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Rhino User Meeting Amsterdam 2025 🎉

📅 When? November 20, 2025
📍 Where? Organized by McNeel Europe, Arup and Packhunt at OBA congres

Looking for a day packed with innovation, creativity, and hands-on action? Join us for the Rhino User Meeting in Amsterdam and dive into the latest and greatest in Digital Design and Fabrication.

Here’s the deal:
👉 Learn from industry pros in Architecture, Design, Engineering, Marine, Fashion Design & Accesories, Footwear, 3D Printing, Robotics, AI and more!
👉 Discover cutting-edge updates on Rhino WIP, Grasshopper, and other tools.
👉 Check out live demos and get inspired by exhibitors showing off what’s possible.

💡 Bonus? It’s not just all tech talk—there’s networking and drinks to wrap up the day! Perfect for meeting like-minded folks and making connections.

🎟 Tickets:

🚀 Interested in exhibiting? Drop an email to carlos@mcneel.com.

Check out what went down at past events: https://events.mcneel.eu/

Mark your calendar—we’ll see you there!

#rhino3damsterdam2025

SPEAKERS

Verena Vogler

McNeel Europe
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Verena Vogler leads the R&D team and the programming curriculum at McNeel Europe. She holds a Diploma (Leipzig University of Applied Sciences) and a Master’s in Architecture and Computational Design (IaaC), and earned her doctorate in Engineering from the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar.

Carlos Pérez Albà

McNeel Europe
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Carlos Pérez Albà (Barcelona, 19th March 1975) is currently the EMEA Sales, Marketing and Business Development Manager at McNeel.

Studied Economics (Universitat de Barcelona, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg), Illustration (Massana Art School Barcelona) and Management (IESE Business School Barcelona).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosperezalba/ www.mcneel.com www.rhino3d.com www.food4rhino.com

Rick Titulaer

ARUP
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As both a Chartered Structural Engineer and a Chartered Computational Designer, I’m passionate about tackling complexity and shaping a sustainable future through intelligent, integrated design.

At Arup, I specialise in using parametric and computational methods to solve challenging problems and unlock new potential in structural and architectural design. I thrive in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams where we push boundaries—digitally and physically—to achieve elegant, comfortable, efficient, and human-focused solutions.

Jeroen Coenders

Packhunt.io
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Specialties: Software development, computational design, optimisation, advanced FEA, parametric and associative design, BIM, custom tool-building, teams, complex projects, Judo.

Tiia Vahula

UTOPIA blu
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Architect and designer for 3D printing.
This lecture explores the transformative journey of wearable art—from the initial spark of inspiration to the realization of a fully fabricated piece. Focusing on the “how-to” process, it guides participants through the complete workflow: from concept development and design in Rhino, to material exploration and fabrication techniques such as 3D printing.

Gabriel Garcia

Haskoning
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Architect, Geomatics MSc and Computational Designer. Specialist in data-driven solutions and digital process integration within the AEC industry, advocating for a future where computational design not only aims for organic forms and structures but also boosts sustainability and efficiency redefining the way we make buildings.

Diederik Veenendaal

Summum Engineering Cooperative
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Dr.sc.ETH ir. Diederik Veenendaal is director and co-founder of Summum Engineering, an employee-owned cooperative and social enterprise, that provides structural design and engineering service, based in Rotterdam. Diederik continuously seeks collaboration with partners who, each in their own way, strive towards a future with a built environment in harmony with the environment. For his efforts, he was recognized last year as the Dutch ‘Structural Engineer of the Year’ and won the National Timber Construction Award for best timber building (Energiehuis Deltawind) in the Netherlands.

Cort Widlowski

Mecanoo
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Architect, LEED BD+C, WELL AP, holds a Master’s degree from Politecnico di Milano. For over eight years I have worked with multidisciplinary teams across Europe, North America, and Asia to integrate parametric workflows and advanced data analysis into architecture and urban planning projects. My approach focuses on designing intuitive and adaptable systems that any user can access, enabling seamless collaboration from the earliest sketches through detailed LOD 400 models ready for fabrication and construction.

