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> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://fde.amsterdam/llms.txt)

\[N.01/04]> About

# StartedinAmsterdam,<br>bypeoplewhodeploy.

Forward deployed engineers spend their days inside other people’s systems. It’s valuable work, it’s rarely written down, and it’s easy to do alone. FDE Amsterdam is where the people doing it here meet.

![The Webfuse team in front of canal houses in Amsterdam](https://fde.amsterdam/_ipx/q_72&s_2304x1456/images/team/webfuse-team.webp)

*// The Webfuse team, Amsterdam52.3728° N, 4.8936° E*

\[N.02/04]> Who’s behind it

## /Ateamthatworks<br>onotherpeople’sweb./

[![Webfuse](https://fde.amsterdam/images/webfuse-logo.svg)Amsterdam](https://www.webfuse.com/)

FDE Amsterdam was started by [Webfuse](https://www.webfuse.com/), an Amsterdam company. Webfuse builds the layer that lets AI agents and people work on live web apps they don’t own, growing out of years of session technology at Surfly.

That puts us in the same spot as many forward deployed engineers: making software work on someone else’s system, for someone else’s users. We wanted a room where people doing that work can compare notes, so we started one.

Webfuse funds and hosts it. The evenings are for the community, not a sales pitch.

![Webfuse team members at the office](https://fde.amsterdam/_ipx/q_72&s_532x709/images/team/office.webp)

*// At the office*

![Webfuse engineers at a hackathon](https://fde.amsterdam/_ipx/q_72&s_447x336/images/team/hackathon.webp)

*// Hackathon day*

// Hosts of #1

- AAjoy
- SSalome

\[N.03/04]> What we do

## /Threethings,<br>doneproperly./

- //001 ### Meetups

  Small, practitioner-led evenings. #1 is on 10 December.See the next one →
- //002 ### A place to talk

  A Discord for the questions you can’t ask a customer: tools, scoping, war stories. [Join the Discord →](https://discord.gg/sfpMPfzge)
- //003 ### Event listings

  The AI, platform and go-to-market events around Amsterdam worth an evening, checked daily.Browse events →

\[N.04/04]> How events are listed

## /Checkeddaily,<br>linkedtothesource./

Every day our sync reads public event listings for the Amsterdam region, scores them for relevance to people who build and deploy software, and lists the ones that pass. Each listing shows an excerpt and links to the organiser’s page, where registration happens. A person reviews the list and can feature, re-tag or hide events.

Organisers: to add, correct or remove an event, email [hello@fde.amsterdam](mailto:hello@fde.amsterdam) and we’ll sort it the same day.

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## Sitemap

See the full [sitemap](https://fde.amsterdam/sitemap.md) for all pages.