From Summer Circle to an autumn full of inspiration | August 2026
Summer is almost over, but at IT Circle, the energy is anything but still! ☀️ We look back on an incredibly good first half of the year (read also about the results from the survey below) and a summer full of meetings, inspiration, and knowledge sharing. With the Summer Circle, World Cup quiz and just our Community Officers By putting them in the spotlight, we celebrated the summer together and showed our appreciation for the community.
Now is the time to to look ahead. The autumn is packed with interesting themes and especially: Awesome sessions where colleagues delve deeper into each other's lives, exchange experiences, and develop themselves.
On CLICK you will find not only sessions, presentations, and handy one-pagers with takeaways, but also fun initiatives to connect with other participants. Are you not yet active on CLICK? Then sign up here .
It looks forward to seeing you again at one of our activities in the coming period. Sign up and inform your colleague as well! See you soon!
What awaits you at IT Circle Netherlands?
The coming weeks will be full of inspiring meetings. Put these dates in your agenda:
- September 8: PQC Awareness Roundtable: How do you put quantum-safe cryptography on the map?!
- September 10: How do you stimulate AI innovation with current laws and regulations?
- September 15: Developing a product vision in the dynamic between IT and business
- November 26: IT Circle Event: AI – People Partnership
Highlights from recent sessions and developments
- Summer Circle: Become Digifit – work consciously and sustainably with AI – During the first Summer Circle session, Pepijn van der Spek and Rachel Kuijlenburg guided participants on how to use AI more sustainably and consciously using the 5 Vs.
- Summer Circle: More care, less burden — AI use cases and agents in healthcare – Organizations possess a great deal of unstructured data that often remains unused. Peter Broekroelofs of Carecogni demonstrated, using practical examples, how AI, language models, and knowledge graphs convert this information into usable insights.
- Summer Circle: Business Drawing Workshop – In two rounds, Jos Veltman from the Tax and Customs Administration worked with the participants during the business drawing workshop. We discovered how to clarify ideas, processes, and complex subjects using simple drawings and visual elements.
