Name: Xebia Women in Data second edition
Start: 2025-09-24T15:30:00.000Z
Location: Xebia Office

Don't miss our 23rd Eindhoven Data Community meetup! Join us for an evening dedicated to the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence, featuring a fantastic program with speakers from dsm-firmenich and AWS.
Laurens, Soraya, and Ashish from **dsm-firmenich** will kick off the evening with their session, *"From experiments to virtual colleagues: Our first steps with AI Agents"*. They will share their hands-on journey, separating hype from reality. After the break, Sara from **Amazon Web Services (AWS)** will guide us through the world of enterprise AI with her presentation, *"Guidance for building a Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway on AWS"*.
Come for the knowledge, stay for the network! We look forward to welcoming you at the **AI Innovation Center** on High Tech Campus 5.

**dsm\-firmenich \| From experiments to virtual colleagues: Our first steps with AI Agents**
AI agents promise to take us beyond simple prompting into a world where machines can reason, plan, and act. In this session, we’ll share our hands-on journey experimenting with AI agents, separating hype from reality. We’ll walk through how we got started, the use cases we explored, the tools and frameworks we tested, what worked (and what didn’t), and the key lessons we’ve learned along the way.

**AWS \| Guidance for building a Multi\-Provider Generative AI Gateway on AWS**
A generative AI gateway is a design pattern popular in enterprise settings which establishes a central gateway where developers can access foundation models from multiple providers. It includes features for access control, quota management, cost control, governance, and observability. This session will dive deep on a recommended architecture for building an AI gateway on AWS and provide a demo of the final result.

**Location:** AI Innovation Center, High Tech Campus 5

**Program:**

* 17:00 – 18:00 Food
* 18:00 – 18:10 Welcome
* 18:10 – 19:00 Ashish, Soraya, Laurens: From experiments to virtual colleagues: Our first steps with AI Agents
* 19:00 – 19:15 Break
* 19:15 – 20:00 Sara: Guidance for building a Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway on AWS
* 20:00 - 21:00 Drinks

**About Laurens Glasbergen \| Head of Technology Innovation & Scouting \| dsm\-firmenich**
Laurens is a curious and imaginative technologist with a passion for exploring emerging technologies. He brings a tech-agnostic mindset, enjoys experimenting with new tools, and is always learning. With an entrepreneurial approach, he focuses on finding practical, creative ways to apply technology and drive innovation for dsm-firmenich.

**About Soraya Duriez \| Product Manager \| dsm\-firmenich**
Soraya Duriez is a Product Manager that drives data-driven innovation and bridging strategy with execution. Formerly Chief of Staff in for Data & AI, she brings a unique blend of business acumen and technical insight to product development to deliver business value, aligning technical teams with strategic goals.

**About Ashish Sahu \| Digital Architect \| dsm\-firmenich**
Ashish is an architect with a strong passion for enabling impactful digital transformation initiatives. He brings extensive expertise in navigating complex and diverse IT environments, seamlessly integrating COTS solutions, middleware, and modern architectures like microservices and cloud-native approaches. Committed to continuous learning, Ashish actively explores new technologies, design patterns, and implementation frameworks to architect cutting-edge solutions.

**About Sara van de Moosdijk \| Solution Architect for AI/ML \| Amazon Web Services**
Sara, simply known as Moose, is a Solutions Architect for AI/ML at Amazon Web Services in the Netherlands. She helps AWS customers build and scale AI/ML solutions through technical enablement, support, and architectural guidance. Drawing on experience from her previous role as an AI/ML Solutions Architect with AWS in Australia, Moose aims to make machine learning accessible to all levels within an organization.

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Laurens Glasbergen

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Mark Boon

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Vijaybir Singh

Pankaj Kumar

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23th Eindhoven Data Community Meetup | AI Agents & GenAI Gateways

AI Innovation center

We are excited to have our second meeting of Women in Data, where we are going to present technical and soft-skill topics. Join us at our beautiful office in Wibautstraat for an insightful meetup on Data and meet more women in your field. We will have a talk about data with the head of data at Rituals. Don’t miss out!

📅 **Agenda:**
17:45 - 18:30h 🍕 Walk-in + Snacks & Drinks
18:30 - 19:00h 🎙️ [Doortje de Wiljes ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/doortjedewiljes/)\- From art school to analytics: a non\-linear journey
19:05 - 19:35 🎙️[Marlous Been](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAkNiyoBjOR7hzfYU6YTxDFntVtVaaDCYEM) \- Finding\, Understanding & Trusting Data: Building the Digital Data Backbone at Odido
19:35 - 20:00h ☕️ Networking
📍 **Location:**
Xebia Data
Wibautstraat 202, Amsterdam
**Sign-up instructions:**

* Sign up via [meetup.com](http://meetup.com/)
* Let us know if you have any strict dietary restrictions (e.g. vegan🌱)
* We are looking for speakers for the next events. If you would like to give a talk, let us know the topic and a contact information.

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