Explore top design events in Amsterdam in 2025: Conferences, workshops, summer schools, and more.

JANUARY

It’s All Graphic #12

20 January, 2025

8 to 11pm at Pakhuis de Zwijger

Free after registration

On 20 January 2025 the Wim Crouwel Institute kicks off the year again with a new ‘It's All Graphic’, about hybrid graphic design practices, on the connecting roles of the publisher and graphic designer. For this edition we have invited internationally operating publishers/designers, who not only combine the roles of publisher and designer in their singular way, but also write, research, and initiate activism and wider debate on graphic design and its possible role and impact.

letterspace.amsterdam #53

22 January 2025

19:00–21:00 (start at 19:30) at de Lange Adem

Visual artist Daniel Wesseik invites us into his world of playful narratives and experimental typography, shaped by a fascination with imaginary languages.

FEBRUARY

DevWorld Conference 2025

29 February to 1 March, 2025

All Day at RAI Amsterdam

Europe's leading tech city will host a 2-day festival of tech with developers from around the world. 200 unique talks covering leadership, JavaScript, Java, Full Stack, PHP, DevOps & Cloud, AI - ChatGPT, Blockchain and much more. Make lifelong connections with 7,500 attending engineers from 3,500 companies with daily networking activities, night programmes & mixers and parties all over Amsterdam.

MARCH

Vuejs Amsterdam

12 & 13 March 2025

All day at Theater Amsterdam

1,098 Vue enthusiasts flying in from 51 countries around the world. Vuejs Amsterdam is the largest and most special must-attend Vue conference. Held annually in Amsterdam, the Vue event community brings you core framework updates and the latest insights on Vue and Vite. Since the launch of Vuejs Amsterdam in 2018, the conference has been sold out with the creator of Vue, Evan You, opening the event. The State of Vuenion 2025 is a highly anticipated talk on his annual return.

Kaboom Festival

21 to 30 March, 2025

All Day - Amsterdam, Utrecht and Online

Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all.

APRIL

MAY

AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI

1 to 3 May, 2025

All Day at Loods6 Amsterdam

The AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI is a playful, three-day event that invites everyone—artists, designers, researchers, the people of Amsterdam and those passing by—to explore alternative ways of thinking about AI. Through vibrant exhibits, hands-on workshops, and insightful talks, the festival will push beyond mainstream tech-driven views, ensuring AI is by and for everyone—not just the experts.

JUNE

CSS Day

5 & 6 June, 2025

All Day at Zuiderkerk Amsterdam

CSS Day is a focused, advanced CSS conference. The attendees and speakers are a mix of CSS designers, developers, spec writers and browser vendors, who take pride in what they know and do. CSS Day is a conference with an informal vibe and plenty of breaks, where anyone can approach anyone to discuss geeky stuff - including specifiers and implementers.

React Summit

13 to 17 June, 2025

All day at Kromhouthal

React Summit is an annual conference on all things React, bringing together thousands of front-end and full-stack engineers from around the world. React Summit now offers a hybrid format with both remote and in-person attendance. The first day is streamed from the Amsterdam venue, including hybrid networking features and interactive entertainment, and the second day and numerous free workshops are streamed online to the global audience.

TNW Conference

19 & 20 June, 2025

All Day at Taets Art and Event Park Amsterdam

TNW Conference is a 2-day technology event in the greater Amsterdam area, where industry leaders and tech enthusiasts alike come together, to explore how tech will help us reclaim the future.

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

Unseen

18 to 21 September, 2025

All Day at Westergas

Unseen Festival is a 3-day celebration of photography in Amsterdam. From the 18 to 21 September 2025, Unseen collaborates with many of the city’s institutions, academies, artists, and initiatives using photography in innovative and unconventional ways to create a programme that is sure to challenge, excite and inspire.

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

Museum Night

1 November, 2025 from 19:00 to 02:00

Various museums

See Amsterdam's museums in a whole new light - after dark! Spend a night in the museum during this annual event where Amsterdam's cultural attractions come to life as the sun goes down. A wristband gives you access to more than 50 museums, large and small, until 2am, where you'll find all the exhibits open as usual, with the added attraction of live music, DJs, food and drink, special events and unique surprises. Whatever you choose to do, you'll find an infectious, convivial spirit all over the city.

DECEMBER

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by @thomasdahm

Amsterdam

Netherlands