Women in Architecture NL Meeting - IN PERSON
2025-10-29 16:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Accenture Office Rotterdam, Wilhelminakade 157, 33e etage, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Join us for the upcoming Women in Architecture Quarterly Meeting, an inspiring online gathering designed to connect, empower, and elevate women in the architecture profession.
📅 Wednesday, 29 October 2025🕓 16:00 – 19:00 CET
📍Accenture Office Rotterdam
Wilhelminakade 157, 33e etage
3072 AP Rotterdam
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Followed by a networking dinner at a nearby restaurant. Each participant will cover the cost of their own meal. If you prefer to attend only the meeting or only the dinner, please just let us know.
This session is organized by the WIA representatives in the Netherlands:

Mirjam Verlinden

Petra in ’t Veld-Brown

Wai Ling Chiu

Esther Riedstra

Agenda:
6:00 – 16:15 Arrival
16:15 – 16:30 WIA Intro and Update DADD Leadership team: Petra, Esther, Wai Ling, Mirjam
16:30 – 18:00 “Practical Take: Data Strategy & Architecture” Presentation & facilitated session Speakers: Gabrielle Filip – Data Strategy, Esther – Data Architecture
18:00 – 18:45 Interactive networking & discussion
18:45 – 19:00 Feedback & Closure
If you have a topic you’d like to bring to the table and community please contact us to amiguel@iasaoffice.org
You’re welcome to bring one colleague with you — just let us know her or his name when you confirm your attendance.
Let’s continue building a strong, inclusive, and global network for women in architecture.

Women in Architecture (WIA) NL Event
2026-01-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
✨ Join the Women In Architecture (WIA) Quarterly Meeting NL – in English✨
We invite you to our upcoming WIA Quarterly Meeting, organized by the WIA Netherlands representatives. As this session is online, it is open globally! Join us for an inspiring gathering designed to connect, empower, and elevate women in the architecture profession.
Remember, this event is created by women in architecture, but it’s designed for everyone — women and men alike! Your participation is important to help build a truly inclusive and diverse community.
📅 Date: 20 January 2026🕓 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 CET📍 Location: Online (English)As AI systems evolve from copilots to autonomous agents, enterprises must rethink how they design and operate their architectures. Traditional Enterprise Architecture is no longer enough — we are entering the era of Agentic Enterprise Architecture.We’re excited to welcome Harsha Upadhyay as our guest speaker, who will guide us through this transformation and share a practical framework for building adaptive, autonomous, and continuously learning enterprises.🎤 Speaker: Harsha Upadhyay🧠 Topic: Agentic Enterprise ArchitectureWhat to expect:✔ Understanding the shift from traditional EA to Agentic EA✔ A clear framework for Agentic Enterprise Architecture✔ Key challenges and practical strategies for agentic enterprise success✔ Open discussion with peers and expertsAgenda:🕓 16:00 CET – Arrival & open discussion – Petra in ‘t Veld-Brown, Mirjam Verlinden, Wai-Ling Chiu, Esther Riedstra🕓 16:15 CET– WIA NL update (Leadership Team)🕓 16:30 CET– Agentic Enterprise Architecture – Harsha Upadhyay🕔 17:00 CET – Interactive discussion🕠 17:30 CET – Feedback & closureWith over 24 years of experience in enterprise data and application architecture, Harsha brings a unique blend of deep architectural expertise and cutting-edge agentic AI solutioning. Through her initiative All About Data, she focuses on making agentic AI accessible, affordable, and responsibly integrated across industries — always with data at the core.
You’re welcome to invite one colleague.
Link for the call: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTBlMjc0ZjEtNDBiNS00ZmJjLTliMWMtNDNlYmJkMWU2NWJk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22bad69fe5-f001-4a91-9e67-9ceebf327367%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22cf2286dd-0fbc-4974-8c70-8ad5df855d95%22%7d

Women in Architecture (WIA) NL Event - In person
2026-04-15 15:00 - 18:00 | KPMG, Laan van Langerhuize 1, Amsterdam, 1186 DS, Netherlands
✨Join us for the upcoming In Person Women in Architecture Quarterly Meeting. A free gathering designed to connect, empower, and elevate women in the architecture profession. ✨

It’s time to see each other again IRL so mark your calendar!
KPMG is graciously welcoming us at their offices for this edition where two communities get to meet and collaborate: DANW and WIA-Netherlands.
🗓️ Wednesday, 15 April 2026
🕒 15:00 – 18:00 CET
📍 KPMG, Amstelveen
🅿️ Free parking for registered attendees
🕔 Dinner optional: 18:30 at restaurant within 5-minute drive.
🍽 Please note: participants will cover their own meal costs.
Remember, this event is created by women in architecture, but it’s designed for everyone –women and men alike! Your participation is important to build a truly inclusive and diverse community. Feel free to bring one colleague with you — just let us know their name when you confirm your attendance.
Let’s continue building a strong, inclusive, and global network for women in architecture!
Agenda Highlights
🕒 15:00 – 15:15 Arrival & Networking
🎤 15:15 – 15:30 Introduction & Keynote host Olga Kulikova
🗣 15:30 – 16:15 WIA-NL update – Discuss WIA Development▫️Workshop
by WIA Leadership
🥤16:15 – 16:30 Refreshment
👥16:30 – 17:30 Roundtable about Female/Male Balance. With International Woman’s Day just behind us, WIA-NL Leadership, DANW and KPMG want to delve into this topic. After all, the elevation & empowerment of women deserve the spotlight more than one day a year. Participants: Christiaan Siegers, KPMG Principal (Director) and Lead Architect ▫️ Ingrid Stap, Achmea Enterprise Architect and DANW representative▫️ WIA Leadership ▫️ You.
🍹17:30- 18:00 Borrel
Care to opt-in for sharing a meal afterwards? Please inform us at dhulst@iasaoffice.org and make sure to tell us if you have any food allergies we need to take into account.
This session is organised by the WIA representatives in the Netherlands together with DANW.
WIA -NL : Mirjam Verlinden | Petra in ’t Veld-Brown | Wai Ling Chiu | Esther Riedstra |
DANW: Ingrid Stap

If you have a topic you’d like to bring to the table and community please contact us at dhulst@iasaoffice.org.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
