makers, knowledge sharing, and learning something new.
The content of the meetups are not about:

• Sales
• Marketing
• Recruitment

To learn more about the meetups or if you want to organize your own meetup, contact the Community Team at community at Mendix dot com.