Gerard Petersen

RhinoCentre
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RhinoCentre was founded in 2004 by naval architect Gerard Petersen. He started using Rhino 1.1 integrally in his innovative maritime design projects in 2000. Especially working in 3D with Rhino and the ability to design both exterior, interior, structure and technical components in one environment was the way forward and new in the industry. Since then, Petersen used Rhino, Grasshopper and many plugins extensively in internal projects and for other clients via RhinoCentre. This made RhinoCentre an authority in the application of Rhino in the maritime industry world wide.

Stijn Joosten

Ney & Partners
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Stijn is a structural engineer specializing in bridge structures. After graduating cum laude in architecture and structural engineering at TU Delft, he started his career at Arup in Amsterdam. Frustrated with the conservative infrastructure design practice, he has pushed to expand the use of Rhino and Grasshopper in his field of work, implementing it in his own daily practice and teaching those around him. Now he leads the structural engineering team at Ney and Partners NL.

Olaf Olden

UNS
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Olaf Olden – Sustainability Technologist

Cristóbal Burgos

UNS
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Cristóbal Burgos – Digital Innovations Manager

Menno Deij - van Rijswijk

Robert McNeel & Associates
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Menno started out as a third-party plug-in developer for Rhino v4 in 2011, and has joined McNeel’s core geometry developer team in 2024. He is helping to make Rhino better in many ways.

Andrew le Bihan

Robert McNeel & Associates
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Senior software developer at McNeel.

Wessel van Beerendonk

Studio RAP
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At Studio RAP, our work grows from a deep passion for ceramics and their role in architecture. We are inspired by the stories that materials can tell, and ceramics in particular carry a long lineage of craft, ornament, and cultural meaning. Industrialisation turned them into standardized products, but we see potential in reintroducing their expressive qualities through digital tools and fabrication. Our fascination lies in discovering how computation and robotics can give new life to this material while keeping design and making closely connected.

preliminary PROGRAM (click here) 

LOCATION

OBA congres


Oosterdokskade 143

1011 DK Amsterdam

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EXHIBITORS

Asuni
Asuni develops VisualARQ (flexible BIM for Rhino) and Lands (Landscape Information Modelling solution).
Romantic Technology
Romantic Technology builds thinking systems that supercharge human ingenuity. We contributed to open research of creativity tools with a step change in expressive power. Now, we are turning these insights into vehicles to for latent space exploration at Romantic Technology. We believe artificial intelligence will be the racing bike of the creative minds. We are proud to push the frontier with open research and empowering creativity tools. Raven is our first tool, empowering Grasshopper scripting with AI — making designing quicker, more intuitive, and more fun.
ShapeDiver

ShapeDiver is a self-service, cloud-native, SaaS platform that helps individuals and businesses build applications based on parametric CAD models made with Rhinoceros 3D and Grasshopper. Our clients use our technology to create very cost-efficient 3D product configurators and internal collaboration tools that help them automate, modernize and improve their design, production, sales and marketing efforts. Our platform has over 5,000 registered users from 95+ countries. We work with companies from over 15 different industries, such as Furniture, Jewelry, Medical Devices, Apparel, and AEC, ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.

Rendair

Rendair AI is an all-in-one AI visualization platform built for architects, interior designers, builders and creative teams. It allows you to generate renders, edit scenes, modify styles, and explore new angles using simple prompts or uploaded references. AR & VR. Real Estate & PropTech. Rendering & Visualization.

Packhunt.io

Digital solutions marketplace for the building industry.
Find everything you need to design and construct your projects in the AEC & infrastructure industry.

Notilus Software

Notilus Design developed Rhinoceros plugins for designing and streamlined the workflow for marine design projects. In 2021, Notilus Software was founded as a subsidiary of Notilus Design to distribute and develop these tools. The Notilus plugins are created by users and offer exceptional solutions.

Currently, there are four plugins available; Notilus Steeler, Notilus Piping, Notilus Drafting and Notilus Clipper. We are continuously developing new state of the art plugins that will be available soon.

MacroCad

MacroCad offers solutions in the fields of design, visualization, and presentation (VR). We provide training and courses, offer advice, assist with implementation projects, deliver support, develop customized solutions, and supply both software and hardware. We are an independent specialist and advise on the most suitable solution. Our experts have extensive knowledge and experience across various application areas. We supply and provide training for, among others: Autodesk products, Rhino, SketchUp, Lumion, V-Ray, Enscape, Twinmotion, and Unreal Engine.

PHOTOS